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Saturday, April 22, 2017

Madge Pontius

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In April, 2017, an embodiment of tenacious, loving humility entered into the collective memories of those who knew Madge Pontius. Madg...
Monday, April 10, 2017

Typing Exercise - 1939 Royal Portable - for April 10, 2017

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(click on image to enlarge - (c) 2017 Jim Middleton)
Saturday, April 08, 2017

Scanning and Merging Some Sketches, ca 1978-1980

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Scanned in using Photoshop, no real corrections needed, at 300dpi.  Then entered into Sony Vegas, 6 frames per image, merged with a 0.2 ove...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

1974 - The Summer of Organic Chemistry

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Saturday, March 11, 2017

Remembering Sixth Grade - Poorly

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An exercise in typing on a Royal portable, ca 1940, and a Remington Noiseless, ca 1938:
Saturday, March 04, 2017

Notes from The Cornered Druggist: Xerese, another useless FDA-approved drug

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(While listening to public radio this morning, I was struck by its discourse on language and its various paths of evolution.   The combinat...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Breakout Discussions at the October 2016 Heroin Summit Conference, Battle Creek, Michigan

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Questions, notes, and discussion from the Opiate Summit - October 2016, Firekeeper’s Casino, Battle Creek MI Breakout session - Jim Midd...
Tuesday, January 03, 2017

Testing An Animated GIF exercise

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OK, let's see how this plays in Blogger!
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Transgenerational Bromance

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A clip from youtube and a soundtrack from the Leni Riefenstahl collection, and Viola!
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

The Ranks are Thinning

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There is no replacing a true friend.  One can only remember, and if chilled, bundle up... a melancholy warmth can offer some comfort. http:...

Heroin Conference and "Next Steps" Summit - 14 October 2016

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(With some pharmacy guy acting as a moderator during the break out sessions...) Prescription Drugs and Heroin: The Next Steps Summit ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Theodore Roosevelt on Liberty - 1916

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Ah, politics and the strangeness of bedfellows. Republican Theodore Roosevelt made a speech 100 years ago about the abuse of industry upon ...
Sunday, May 01, 2016

Oswald the Lucky Typist

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One of these days, I'll get a proper ribbon for this Oliver #9 and really figure out how to use that little golf-pencil underliner. ...

Into the Liver of Darkness - A note from 1988

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A 23,000 foot doodle.  1988     Jim woke at 23,000 feet to the conversation of the two businessmen sweating out the storm to his left,...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

An Appreciation of Raymond Griffith - You'd Be Surprised (Paramount, 1926)

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Along the lines of Richard Anobile: First of all, my thanks for Grapevine Video, about the only available source for Raymond Griffith...