First, I lost all of the data at the AOL members site. It was no great loss to me, but Erica lost a huge cache of images that she had used for eBay auctions. She had local copies of most of it, but I would have liked more notice before the shutdown. I’d had a […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Tales – Mystery and Occultism, Edgar Allan Poe
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
This book has been in my family for over 100 years and is signed by C.S. Tuthill on the front page with the address 300 Washington Ave. where the Tuthills lived with the Mansfield family in Nyack, NY after the Civil War. I am descended from both the Tuthills and Mansfields, but C.S. Tuthill would […]
Trek Friday and all of the Complications
Monday, May 4, 2009
I can’t believe how complicated my life can get without warning. Jim bought the poker boys tickets to the new Star Trek movie for 10:10pm at the Imax in Palisades on Friday night. This was the earliest he could get as other shows were sold out. This one is a little later so it’s not […]
New Shout Boxes on every page
Friday, May 1, 2009
I put those feedback boxes on almost every page of cthreepo.com. The code is remarkably simple, which means that it probably breaks easily. Each page has its own data file and comments. I have to watch it for spammers. Next I need a way to moderate the comments so I can get rid of messages […]
John King, the Ukule King died.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Lately there has been much interest in the Ukulele. One of the greatest figures in modern Ukulele was John King. Just watch the YouTube video below and you will be blow away watching John do Bach. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=935ExOpT5bI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAgMqbsKhgw&feature=related NY Times:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/arts/music/27king.html?scp=2&sq=uke&st=cse