He failed an update and when several attempts to restore from the total backup I made (just before the update) also failed, I decided to pull the plug on life support. Maintaining Blognasium was way more effort and cost than it was worth. It started as an exercise in playing with a cloud based website (Amazon Web Service) and the StackIdeas share-site software. It was a successful experiment and I learned a lot. But with...
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Junque Plastic
My creative efforts (making tangible art and thingies) are expanding through the world of three-dimensional printing. It’s a new-age process of additive manufacturing. If you don’t yet know what that is, you have been under your rock too long… Ha! Excuse me while I holster my plastic gun… Three-dimensional printing at my budget level is mostly Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) which means hot plastic is extruded through a tiny nozzle and drawn (deposited) as a...
Continue reading...Just “Ironsides” Now
I am not going to get all computer nerd technical here. I want to say I just finished that upgrade to my oldest office computer I call “Ironsides”. It was named “Old Ironsides” before I did the upgrade. Almost all new computers are using solid state drives (SSD). All our cell phones and hand-held tablets all use a form of solid-state drive. They have no moving parts and are very dependable. Price has come way...
Continue reading...50 Years Ago
A very important ceremony involving me and my best friend Gloria occurred on October 12, 1968. We are the two kids in the middle of the picture. It’s wonderful what one will do when in Love. Our love started in High School in Boardman, Ohio in 1964, our senior year. Yep, as high school sweethearts. The wedding took four years to happen and only my Navy service took us apart for awhile. We remained faithful...
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