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I’m Not Xapno / Intro
In the 1930’s, Harpo Marx visited Russia in the combined role of ambassabor and performer. The Cryillic alphabet rendered his name as something like Xapno Mapcase. I read this years ago in Harpo’s autobiography, and have often used it as my online identity. In reality, though, I’m not Xapno. Continue reading
Ada C. Lore (A Memory)
I worked several years for a shellfish company in New Haven. I was hired as a captain, and I operated a number of boats for them, clam boats primarily, from fifty-five to a hundred feet in length. The boat in this anecdote was the Ada C. Lore, about 90′ as paced off on the dock If you do a Google search, you’ll find stories and photos of her post-retirement life as a restored charter schooner in Maine, but when this story happened, she was was a just a tired old clam boat.
Early Days, Late Nights
My fond first memories hearken back to my carefree zygote days. What times those were; talk about potential! It was an era of no regrets, no apologies, no baggage. Continue reading
13 Crimes (A Memory)
The holidays, and a co-worker gave my wife a bottle of 13 Crimes wine. Something about 13 types of crime that the English courts punished the guilty by banishment to Australia. I guess that could be historical fact, but a strange name for wine.
One Hundred Years at Hard Labor
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I’ve been trying to figure out where the time went.
So I put together a chart of the major blocks of time that I can account for. Continue reading
Dream Cruise
This is less of a story of a technical undertaking, and more of a muse on human nature.
A few years back, I had occasion to work on a couple of run-down sailboats whose owners remained stubbornly blind to their vessel’s overwhelming list of flaws. Continue reading
This Website.
This isn’t my first website.
In fact, at one time, I built and maintained websites for a number of local small businesses. I was a one man operation- sales, web designer, graphic artist, customer service, bookkeeper and diaper changer. (My kids, not my customers.) Liitle by little, though, my customers wanted business integration features beyond my self-taught abilities. Slowly, it evolved from fun to work to chore.
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Entropic Chic Interrupted
As a species, we scramble around trying to improve our situation. We invent, experiment, build and create, all in the hope of finding something better than whatever it is that we already have. We like change.
Nature, however, prefers things as they were. What follows is an example of that ongoing disagreement.
The Ants & the Grasshopper (Retold)
One bright day in late autumn a colony of ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.
“What!” cried the ants in surprise, “haven’t you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?” Continue reading