Personal
website of
Daniel T. Johnson
mailto:home070704@persjohn.net
Last updated 2012-Mar-22
This is the 3rd generation of my personal website, driven by
changes of Internet Service Providers. I have my own domain name, PERSJOHN,
made up of the first four letters of our 
surnames,
Diane Persson and Daniel Johnson.
A picture is worth a thousand words, but digital images often chew up file size and bandwidth so I lean toward text for my website. I like to put links to images so people can easily browse the text and decide whether to look at an image before launching the download. For example, here's a photo of Diane and me (310 kb).
One of our family traditions is an annual Christmas letter to family and friends, and we now have this once a year blog here (with links to photos), through 2011. Diane and I started a blog in 2010, http://diane-daniel.blogspot.com/. Our grandchildren have their own blogs: Sophia and Isabel, Nils and Allison’s daughters, are at http://sophiajohnson.blogspot.com/ and Britta and Kendall with their daughters Annette and Zell are at http://thehollrahs.blogspot.com/. My 2008 retirement road trip covering almost 80 days and 15,000 miles is here (or just see the map of my travels), and as I’ve always loved maps here’s my population cartogram of Texas and a map of US population from the 2010 census with a page of details. Since August 2010 we're teaching English in China at the Baotou Teachers’ College in Inner Mongolia, where the students asked how many countries I'd visited, and to help answer I made a map of all the places I've visited in my life, with color hilite for places I've lived. Now in 2012 we're at a different place in China, Qinzhou University on the south coast near the border with Vietnam.
My Science and Religion material was prepared for presentation at our church, Christ the King Lutheran Church. I first attended the annual conference of IRAS in 1999, and my reflections are here, plus information from a local Science and Religion Discussion Group I organized. Some of my musings include short essays on the Enigma of Time, on Emergence, on The Future of Religion, and a review of Douglas Hofstadter’s book I Am a Strange Loop. Since I work a lot with computers, I sometimes think software makes us stupid. There’s also a page of recommended links to places in our home town of Houston, Texas, where we live in Hammersmith.
Since we use this as our home page, some of our favorite links include search engines Google, Yahoo, PubMed, dictionary Merriam-Webster, encyclopedia Wikipedia and Arts & Letters Daily. Books are at Amazon and Barnes and Noble, travel at Travelocity; radio at NPR, phone numbers with Switchboard; and of course Mapquest. As well, we have a separate page of favorites.