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Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.

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The Man with the Raft

It’s just a Sunday, lazier morning in, longer coffee time at the kitchen table. The phone rang and Mom said, “Happy Father’s Day!” “But Mom, I’m not a father…” “Yes, but you have one.” She says it in present tense, darn she is savvy. If I was thinking of today, I might call it Father-less […]

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He Does Talk Fast

This psychotic animated GOF was grabbed hastily from the Amazing Story video JIm did for me when he visited Strawberry last month. Not quite yet the perfect style, I am getting a better handle on isolating movement (sometimes- my Ayn Rand one was better). My current technique is: Load video into MPEGStream Clip Use the […]

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Phone Call From Brazil

(the movie, not the country!) I had promised myself to avoid blogging or tweeting all the injustices inflicted upon my by heartless and stupid companies, no #FAIL proclamations. Oh well, time to bust my own promise. But really, the communcination systems I find myself dealing with seem right out of the Ministry of Information. Yesterday, […]

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Working Your Virtuous Circles

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by giveawayboy Taking the swirl metaphor of real life/online connections in a different direction, what follows might be patently obvious. But first, here is some secret insight- If you find that 140 characters cramps your communication style (and please avoid the hokey pokey longer tweet […]

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Quotables

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Jess Gambacurta For the last four? five years? I’ve sported the same old quote on the top right of this blog, under “What the CDB”, a slight rewording of my favorite desert author. Time it was to change out the quote, and I found […]

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Audio Books as Audiobooks

In preparation for my upcoming long road time, I’ve been organizing some audio books to fill some of the time/space. There is a veritable bag of gold from the Internet Archive. I also found a decent selection of free (public domain) Adventure Audio Books. A small problem with them is that these are really a […]

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Salute to Scottlo

(one last post before I exit for camping!) For those in the ds106 Radio fold, this week’s drama has been the reported demise of our New/Old Radio Friend, Scottlo. The “death” part being a bit downloayed, it has been a fascinating thing to watch unfold as he (Scottlo? Otto? Frank?) examines, reinvents, who he is […]

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Gone Camping

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog It’s time to shut the lid and go offline. I’m going to pack up the camping gear, the kayak, and head up to Knoll Lake on the Mogollon Rim, to enjoy some mellow time. Might be back tomorrow, or Tuesday, or …. This is a […]

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Real Virtual Connections

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog We often frame our ideas about the virtual/online spaces we inhabit as being separate, across some boundary from, the real ones we inhabit- we go binary, either/or, on/off, black/white. Like the image above, I find it not so neatly define, it is a swirl. Bear […]