What Does the Haigh Company Handbook Say?

“The good troubleshooter is cost conscious, and aware that down time and equipment replacement are factors of serious concern to the Haigh Company.”

Haigh Company Employee Handbook

By the Book, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, 1971

Ghost Busters Frozen Empire

Interesting poem.

Antics of the Mini Stay Puft Marshmallow Men having just hijacked a tractor and trailer.

Great addition to the Ghost Busters franchise.

What does the handbook have to say?

‘Frequently it pays to look first for the characteristics of devices in use which may be such that an essential pragmatic approach offers the best chance to success. It often is possible to solve an accident of malfunction problem with straightforward and uncomplicated approaches, deliberately ignoring their more subtle aspects.’ “

Haigh Company Employee Handbook
By the Book, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, 1971

Plastic Models - Japanology Plus

A Pocket Full of Toys

Like they found their way into my pocket.

I found these guys hanging out on the underside of this chair. A green rubber-like dino, a cute little "rubber" duck, and a plastic spike dude. A few more additions for my "lost & found" collection.

A Figure from Popular Culture?

This figure stands approximately 90mm tall. It is cast from a sturdy PVC like plastic and with an articulate head, arms, legs, and tail. This figure like the others of this mini-series was lost and found. Although I have seen these figures before somewhere out in popular culture, I do not have the foggiest idea where that might have been. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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What Did the Handbook Say?

"Every test under field conditions shall approximate as closey as possible the conditions set down by laboratory precedent."

Haigh Company Employee Handbook

By the Book, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, 1971

What Did the Handbook Say?

"You will take your work seriously. Infinite numbers of yet-unborn humankind depend upon you who keep open the communication lines through negetive space. Let the angle-transmission networks fail and Man will fail."

Haigh Company Employee Handbook

By the Book, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, 1971

Nine Lines 009 Narrow Gauge Kits

Two Nine Lines Narrow Gauge Boxcars, Under Construction.

I purchased three box cars and two gondolas from Nine Lines years ago. The boxcar on the left is almost completed and the one on the right is under way. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be availble anylonger.

They come complete with trucks, wheels, and even a couple of detail parts and they are very easily constructed.

A Host of Characters - "Ing"

"Now, after three hours on duty in a full vac suit within a skoarnoff tube's blank darkness, Ing¹ ached with tiredness. It impaired his mental clarity and his ability to survive and he knew it."

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¹'Ing'. - "Ivar Norris Gump, admittedy the best troubleshooter in any of the Haigh Companies nine-hudred-year history."

By the Book, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, 1971

A Host of Characters - Pander Oulson

"Pander Oulson, the Bureau of Sabotage's chief counsel. Oulson was a great thug of a figure in defence white with glistenous eyes under beetle brows and a face fashioned mostly of scars."

The Tactful Saboteur, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, 1971

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The Worlds of Frank Herbert

Cover art by Dean Ellis

Copyright © Ace Book 1971, by Frank Herbert

Stories were previously Copyright ©, 1958, 1961, 1964, 1965, by Galaxy Publishing Corp., 1965, 1966, 1967, by Conde Publishing, Inc.

This volume contains nine short stories that are told only the way Frank Herbert could tell them.

1. The Tactful Saboteur, 7
2. By The Book, 37
3. Committee of The Whole, 61
4. Mating Call, 78
5. Escape Felicity, 93
6. The GM Effrct, 113
7. The Featherbedders, 125
8. Old Rambling House, 152
9. A-W-F Unlimited, 160

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Publication Order of Short Story Collections

The Worlds of Frank Herbert (1970)
The Book of Frank Herbert (1973)
The Best of Frank Herbert 1965-70 (1975)
The Best of Frank Herbert (1975)
The Best of Frank Herbert 1952-1964 (1977)
The Priests Of Psi (1981)
Eye (1985)
Classic Science Fiction Stories (2009)
The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert (2014)
Four Unpublished Novels (2016)
Frank Herbert: Unpublished Stories (2016)

The Last Moonshine Run

"The Last One is the Emmy award-winning PBS television special on moonshine in Appalachia."

America's Cult of Ignorance

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”

—Isaac Asimov

"Knowledge is power, however, a little knowledge in the wrong hands is dangerous. Knowledge will make us more human and allow for more humility within oneselfs. This is the opposite of education, which should aim to make people, no matter how smart or accomplished they are, learners for the rest of their lives. Rather, we now live in a society where the acquisition of even a little learning is the endpoint, rather than the beginning, of education. And this is a dangerous thing."

Demiak's Deepwater Horizon

There are eight little lovelies in Demiak's Deepwater Horizon exhibit. The shack models are especially inspirational.

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Demiak's Galleries

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Quotes from the Wednesday Series

Wednesday being driven to the Nevermore Academy by her parents.

She wishes to be know as spooky.

One of the only two times where Wednesday showed any kind of emotion. This was after witnessing the monster mauling her classmate.

A Hyde

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20 Best Wednesday Quotes in Netflix's Wednesday