Welcome to Thomas F. Lettington's
Personal Corner of the World Wide Web
Now being maintained on my iMac under under Mac OS X Lion with "Coda" web maintenance software.


For our 50th wedding anniversary, the family (fifteen and a half of us) gathered in Maui for a wonderful vacation together!


Click here for a great picture of the entire family. It is an image map that identifies the cast when you "mouse over" a face (and at least one belly)..
We all tried new things like snorkel and "SNUBA", horseback riding in the pineapple fields, sailing into the sunset, and "Zipline" and spent a lot of time just enjoying being a family.


Here is a PowerPoint slide show of photographs taken from the Space Station by one of our Astronauts. Fascinating !!
Here is a video showing air traffic around the globe for a 24 hour period. Each yellow dot is an aircraft. Be patient, it takes a while to load. This file requires the QuickTime Player.

Click here for a link to Christmas 2008 at home in San Diego with all four children, their spouses, and all five grandchildren.



My friend Harry Hodges has convinced me to become active in amateur radio again so I upgraded by license to General and bought a 2 meter hand held transceiver so I can participate with the local club members using their repeaters. I'm N6TFL now (used to be KA6NQV). Click here to see my Ham page.
My long time friend and former Commanding Officer, RADM R. K. Fontaine, USN (RET), has a new puppy. Click here to see her pictures (photo credit to Kay Lettington).
Click here if you want to expose yourself to my views on politics and religion. Here is a description of the Bible I recently came across in my readings. Here is a though provoking article about "New Atheists".

What does the future hold for our species, Homo Sapiens? A link to follow to consider this is:
UNICE Universal Network of Intelligent Conscious Entities.
A great book to read to stimulate thought on the subject is Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity Is Near". An informative Q&A session with the author is here.
In the meantime, ponder this list as a commentary on life in general.



My Photo Albums - Done with "JAlbum", a freeware album creation tool

Desert Flowers Near Borrego Springs - February, 2005

Desert Flowers Near Borrego Springs - March, 2008

Downtown Disney at Disney World with Jake and Max

The United States Air Force takes delivery of the new F/A22 "Raptor"



I fully support same sex marriage and I lean heavily toward the positions taken by those who call themselves "Pro-Choice".


A comment for those who do not believe in an afterlife:

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming -- WOW -- What a Ride!" (author unknown)
The trick is to not get to that state too early !!!


Need to see the current time and date? I didn't write the code, but it was nicely done. Have a look here. (The script only works with Internet Explorer)


Stock Watch

[Dow Jones Chart] [Nasdaq Chart]


Gold !!


Click chart to run actively (please allow 15s to load)


Vision Statement My Personal Vision Statement
Kay's Home Page Kay's Quilting Home Page, "I.Quilt.To/Live"
WWII Memorial Uncle Dean's WWII Memorial Project in Des Moines, Iowa

Human beings are actually just an eye blink in the grand time line of our planet:
Earth in born - 4.54 billion years ago
Earth surface hardens - 4 billion years ago
Life emerges on the planet - 3.8 billion years ago
Hominid species differentiate from apes - 6 to 8 million years ago
Homo Erectus stands up - 1.7 million years ago
Neanderthal Man appears - 300,000 years ago
Homo Sapiens (us) appears - 100,000 years ago
Homo Sapiens (along with much of the other life on earth) becomes extinct because of human caused environment destruction and global warming - 75 to 100 years from now?

Click here to see the incredible walking email man.

We Care About the Health of All of Our Visitors.

This is a No-Smoking Site. Click here for the reasons why.

Click here for local zone time in selected cities around the world.


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My resume is here.


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Last updated Tue, 01/03/2012 -- 00:18:24 UTC