The word cobwebs sounds like a word Gertrude Stein could have invented. Inverted it could have been webcobs which could easily be mis-heard as copse. Web copse or web forests sounds spooky and eerily like something that the beings of Middle Earth would encountered beyond the Shire. And we know that spiders are very nasty […]
The Eyes Have It
Actually eyes are part of the Central Nervous System. No other part of the CNS is exposed to the outside, to others. Perhaps that is part of the reason that the old English saying, “Eyes are windows to the soul” came into being. There are also all the muscles around the eyes and in the […]
Another Fragment & Forward Friday
Fragment Fridays provide an opportunity for me to collectively address the accumulation of ideas that have not made it into into print this week that either I really wanted to develop into full posts or were enticing thoughts that I just did not get beyond the “jotting down” stage. Twitter and #ff Mania I totally understand […]
What Does This Mean To You?
When almost anyone asks me what something means, I will answer with gusto. Meaning and how we create meaning is one of the major interests of my life. Semiotics is how things mean. Semantics is what things mean. The question, no matter what the “something” is, gives me a chance to ply my trade. I […]
CAPTCHA, I Just CAN Quit You.
It is a wonderful, wacky Wednesday and instead of an iPhone and/or iPad app, I am singing the praises of a WordPress Plug-in, Akismet, this week. If you blog, you are targeted by spammers. Google owns Blogger / Blogspot.com and zaps spam for you. But if you need to own and control your own blog […]
Seasonal Headers for My Blog
I love playing around with graphics even if I’m not a Graphic Artist by training. In my soul I am an artist so when I play with images I am a graphic artist, no? So last I was in an artsy mood and got a bug up my butt to do something. I have been […]