Author Archives: Virtual Brush Box

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won.   Awareness of the outside world. Trying to become a better consumer of information. News outlets on both sides of the aisle exist to sell stories. Drama makes a story more interesting. Therefore, even the most fact-based analysis will still have the gain turned up.Continue reading “A Bit of Change, Because We Always Have To Be Tweaking Something, Don’t We?”

Thoughts   Awareness of the outside world. Ex Urbe: Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages & Ex Urbe: Self-Care & Healthy Work Habits for the Pandemic. Truth in advertising. I have not finished reading these. I very much look forward to settlingContinue reading “Numbers and Weaving, A Short Anecdote”

Graphic Design   Awareness of the outside world. Nothing today. Drawbridge firmly up. Happily inhabiting imaginary Tevisland. ~~~     [And They’re Off, The Virtual Tevis Starts] Process notes. Knew that I wanted curved corners. Forgot how to do it. Referred back to previous post, [Association Lettering]. Score one for the archives. Was aiming forContinue reading “We Got This”

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won.   Awareness of the outside world. On the other end of the technology scale, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center is facing an epic budget shortfall. They have started a GoFundMe campaign, Save Space Camp. [Show Tweets] ~~~ Day one of 100 miles in 100Continue reading “And They’re Off, The Virtual Tevis Starts”

Horsekeeping Lucky enough to have a horse.   Awareness of the outside world. When I was at the zoo, snakes were my favorite animal to demo. I’d convince people to get up their nerve to touch one and they’d say, “They’re not slimy!?” Fight the prevailing paradigm! Snakes are awesome! Yes, some snakes can hurtContinue reading “Exterminator In The House, A Snake Encounter”

Fit To Ride   Awareness of the outside world. Oamaru is home to Blue Penguin Colony, home of the little blue penquin. “Blue penguins are the smallest penguin in the world stand 30cm (11.8 inches) tall” OBPC: Penquin Facts. ~~~ In honor of CoNZealand, which started yesterday, a slideshow of screenshots from my latest adventureContinue reading “Virtual New Zealand, A Screenshot Slideshow”

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won.   Awareness of the outside world. CNN: Google will let employees work from home until at least next summer, by Brian Fung, July 28, 2020. A major US corporation does not expect things to change significantly for at least a year. We are in thisContinue reading “Rodney and Milton Stop By The Blog To Have Their Noses Counted”