While looking for some Victorian line drawings and patterns I stumbled over a book from 1860 that is filled with dozens of prints of mid-19th Century Japanese printed and patterned fabrics. Copyrights have expired for both United States and Japanese copyrights according to the research I did. I have attached titles to the works that […]
Reframing September: Peace, Chocolate, Generations and Museums
I in no way desire to diminish the remembrances that so many people observe this month related to the sad day of the 11th of September. I try to re-frame as many sad events as possible in order to live as positive life as I can. So if you, like me, want some fun things […]
Good Enough vs Top of the Line Writing Tech
I love technology. There is some sort of undeveloped engineer somewhere inside of me. In yesterday’s post I wrote about my recent experience with process of computer repair and replacement, the importance of protecting the technology that supports my business from pets, and the need for having a service and equipment providers you trust. There […]
Of Cats, Keyboards and Chromebooks
My recent tech saga, The Cat Vomit Chronicle, appears to have come out with a rather happy ending after all. This is NOT a sponsored post, not one cat-scratched word of it. But every word of it is true. Some of you may remember my griping in an earlier post about my cat spitting […]
Everything Old Is New Again… Like Measles. Part 3
ONCE A COMMON DANGER When I was young measles was one of the “childhood diseases” that every person seemed to get sooner or later. For me it was later and I remember having a very nasty couple of weeks with it in the 7th or 8th grade. There was a distinct scent associated with the […]
Everything Old Is New Again…Like Measles. Part 2
The current outbreak of measles in a Texas community unfortunately illustrates where group-think based in ignorance, power over children to the detriment of those children, and ridicule of non-believers that keeps members in check can lead. I wrote about this yesterday in conjunction with Shot@Life, an international campaign to vaccinate and immunize the world’s children. […]