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Photography of the outside world. Royal Museums Greenwich, Astronomy Photographer of the Year. Hat tip to L. ~~~ Dock at Beeswax CreekShelby County AL USASeptember 2024 Technical Details Dock, f/8.0, 1/100 sec., 66.0 mm, ISO 100. Manual mode & auto-focus. Post production: resized, border, & watermark. No cropping. Border colors. Gray for project, yellow forContinue reading “Dock at Beeswax Creek, Photography”

Awareness of the outside world. “It says something about our world that we seldom remember the person who came up with an idea, but canonize the pragmatist who made it commercially viable.” The author is referring to Gutenberg, Fulton, & Edison, then points out, “Already we have forgotten the people who created most of theContinue reading “After The Show, In Which I Try To Corral The Frogs”

Awareness of the outside world. “Technological fallacy: the idea that technology changes society. It is exactly the reverse. Society develops technology to address the changes that are taking place within it.” Paper: Paging Through History, by Mark Kurlansky (Norton 2016), prologue. ~~~ tl, dr: Showed over the weekend. Almost didn’t. [Soloing In A Crowd] GivenContinue reading “Before The Show, In Which I Dither And Decide To Go To A Horse Show”

Photo credit: Kimberley Mullins ASHAA Summer Fun ShowHeathermoor FarmLeeds AL, USASaturday 14 September 2024 Optimus. Thank you to the Bearden & Gray families.30 Academy Showmanship Adult WTC – 1st of 7 131 Academy Equitation Adult WTC – 1st of 7 1 Seven of us stood in the lineup and I was called out first! Woot!Continue reading “Soloing In A Crowd, Show Report, ASHAA Summer Fun Show #4”

Awareness of the outside world. Doing my part for science, Johns Hopkins COVID Long Study. Filled out my quarterly survey. [Summer Is Here] ~~~ Rodney has been promoting putting Milton on Regu-Mate, a mood stabilizer for mares that can be used for geldings. Rodney would like his roommate to chill. Regu-Mate is complicated to workContinue reading “Milton’s Magic Mixture”

Art of the outside world. MOMA: Lettering by Hand, Exhibition from the 60s. Exhibition calalogue online under “View the publication.” ~~~ [Fractal Alphabet] Onwards!Katherine

It all started when two of Abby’s friends used to meet every weekday for coffee. She wanted to join them, but they lived in town and she lived way out in the country. Their coffee shop of choice was too far away. It would mean driving for two hours – an hour there and anContinue reading “Digital Coffee Hour, Fiction Fragment”