Archive for July, 2008

This is Don Lennox, with the…

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Sometimes, I just look at an ancient piece of TV I did with 25-year-old technology, and I say to myself, wow, if I could redo all of that in crisp, clean high-res vectors now…

Brap-brap-brap! Kiribati! Islamabad! Nashville! Decatur! The earth! The universe! The news channel. Oh by the way, the original kinda survives on this [...]

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Rooting for cane sugar.

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Growing up in a sixties Ohio white bread environment doesn’t do a lot to provide you with an understanding of what food is good for you (after all, they test-marketed Pringles where I lived) and, well, besides, good information on nutrition seems to have evolved at about the same rate as the commercial food industry [...]

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We shall simply explain.

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

From time to time I get asked to beta-test new versions of software, and of course there’s just the common experience of taking a new online service out for a spin. That’s when I’ll discover something, not necessarily something you’d label a “bug,” not really a “feature,” but a way the thing works that just [...]

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Carefully framed optimism.

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Okay, so, yeah, we’ve been busy, what with dealing with insurance people and contractors and so on, but on a muggy Atlanta July Sunday morning, I find myself tilting toward optimism.
We have a roofline again. We have a ceiling (well, we have a subfloor) over our dining room again. We have had entertaining framers [...]

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