5 January 2010
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I’ve been having problems getting good pictures of my latest art works with my aging Olympus C-8080. It just doesn’t have the definition to get all the variations on white these works have to print a large size image. Since funds are low I was curious as to what quality pictures one of those newer “cheep” and portable cameras boasting over 10 mega pixels would have and so it was convenient (to me) that E. had to buy one for her work…
21 November 2009
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In my first year at SFAI way back when I had a creative writing class with a great teacher whose name I’ll insert once I find it. He would read short stories, have the class discuss them and would impart wisdom, passion and humor and remains one of my most memorable teachers. The awkwardness of forgetting his name but remembering his voice…
One of these stories was Shirley Jackson's: The Lottery and one of the points was how the author actually tells you the story’s ending in the second paragraph but you don’t actually realize it until the ending… And perhaps that you can only read it once with the innocence of not knowing that end…
6 July 2009
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Yesterday E & I spent a couple of hours picking wild strawberries. Unfortunately there weren’t very many to be found so we only managed to pick about 500 grams; half of what we picked last year in about the same time. They’re pretty small, it probably takes between 15 and 25 of them to equal 1 domestic farm grown water filled strawberry but they have so much more taste, almost too much for jam, which nevertheless is what E made with them…
16 April 2009
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After a few “Spring Break” days spent with my folks, here I am back frying my brain with CTR screen radiations…
7 April 2009
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A truly amazing thing has happened this month: public spaces all became non smoking overnight! I was sure that this area would continue to let folks smoke everywhere until the end of time, just two years ago a local restaurant manager was booed out of her job for just thinking such a thing…
But with the help of lovely spring weather there we where Dave and I, in a corner cafe that was packed both in and outside enjoying a glass of wine…
18 March 2009
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A friend sent me this link to an article about how mp3’s are changing the way we hear: The Sizzling Sound of Music. I say we, but admit to having no love of the mp3 format which sound flat, dull and compressed, especially if you compare it to a good LP. Yes, an actual vinyl record, exactly. I admit, I own quite a few of them, many bought back then when stores where making space for the all new “super sounding” compact disk. Thank you Mr. Cd!…
12 March 2009
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The weather is always a good conversation starter and the snow has been no exception, however it has raised an issue that I wonder about. How many times did I hear someone express their doubt about climate change, the proof? Look at all this snow…