DisinfotainmentUnpopular Opinions from Charles EicherPalisades- March 23, 2008 My favorite landscape spot is a called "The Palisades," I go there occasionally to take photographs, it's especially beautiful in autumn, you can view the fall colors in the forests growing over stone cliffs next to the river. Here's a fall photo of The Palisades in my special antique photochemistry printing method. I use an antique photo printing method, it's long been abandoned since it is very time-consuming, inaccurate and prone to failure. And this print was one of my failures. Each...http://weblog.ceicher.com/archives/2008/03/palisades.html R.I.P. Gelsy Verna- March 14, 2008 I was shocked and saddened to learn of the untimely death of Gelsy Verna. She was my favorite painting teacher, she taught me how to really paint. I was particularly shocked because I am working on some watercolors, I noticed how much they owed to what Gelsy taught me, I had a passing thought that I wanted to show them to her. Then the next day I heard she had passed away. I still vividly remember when I first met Gelsy. I came back to art school to finish my long-abandoned BFA, and to my...http://weblog.ceicher.com/archives/2008/03/rip_gelsy_verna.html Tech Support- March 13, 2008 I do a lot of tech support for my friends, I've worked in tech support for years. I have noticed there tend to be two types of tech support calls. There are calls about serious problems that need tech intervention. But more often, the calls are from someone who hasn't done a single thing to research their problem. These calls can be frustrating, my friend calls and says "I'm in Photoshop and I can't get the thingummy in the whatchamajigger" (that's a direct quote) and it takes me an inordinate..http://weblog.ceicher.com/archives/2008/03/tech_support.html Planetary Aspects of the Cards, by Arne Lein- March 8, 2008 I stumbled across some discussions on the internet and discovered I may be the only one who knows certain facts about a mystery. A little web searching indicates this message will be the only published facts about the mystery. So I suppose it is my duty to post the information. Don't ask me how I know this (ha). Arne Lein was a famous cartomancer, his book "What's Your Card" is the definitive documentation of the Card System of Olney Richmond and the Order of the Magi. But since Arne's death in.http://weblog.ceicher.com/archives/2008/03/planetary_aspects_of_the_cards.html |