While struggling with the ink for calligraphy pens that will get all over your  hands (and table, paper, and whatever is handy), I have come to the conclusion that while the the copperplate script is very pretty, technology isn't always bad.

It's a common curse to say: "Oh, useless technology!" and forget that really, it's very useful most of the ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder what people who lived in the past that we learn about in the present would have thought of us studying them. We talk about historical events, the past, sometimes with absolutely sweeping, generalized terms: the Renaissance a reflowering of art and the beginning of the skepticism and all that. I wonder what the average person ( Read more... )

No, not physically adhesive. I mean in the mind.

I was on the bus today, mostly staring out the window and wondering if we'd get more snow (it has more or less melted, leaving me with the uneasy feeling that we'll get another massive snowfall). The lady across the aisle from me took out a book, and it caught my eye: it was a travel guide, to Arizona ( Read more... )