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Social Media and Propaganda
A few days ago a friend posted a link to a story about the Standing Rock protest site that and how the tribe is working to clean up…
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Something Really Good Happened this Week
It arrived! I’ve been shooting with a lovely 5D Mark II since 2011 but then I was helping a friend by weighing in on pros and cons of…
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Danger Mrs Will Robinson
Let’s look at how did I do this past year. A) Post at most five links to something someone else has created/posted/shared per week.I stuck to that pretty well…
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It’s that sort of day (run-on sentences and all)
I started writing this post on Facebook as a quick update but then it just took on a life of its own. It’s a great little capsule of…
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The Strange and Manufactured Worlds
At the beginning of June I loaded the truck up with various bits and drove to L.A. I picked my father up at LAX and then it was off…
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Microsoft’s Skype: deeply Catholic?
The title of this post should really be do not;trust your data to Skype. I was so naive when I started my little journey into support hell as…
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The Peril of Parrots
Having parrots means you never know what thing they will fixate upon and try to destroy. While I’m lucky in that neither Tenar or Thy are particular destructive…
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Challenger
Thirty years ago today my grandmother went outside to use up the last few shots on a roll of film.
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Some nights…
a bird just wants some more mum time. Of course if this mean walking halfway through the house, opening two doors, scaling a bed and then sitting on…
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Social Media Challenge
As the New Year approaches and I try to clean up my to-do list of all the not quite done stuff, I noticed that yesterday FB suddenly became more…
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Hello my pretties
I got some new equipment. It replaces the little Apogee that I’ve been using for the last two years. And when rewiring the booth, I discovered that something…
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When you try to be earth-kind and well….
Yes…that’s a box of compostable waste bags (6 actually) shipped in a box of non-bio-degradable packing peanuts. If I didn’t have a box where I store any packing peanuts*…
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Bird Containment Center?
The spare bedroom has built in shelves that are original to the house. Tenar was not amused when I asked him to try out the space.
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Fun with….Sendmail
I do weird crap sometimes. Case in point, I have a little “floating shelf” I wanted to use to hold a speaker for my keyboard, only the speaker…
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Another crazy two months…
During which time I managed to blow up this site. Thanks to having a backup of things though, I managed to piece things back together. I’ve also been…
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A crazy two months…
If you aren’t reading the updates over at purgatory.org, my life has been totally consumed by the work required to get our new house ready for move-in. So…