About Sirius Rising

Sirius Rising, a blog, was created and is maintained by me, Jack Penkethman. My concept for this site is to blog about things that interest me and that might possibly interest others.

I have another site called Jack's Redwood Crafts showing that I can occasionally actually produce things of some value, maybe.

Here is a bullet list of other things that I hope to cover in this personal blog:

• Breaking science news with comments and sources of further information. Science, especially the biological and environmental sciences, are of special importance given our planets changing ecology and climate.
• Social and Political issues vex me, but I'll write about them.
• As time and travel permits, I'll be posting original collections of photos and videos. Like most people with iPhones, I have tons of pics and videos.
• The Hillbrink Codexis a unique historical artifact from Nazi Germany just after World War Two. The codex is a hand-bound collection of original Nazi propaganda posters known to scholars of the period as "Wochenspruch". It was bound as a collection in 1948 by the US Army as part of the de-nazification of Germany and then served as a source for German and other history scholars.

  I happen to be in possession of this volume by a long and unlikely sequence. My oldest brother, who was rather a criminal and is now deceased, was in a motorcycle gang (in the 60's) some of whom stole this Nazi book because, I guess, it was Nazi. It went from my oldest brother to my next older brother, now deceased also, who left it for me. Both my brothers thought this was of some value, in money and prestige. It's only value, of course, is to scholarship which they never understood.

I'm basically just a guy with a computer on the internet. My background is in Engineering and am now retired. My last position was at Lockheed Martin Space Systems. I have a bachelors degree in physics and a masters degree in mechanical engineering.

I do wish I could be more useful without getting in the way now that I'm older.

Please contact me at email@jackpenkethman.com