Yearly Archives: 2012

Recuperation Is Not Fast

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A full day without the buddy tape around my big toe and it’s nearest neighbor. It’s been interesting. After six weeks of being taped and 99% of that time in a recovery shoe on top of it, the first sensation was that it felt incredibly odd to have air touching it. In fact, the first time I felt a draft on my foot it and was positively shocking! What’s that?? My first observations was that my foot didn’t fall apart without the tape to hold it together. Whew! And the … Continue reading →

Time Flies With A Broken Toe

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Wow, I can’t believe that tonight marks six weeks since I was sitting in the Emergency Room waiting to find out the status of my poor toe. In some ways, I feel every minute of those six weeks. I watched the leaves change through the windows, and I’ve barely wandered past the steps for ages. And when I think back to hobbling up the stairs with a severely sprained ankle several years ago, I’m suddenly so happy to be living in a one story house this time. Getting around was … Continue reading →

No Such Thing as Most Recent on Facebook

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I know, I know, the people who actually read my blathering posts are seeing the word “Facebook” in the title and sighing inwardly if not audibly. But it’s one of those topics that bubbles to the surface rather frequently. Today was because of a conversation amongst a group of photographers – of which I was a virtual fly on the wall. One stated that Facebook users are generally lazy. His feeling was that Facebook provides all these tools (interest lists, etc.) to pick and choose what people and pages they … Continue reading →

My Toe Shouldn’t Point That Way

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In the grand scheme of things it could have been far worse, but it’s still not a banner day. I’ve been working on prepping and painting my room. It is well due, but I guess now it will be a December task. I was on the second step of the a small step stool. I stepped back aiming for the first step and totally missed. Splat, wiped out on the floor. When I first dusted myself off, I must have been in a vague state of shock because I didn’t … Continue reading →

Facebook – Please Make Edgerank Optional

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I’ve posted more than my share of thoughts on Edgerank in my blog over the past several months. And as I’ve said before, I consider my speaking on this issue as to be in the same vein as commenting on an issue in one’s community. It’s not intended as a criticism so much as a concern about the future of a place I interact with friends, etc. For those who have missed the previous posts or stumbled onto this and have never heard of Edgerank. Edgerank is the name of … Continue reading →

Beyonce vs Mercury Meme Misses The Point

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Ah, don’t you love inter-generational rivalry? My music/clothes/cars/whatever-else-you-have trumps yours! If there’s anything that’s fair game it’s that whatever is new is always crap compared to my generation! And as sure as you roll your eyes when someone says it about the things you like today, given time, you’ll probably utter a similar treatise on the next generation. I rarely have use for rose colored glasses on the past. And when I saw this Beyonce vs Mercury meme making the rounds, my head nearly exploded. There’s so much wrong with … Continue reading →

Farewell Ponds – You’ll be Missed

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I can’t believe how fast these half series of Doctor Who are over. I’d truly rather get it all in one dose, but no one at the BBC asked me. And I’ve been too wrapped up getting my Ireland art uploaded on my account on Fine Art America to post any of my thoughts about it. What finally moved me to sit down and compose some thoughts about the season so far was seeing this recent PS to the Angels Take Manhattan that was posted by the BBC: It shows … Continue reading →

Search Engines Should Reward Original Works

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That search engines such as Google should reward original work is a thought that I’ve had in mind for awhile now. I’ve even brought it up to friends and on various discussion boards several times. But I never quite got around to blogging about it until today. Today the idea came back to the top of my mind. I had a message from a friend. Not only had she run across one of my Egypt photos that was not credited to me. She had found it with the watermark of … Continue reading →

Borja, Spain – Damaged Fresco Meme

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It’s unusual for me to find myself on the outside looking in when there’s a good joke afoot. I don’t think many people who know me well would suggest I had lost my funny bone. Yet there’s one meme that went viral this week that leaves me completely unimpressed. If you’ve somehow missed this viral piece, an elderly woman in Spain attempted to restore a hundred year old church fresco and failed rather spectacularly. Here we see the fresco as it was, both in the past and more recently, and … Continue reading →

Knee Jerk Reactions & The Need to Control

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I suppose there’s a very good reason I majored in sociology in college as I am ever amazed by the dynamics involved in groups. This is twice recently that I’ve had a blog topic spill out of a conversation on an artist forum. This particular topic was  focused on a perceived problem where other people weren’t following the rules. I’m going to let the site in question remain nameless, and as I participate in multiple print on demand sites, I think it’s safe to say you might as well search … Continue reading →