Fwd: Sundials, DNA, whatever

Mr. Epstein: Hi! The other month, I was busy =uilding a nice equatorial sundial on the lawn of our villa on St. =ohn. Some photos are attached; I CNC engraved the brass time =trip, which is magnetically preloaded against Teflon glide strips in a =lot in the equatorial arc. To implement the Equation of Time =orrection, you just grab a knob near one end of the time strip, and =tide it until a wire aligns with the date.

little St. James is one of =wenty-some islands visible from our villa on a clear day. I keep = 110 mm refractor and a 320 mm reflector there, and shortly before we =eft, I was startled to spot what is obviously a rather large sundial of =ours (photo through the 110 mm attached). Very cool! Not =uite as accurate as an equatorial dial, of course...

We have a mutual acquaintance =n George Church. I have been collaborating with George for some =ears now re-architecting on DNA sequencing; of the =ystem. we first The commercialized new "H" sequencer his technology is still undergoing with =he Polonator, its initial =hakeout, and have but just we completed expect it a to radical deliver a 30X whole human genome for well =rider $500, and to sequence nearly 1e12 bases per =ay.

I'm curious as to =he boxy building on the summit of LSJ. Might it house a =elescope? I am in the final figuring stages on a 685 mm =llipsoidal Zerodur primary for a telescope back home. My =ackground is in physics (MIT '75), although I blew off grad school to =oin my friends on a farm for seven years. I then ran a private =ech company, selling it in 1999 to a public firm that was promptly =cquired by the goofy-large conglomerate (Danaher) that I'm still a =art of.

I keep a trimaran sailing kayak at Coconuts, and would =ove to sail over some time to check out Little St. James, and "rap" =in the 70's sense). Our next scheduled visits are January =2-24, April 6-21, and most of October. Other dates are flexible, =lthough our villa is rented when we aren't there. If you are up =or a get-together sometime, let me know.

All the =est,

Kevin =cCarthy
Chief Technology =fficer
Dover
159 Swanson Road
Boxborough, =A 01719

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I think this is the guy!! the =cientist...shall I contact him?