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Book Arts of the outside world. The American Bookbinders Museum. ~~~ Trimming & gluing covers. Introduction To BookmakingDavid WestMakeBHMTuesday 4 June 2024Class 3 of 4 Compiled from material of class 2, minus the orange booklet. Previous[Quick Books, Book Making Class #1][Preparing The Parts, Book Making Class #2] Onwards!Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Equine Ink: The Triple Crown’s Flower Garlands. ~~~ Plot concept. Story built around a medieval manuscript. The settings would follow the book through different times and places. Could be done as narrative history about an IRL manuscript. Or use interesting examples from various books as best suits the storyline. OneContinue reading “A Book Through Time, Fiction Concept”

Art of the outside world. Street Art cities. Also, many cities have guides & maps to their murals. ~~~ My photo plan for this week was to use the phone camera for some sort of Gen-not-mine selfie exercise. Not so fast. I did some research. But not enough. Headline on screenshot says 2024. After, IContinue reading “The Life, Death, Life, and Limbo of A Mural, In Which I Learn about Urban Art and Access Issues, Photography”

Awareness of the outside world. Got a new phone a while back. [Booted Back To The 20th Century] Have been rebuilding my homepage. Have been slow to get the news sites back into the rotation. April was a month. May was partly recovering from April, partly sticking head in sand. See con point #3. SomeContinue reading “Taking Turns, Driving Lessons”

Awareness of the outside world. NOAA: Hurricane Preparedness. ~~~ Should we have 13 Atlantic hurricanes this year, we will be treated to Hurricane Milton. “The six lists above are used in rotation and re-cycled every six years.” NOAA: Tropical Cyclone Names. So, Milton will be up for re-use in 2030. The M for 2018 wasContinue reading “Storm Season”

Awareness of the outside world. BarBend: Raw vs Equipped Powerlifting, Siem 2023. Because I found it fascinating. Also, good sport journalism. ~~~ Virtual Tevis Cup 2024100 Miles in 100 Days10 April to 21 July Rodney11 miles this week, 69 miles total11 outings – 10 handwalks, 1 ride Milton8 miles this week, 70 miles total8 outingsContinue reading “Month By Month, Virtual Tevis 2024”

Awareness of the outside world. Johns Hopkins COVID Long Study. Looking for participants, particularly novids for control group. Can access from anywhere in the world. Took it. Decent design. For example, every question has a Prefer Not To Answer option, which is courteous. Hat tip to G for letting me know about survey. ~~~ FireContinue reading “Summer Is Here, Fans & Fly Masks”