Technoupgrade

I’m most of the way through composing a new post about my fun new techno toy (“toy” being tongue-in-cheek, because this little iPhone just might be the greatest thing to hit my desk in the last dozen years or so), but I wanted to give the WordPress app a whirl since I had a moment to spare while I’m between tasks today. So, if all goes well, here’s a picture of the last of the fall leaves.

older than you think

Who knew that the photo holiday card had such a long history?

Square America‘s Christmas Spectacular: Page 1, Page 2

I thought these were a relatively recent invention, since I don’t recall having seen them before every corner drugstore got a photo printer back in the late 1980s, but apparently I was wrong.

I’ve always wondered . . .

. . . and now I know: How a bobbin works. Simple but effective animation.

Police, baby!

My super-secret Ticketmaster location has paid off again. I got there at quarter to ten, joined the line with six or seven people in front of me, and left with two mid-priced tickets at 10:10. Had there not been presales for both Best Buy members and Police fan club members, who took all of the good tickets, I probably could have scored some great seats. (Nothing will ever beat the second-row center seats I got for Sting, though — also obtained by standing in line, although not at that particular Ticketmaster.)

Now, if I get in to the St. John Westshore Festival of the Arts, that will make for one hell of a mid-July.

brava

I just love Helen Mirren, and I’m thrilled that she won the Best Actress Oscar. I can only hope to be that lovely and poised when I grow up.