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wgseligman) wrote2011-12-20 12:06 am
wgseligman) wrote2011-12-20 12:06 am
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Two steps forward...
...and one step back.
Isaac Bonewits' big wall calendars take twice as long to scan as I thought they did. I thought an entire page could be scanned by my big scanner at once, but the images are chopped off at the top or bottom. I'll have to rescan those calendar pages in the flipped orientation so I have the entire image in my computer.
Isaac had the strong sense of personal history to keep all his old calendars, but not enough predictive power to get smaller ones for easier archival storage. Please, old friend, in the next lifetime buy smaller wall calendars.
(Of course, in his next lifetime all the calendars will be computerized, password-protected, and inaccessible to biographers. Isaac foresaw this issue, and printed out copies of his computer calendars. I don't how historians of the future will function when all the key information may be behind unbreakable encryption.)
Isaac Bonewits' big wall calendars take twice as long to scan as I thought they did. I thought an entire page could be scanned by my big scanner at once, but the images are chopped off at the top or bottom. I'll have to rescan those calendar pages in the flipped orientation so I have the entire image in my computer.
Isaac had the strong sense of personal history to keep all his old calendars, but not enough predictive power to get smaller ones for easier archival storage. Please, old friend, in the next lifetime buy smaller wall calendars.
(Of course, in his next lifetime all the calendars will be computerized, password-protected, and inaccessible to biographers. Isaac foresaw this issue, and printed out copies of his computer calendars. I don't how historians of the future will function when all the key information may be behind unbreakable encryption.)
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"Why Not Excellence: The Life and Times of Isaac Bonewits"
"This is Why Not: A Klutzy Way to Write a Biography"
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Honey, this is how research and writing goes. At least it does in my experience.