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Re: I Love Letterpress

howard — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:15:30 -0000

Hey, if you ever do invest in one of those presses, please let me be your apprentice? (Of course, if I ever land one for myself, you'd be welcome to use it too)

Re: penciled-in people

howard — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:02:07 -0000

thanks -- "Aunt Helen" liked it too.

It was bouncing around my head on the way home last night, and this was the
first hard copy of it.

Re: surrealism

howard — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:31:42 -0000

Thanks. Like I said it's a good thing to know.

Re: twenty-eleven

howard — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:39:51 -0000

You're welcome, Frank -- it's a great list.

I'm glad to be back, too, and especially glad to have folks who can call me amigo.

Re: Indy Hall

howard — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:45:06 -0000

Though I have enjoyed the local library from time to time, the functionality of Indy Hall goes beyond free wifi and a semi-quiet workspace. It's literally an office, but much more diverse than your typical one. And you get a bit of exposure to some pretty innovative thought patterns, kind of like on a good blog (like yours). It's almost like everything I like about the internet brought into the real world and harnessed for productivity.

Re: thanksgiving, part 2

howard — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:48:24 -0000

I think you were pretty much on target. I like that you tied your second comment here into the poverty/working class wage stagnation.

Maybe that's the biggest problem -- that our entire economic paradigm is riding on people continually ramping up their spending while their wages stay roughly the same. I like what you did with the topic.

Re: thanksgiving, part 2

howard — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:33:51 -0000

I was thinking of shopping and material acquisitions when I wrote it, but your mention of technology is a whole other world worth looking at. It reminds me of the time the remote control got lost, and my niece literally didn't know how to change the channel, volume or turn off the tv.

I remember hearing statements like "this generation will be the first to grow up with no idea what it was like before [insert earth-shattering advancement here]" -- I used to think that was a good thing, but that's when I was young and I didn't know how right the teachers were when they scolded us for using calculators too much, warning that we needed to know how to do things for ourselves. I'm wonder how stunted our entire society would be if we suddenly had to do without cell phones or our online infrastructure for a day, or even a few hours!

Re: vectors (jfdi)

howard — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:00:06 -0000

Thank you, Frank -- that's incredibly flattering. I hope thanksgiving goes well for you and your family this year.

Re: unspoken (November 20th edit)

howard — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:05:11 -0000

Thanks for the kind words. The eulogy was really just a reading of the post I wrote a couple weeks ago. We finally had a local memorial for Mrs. Styer on Saturday. It was good to see so many familiar faces, though it would have been better with at least one more.

Re: mom away from mom

howard — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:24:26 -0000

Thank you, Bill. It's great to hear from you! I absolutely remember you, and yes, I'm going tomorrow. It will be great to see you and, I imagine, a few other people I haven't seen in years.

As far as being oblivious, I get that -- I usually miss things as they happen too. What's the old quote about life? It's best understood backward, but must be lived forward.

Re: pounding pavement

howard — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:35:12 -0000

Thanks, Johannan - I thought I'd sent you a note on one in the last month or so. Glad to see you got it :)

Re: pounding pavement

howard — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:14:18 -0000

They both look interesting, Shannon. I'd greatly appreciate whatever you can find out, especially if you have hypnotic skills and you can plant an obsessive notion in their minds ;)

But really any recon would be useful. Thanks for anything you can find out.

Re: Six Bucks and Random Acts of Kindness

howard — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:40:52 -0000

Nice story. I saw something last week that was similar in a sideways fashion.

I was in the McDonalds at 10th & Market last Tuesday with my paper and a bagel when a homeless man approached and asked for money for a drink. I gave it to him because I figured I had it, and maybe because I found the irony of his request refreshing.

He went to the counter and bought a Coke, then sat down at a table near me with his soda. A few minutes later, another homeless man was making the rounds of the restaurant asking for a little change. The guy I had given two bucks to called him over and handed him what must have been the change from his soda purchase.

It wasn't much, but it reminded me of that old Bible parable of the poor widow giving the few pennies she had after the rich man made a show of his gift in the temple.

Of course, the homeless guy who'd surrendered his last few coins to another indigent man got up a few minutes later and asked yet another customer for fifty cents to buy a loose cigarette.

It was either the cycle of charity, or just a nice moment while it lasted.

Re: mom away from mom

howard — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:11:40 -0000

i hope so, Frank. i like to think i gleaned something from the experience. hopefully, along with the capacity to recognize that kindness in others i've learned to be more like her myself.

Re: mom away from mom

howard — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:09:51 -0000

thank you, and i'm glad you've found similar people in your life! i was, and continue to be, fortunate beyond belief. there may be a few parts of life i would have preferred to bypass, but for the most part its been a parade of people who treat me pretty well for reasons i can't always figure out.

Re: new experiences

howard — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:06:01 -0000

I might actually enjoy that too ;)

Re: democracy’s chorus

howard — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:05:06 -0000

thank you, Sarah

Re: democracy’s chorus

howard — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:19:58 -0000

i wonder if they've turned off the electorate too. i'm sure they have,
actually, but i think you're right check out this po-- that may be the
whole plan. another post i read this morning that reinforced that:
http://paradox1x.org/archiv...

(i know, i tend to agree with folks who quote me, but the haiku isn't meant
to focus on the cynicism)

Re: new experiences

howard — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:49:12 -0000

I can relate to the cave feeling -- and thanks!

Re: new experiences

howard — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:47:41 -0000

oh, don't tempt me -- leave it up to me, and i'll start pretending i work there, kind of like that Milton character from Office Space ;)

Re: new experiences

howard — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:43:24 -0000

the pleasure was at least half mine, probably much more.

i'm toying w/the idea that i might start doing wall haiku on a commission basis ;)

Re: What’s the Earliest a Civilized Person Should Mow His Grass on the Weekend?

howard — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:30:56 -0000

When I was a kid, my father made me use the manual mower -- because he didn't trust me with anything that had a blade rotating at more than 100 rpm. When I got older, he let me use the gas-powered model, but made me mow five times as much.

As for morning mowing decorum, I concur with 10 am. Unfortunately the landscaping guys they have where I live seem to think it's somewhere south of 7. But at least they don't work weekends ;)

Re: Ms. Adderall (drives out the demons)

howard — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:20:27 -0000

oh, indeed. i'm not usually so over the top, so to my regular readers, i almost apologize ;)

Re: Overslept

howard — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:26:05 -0000

I'm absent-minded enough without rushing, so the advice is especially fitting for me ;)

Re: Overslept

howard — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:20:24 -0000

I like that too. I tend to get a little flustered when I find myself behind schedule, and the stress is almost never worth it. I might have to adopt your dad's saying as a motto.