Things get more complicated all the time! I have been cross-referencing items to and fro, from here to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Flickr. Got an account on Booksie to post some stuff and get my Author Hambone on. Nice friendly group. Half a dozen folks dropped in to say howdy before I even wrote my profile, much less post anything.... Finally got an old poem on and am gearing up for a short story I have been wanting to do for literally YEARS. But the URL they gave me did not translate so it doesn't show on the other sites yet. Am working on that. Just got a pic from my flickr account here on the blog.
Trying to work on the Mom and Beach projects but will need to scan them, as just taking pics of pics did not go so well. Something more to learn... but am also trying to get an old pic to transfer to the catalog group, and I think the picture I found will upload well enough to get the point across. Also have a Google Docs thing started, and am investigating getting my History Freak going and write some articles on Military History Online.
For work I have to sign up for some Excell classes. I might even being going to the Coast this summer on a work-related seminar! Woo-hoo! Also have been mouthing off more on IMDB and intend to start some threads on foreign war movies I have seen over the last couple years. Ready to Rumble!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
EUREKA!
Lord am I a busy bee... Among other things I have been figuring out how to create accounts on Facebook and LinkedIn and have been adding photos and personal info there. Have also been adding groups to my Flickr account and editing my now all-boring-but -original photos as I slowly get a handle on my digital camera. Had to replace the Lithium batteries and deleted all but the most recent stuff so I can focus on my Mom and Beach House projects. Recently dug up a photo of me at the de-commissioning ceremony of the OHSU Library Card Catalog back in 1989 when we went on-line. I am in full Hippie mode with long hair and beard. I will be posting that to a site on Flickr specifically dedicated to card catalogs. Talk about a niche!
Have not been neglecting my history project on cultural confrontation with the Muslim world in 17th century Europe. Been trying to get more and more info on German regimental commanders DEFENDING Poland rather than INVADING it. The data base is growing, but as it is in Polish, it is for leisurely Sunday and Holiday translation down time. My new Polish dictionary is getting a work-out, along with my existing German, French, and Hungarian.
Just bought and Italian dictionary as well. This will help me with data I have been finding about Italian commanders fighting the Turks in Hungary. The Pope sent 3 expeditionary forces to help Kaiser Rudolf against the Turks there during what was called the "Long War"(1593-1606), in 1595, 1597, and 1601. All the commanders seemed to the be the nephew of some Pope past or present. They all spent the last 20 years fighting religious wars against Turks, North African corsairs, or Dutch and French Protestants.
Got a new doozy of a factoid in the How-in-the-heck did-he-find- THAT? corner. Some of this stuff just comes whizzing out of left field so to speak. Like about 6 months ago I was trying and trying to dig up something on the commander of the Courbon Dragoons fighting Turks in Greece for Venice c. 1687. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Then all of a sudden I got a hit in a history of Venetian Opera, of all places. Way, way down in the small print is a dedication of an operatic piece to one Nicolas Grimaldi, Marchese de Courbon, Lt. General of All Light Cavalry of the Most Serene Republic of Venice. That's the family that runs Monaco.
Today's masterpiece of What-the Heck concerns a Scottish mercenary by the name of Andrew Goldie-Gowdy, who was running amok in Hungary and Poland in the 1650s. After fascinating little tidbits here and there, which had his name spelled variously Andreas von Gaudi by the Germans or Andras Gaude by the Hungarians, I finally got his back story where? In a history of Certified Public Accountants!! Zounds! That's it for now. Duty calls.....
Lord am I a busy bee... Among other things I have been figuring out how to create accounts on Facebook and LinkedIn and have been adding photos and personal info there. Have also been adding groups to my Flickr account and editing my now all-boring-but -original photos as I slowly get a handle on my digital camera. Had to replace the Lithium batteries and deleted all but the most recent stuff so I can focus on my Mom and Beach House projects. Recently dug up a photo of me at the de-commissioning ceremony of the OHSU Library Card Catalog back in 1989 when we went on-line. I am in full Hippie mode with long hair and beard. I will be posting that to a site on Flickr specifically dedicated to card catalogs. Talk about a niche!
Have not been neglecting my history project on cultural confrontation with the Muslim world in 17th century Europe. Been trying to get more and more info on German regimental commanders DEFENDING Poland rather than INVADING it. The data base is growing, but as it is in Polish, it is for leisurely Sunday and Holiday translation down time. My new Polish dictionary is getting a work-out, along with my existing German, French, and Hungarian.
Just bought and Italian dictionary as well. This will help me with data I have been finding about Italian commanders fighting the Turks in Hungary. The Pope sent 3 expeditionary forces to help Kaiser Rudolf against the Turks there during what was called the "Long War"(1593-1606), in 1595, 1597, and 1601. All the commanders seemed to the be the nephew of some Pope past or present. They all spent the last 20 years fighting religious wars against Turks, North African corsairs, or Dutch and French Protestants.
Got a new doozy of a factoid in the How-in-the-heck did-he-find- THAT? corner. Some of this stuff just comes whizzing out of left field so to speak. Like about 6 months ago I was trying and trying to dig up something on the commander of the Courbon Dragoons fighting Turks in Greece for Venice c. 1687. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Then all of a sudden I got a hit in a history of Venetian Opera, of all places. Way, way down in the small print is a dedication of an operatic piece to one Nicolas Grimaldi, Marchese de Courbon, Lt. General of All Light Cavalry of the Most Serene Republic of Venice. That's the family that runs Monaco.
Today's masterpiece of What-the Heck concerns a Scottish mercenary by the name of Andrew Goldie-Gowdy, who was running amok in Hungary and Poland in the 1650s. After fascinating little tidbits here and there, which had his name spelled variously Andreas von Gaudi by the Germans or Andras Gaude by the Hungarians, I finally got his back story where? In a history of Certified Public Accountants!! Zounds! That's it for now. Duty calls.....
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Forward, March!
Trying to get a handle on flickr and posting photos, which in turn is getting more into my own (still infant) photography skills. since flickr is supposed to be for original photography and all I had were practice photos for class, i am trying to get some original work to post. spent Xmas snapping away at a friends house and my own new apartment, and learning to upload/download from the camera to my computer and thence to my flickr page. so far, so good.
This has led me to try to be a bit more ambitious, which is having mixed results. am trying to have a go at making a memorial poster of my Mom, who passed about 5 years back. trying for an arc of photos, a life's progress, from infancy to old age concept. just working out the kinks now. am also trying to get a folder of photos from the old family homestead on Balboa Island CA, where I grew up in the late '50s. will be sending them to the local historical society there, since I have scraped up a number of stills from early family time from c. 1913-60.
This has led me to try to be a bit more ambitious, which is having mixed results. am trying to have a go at making a memorial poster of my Mom, who passed about 5 years back. trying for an arc of photos, a life's progress, from infancy to old age concept. just working out the kinks now. am also trying to get a folder of photos from the old family homestead on Balboa Island CA, where I grew up in the late '50s. will be sending them to the local historical society there, since I have scraped up a number of stills from early family time from c. 1913-60.
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