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Waxing Nostalgic Over Paste-Up

I came across this some­what old (Feb­ru­ary 2004) arti­cle today, and it was fun to revisit some of the obso­lete paste up meth­ods that I used to spend a lot of my day using! I drew blood many times while wield­ing my X-acto knife, and spent many hours clean­ing out my Rapi­do­graphs. (Wax and pens weren’t a good com­bi­na­tion!) Border tape — ugh! I never liked that stuff!

In every pro­fes­sion people date them­selves by the work prac­tices or tech­nol­ogy in place at the time they entered their chosen field. We say things like “but then, I was a sur­geon before they invented anes­the­sia,” or “my first com­puter filled three rooms, and gen­er­ated enough heat to power a small city.” In the rest of our lives we tend to want to min­i­mize our age and expe­ri­ence, but in things work related, longevity is a badge of honor. That is until you become a cranky old whiner. Read more…

I think this may be the actual waxer that I used back in the 80’s!

waxer

Happy Birthday, Billy!

Today is Billy Graham’s 90th birthday!

(You can per­son­ally wish this remark­able man a Happy Birth­day here.)

Here he is in a pic­ture with the famous (around here anyway) Four Flats quartet.

Dick Cadd, Ron Cre­celius, Norval Hadley and Harlow Ankeny gained fame in the 1950s when the Four Flats won sev­eral bar­ber­shop fes­ti­vals. Later they trav­eled world-​wide in min­istry for World Vision.

Red-tailed Hawk

On my way to a photo shoot at Friendsview’s Spring­brook Mead­ows this morn­ing I drove by this Red-​tailed Hawk. He ignored me for sev­eral minutes!