Recently an 80 year old woman named Cecilia Gimenez, who wanted to fix a deteriorated masterpiece, painted a distorted face over it. The Fresco is/was Ecce Homo by Elías García Martínez located in Santuario de la Misericordia, a Roman Catholic church in Borja, Spain near the city of Zaragoza. I am considering using this as the […]
Wanderings
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Egg and Chicken
Gretchen’s Egg And here is a very pretty Gretchen (Millie to the right – she’s very nosy).
Science Fiction Textfiles - Resources for Science Fiction Writers
Science Fiction Text Files. In the very early days of computers there were hardly any graphics. Everything was text. Things were simpler in those days. I updated a WordPress plugin to be able to display text files inside a blog. I then searched around and found a site: www.textfiles.com and I downloaded an archive of […]
The Chicken has Landed
There is a small egg in one of the brood boxes. One of our chickens, Gretchen, was sitting on it for a while. We have started in the egg business. Tonight we have omelets for dinner. Pictures to follow.
Template Change
The main template for the my Science Fiction Resources site has been pretty funky for a while. I installed my new Static Pages template and it broke more often than it should have. I spent an hour today and cleaned it up. It still is not 21st century, but I wanted to make it work […]
Hanging with Johnny Winter
I had some sweet tickets to see Edgar and Johnny Winter along with Rick Derringer, Kim Simmonds, and Leslie West. Here are a few pictures of the show.
The Emporium
Although I don’t review books anymore it is interesting to see what author’s are writing and sending me. I was tempted to review this one, just to get a free copy. It looks like it might be fun. Two things prevented me. First, there is a small robotic dog, and second the protagonist’s name is […]