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Summer weekend activity: Gene Autry Days
The rural town of Kenton, Ohio, is on our usual route these years from the northwest corner of Columbus up to Michigan. One time, we noticed a sign at their fairgrounds' entrance about Gene Autry Days, which annually commemorates the time during the Great Depression when the Kenton Ironworks Factory was saved from going out of business when Gene ( Read more... ) -
OVFF...
...So many friends!
So little time!
So little sleep! -
OVFF's Fetal Puppy prequel Filk . . .
. . .Will begin Thursday Oct 20 (tomorrow night) at 8 PM'ish EDT at the Doubletree Hotel in Worthington Ohio. Juanita and I plan to be there. -
Grateful Hoorays! My 'summer vacation' is ending.
I have just received a job offer to go back work at the human Medical portion of The Ohio State University. I will be working in the Pathology Department, in a research lab investigating new therapies for brain tumors. For this, I am extremely grateful, and getting more grateful by the quarter-hour as this sinks in. I've been off work since June ( Read more... ) -
OVFF desperately seeking volunteers!
Dateline: OVFF ConCom meeting ( Read more... ) -
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Yesterday I day-tripped to ConText, solo, since the Spousal Unit wouldn't believe the part about the many booksellers in the huckster room besides Larry & Sally's table. (Next time you hear him complain about how "When I Was A Boy," there were book dealers in the huckster room, remind him that there still are, you just have to find them ( Read more... ) -
Translating filk from Computerese ca. 1984 to Legible Now
Does anyone still have the functional hardware and software to read some 5 1/4-inch floppies and extract / translate some files to current editability ( Read more... ) -
Rare moments earlier today
Marcon imported Leslie Fish (via Greyhound bus). At her concert, I got to hear her sing both "Banned from Argo" and "Horsetamer's Daughter." Rarities! -
Last day of work
Well, the new job has run out of money to pay me (rather quickly, this go-around), so the new job has become "the old job", and I'm back in the job-searching business again. Ouch. Not happy. Research money is being hard to come by, regardless of how many worthy research ideas there are in supply. -
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2011/03/06/public-media-see-need-to-incr
Public media see need to increase investigative journalism