RMH
art blog(derogatory)
todays bird
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
cherry valley forever
One Nice Bug Per Day
h
$LAYYYTER
Product Placement
titsay
oozey mess
shark vs the universe
Not today Justin
Jules of Nature
Three Goblin Art
wallacepolsom
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Sade Olutola
izzy's playlists!
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Canada
seen from Türkiye
seen from Romania
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Sri Lanka
seen from United States
seen from T1
seen from United States
seen from United Arab Emirates
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from Germany
seen from Türkiye
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from Italy
@lovewillbringpeace
My Huckleberry Friend
My Huckleberry Friend
You hung a half moon for me in the blue sky the day your eyes did not reopen with the rising of the sun. High above me, there was no escaping our message of love. Boldly, it looked down on me. Defiantly it demanded I hear again what you could no longer speak to me or write to me – “I will always love you.”
Its cycles will bring it back to me – a regular reminder that I am…
View On WordPress
Nas Interviewed by Elisa New, professor of American Literature at Harvard University
Nas Interviewed by Elisa New, professor of American Literature at Harvard University
Anyone who follows my blog is bound to have picked up on just how much I love Amy Winehouse – her lyrics, her music, her covers, her production, her persona. I think she’s arguably the best female talent to come around in decades. What sets her apart is the same twist of fate that Ella Fitzgerald was gifted – raw talent. They both were bona fide naturals when it came to delivering a song. One of…
View On WordPress
Old Crow Medicine Show Covers Dylan's 'Blonde on Blonde'
Old Crow Medicine Show Covers Dylan’s ‘Blonde on Blonde’
Tonight I sit in bed, bundled up against a cold that resides only in me, not in the room temperature. I’m supposed to be at the Boston tour stop of Old Crow Medicine Show as they promote their new album – a cover of Bob Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde, titled 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde. My son John got us tickets to this show as a Mother’s Day gift to me. It was his way of thanking me for getting him…
View On WordPress
Jean-Michel Basquiat Painting Sells For A Cool $110.5 Million
Jean-Michel Basquiat Painting Sells For A Cool $110.5 Million
I am thrilled by today’s art buzz – that Jean-Michel Basquiat‘s painting, “Untitled,” shown above, sold for $110.5 million at auction yesterday. Ever since I watched the film, Basquiat, in the mid 90’s I have been a huge fan of this graffiti artist. I don’t know that I love his works of art as visual pieces, but I do love what I perceive as being the boundaries that he was pushing against. I love…
View On WordPress
An Author Who Loves Her Own Books!
I can't help being an author who loves her own books! Now editing "Love, Topaz" - a delight!
After a three-year hiatus from writing (because my daughter was sick with cancer – but at the moment is doing well), I have this year finally found the focus to revisit works that were actively in progress in the spring of 2014. At last, I’m advancing the writing of Kaleidoscope Chips, my fourth novel, as well as editing my third novel, Love, Topaz. While writing KC is utterly draining…
View On WordPress
SEO Advice From Website Magazine
SEO Advice From Website Magazine
Today Website Magazine published a great article about SEO. Anyone who hopes that their site will be found on the internet by prospective clients and customers should read it!
View On WordPress
Posting Sunday about shopping for a new cell phone (specifically Android vs iPhone) reminded me of another Samsung phone feature that I stumbled upon in an amusing way.
For Christmas, my loving and generous children gave me a Samsung tablet. They chose Samsung knowing I have a Samsung phone (s5) that I’ve been really pleased with.
I was still adapting to the tablet when one evening I sat at the dining room table enjoying dinner alone though my daughter was home, working in another room. I had both my tablet and my cell phone with me. I was deeply into reading the 12 novel series, Poldark, by Winston Graham. I was reading the books through Kindle on my tablet.
Not wanting to be disturbed by my phone as I ate and read, I reached to lower its notifications volume.
The story has to divert here for additional info… My new tablet has both the power button and the volume buttons on the right-hand side. My cell phone has the power button on the right-hand side, while the volume button is on the left-hand side.
Anyway, in my aging brain, I confused where the buttons are on each of the devices. I reached to turn down the volume on my phone and repeatedly pressed the button on the right hand side – the power button, thinking it was the volume button.
About three seconds later, my daughter appeared behind me and asked, “Mum, are you okay?” She was very serious. I said, “I’m great, just having my dinner!” She said, “Are you sure?” I looked at her and could see consternation on her face as she studied me and then her eyes suspiciously glanced around the room.
I assured her, “I’m perfectly fine. Why are you asking?”
She said, “You just sent an emergency alert out through your phone.”
“Who did I send it to?”
“I don’t know. Who did you set up to receive it?”
“I have no idea what it is. I don’t think I ever set up anything. Oh, God, did I sent it to all my contacts? How did I send it?”
Now we’re nervously laughing!
“Quickly text your brother and tell him I’m fine!”
At this point I study my phone. Two new images have arrived in my gallery – in a never-before-seen file labeled “Emergency.” One image is completely black. The other is an image of a small portion of my head and the dining room ceiling! I am amazed! And confused. (In retrospect, I think the phone automatically shot images from both sides of the phone. As it was face down on the table, one was completely black. The other shot caught a bit of me and the ceiling.)
My kids were able to reassure me that it looked as if I only sent the alert to them. So, I studied my settings to see what possibly could have happened. And here’s what I found:
#gallery-0-11 { margin: auto; } #gallery-0-11 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-0-11 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-0-11 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */
Samsung Safety assistance setting
This is how it’s activated.
Send help message is “On”!
Samsung has Safety assistance as a setting, which, now that I know about it, I love. When set to “On” the user can rapidly press the power button three times (as I did thinking I was lowering the volume…) and a message will go out to up to four pre-chosen contacts. I still have no idea how or when my children were chosen. But I love knowing this function is available on my phone.
On their end, what they received is text messages saying “SOS” and “I need help” as well as my google maps location. An audio recording is also sent out from the phone. (Click to open images and see captions).
An “SOS and an “I need help” message with my google map location.
They also received an audio recording and an image the phone took.
Though the recording is short, I imagine that if the mic had picked up any sound, it would have kept recording.
I am amazed by this technology. I now carry my phone in hand with my thumb on the power button whenever I’m in a parking garage or parking lot or any other place where I don’t feel totally safe!
Thank you Samsung!
Samsung Phone and Safety Assistance Posting Sunday about shopping for a new cell phone (specifically Android vs iPhone) reminded me of another Samsung phone feature that I stumbled upon in an amusing way.
Android vs iPhone = Android
Android vs iPhone = Android
I want this: Not this: I’m in the market for a new phone. My Samsung S5 is well into its third year and I’ve put it through its paces as I take tons of photos. The battery is showing signs of not holding a charge as well as it once did and the phone is acting a bit sluggish, I’m sure from processing a bazillion pixels. I buy a phone based on the reviews of its camera. As a photographer the camera…
View On WordPress
Poldark v.s. Warleggan
Happy Birthday, Valentine Warleggan (or is it Poldark…?!)! Thank you Winston Graham for your twelve wonderful historical fiction novels about the Poldark family in Cornwall, England, 1783-1820. And thank you PBS for your amazing films based on the Poldark series. Happy Valentine’s Day to all! 💘
View On WordPress
Twitter and the 2016 Presidential Debates
Twitter and the 2016 Presidential Debates
I have watched the last two presidential debates via my Twitter account. How? Like this: I get into my pj’s, sit on my bed, put a pillow on my lap, top the pillow with a baking tray, and then… Source: Twitter and the 2016 Presidential Debates
View On WordPress
Twitter and the 2016 Presidential Debates
Twitter and the 2016 Presidential Debates
I have watched the last two presidential debates via my Twitter account. How? Like this:
I get into my pj’s, sit on my bed, put a pillow on my lap, top the pillow with a baking tray, and then I set my computer on the tray. I sign into my Twitter account and, lo, partnered with Bloomberg media, Twitter streams the debate! They also do pre-debate and post-debate coverage.
The bonus? My finger is…
View On WordPress
New Publications - A Book of Essays by Preston Browning and A Book of Poetry by Jordan Pomazon
New Publications – A Book of Essays by Preston Browning and A Book of Poetry by Jordan Pomazon
Coincidentally, I have two Massachusetts friends who have published books in the past two months. One friend is an octogenarian who lives in western Mass. while the other lives on the north shore and is in his 20s. One has compiled a collection of essays written over many years, the other a collection of poetry written over the course of a decade. Preston Browning taught Literature at the…
View On WordPress
#gallery-0-4 { margin: auto; } #gallery-0-4 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-0-4 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-0-4 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */
Using an example of my tracking a great blue heron in the Everglades, I’ve added a new page to this site that gives my best advice for being successful when tracking a moving subject.
Photography advice - tracking a moving subject Using an example of my tracking a great blue heron in the Everglades, I've added a new page to this site that gives my best advice for being successful when tracking a moving subject.
Using an example of my tracking a great blue heron in the Everglades, I’ve added a new page to this site that gives my best advice for being successful when tracking a moving subject.
#gallery-0-5 { margin: auto; } #gallery-0-5 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-0-5 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-0-5 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */
See the menu for my new photography instructional page about Tracking a moving subject! Using an example of my tracking a great blue heron in the Everglades, I've added a new page to this site that gives my best advice for being successful when tracking a moving subject.
Lavender Iris
Lavender Iris blossoms
View On WordPress
Purple Crane's Bill - Geranium
Stunning flower! Purple crane's bill geranium
View On WordPress
Borage Blossoms, Buds and a Bee!
Borage buds, blossoms and a bee!
View On WordPress