What goes on

[kinzel]

Wheeee ...

Thomas A. Easton's Maine Quartet is officially published today ...

https://www.srmpublisher.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=11&idproduct=50

and, production files for Double Vision are delivered, after several head-scratching sessions this week over "why did this happen?" Yikes, for the first time ever *my* software is more advance than the printer ... well now we see what bleeding edge means.

Did you know that hummingbirds can wear the needles off an evergreen branch?  We put our hummingbird feeder in the midst of the cat garden, which is also a butterfly garden ... and the humming bird seems to be using one small branch as a perch .. .and slowly wearing it to a smooth surface. Very odd.

By the way -- we have several bits if news due to mature RSN, so watch this space. Could be a day, could be a week... but soon.

My appointed job for today? Reread Sharon's Carousel Tides. I've been thrown into the briar patch.

Who here recalls that wonderful, head-clearing scent: long rolls of fresh hot Compugraphic output, some of it coated in artwax?

*I* still have my artwaxer, yessir. And my blades. And some blue-lined lay out sheets. I *am* prepared for the return of the good old days.

Comments

[redpimpernel.livejournal.com]

Did you know that hummingbirds can wear the needles off an evergreen branch?

Having visions of hummingbirds adorned with pine needles. Some with hats of needles, some with belts, some just with needles casually thrown about their feathers.

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

Still have a light table in the basement. Waxer went but the light table is a really heavy sucker and couldn't get anyone to help me get it out -- so there it stands.

[wdonohue.livejournal.com]

I just scored a Bacher film-cutting table from work - they were about to pitch it. The soldering, model-building, pattern-cutting, and art-matting will occupy it now.

I've done manual paste-up, stat camera work, film-stripping, etc. I am NOT ready for the good old days to come back. ;P

-- Brian out --

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

I was watching a hummingbird yesterday play in my sprinkler, flying between the streams of water, before going on to the verbena.

[drammar.livejournal.com]

Yes, I remember it well. I was so impressed when we got our first computer with a page layout program and didn't have to input column commands. And we still have the light table, waxer, burnishing wheel and blue line layout sheets in the basement.

My sister borrowed all but the light table to show the kids in her journalism class what "paste-up" really was. They were horrified.

[k-10b.livejournal.com]

Love my InDesign, yes I do!