My brother gave me a photocopy of a newspaper article titled “Yeager-Patterson Family History”. Its source is not noted, but it appears to be from a Sumner County, Kansas newspaper from the late 1960s or early 70s. Here’s the first part, detailling my father’s mother’s family’s journey from Illinois to Kansas: The Yeagers and Pattersons…
sometimes the magic works
Even in a weak economy, even with old media in a hyper-technological world, sometimes inspiration and hard work pay off. Exhibit A: David Imus. Who is David Imus, you may ask. He’s a guy you makes old-fashioned paper maps. By himself. In his garage. He’s good at it. A few years ago, a client of…
genealogy redux
Several years ago, I spent a whole heapa time putting together my family tree. While it took a lot of my time, I didn’t really do anything resembling original research, I just assembled my brother Ric’s stuff, my aunt Beth’s material, notes from various other family members, info from dozens of websites, etc. I put…
Grrrrrrrrr…
The vast international conspiracy to make lots of really stupid projects for me that I can’t bill to anyone goes into warpdrive… My usually reliable web host, Verve Hosting, had the bright idea to upgrade their servers. They sent me a note about it, with some of the things I should look out for. If…
you really, truly, can’t make this up…
I don’t usually pay much attention to the ads on my gmail account, but this one caught my eye. And blew my mind. Keep “Hanoi Jane” off TV Sign Petition to keep Hanoi Jane off this major TV network! www.moveamericaforward.org Nothing says “move America forward” better than wallowing in some forty-year-old, stupid political theatre from a movie star.
my great-great grandfather was an SOB
Samuel Oliver Bereman, my mother’s father’s mother’s father, left a journal of his adventures in the Civil War. I’ve had “plans” for some time to do a video blog project, following his journal through the South, visiting battle sites, interviewing historians, and profoundly ruminating. Eventually, I’d take the vlog footage and condense it into a…
facebookification of everything
Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn’t. I’ve been experimenting with WordPress plugins which connect to Facebook. My first effort was something called Simple Facebook Connect. That one’s a frightful misnomer. If there were any justice in the world, they wouldn’t be allowed to use the word “simple” in the title. In order to…
facebook and the perpetually steep learning curve
One reason I’m broke all of the time is I spend an awful lot of unbillable time learning new stuff and re-learning not-so-new stuff that I don’t use enough to keep fresh in my crowded little brain. Case in point: Facebook. I started an FB account a year or so ago, largely so I could…
paradoxes of my life
I want to go camping for weeks and months on end; I want to garden. I don’t want to bother with money; I don’t want to design my life around money; I want to have enough money. I want to travel; I want to put down roots. I want to arise and photograph the dawn;…
the magic formula for theatrical glory
I really don’t know what to do with the data life hands me sometimes. A coupla weeks ago I finished the run of a play. I was acting as Marley, and half a dozen minor roles, in a one-hour adaptation of A Christmas Carol at the Mendocino Theatre Company. It was a smashing success. Why?…