Category: Blog

  • In Memoriam: Marlene Vis

    Marlene Vis, my aunt, passed away this past Saturday, aged 63, loosing a prolonged battle with cancer. I know it’s trite to say that cancer patients “fight” their disease, but if anyone had, she did. Sent to hospice twice, she beat the odds to live more than a year longer than the most optimistic projections.…

  • A Musical Pick-Me-Up

    On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314

  • Eulogy for Lillian (Hulst) Vis

    Lillian (Hulst) Vis, aged 85, died Friday, 24 August 2012. She was preceded in death by her husband, Gerrit, and a daughter, Erma Vis. She is survived by 3 sons, a daughter, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, me amongst them. My grandmother was a devoted mother, grandmother, and Christian. She will be missed by all of us,…

  • Apropos of nothing

    Noel Gallagher – Teotihuacan Because I like this song.

  • Rick Santorum's Google Problem

    Poor Rick Santorum. When he isn’t making sure you know gay marriage and adoption are “violations of natural law” (his words) or that the Super Scary Sharia Law is already here, he’s got this small Google problem. Google his last name. Go ahead, but be ready for something pretty gross to read. Actually, you don’t…

  • links for 2011-07-06

    Silhouette Vinyl (tags: vinyl silhouette)

  • links for 2011-06-30

    Acrobat’s Adobe PDF Printer Replaced in Snow Leopard | InDesignSecrets Apple, in their infinite wisdom, removed many features required for imposition printing from InDesign in Snow Leopard. This thread has some solutions. (tags: indesign imposition printing) Create Booklet 1.1 support Snow Leopard (tags: imposition bookmaking printing indesign booklets)

  • links for 2011-06-29

    YouTube – TEDxObserver – Cory Doctorow (tags: facebook skinnerbox doctorow)

  • links for 2011-06-24

    Language Log: The Dan Brown code (tags: awful books fiction blarg)

  • links for 2011-06-23

    NYU Google Migration (tags: google email calendar work)