Vincent Needham

About Me

• Biography
• Contact Info
• PGP Key
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Genealogy

• Needham Genealogy  

• Resources  
• Notables  

• Simmons Genealogy  

• Resources  
• The Shooting  

Photos

• All My Photos
• New Belgium
• BAK 2019
• Cottonwood 200
• Dirty Kanza

Outdoors

• LED Light Review
• Spring Blooms
• Tents & Tarps II
• Bug-Out Camping

Space

• 2000 Program
• 2005 Program
• 2009 Program

Physics

• Picopulse
• JRM Laboratory
• Physics Department

Computing

• Web Log Stats
• User Guide
• Security & Spam

Recent Biking

Mother Nature may be fooling us, but we seem to be having an early Spring, letting me at least commute on the bicycle. If you're curious, all my fitness adventures are logged at Garmin Connect. The Cottonwood 200 was held over the Memorial Day weekend and Biking Across Kansas in early June. The weather was reasonably kind, the road miles long and the hills long and tall.

My photo gallery for Bike Across Kansas 2023 is now up, though I still need to write more captions. I should have a gallery up for the Cottonwood 200 soon, too.

My rides are recorded, of course, in excessive, modern, technical detail. See my Ride With GPS, Garmin Connect or Strava pages for more number-crunching from slightly different points-of-view.

Recent Running

Being a glutton for punishment, I occasionally run, too. Not very well, but I do run. My Zwift indoor run training seems to be paying off in more consistent outdoor running (when I get around to actually doing it). Hot on the heels of the Tour de Zwift comes the Zwift Duathlon League, guaranteeing me suffering on both the bike and the treadmill.

Like my rides, I record my runs in excessive, modern, technical detail (even when they're not already virtual). See Garmin Connect or Strava again.

Genealogy

The Needham genealogy and most of the maternal lines associated with it can now be traced back to the immigrant ancestor, if not further. For this line of Needhams, the American progenitor is John Needham, who emigrated to Massachusetts around 1660.

The Simmons family tree traces back to Benjamin Wilkes Simmons, born around 1780. He appears to have been born in Virginia, but the family migrated to Kentucky in about 1815. I suspect, but cannot yet prove, that the family originally was part of the Catholic migration to Maryland.

I promise that I really am working on a comprehensive update to the genealogy site. I've designed a new look for the web pages, and I'm rewriting the program that automatically creates those pages. That's more tedious than complicated. Your patience will be soon rewarded.

What I'm Reading

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Jane Austen, "Northanger Abbey"