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The Ralph Art Blog: May 2014
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Ralph Art Blog Home. Saturday, May 31, 2014. After a prolonged absence. It's embarrassing to see that the last post on this blog was almost 2 year ago. Sheesh. That is going away NOW. Oldest son is back in Texas, after a seven year stay in Toronto. He's now in Austin, working for Whole Foods. Youngest son has one more year at Texas State University. All my once far-flung offspring have returned, only a 3 hour car trip away. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Now on Google Plus! John on the Ice.
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Journal of Post-Ralphaelite Thought: 05/01/2015 - 06/01/2015
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Tuesday, May 05, 2015. PaaS on the Cheap. PaaS stands for "Platform as a Service;" it's one of several classes of cloud computing services. Compare this to Iaas (Infrastructure as a Service), SaaS (Software as a Service), DBaas (Database as a Service) and CFaaS (cluster.well you get the idea). This list was thrown together quickly, mostly so I didn't have to bookmark all these and remember the details. I went over some of these when I wrote about cloud services in general. And now, in no particular order.
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Journal of Post-Ralphaelite Thought: I was going to write something political...
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Monday, September 22, 2014. I was going to write something political. But then I saw this on my Google feed and thought about my old friend, The Whited Sepulchre, who loves weiner dogs. After watching it, I decided the world would be a better place if we all talked less about politics and did this instead. Enjoythere's time enough for arguing later. Posted by Dr Ralph. Labels: I love the internet. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. I'm on Google Plus. I'm on Google Plus.
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Journal of Post-Ralphaelite Thought: 09/01/2014 - 10/01/2014
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014. The tale of my iPhone 5 battery. When it came time to upgrade my old iPhone 3GS a couple of years ago, I wavered between the new iPhone 5 and some flavor of Android phone. For a variety of reasons, not all very well thought out, I ended up with the iPhone 5. I had an iPad, and a small investment in apps, so it seemed the way to go. Miscalibration," was the term I saw bandied about. I tried backing up my phone and restoring it. All of my family got tired of hearing me bitch.
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Journal of Post-Ralphaelite Thought: A minor epiphany, and a long overdue update
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Friday, March 27, 2015. A minor epiphany, and a long overdue update. Well, its been a while. Life here at Sisyphean Corp has always been a grind, but in the past it always had a modicum of amusement value, as well as the opportunity to do slightly interesting things with the support of a string of pretty good supervisors. I worked hard and had fun. That changed about a year ago. January 2, 2014, I had a new boss. It didnt take me long to figure out the good times were over. I did a painting workshop back...
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Journal of Post-Ralphaelite Thought: 06/01/2014 - 07/01/2014
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Sunday, June 15, 2014. Dear Amazon: All is Forgiven (mostly). Okay - I'll admit it: it doesn't take much to buy me off. I've bitched about buying and downloading mp3's to Linux machines. And Amazon's non-support for a while - in fact those posts are some of the most visited on my site. But still I stick with Amazon. It's like some trailer park relationship. But now I'm willing to kiss and make up because now Amazon Prime memberships get FREE MUSIC STREAMING! I'm doing the happy dance). The iPhone and And...
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Journal of Post-Ralphaelite Thought: Dear Amazon: All is Forgiven (mostly)
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Sunday, June 15, 2014. Dear Amazon: All is Forgiven (mostly). Okay - I'll admit it: it doesn't take much to buy me off. I've bitched about buying and downloading mp3's to Linux machines. And Amazon's non-support for a while - in fact those posts are some of the most visited on my site. But still I stick with Amazon. It's like some trailer park relationship. But now I'm willing to kiss and make up because now Amazon Prime memberships get FREE MUSIC STREAMING! I'm doing the happy dance). The iPhone and And...
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Journal of Post-Ralphaelite Thought: How many movies do you own?
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Thursday, January 19, 2012. How many movies do you own? Heres a magic trick. I can guess how many movies you own, without even knowing you. The answer: you dont own any. But, I can hear you saying, Ive got shelves full. Of movies. DVDs, Blu rays, even couple of boxes of old VHS tapes sitting in the garage. Seems you dont own it - youve been granted a license. At least you cant do it legally. Why cant I do that with the movie I bought last week? What the hell thats all about. Posted by Dr Ralph. If I cont...
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The Ralph Art Blog: May 2012
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Ralph Art Blog Home. Tuesday, May 08, 2012. I first met Jim Woodson, lo these many years ago, when I was a long-haired painting major at TCU. And now, some 38 years later, he has the audacity to retire. I had a number of excellent instructors when I was at TCU and Jim was at the top of the list. He had a gentle way of guiding one back when you'd strayed a little too far off the path without making you feel as though you'd screwed up or wasted a lot of time and effort. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Ralph Art Blog: Ralph Art Website relaunched
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Ralph Art Blog Home. Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Ralph Art Website relaunched. The new Ralph Art website is now officially live! I cut over the DNS for http:/ www.ralphart.com a little while ago, so now the redesigned site is the one you'll see when you go there. Leave comments below if you feel so inclined or find a glaring mistake somewhere. Looks good. You are a talented man - painter, writer, etc. Your humor shines through and thats what I always enjoyed with TWW and your reads. I do think yo...