If you go back into some of the photos in this blog or elsewhere, you can see that I wore a full beard for about a year. The face change is not the first time and probably not the last. That means it comes and goes but not in a rapid succession. The people with whom I interact over a long period get to see both “faces” for a fair amount of time. The last...
Continue reading...Facebook (part 2)
I have been playing with Facebook (FB) for about two months now. I have developed mixed feelings about the so called networking service. First I never trust anything free. There is always a reason for something like this to be given away. This holds for other networking services such as LinkedIn and all the rest of its kind. There is a definite reason behind this entire personal information gathering. Don’t lie to yourself and pretend...
Continue reading...Vectric
I just spent two days at the Vectric Users meeting over by the DFW airport here in Dallas. Vectric produces several CNC designer products (I have them all) but their premiere product Aspire (especially) is the creatived software I use the most to design and create the complex forms I machine with my HB2 router machine. The results are the Lithophanes, carved wood signs, 3-D sculptures and 2-D components I make on my machines. I discovered I am fairly competent with...
Continue reading...iPhone Gizmo
What a joke. What ever happened to battery life? The iPhone is a wonderful gizmo that happens to include a phone. But I have to drag my charging cord wherever I go. I don’t get or make that many calls but all the other tricks this gizmo will do just eats stored electrons like me with a bag of spicy jellybeans. The bottom of the bag shows up way too soon. My old phone,which was only a phone,...
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