Daily Drivel

A Farewell to Blogs

Don Horn — Wed, 03 May 2006 11:18:00 GMT

Well, I see that this is my first post here since December of 2004, and I can only conclude that I'm no blogger.   After my last post, my online focus shifted to maintaining a couple of mostly visually-oriented web sites. I started with a photo gallery, incorporating most of the photos originally posted here in my short-lived "Photo of the Day" series (a project that was perhaps a bit too ambitious).   I've added several more photos, but nowhere near one a day. I've also added much of the other content that originally appeared here, plus a little more. In a sense it's like a blog, but at a slower pace.

Last July, I discovered a large cache of Kodachrome photos of trains taken by my dad, dating back to around 1951. I was already selling Dad's collection of paper railroad collectibles on eBay, and so I decided to start posting a "Railroad Photo of the Week" for my customer base. Since then, I've actually managed to continue to post at least one new photo each week, and that collection has grown into a site of its own.

The bottom line is that this will no doubt be my last post here, and instead I'll continue to concentrate on expanding and reorganizing my web pages (although I expect the pace will slow down some as the weather gets nicer).

The current home page for my personal site is:

     http://www.pangraph.com/main/   (see the Links page for additional pages)

and Dad's train photos are at:

    http://www.rrpix.pangraph.com/

Direct Mail is Effective for Diebold

Don Horn — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:46:00 GMT

Ever wonder who wins those direct mail prizes?

(Click on letter to read it).

An Instant Classic?

Don Horn — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:58:00 GMT

Rumor has it that our Prezhydint requested a custom-edited version of the 9/11 Commission Report, tailored to his special needs. Click on the cover to see his "Limited Edtion."

Buster v 0.1b

Don Horn — Mon, 24 May 2004 22:45:00 GMT

While working this morning at my so-called job (selling stuff on e*ay), I noticed the Behaviors menu in my HTML editor, which adds actions like image swap on mouse-over, pop-up windows, etc. I started playing around with the menu options. linking different actions to a photo of Buster that appears at the bottom of my auction listings. Then I remembered another photo, taken seconds after the first one, that would be perfect for this exercise. The result, a new version of Buster's auction listing photo with a rollover action. I tried to post the photo here, but it appears I'm using illegal coding (Javascript?), so I've put it on my web space here:

Another Buster Sighting

Don Horn — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:38:00 GMT

Due to popular demand (thanks, Brenda!), here's another post in the "Travels With Buster" series. Since I haven't been getting out much lately, this one is more along the lines of "Daily Walks With Buster."

Buster in Shooks Run Park

This was taken in a local park as a test of a dime store camera with a plastic lens. Although it was taken in bright sunlight, the vignetting effect of the lens makes it look like a flash photo at night. It's also a little fuzzy, but I resisted the urge to sharpen it up in PhotoShop. Buster is a little fuzzy himself, so it's not a bad lens for him. Will post more lens/camera tests featuring Buster as I get around to scanning them.

...and, the Number One Reason

Don Horn — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:35:00 GMT

why you might not want to set up a webcam in your workplace:

< drumroll >

You might tend to forget that it's there

Cartoon of the Day

Don Horn — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:00 GMT

In a past life, I was an aspiring cartoonist, drawing cartoons when I should have been doing my job as a lab technician. I also drew on other jobs, and when I was unemployed, but quit sometime in the early '80s. I just rediscovered my stash of cartoons that are mostly about 20-25 years old. As an incentive to post something to my blog every day, I'm instituting the "Cartoon of the Day."

These drawings pretty much all fall into the category of "roughs," meaning rough drafts, although I suspect that many, if not all, of them actually represent the peak of my drawing skills at the time. You may find some of them funny (I hope), others might just be mood pieces, some contain gags that are only funny if you worked at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley in the late '70s (your own fault if you didn't), still others I dont even understand, so you're on your own there (as would be the case anyway). I'll be attempting to insert the first one into this post, but future postings will be unannounced and will go directly into my gallery of Cartoons. I'll be deleting ones older than a week or two, and will probably archive those on my personal web site. Who knows, maybe when I start to run out, I'll be inspired to draw some new ones, but at least for the time being, I'll be posting a new (old) one daily.

COTD for October 19, 2003:

Click here to go to the Cartoon Gallery.

Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Blog Outside...

Don Horn — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:17:00 GMT

Well, thanks to Chris I'm up and running and expect to be posting all sorts of stuff, some of which may even be of interest to people other than my Mom. I've already posted a photo in my gallery, although it's sort of stolen from another blogger. [Tom and Elena, check your feedback for October 9th!]. Who knows, maybe I'll just steal stuff from everybody else, disguise and/or disfigure it, then repost it as my own. In addition to using this as a forum for some of my creative efforts, I expect that I'll be recording personal day- to-day trivia, just to keep track of where I am and stave off Alzheimer's for the time being. We'll see what we shall see....