Somehow I’ve reached my 400th Post. I decided to go with my 104 year old Ideal to type it with.
400th Post (1909 Ideal)
Month: September 2013
The power of the sears tower (1951)
I like this typewriter. Best $4.99 I ever spent.
On the afterbeat… more jazz to show….
Once you dig out the old photo’s it hard to stop… The one thing that made the Chicago Jazz special was you could see so many different artist during the week. One day Sun RA the next Carmen McRae from traditional to out of this world. One’s world view often could change as well as tastes from the wide range of talent one would see.
Images from Chicago in the 1980’s by GEE
Jazz memories…
Found some more images I took in the 80’s of some Jazz Giants.
1954 Underwood Quiet Tab… it looked cool!
It looked nice. I did not need another reason.
Take time to dream…
Even if its only a day dream… make some time.
Images 1980’s Chicago Jazz Festival by GEE
With a typewriter… the digital world is more accessable.
Odd but in many ways the typewriter has expanded my entry into the digital world. Websites… blogs… translation… scanners… Photoshop… badges… widgets… themes… links and more.
Thoughts from a “digital immigrant”
Not being born into the world of digital… (a digital native) I am therefore a digital immigrant at least according to Richard Bucher. Based on this logic I would be an analog native speaker/user. Back when music came on vinyl discs… phones had rotary dials and television had two colors (black and white) and three stations (that mattered). Love CD’s but music did sound better on that needle. HD Television and 100’s of channels (you can see the same movie 10 times a day on 12 different channels… and different eposides of old shows on 20. Cell phones are neat… but it use to be great to get away from the phone.  I live in this new age… but it seems I still have roots in another time.
1966 PTA Card… things change.
Today the PTA saids: “every child one voice” which is a good thing. Back in 1966 they took a little longer to say: “…for every child the highest advantages in physical, mental, social, and spiritual education.” I like the older way of saying things.
My Iowa RAGBRAI XXV Passport
For the 25th ride… everyone got a Passport and 33 Local Post offices had special stamps to cancell your RAGBRAI Passport.
July 20-26, 1997 RAGBRAI PASSPORT
