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Smiley, the Best Dog in the Whole World

Every site needs a page for the true head of household. This one belongs to Smiley, the dog who lives here with Joe Dubner and claims the warmest spot in the house by default.

Smiley keeps an eye on the airplane hobby from the ground floor, supervising departures from the driveway and greeting returning aircraft from the yard.

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A tan dog curled up asleep on a white cushion indoors on a wood floor near a woven basket and a plant.

Good company

A tan dog sitting on a grassy hillside overlooking a river valley with steep green hills, calm mood.

Smiley takes his supervising duties outdoors as well, keeping watch over the valley from a good vantage point.

The rest of this site covers the other side of life at home: the Long-EZ canard pusher airplane, the hangar cam, the propeller design program, and the altitude encoder converter. Smiley considers all of it a slow-moving show that is best watched from a soft cushion.

More pages are listed in the navigation above, and the main page of the site is a good place to start.

Every site needs a page for the true head of household, and this one belongs to Smiley, the dog who lives here with Joe Dubner and claims the warmest spot in the house by default. Smiley keeps a close eye on the airplane hobby from ground level, supervising departures from the driveway and greeting returning aircraft from the yard. The tone is affectionate and unhurried, matching the site's overall character as a personal home page built around daily life, hobbies, and quiet observation.

Smiley takes his supervisory duties outdoors as well, keeping watch over the valley from a good vantage point while the rest of the home site covers the other side of life at home: the aircraft, the radio and GPS equipment, the workshop, and the many technical threads that fill a gentleman at leisure. His presence ties those threads together, since the same house that shelters the dog is also where the airplane projects and electronics work are planned, tinkered with, and tested.

The design here follows the same muted, editorial approach used across the site: soft blush and cream backgrounds, near-black text, clean sans-serif typography, and restrained pastel accents in imagery and buttons. Cards are separated by thin hairline dividers rather than heavy borders, spacing tightens inside the article grid, and corners stay square or barely rounded. That lightness suits a page devoted to a dog, where the photographs and short captions do most of the work and the writing stays warm, spare, and lightly humorous.