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100 years of Fashion
Courtesy of MODE, a young lady gets dolled up in the fashions of 100 years’ time. The images of 1955 and 1965 seem frightfully familiar – I have visions of my mother in clothes like this, and I can...
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Protect yourself from Phishing attacks
Great advice from a local business: Be suspicious of any email that requires “immediate action” or creates a sense of urgency. This is a common technique used by criminals to rush people into making a...
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A “forward from Grandma”: Our generation is awesome.
I used to get all kinds of effluence in my inbox, mostly from people forwarding things to me that they could have debunked with a 5-second visit to Snopes.com, or telling me that Microsoft would pay...
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An Illustration: Why you never open those attachments.
I got two emails yesterday, each with an attachment. Both are designed to get people to open whatever malware package they are carrying: To: [redacted] Subject: Notice to appear in Court #00000554562...
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The PRR S1 Locomotive, 1939
My mother would have seen this gem during her visit to the World’s Fair in 1939. Read about the PRR S1 at Wikipedia. Mom at the World’s Fair. The Trylon and Perisphere League of Nations building
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Today’s Hike: Training for Dry Mountain
It’s been a while since I’ve been walking seriously – life just sort of got in the way – but on June 1 I started getting out in the mornings again and today I thought I’d head back up the hillside....
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Another package of Javascript malware
I wish I were a javascript programmer. Here’s the code that came to me via email in a .zip file, under the malicious guise of a FedEx delivery label (it was packaged to look like the code you see in...
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The ‘10,000 Calorie Sundae’
The image above shows two young girls purchasing a so-called “10,000-calorie sundae” from Blair Parson’s store in Lynchburg, Virginia, sometime in the 1950s. Price: 35¢. Odds are that this was some...
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Spam from China
Why would anyone in their right mind respond to a mail blast like this, especially when it’s in Chinese? 尊敬的客户： 您好！ 祝您业务更上一层楼。...
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1911 – Hot town, summer in the city
Heat wave in New York. July 6, 1911. “Licking blocks of ice on a hot day.” 5×7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. Found at Shorpy. New York can get blistering hot when a heat wave rolls...
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Probably applies to more people than we might imagine.
Artwork by Adams Carvalho “I’m a really affectionate person once you get past my 5 layers of shyness, awkwardness, fear, vague dislike, and loneliness.” ―Unknown Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting...
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How to advertise a clothing drive
Woman, wearing a barrel, advertising for clothing drive, walks down the middle of Times Square, New York, 1944. Eye-catching in any case. The Old Wolf has spoken.
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Order to Appear in Court
Nothing to see here, folks, just move along. Another scam email from fraudsters trying to get me to download malware to my computer. This time the Javascript code wants to go out to startick.com,...
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Six Views of Cairo – Robert Hay
The six lithographs below were published by the American University in Cairo Press in 1983. They were found among my mother’s possessions; she spent years in Egypt on various assignments from World War...
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“He takes them to a pastry shop to eat some good cakes.”
For as long as I can remember – my very earliest reading days in the 50s – Babar was one of my favorite children’s books. I always loved this page, where Babar takes his two little cousins Arthur and...
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The King of the Upsells
Now that the birthday has passed, the story can be told. I went to F.Y.E. to buy a CD for my wife. I take my purchase to the register. First Up: Salesgirl: “Do you want to sign up for the F.Y.E....
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Simple People from Egypt
I recently posted about Robert Hay’s engravings of Cairo, While cleaning out some of my own files, I came across a calendar from 1995 – “Simple People from Egypt” – that had been given to me by a...
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Scamming Scum
The boys from Benin, like the Lads from Lagos, never seem to give up. Subject: MTCN: 3784757648 Amount: $5000.00 From: DAVID JOHNSON <foreignpayments19497@gmail.com> To: undisclosed-recipients:;...
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Auburn, NY ca. 1950. Boy buying a Pepsi.
Based the date on the look of the car in the background, looks like a 49 or 50 to me. Taken on Gennesse Street near Exchange.
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Stung by a deceptive popup
Sometimes I’m just tired, I guess. Normally I don’t pay attention to things I see on my Android since I don’t have ad-blocking software and I’m used to getting the occasional popup or redirect. The...
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