Category Archives: just odd

a personal post

My father lives in a small town in Nova Scotia. A province with many small towns. He was born in a section of New Waterford called Scotchtown, on Cape Breton island. Today is his 79th birthday. I know he will die there also, as many from the area do, from cancer. In June, I drove down to ...

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29 Percent of Internet Users Admit Purchasing from Spam (???!!!???)

OK... we all hate spam. It costs us all a lot of time, money and effort to fight and control. My non-techy friends and family always ask me why the spammers do it... surely they reason, people aren't stupid enough to fall for these schemes??? oh yes they are... What do sex, drugs and software have in common? They ...

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Don’t Smile for the Camera : huh?

came across this exhibit listing the other day... WHY SO SERIOUS? A NEW EXHIBITION EXPLORING EXPRESSION IN EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS Have you wondered why people in early photographs wear such solemn expressions? Deerfield’s Memorial Hall Museum’s exhibition, Don’t Smile for the Camera -- 75 daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, albumen prints, and 26 platinum prints by Deerfield’s Allen ...

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photographic state of the art – 1947

I said in a previous post that we were adding baby portraits to our offerings. I assure you, our cameras are not as large as the one above. Yikes!

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what do *you* most desire? happiness?

what do *you* most desire? happiness?

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