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- SIYB.TXT Biography and History of the Method 65
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- Chapter B
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- Biography and History of the Method
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- David Perry Beiter was born in Troy (thus a native Trojan), Rensselaer County,
- New York (east of the Hudson River, and thus a genuine Yankee) on the
- Twenty-ninth day of March, in The Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred
- and Forty-Four from the union of David Luke Beiter and Elizabeth Perry Beiter.
- He had the good sense to move from Troy to Stillwater, New York when he was
- three days old.
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- Education was instilled at Stillwater Central School, Mechanicville High
- School, Union College at Schenectady, New York (Bachelor of Science in
- Chemistry, 1965), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York
- (Chemistry), University of Kentucky at Lexington, Kentucky (Master of Science
- in Geology, 1970), and Fergle University at Cincinnati, Ohio (Doctor of
- Eschatology, 1987).
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- He is a self-taught surveyor. While at Union College, he was a part of a group
- of several students who were doing informal research in the local caves. They
- desired to make a map of these caverns, but the available methods used for land
- surveying were not appropriate for cave surveying. A cheap rugged surveying
- method was then devised, as well as the first computer program to handle the
- data (written in FORTRAN and run on an IBM 1620 computer using IBM cards for
- data storage). Further development of the surveying technique and the computer
- program was done at the University of Kentucky and a cave over twenty miles in
- length was surveyed.
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- This surveying method was brought out into the light of day while shopping for
- rural property in Kentucky. Rural property is seldom surveyed in the backwoods
- of Kentucky. Someone shows the prospective purchaser the boundaries as best
- that can be remembered. The land description is recopied from the previous
- deed, along with all the previous mistakes.
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- In 1971 the author purchased three springs and a remote farm at Kidder,
- Kentucky, with the intention of studying the water chemistry for a PhD
- dissertation. In 1972 he retired. In 1976, he purchased and moved to a
- remoter farm at Ritner, Kentucky (population 25). Since 1972, he has assisted
- approximately one hundred families to retire. If you are interested in early
- retirement and/or purchase of inexpensive (US$150 to US$500 per acre) rural or
- remote property contact him for the latest list of available properties. Cheap
- rentals are $100 per month for an old farmhouse.
-
- The author is a confirmed hermit and ochlophobe. He works and lives in a
- slightly modernized Civil War vintage log shack on 1/2 Fast Farm. His driveway
- is one mile long and has a locked gate. Trespassers will be violated.
- Survivors will be prosecuted.
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- The author is happily divorced. His family consists of a jackass named
- Gunsmoke, a tomcat named Forney Cat, a bitch named Yuppie, and two kids named
- Billy and Capricia.
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