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Welcome to the Web Site for TRANSCRIBE, a limited liability corporation formed to support the various publishing, research, and educational activities undertaken by John Billheimer.
Dr. John Billheimer
holds an engineering Ph. D. from Stanford
A baseball fan since childhood, Dr. Billheimer is a member of the society for American Baseball Research and the author of BASEBALL AND THE BLAME GAME, which asks why some players, such as Bill Buckner and Fred Merkle, have been damned for life for miscues made on the baseball diamond, while other players have made the same mistakes under the same circumstances without wearing goat horns to their graves.
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University and has over forty years of experience providing
professional consulting services in systems analysis for government and
industry. Specializing in transportation research, he has
investigated such diverse topics as commuter lane performance, mobile phone
safety, drunk driving countermeasures, DMV service, video surveillance, and motorcycle
safety.
An
early research project with
the Norfolk and Western railroad
took him back to the coalfields of his native
state of West Virginia, where he
observed the poverty, independence, and
resourcefulness that mark the
characters of his first novel, THE CONTRARY
BLUES.
Drawing on his experience as a
mystery author and a lifelong
love of movies, Dr. Billheimer has taught several
courses in Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program that explore the key
elements
of mystery fiction as conveyed
in film and print.