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Tape Storage, 1977
Found in Texas Monthly, 1977 Vol. 5, No. 11 This advertisement for Maxell media displays four very common tape formats from the 70s: clockwise from top, studio tape [1], 8-track tape, reel-to-reel...
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What if it were the other way around?
Sexism and rape culture continues to be immovably enthroned in American culture. Awareness, happily, is rising, but only in certain sections of the population. I think progress wherever it is made is...
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The Internet: A repository for all things arcane.
In a recent post I saw on Facebook, a friend of mine was sharing some thoughts about dealing with ADHD in children. I mentioned that I’ve had the problem since childhood, and that ultimately it never...
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And you thought the theremin was weird.
Well, it is, sorta. But 50′s science fiction movies would never have been the same without it. Here’s a video of Leon Theremin playing his own instrument: The Japanese, of course, know how to take...
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Saint Michel d’Aiguilhe, France
Click for a full-size version I happen to be a dyed-in-the-wool francophile; how in the world did I ever miss knowing about this stunning accomplishment? From Wikipedia: Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe is a...
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New York, 1950s
Some photos of New York City taken by my father, found while scanning his collection of negatives. This is the city I knew as a child. Dad was not a great photographer, but was very enthusiastic, and...
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Music Across the Ages
If you love music and aren’t afraid to genre-hop, or take on new tastes, please visit “The Daily Music Break.” Updated daily, this website is a good way for people to listen to new music that they...
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Excuse me while I turn handsprings
I have a lovely computer. It’s really the first time in my life I’ve had a machine that was more robust than my needs dictated; it’s a nice Dell i7 core box running Win7 Pro and it runs like greased...
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Mario on the Sheng
As a follow-up to my post on strange ways of making music, I share with you an astonishing performance of the Mario theme (it seems to be a very popular demonstration piece) on an odd Chinese...
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Practice Safe Computing!
This can’t be stressed enough, or repeated often enough. Just got an email today in my business account that looked like this: Dear Sir/Madam, The attached payment advice is issued at the request of...
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The Seegers on the Road
Today is John Steinbeck’s 112th birthday – or would have been, if he weren’t dead. But some pictures that ran across my Facebook feed this morning seemed somehow relevant. May 1921. Washington, D.C....
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1954: Creature from the Black Lagoon
High-resolution production still. Notice the cloning to make the image wider. Trivia: redditor /u/Artikunu chimed in to say, “Fun fact: my great grandfather is the creator of the Creature From the...
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James Gurney: The Soy Bean
This lovely painting by James Gurney appeared in the July, 1987 edition of the National Geographic, long one of my favorite magazines since early childhood. I’ve had multiple collections of hard copy...
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The Mission Inn at Riverside
Just got back from a little junket to California to see an aunt who’s almost 100, and some other friends and relatives as well. One of the things we saw while we were in Riverside, where one of my...
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Freefall: Jerry Pournelle’s Review.
Art: Mark Stanley. Background and color: The Old Wolf I’ve mentioned Mark Stanley’s Freefall webcomic several times in this blog (just do a search, you’ll find the articles, but here’s one of my...
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Being a Mormon misfit: And why that’s totally OK
The Old Wolf:I had to share this. The Savior came for all of us… but most especially for the misfits, the outcasts, the downtrodden, the unloved, and the hurting. The whole need not a physician, but...
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Hackers around the world
Holy Mother of Mogg! I don’t use my Hotmail account very often, but I keep it around for a few odd reasons. I just saw a post at reddit and thought I’d better check my own account. And that’s only the...
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The Original Penn Station, New York City
New York, circa 1911, the original Pennsylvania Station lived for only half a century, ultimate succumbing to declining train ridership and the pressure to build upward. Another view from...
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Axel Erlandson, the true “shepherd of the trees.”
Treebeard would have split his bark with envy. Erlandson sitting on a natural chair crafted out of trees. Swedish-American farmer Axel Erlandson had a way of coaxing trees to do the most astonishing...
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The Inner Child, by Cristian Girotto
Fell down this rabbit hole today and wanted to share, for no good reason. I love Girotto’s work, and this particular exercise is intriguing. “Without bothering Jung and its “Puer aeternus” or Pascoli...
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