I Am a Researchaholic
Hey.
I wonder how I would have turned out if the Internet had been around some twenty five years earlier. I websearch almost every night and it fills up time I would have spent insomnus. And if I ever got a high-speed connection? The thought of all that power at my fingertips nearly makes me giddy.
The thing about research on the web is that one thread leads to others. Case in point: I buy a music CD today of a dozen hits from 1979 (a favored year in pop as I'm concerned). Only there is one hit I don't ever remember hearing. It's "Roller" by April Wine, which I learn is a post-acid Canadian band who is still around making records and touring the Great White North! Good for them! The song is pretty good too.
My current research circle is "Golden Age" and "Silver Age" aviation theme comics. Which leads to issues of the comics publishers and their life cycles. The successful publishers survived by buying the intellectual properties of the unsuccessful ones and keeping them "alive". (Many superheroes we associate with DC in fact started with other companies!) Anyway, I find interesting tidbits. Like the fact that a comic title started as a vehicle for Hop Harrigan eventually ended three decades later as the title featuring Enemy Ace and Johnny Cloud!
A while back, I wrote a scale modeler's article listing the most famous comics aviators of WW2 and their planes...I've a hankering to revive that and add obscure heroes I've found recently. Watch this space.
FP
I wonder how I would have turned out if the Internet had been around some twenty five years earlier. I websearch almost every night and it fills up time I would have spent insomnus. And if I ever got a high-speed connection? The thought of all that power at my fingertips nearly makes me giddy.
The thing about research on the web is that one thread leads to others. Case in point: I buy a music CD today of a dozen hits from 1979 (a favored year in pop as I'm concerned). Only there is one hit I don't ever remember hearing. It's "Roller" by April Wine, which I learn is a post-acid Canadian band who is still around making records and touring the Great White North! Good for them! The song is pretty good too.
My current research circle is "Golden Age" and "Silver Age" aviation theme comics. Which leads to issues of the comics publishers and their life cycles. The successful publishers survived by buying the intellectual properties of the unsuccessful ones and keeping them "alive". (Many superheroes we associate with DC in fact started with other companies!) Anyway, I find interesting tidbits. Like the fact that a comic title started as a vehicle for Hop Harrigan eventually ended three decades later as the title featuring Enemy Ace and Johnny Cloud!
A while back, I wrote a scale modeler's article listing the most famous comics aviators of WW2 and their planes...I've a hankering to revive that and add obscure heroes I've found recently. Watch this space.
FP