I was getting rid of an old single drawer filing cabinet and had to turn it on its end to lift it. Something inside shifted. I thought it was empty, but when I looked there were several papers and a small baggie with some slides. One of the slides is the pastel of my old …
Author Archives: davidstong
AI use case
A couple weeks back a friend stopped in with his ladyfriend and we had a great time antiquing in local shops. Two days later, my friend called and asked, “Hey, you remember that bowl my girlfriend looked at?” I did indeed remember her looking at a bowl at MishMosh. “Do you think you could pick …
Forty
By now you know I do cards every year for my daughter’s birthday. I try to make each one relevant and featuring a drawing of both my daughter and granddaughter. This is what they look like: And this is what the card looks like- a pop-up on the inside while the outside is a package …
latin banquet
After my mother died, my brother and I had to find time to clean out the house we grew up in- an old three story, full-basement brick almost victorian home in Pottstown. Over that spring and summer we’d each take several days off to drive back to Pottstown hoping to clear out the junk. Instead, …
Scene from the Mouse in Millheim
She stood beside the bag and swung the bat a few times and I headed out to a real mound. We never actually had a mound when I was growing up. I turned and looked at Hailey and she shouldered the bat choked way up, and looked right at me. “Let ‘er rip,” she said. …
Invention again, only real this time!
I reposted this here once before with more description. It’s originally from 2008. Now, miraculously, someone is doing it, which is what prompts this re-re-post. I wanted to share the link to the inventor’s project. Check it out on Kickstarter!. Kind of reminds me of my folding iPhone, though mine didn’t fold. I still don’t …
Doodling
Went to the park to read. Too darn windy and cold to sit on a metal bench and read, so I sat in my car. I read for a while, and when I looked up, I thought, “geez, I really should practice a bit.” So I got out my little sketch book and doodled my …
AI
This is here mostly for me, so that I can easily find these links. Well over a year ago, a designer I follow, a wizard with Adobe Illustrator. posted a series of rants on LinkedIn about AI’s destruction of the arts. I commented that it was a tool that wasn’t going away and should be …
nemesis
Recently, a facebook post led me to an interesting article from 2015: The 100 Greatest British Novels. I love lists like this. I’ve found some of my best reads from lists, Harold Bloom’s Western Canon in particular. Lists and friends, actually. Return of the Native, Daniel Derronda, Silas Marner, many that I should’ve-but refused-to read …
StarFishGourd
Kim gave me the pumpkin that I used in the last Halloween post. She also gave me a rather unique looking gourd that she thought might be fun to put a face on. It was. I looked at it and, possibly because I’m reading a book on fish intelligence, I immediately saw this sea creature. …