Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

A day doesn't go by that I don't drive by this site and that the desire to be heard prompts me to open Notepad and tappity-tap a few keys to capture the notions within - like setting out a bucket to catch drips from a leaky ceiling... but sometimes the leaks stop on their own sometimes ideas dry up ...

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February 18th, 2026, 12:19 pm

working on my masterpiece ha ha

writing the next Ulysses (I wish)

spring still sleeps
dreaming of warm nights -
so do I

that's one of my newer rants - the linguistic shift of "customer service" from "how might we better serve our customers" to "how can we get our customers more compliant with our wishes?" They've got us by the balls and they know it, and they gleefully shake us down without an ounce of shame. "Don't ...

It's fortunate you're mechanically inclined enough to navigate that territory with some conficence - I'm a mechanical idiot, an unrecontrucated klutz.... I've got an oil-fired forced hot air system, & until 2014 was running the same furnace since the house was built (1974, I think). For years, I nur...

can almost hear a koto playing in the background....

  And Not a Drop To Drink I've had problems with my water supply over the past year, and it's gotten me a little on edge. I've run out on a couple of occasions. Once while I was washing the supper dishes, just before turning in for the night. I turned on the tap to rinse out a soapy skillet - and on...

thanks, John - glad to see you back, glad you liked the story. I like it too - Neil & Tom's backstory is sort of an idealization of my own, though we weren't designing lasers, just evaluating commercially available ones for suitability as components of our own products.

heyyy, long time! Thanks for the Comment. Yeah, it's beautiful out here, but it's been brutally cold. At least it seems to be moderating - it's gotten up above freezing a couple days in a row now. Still got March to get through, but we'll get there. I've just completed another entry for "Stories & E...

friends like that are rare
losing them is like losing a piece of yourself
I wish there were something I could say
I hope the love you shared will help you through this
peace

macaws dancing to reggae donkeys opening windows and doors dogs jumping into piles of leaves babies giggling hysterically... you needn't remind me that the filth is still out there - doesn't mean I have to wallow in it 24/7... doesn't mean that beauty & whimsy are forbidden topics... absolutely no a...

I would guess that their toadies those almost as filthy rich the ones aspiring to it but not there yet might complain that we, the unwashed, the unworthy, somehow stand in their way and the gilded ones - addicted to the adulation of their worshipers (or perhaps just because they can) take pleasure i...

I remember him as a staple at Arcanum as well as here. His writing always seemed to fly a little over my literalist head - but he seemed a generous soul, and was kind to me. A part of the landscape worn away by time.....

Thanks, those game trails are everywhere, esp. around the waterways. Haven't seen any moose tracks yet, but before the snow fell I was finding their droppings out in the woods. The last 10 yrs or so we've gotten more "wintry mix" than snow - the worst of the worst, sleet, freezing rain, ice. Last wi...

huh - looks like me every morning after my 1st few coffees......