I started writing this post a few days ago on Ash Wednesday. We are now into the season of Lent. I don't know exactly what that means for Catholics. I'm not Catholic. I'm not exactly a NONE either. What's a NONE? It is a term derived from when a person checks “None of the Above” […]
Templates for Pages on the iPad
I an SO freaking happy. I have been working on infrastructure for several projects, including finding public domain graphics, which I posted about on Wednesday. Today I’m talking templates in the area of infrastructure. A big project I’m working on, two of them, in fact, require them; both are e-publications. (UPDATE: Just skip to the […]
Old Book Images
I love ’em. What can I say? It reminds me of pouring over printed pages and illustrations from old books that my parents stored away. They were textbooks and pulp novels from the late 19th Century through the early 20th. Even if I did not want to read the book cover to cover, I would […]
Beatles, Basements, 45s, and a Dream about Row Boats
NaBloPoMo Has Me Writing About Crushes. WTF! The prompt for today has me thinking back to when I was, hmm, let me see… Revolver came out in what year? 1966. August 5th to be exact. So I was 9 years old. I’d listened to other Beatles albums and 45s at a fairly well off friend’s […]
Puppy Love
I have never been a big football fan. One of my big brothers played High School Football, but decided not to use his athletic college scholarship because even though that was the only way he could go to college, he had already been injured several times in High School and decided that the trade off […]
Punxsutawney Phil, Ewe's Milk, and St. Brighid
Happy winter mid-point to spring! Whether you call it Groundhog Day, Candelmas, Imbolc, or St. Brighid’s Day, the point in the annual cycle of days and seasons where we are in this current year has been marked in the Northern Hemisphere for tens of hundreds of years. I am a veritable fountain of information on […]