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Ed Hughes
32 Skytop Rd,  Sussex NJ 07461
TheFriendlyStranger.com
thefriendlystranger@hotmail.com

Created Easy Efficient American Language and My Better Alphabet. 2008 

Post-publication edited Chapter 8 of the infuriatingly verbose Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Microsoft Office 2000.  Ignored by publisher and John C. Dvorak
Edited The Pussy Dialogues by Valerie Howard, a heterosexual black woman’s rebuttal to “The Vagina Monologues” thepussydialogues.com  2003-4
Residential renovation 245 Fort Lee Road, Leonia  2001-3
Editing a biographical video The Friendly Stranger who lived in a car”. 2002 – present.
Completing a book STOP Getting Lost: How to Understand and Give Directions and How to STOP Loozin’ and Misplasin’ Things 1995 – present.
Designing Cortland, affordable shipping container housing inspired by Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead). Designing adequate housing, the Tetra, a 21st Century Thoreau’s Cabin.
On “A” list at Bruce Beach’s Ark Two, world's largest private nuclear blast shelter. webpal.org  ‘96 – present
“Your help with this dissertation [“Regulation of the Medical Use of Psychedelics and Marijuana] was enormous. I’m deeply grateful.” Rick Doblin, Ph.D. Harvard University and  MAPS.org  2000
Advisor to Ingo Valentin of Valentin Technologies, patents-holding inventor of the Hydrostatic Powertrain with energy storage, a 120 mpg car. N Y Times Feb 14, 1996 p. A-19. Online at thefriendlystranger.com
Advisor to Council of Vehicle Associations/Classic Vehicle Advocate Group, COVACVAG.org Delivered keynote address “A Call to Action” at Wheels Across America rally, Trenton, Sept. 21, 1997.
Drove a taxi ‘97 - 2002
Assisted in the legal defense of John Caruso, The Bernhard Goetz of Trenton, who was  imprisoned for exterminating two-legged vermin.  ‘94 - 2000
Kept a Volvo running for sixteen years. Ask the man who owns one: “Survival in a cruel world?  HAH!”  This model (140) featured in Lemons - The World's Worst Cars. Designed and installed custom turbocharger and made many other improvements. Was four wheels away from homeless, living in a Yasui [cheap] station wagon, the Turdmobile, and in a restroom. (Why do you think they call them restrooms?) Completing next home, a custom white Ford van - The White House.  ‘75 - present
Second Prize and Third Prize, Metlfax magazine contests. Designed two accessories for Bridgeport® milling machine. Designed ergonomic, foolproof switch for Bridgeport®. Ignored by Bridgeport®.
Six letters published in American Machinist. Peer reviewed Oct. 1994. “Mr. Hughes is far closer to the truth and is to be commended for bringing this subject out of the closet.”

Edited second edition NASA Mooned America! By René. A single word —  RADIATION — suggests we never went to the moon. Edited second edition The Last Skeptic of Science by René.  ‘93
Was cause and victim of censorship on day that will live in infamy in Libertarian Party history. July ‘93 LP News Was self-professed Mr. Phelps of LP.
Wrote several COMMON $EN$E $ilver Bullet $olution$  about personal protection, traffic planning, preventive medicine, etc. 1990 - present
Proficient with Microsoft Word and Word STILL Far From Perfect. Translated Dumb Operating System commands into Plain English and eliminating Windows® pains.
. Wrote script for instructional video Victim’s Introduction to CNC Machine Tools #1: The Mazak and Mazatrol. A machinist’s view of the industry from the ‘fifties to the ‘nineties. Ridicules Nippon-jin nerd who infested machines with jargon and gibberish [tawagoto] and created non-ergonomic “accidents waiting to happen”. ‘92
Provided the final few thousand dollars for publication of the l990 edition of The Emperor Wears No Clothesby Jack Herer, and proofread it.  The authoritative historical record of Cannabis sativa, its prohibition, and how Hemp can still save the world.
Designed and machined prototypes of The Ultimate Intimate Safe.
Co-founded Life Extension Church  ‘83
Wrote transportation and foraging Survivalist Papers for Live Free, Inc. Taught wild foods classes at Christian-Patriot Defense League’s Freedom Festivals. ‘80
Appeared inPlayboy  twice (in the Forum)
At Richter Cine Equipment, Essex NY, machined and eliminated or improved every part on EMP - The World's Smallest & Lightest Professional 16mm Movie Camera.  1980-82
Partner in Hayden Machine Shop in Cavalier, North Dakota. Repaired farm equipment, performed miracles in metal and got by with almost nothing. ’76 – ‘78
Co-edited “TAP, the Phone Phreaks newsletter.” ’72 – ’74. Now “2600” magazine.
Invested in gold and silver before they increased in value. ‘68
Drove a tractor-trailer for Associated Transport et al., local and over the road and out of Teamsters’ hall, while living in the East Village during the psychedelic sixties and seventies.  ‘64 – ’75
Setup and operated in several sweatshops, also known as machine shops. Numerical Control and Computer Numerical Control experience.  ’59 – ‘84
Worked for the government (the Post Office) “I think, therefore I am . . . overqualified.”  ‘59

Education:
Took course Computer Numerical Control Technology at NJIT. ‘92
Did two plus years at N C E, now NJ Institute of Technology studying Mechanical Engineering. Hit “The Barrier” (Asimov, Opus 100) at Differential Equations and went over the wall. Not recaptured. Not one of America’s Most Wanted.  ’61 – 4

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