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  • VINTAGE EYEWEAR
    Well, you can go get glasses at the local Lenscrafters, OR you can hunt down some spectacular vintage hand cut frames at your local antique shop and have them fitted with your prescription lenses. Or maybe---do both. I have some very normal, "don'-t-cause trouble" frames, and some "in-your-face" frames I like to wear when I am feeling "con cohones" and have had a drink or two. Better to buy "new old stock", if you are going to invest much in the lenses. It is not good to throw money into old frames in bad shape that will fall off your head or lose an arm and need that proverbial piece of masking tape to keep them together. Unless that is the look you crave--the look of half the boys in my nerdy seventh grade class circa 1965. If so, I have an old briefcase and a pocket pen holder I would like to sell you. I'll throw in the slide rule.
  • Lawn art and ashtrays
    Back when guys stayed home more, listened to the radio and do other things at the same time, they probably labored over homemade lawn art, standing ashtray holders, and door stops. Usually they were made out of plywood, then painted. Look for slightly crackled paint. Many of the best of these were old comic strip characters like Jiggs and Maggie, or the ocasional Disney character. Black cats are plentiful. Also Butlers. You do not have to smoke to appreciate them.
  • old silhouettes
    Many of these come from the 20's and 30's. You can often guess the age of the piece by the dress of the person whose portrait it is. Hung together on a wall, they have a wonderful impact.
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Answer for Mr. Peanut

Aw, shucks

How little I knew of ye, Clippy, before ye passed...

I have already confessed to knowing very little about the machine that I spend countless waking hours with. Still, I do love my MAC. I love the web. I love Photoshop and Painter. I love eBay...even we broke up and don't go out anymore...xxoo....sniff...it was getting...obsessive...

Anyway, as little as I know about the object of my affection--that being everything Apple--I know absolutely ZIP about that "other" world. The world of Microsoft products...

So imagine my surprise to learn that my friend Kevan J. Attebery is the creator of Clippy--someone who is familiar to all but those of us who are so un-computer-savvy as to know anything at all about PC's.

Here is a link to a nice interview of Kevan:

The Man Behind Clippy

And a funny clip of Clippy making one last valiant effort to be of use.


(And please--do not associate me with any politcal viewpoints that come across...)

But even funnier is this YouTube clip of clippy......

Clippy Faces Facts

Kevan and I are members of this group: Picture Book Illustrators

April 20, 2007 in I had no idea... | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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