Over the years I’ve put together a few simple, homemade, just-for-fun sites. Though they’re antiquated now and of limited if any value, I still love them as only their mother could. I’ll gather them here for posterity.
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Stuff I did for fun a while ago
Steel Drivin’ Man
In 1993 I wrote a National Endowment for the Arts grant to produce a half-hour documentary about the John Henry legend and the small West Virginia town where it took root. Dad was the one who told me about Talcott, reputed to be the site of the legendary race with the steel drill. He and I visited a couple times, climbing down to the railroad tracks and hacking our way through dense and prickly undergrowth […]
Read moreCave Creek Farm
In his youth, Dad was six feet, eight inches tall. In this teeny picture, he’s dwarfed by one of his nemeses: star thistle. Dad was an exceptionally active and self-reliant guy. Even in his sixties when his left leg started to get weak he didn’t slow down, though little by little a limp crept into his gait. Over the years, as he kept losing strength and then balance, he still managed to keep doing the […]
Read moreTongue Meat
When I first started learning about Web development, getting an image to line up on an html page was a major coup, and an animated gif was the ultimate in cool — only truly appreciated the high-tech few who were lucky enough to have a color monitor: one of those big ones, the size of a box of Rice-A-Roni. I started to make weekly trips from my house in Sierra foothills to San Francisco where […]
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