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The Politicization Of All Things
Prelude: The Good Old Daze Our ancestors, a term I’ve been using quite a lot and perhaps overusing, would go about their daily lives with the provisions, “Never discuss politics” and “Never discuss religion,” or some combination of the two concepts. These operating models were deployed at work, social, and pseudo-social gatherings. Sometimes, they were […]
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Windows 11 – First Impressions
So, I’m a bit late to the game of Windows Insider builds for Windows 11. It seems that they’ve been available since June 2021. I’ve been preoccupied with other matters lately. Now I’m catching up: I missed the leak of the .iso that seemingly set the Windows tech media on notice. Not that I would […]
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Carol Janice Osborn Brown Paxton Hodge Aird – September 10, 1942 – January 4, 2021
As some of you may be aware, for much of my life, I have been trying to locate my mother. Note, that I do not refer to her as a “birth mother” as I was not technically adopted by someone else, though I have had many, many honorary mothers who readily volunteered for the role […]
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David Paxton – June 13, 1944 – May 28, 2021
My father, David Paxton, who would have wished that I posted more and would have hated this post… unexpectedly died yesterday. His mother was Mary Frances Paxton of Flint, MI and his father was C.D. (Dee) Paxton of Genesee, MI. They preceded him in death in 1994 and 1999 respectively. David was born in Newark, New […]
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Image Compare Test
Slide the little slider to compare two images. Just toying around with some JavaScript vs the WordPress native block.