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The book that drove me crazy
2/27/2005 6:00:24 PM Link |  | Add comment
Once I started playing with the internet I realized that I could reconstitute parts of my memory. Easy I thought. After all all human knowledge had been indexed. And it had served me well allowing me to talk specifically with my mom about certain bible passages, make me hip while talking musical groups with the younger folks in my house, and at worked made all things possible. Well in one case it wasn't so easy.

In the 70's I had purchased a book about building furniture and very tiny houses. I could only remember one aspect of the book - the author described a process of building things with 2x2 with holes drilled up and down the lengths. The concept was simple. Take some lengths, bolt them together and you have something.

I actually built a loft bed built using my version of this technique. First my brother Charles slept in it. Then when we moved to a house across the street from the Rainbo bakery in Lexington Kentucky, my wife and I slept on this homemade structure.

I've been wanted to build something else. I remembered the book and turned to the internet to find the book. I search one night in vain - no keywords helped. I search everything - of course I really never got close to the keywords that I needed. Time passed. From time to time I would asked my son to find the book for me - telling him that it must be on the shelves in his house (where I left it). He would look, he would ask but nothing.

I would search google using key words that retrieved nothing but frustration. More Time passed. The theme recurred. My poor son believed that I was out of my mind chasing this ghost.

Until one day, June 13, 2004 4:30PM, I was talking to him via vonage. The subject came up - Again. He sighed knowing that the search was on again. But this time for some reason I found it. Eureka.

Or so I thought until today. I tried to remember the book again but couldn't. Fortunately, I was ready because I save the actual page where I found a reference. The site in question was a weblog - called Gallery - Urban Nomads.


Google Search - "how to build your own living structures"
CSS Links
2/24/2005 4:31:19 PM Link |  | Add comment
Michael of webmikey.com fame sent me this link http://www.mentalbloc.net/reference/css.html saying "..this is one of the best concise CSS pages I've found so far..". I haven't decided yet but I wanted to put it somewhere I could find it later.





More Old Photos
2/21/2005 7:26:12 PM Link |  | Add comment
Dorothy Marion McCoy 1949
I worked with my mother to scan more old photos. I messed up 29 times because I went right to jpg. Blast me! I'll have to rescan those photos. I'm using an severely ram starved computer here at my mother's house. For a family that didn't take photos we sure have a lot. My mother told me that most of the photos that we have were taken by people visiting us. I'm sure there are important segments of of family not properly photo documented

Mission one: get more ram for mom's computer.
Mission two: check to see if DSL if available now.
Mission three: buy a new printer and scanner for home.
Mission four: take more pictures
A soldier volunteers for Iraq
2/20/2005 9:31:07 PM Link |  | Add comment
George A Thompson Sr Army Air Corps WWII
with unitdentified airman
Today as we were getting ready to take my daughter Alana back to Fort Sill where she is stationed, she told me she was volunteering to go to Iraq. It's not certain yet but she has requested the assignment. Why - because its what she is suppose to do.

My response - concern and tears. We've been that way lately. And I told Alana I was terribly proud of her. She joined the Army when the country was at war and now she's volunteering for assignment in Iraq. That's one definition of courage.
Scanning Old Photos
2/19/2005 11:39:46 PM Link |  | Add comment
Today was the memorial service for my brother. The women of Saint Jo's Methodist Church fixed food for the family. About 35 of us showed up. Lots of good food, memories, and tears. At 2PM the memorial service began. About 150 people attended coming from all over the region. Devin held my hand during the service and helped keep my tears in check.

From 7PM to 11:31PM we scanned old photos of Walter. I think everyone needed the diversion. I burned cd's for everyone who wanted one. We've agreed to scan all family photos that we have and to get them on to a website complete with notations. A bit ambitious but with serveral people working on it entirely possible.
Walter Thompson April 2, 1958 - February 16, 1:06AM
2/17/2005 12:06:18 PM Link |  | Add comment
My brother Walter died yesterday morning on February 16, 1:06 AM. No other person touched our family as completely as Walter did. He was unselfish and loving. He loved to be around people and probably talked to more people in his life that the rest of our family put together. He taught his family tolerance and appreciation of others.

Life was not good to Walter but he fought against the injustices until he could fight no more. At a time when smoking was a national pasttime and no one dare challenge the tobacco companies, Walter at the age of 6 convinced several lifelong smokers to quit. "Smoking is not good for you." he told them everytime he saw them. After months of being reminded by Walter that they should quit smoking they did. He gave these men the gift of life.

I wish I could say the right words. Maybe its really not possible. How is it possible to roll up a life into a sentence, a paragraph or even a book.

I will never forget. I will love you always.

Good bye dear brother.

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