Scanning and uploading old family photos. My parents used to give cool gifts to my brother. Train sets, car sets, interesting toys that could do things. Me? Dolls. Want to know my opinion of dolls?
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My mother’s pen and ink
The first image is “One of the Family”, by Frederick Cotman, painted in 1880. The second image shows the same painting, but this time in black and white from a magazine page. This second image is coated with ink marks, stains, and other signs of wear. The reason why is my mother used this painting […]
We look at today’s social media world post-Trump Presidency and we see a highly disconnected and fragmented world. The media proclaims it’s never seen society so polarized, but we’ve always been polarized. The only difference now is who controls the visibility of the fragments. Unlike earlier years, what was fit to print, or fit for […]
The second part of my Burningbird server re-awakening from the dead is my effort to find any and all past writings and import them into this weblog, one at a time. I’ve had so many variations of weblogs: some at domains I’ve controlled, others at domains I haven’t. I was able to export the posts […]
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The story of the check valve
There’s a story behind this older post. Bit long, but might be fun if you have nothing else going on. Our place in O’Fallon was in the unincorporated county area, which means it’s a hit or miss what kind of service you get. Originally, the homes in the subdivision had septic tanks, but our plot […]