I saw this quote in an ad for a guitar, attributed to St Francis of Assisi. Ignoring the fact that I first encountered it in the service of crass commercialism, and asking you to forgive the 13th-century gender viewpoint, I pass it along in the hope that it may mean something to you. He who… [Read More]
Judging juried exhibitions
The CPA recently completed the judging process for our upcoming juried exhibition. There were 696 photographs submitted by 165 artists. Huntington Witherill and I ran Lightroom while Al Weber picked 77 images by 70 photographers for the show. There were submittals from many famous photographers as well as people with more modest recognition, and, perhaps,… [Read More]
Keyboard mystery (sort of) solved
Well, I finally figured out what was going on when it seemed like my keyboard was deciding to go on vacation. Yesterday, I was composing a message in Outlook when I noticed that the keystrokes were not appearing on the screen. I did have a window partially exposed behind the message composing window. The partially… [Read More]
Keyboards, revisited
The big brown truck delivered the freshly-manufactured clicky keyboard with a semi-future-proof (in this sense, it’s only the future if I live to see it) connector, and the true-blue IBM Model M ‘board with a semi-hemi modern PS/2 connector. I tried them out without hooking them up to the computer. The USB keyboard felt at… [Read More]
Waiting for the Muses
I was watching Patty Griffin on Austin City Limits a while back. At the end of the hour, they ran an interview as they rolled the credits. She said something that hit home: “Song writing is listening, not participation. You need to wait for the song to show up. You wait around, hoping that the… [Read More]
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