Monthly Archives: November 2006

St. Andrews Guild Nyack, 1940-41 Film

I’ll have the DVD in the next day or so and I’ll rip that to another type of video for those having trouble with QuickTime. I tried to fix the link, but I just checked and it’s blocked again! Try this link to the video and see if you have better luck

Too Many Damn Cats

I managed to snag a strong wifi connection, so I posted several cat pics on the cat blog. I know you can’t get enough!

Sale! Coyote Wild

Against all odds, I sold “Nest of Flames” to Coyote Wild. I received the following message this afternoon from Lori: I’m happy to report that you were incorrect. Coyote Wild would like to purchase “A Nest of Flames” for our Spring 2007 issue. Very cool! Coyote Wild is slickly designed. I like its style. I […]

How I Spent My Vacation

I wandered around to every tile place within driving distance taking pictures of tile

Trees

I took some tree pictures over the last couple of weeks. I cleaned out the chip on the cheapo HP camera that I carry in my pocket.

St. Andrews Guild trip to Rye Playland 1940, 1941

My brother found this old 16mm film taken on the Grace Church picnic to Rye Playland before WWII. My mom, her brother’s and sisters and many people who I remember from the church are in it. The church hired the Clermont river boat from the foot of Main Street in Nyack, and went around Manhattan […]

Famous Customer

I sell harmonica microphone parts at JT30.com and yesterday I got an order from a celebrity. Most blues harp celebrities are unknown except to us harp players, but this order is from a real rock star. I sent out the order today (a vintage Shure mic element).

NASA – Hubble Space Telescope

NASA launched Hubble in 1990, so it was designed and built with mid-1980s technology. There was a strong case against repairing the Hubble rather than building a new one from scratch and launching the Hubble 2 to replace it. I remember that in a previous upgrade they put in a new motherboard for one of […]