![]() Every so often something happens to Pingu that he doesn’t like or he doesn’t want to happen. I don’t have, like, a moral objection to this? But it adds to the weirdness, certainly. Pingu has a baby brother, and he’s… well, he’s not in diapers, but he poops himself a lot, and the show has no problem with the pooping happening on camera, as well as the subsequent butt-wiping. ![]() It has a really weird obsession with toilet issues. One more thing before I discuss why I’m banning the show. I maintain that this song is insane enough to make the show Japanese even if it isn’t already. I refuse to believe reality.Īnd this horrifying fucking thing, which isn’t the reason I’m banning the show but probably ought to be:Īnd its theme song is by David Hasselhoff. It’s Swiss? How the hell is this nonsense from Switzerland? This show has to be Japanese. I dunno, because everyone speaks in gibberish, and worse, it’s Korean-or-whatever gibberish, which is even more gibberishy to the English speaker, except for the occasional time when the gibberish sorta sounds like English. He has a big penguin family and a few penguin friends and they all have the same name, or some shit like that. Pingu is… Korean? Or something? It’s insane in a way that I usually associate with Japan but I don’t think it’s actually a Japanese show. Second note: Every time you see me say I in this post, read “my wife and I,” as this isn’t a unilateral decision.)Īnyway. This is a show that he used to be able to watch and will very soon not be able to watch any more. I haven’t banned that show so much as declined to ever show it to him. (Two notes: one, I can see one of you quivering at the chance to mention Caillou, which comes up every single time I talk about shitty kids’ programs. Pingu tends to come and go, and I’m mostly writing this because the damn show is about to make a milestone for itself: it’s getting damn close to being the first show that I’ve ever banned from further viewing in my house. I haven’t done one of these in a while, mostly because the boy’s last couple of obsessions have been shows that I’ve liked. That said, if I try to drift off to sleep one more night with the Creature Report running through my head, I will kill a substantial portion of the Midwest’s population. It makes me crave crumpets, and I don’t know what crumpets are, but I like it. It lives in my brain now, and I hear it all the time, everywhere I go, no matter what, forever. He’s the Captain! Don’t you understand what that means? Even if it’s a indigenous culture species of animal they’ve never seen before, obviously everyone ought to just agree with what the white animal thinks. In practice, this means that he assumes in any situation that whoever he’s dealing with will understand and assume that he’s rightfully in charge and what he says is the best thing for everyone. ![]() He’s supposed to come off as this nineteenth-century naval captain dude. ![]() There’s a weird colonialism thing going on here, too: the white … polar bear? in the middle up there is Captain Barnacles, who has the Britishiest of the accents, and he’s in charge. The animation is kind of cool and the ocean backgrounds are really neat even without the massive, Thomas the Train-level Britishness. It’s bizarre.Īt any rate: Every episode involves the Octopod tooling around in the ocean and dealing with some sort of sea animal’s problem, or sometimes the sea animals are the problem. The rest of the characters have personality and agency Tunip and his other plant-based lifeforms appear to be either vegetable-based Oompa Loompas or actual slaves, and they really don’t fit into the rest of the show very well. His name is Tunip, but I thought it was Turnip until seeing it in print just now. You’ll recall I said they were mostly animals. They are so, so, so British, even the ones who aren’t British. Then there is the one with the southern accent (and by “southern accent,” I mean “southern US”) and what might be an attempt at a Mexican accent, maybe, since the character’s name is Peso? Only they’re all done by British voice actors, and they are perhaps done by British voice actors who have never met southerners or Mexicans, because the southerner (“Tweak,” the rabbit) sounds like the worst stereotype of a toothless Mississippi white-trash hick you’ve ever heard and the Mexican accent sounds so un-Mexican that I thought the character was supposed to be Asian at first. Most of them, as I said, are various flavors of British, and their accents are region-specific. So here’s the new hotness: Octonauts, a show about British (mostly) animals (mostly) who live underwater in a giant octopus and Do Science.
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![]() View image in fullscreen Instant Influencer contestants in their first look. ![]() Neither are the contestants’ archetypal personalities – the shy goth girl, the adorkable babbler, the loud baby gay, and the ice-cool queen. The fact that this is a performance of accountability is never addressed. It’s bone-chilling to hear Charles applaud how the “honesty and message came through’’ in an apology for something the contestants haven’t done, like using overtly clickbait titles or monetising their previous apology video. The stand-out, though, is the apology video challenge, something Charles is well-versed in. They manufacture the next big viral makeup challenge, collaborate with famous influencers and make sponsored videos for products, even if they’ve never used them – a fact that lingers but is never directly confronted. The genuine make-up artistry on display is an aside: instead, it’s about how they sell the look rather than the look itself, a completely new set of skills to test on reality TV.Īcross the season, the contestants are put through challenges that loosely recreate Charles’s career, similar to RuPaul’s Drag Race or America’s Next Top Model. ![]() Judges – Charles and a series of rotating beauty and influencer figures, including drag queen Trixie Mattel, cosmetics company Anastasia Beverly Hills president Norvina and “original influencer” Paris Hilton – evaluate a video’s clickability off its title, thumbnail and potential for virality. ![]() CP2102 USB to UART TTL Module (one that has a DTR pin), with the connections:.16MHz ceramic resonator connected between chip pins 33 and 34, with resonator's ground pin connected to chip's GND.LED x 1 and 1k current limiting resistor x 1 connected between D/13 (chip pin 26) and GND, this is same as the Arduino Mega "L" LED, to be us as indicator to test prototype.10k pull-up resistor x 1 connected between RESET (chip pin 30) and VCC/AVCC.0.1uF bypass capacitor x 3, connected in parallel to 3 of the VCC/AVCC and GND pairs (chip pins ).ATmega2560 chip from an Arduino Mega2560 clone (functional chip and bootloader) removed with a hot-air gun, soldered on to a TQFP100 breakout PCB.Serial.A prototype board was made as proof of concept, the components, placements, and connections are: Serial.println( "\nLooking for 1-Wire devices." ) String print_string = "Temperature sensors: " Build a serial degug output string and print it. This seems to force a local event call this routine again ( see setup ) Temp3 = random( 1000 ) // round( sensors.getTempFByIndex( 3 )*10 ) Temp2 = random( 1000 ) // round( sensors.getTempFByIndex( 2 )*10 ) Temp1 = random( 1000 ) // round( sensors.getTempFByIndex( 1 )*10 ) Temp0 = random( 1000 ) // round( sensors.getTempFByIndex( 0 )*10 ) No sensors when testing the I2C bus only. Unsigned int temp0, temp1, temp2, temp3 // Typed for I2C as 2-bytes each. Serial.print( NAME ) // Serial debug commenting. Wire.onRequest( requestEvent ) // register I2C request event handler Initialize Dallas Temperature setup with the oneWire reference Setup oneWire instance to communicate with Temperature sensor #define ONE_WIRE_BUS 12 // DS18B20 1-wire temperature data pin Int count = Wire.requestFrom( SLAVE, 8, true ) Request from MegaSlave 4 temperature sensor readings 2 bytes ints each. Master polling mode.\n" ) ĭigitalWrite( LEDpin, ( digitalRead( LEDpin ) != HIGH ? HIGH : LOW ) ) #define NAME "sensors_unoMaster"ĭelay( setupPause ) // Pause for a second. UnoMaster I2C sketch - simply loops polling the MegaSlave for data - random samples or temperature readings, printing them as a formatted debug string to the Serial Monitor. This is where the troubled "event handler" looping plays in. Then one sample with the slave enabling the one-wire temperature sensor polling and reading. Serial debug for two cases is also included - I2C only with just random data returned from the sensors module showing both the Master and Slave outputs. Temp0 = sensors.getTempFByIndex( 0 ) * 10 // Only one sensor attached. Sensors.requestTemperatures( ) // This causes looping, or so I think. Serial.println( "Request Handler Looping." ) * - Uncomment this section to realize the problem looping. ) and the sensors.requestTemperatures( ) interrupts It seems that I need to better differentiate the forcing an event handler loop ( I2C from Master - onRequest ) until The mega's initial configuration is with the offending (?) code, the following three lines, commented out: // This seems to force a local event call this routine again ( see setup ) I plan to attach here my code - uno as master and mega as slave. "A day without learning something new is a wasted Again, Thank you for your time. And I still do not know that.īut Thank You for your time and I hope to provide better posts in the future. ![]() I will post a sequel here later today in hopes that you or another may help in this matter.īTW: My thinking was simple: Is there any known reason that this dual software serial bus configuration, I2C and 1-wire, will not work due to know issues. I apologize for wasting your time with my inadequate original post. But I am pursuing this path as an activity to keep my brain active, learning and to remind myself of what's going on and what needs doing in the Aquaponics system I am building. Not an excuse, just a problem I have to manage. Micro-electronics, circuit boards, even resistors are all new to me and I find that I can forget most of what I learned yesterday overnight. I am a sixty seven years old man that has not worked in sixteen years with serious memory problems. But even if I add all that, as I should have, it sounds like you still can not help - "Sorry, we can't help you." But that I can fix - I can add the Master/Slave sketches and even a picture and outputs. And you are correct I can be very stupid at times. This is very common in rural areas, and is called a metes and bounds description. Where the property is not subject to a subdivision plat, and especially if it is irregular in shape, you will see more complex descriptions that are designed to allow a surveyor to measure and mark the property boundary. "Lot 42, Block 3, of North Lakes Subdivision #1, according to map or plat thereof as recorded in Plat Book 62,, of the Public Records of Orange County, Florida." Using metes and bounds The property description used in deeds and other land documents will refer to the name of the subdivision and the lot number. The county may have separate plat books in which subdivisions are recorded.įor platted subdivisions, the property description is simplified. There will be a plat map, which shows the location and number of each lot. When a developer plans a housing subdivision, a survey is conducted to measure and identify the separate lots that will be sold. Such descriptions can get quite complicated, especially when a piece of property crosses a section or township boundary. "That part of the Northwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 35, Town 19 North, Range 13 West." Therefore, you may see a property description that includes a reference to the township and section, such as: This is why you sometimes see a road called Base Line Road.Ī township is normally a square that is six miles on each side, and is designated by its relationship to where a meridian and a baseline meet.įor example, a township that is the fourth township north of the baseline and the second township east of the meridian will be designated as "Township 4 North, Range 2 East." This may be abbreviated "T4N, R2E." The township may also have a name, which may be included.Įach township is divided into 36 numbered sections, which measure one mile on each side. This plan established various north-south lines, called meridians, and various east-west lines, called baselines. This goes back to a land survey plan developed by the federal government in 1785. ![]() ![]() In most states, property descriptions often include a reference to a township. Each document may be found in a particular volume of the records, which is referred to as a "book" or "liber."Īll legal descriptions will indicate the county and state, but the way in which the description is worded will vary. If you are buying property, the seller or real estate agent should have a copy of the deed.ĭeeds, mortgages, and other land documents are typically recorded with a county government agency, such as the county clerk or the register of deeds. If you own property, you should have a copy of the deed from when you acquired the title. It will usually be found on the document after a phrase similar to: "that certain piece or parcel of land described as follows." It will also be used for a title search, and appear on the title insurance policy.Īll deeds in the property's chain of title should have an identical legal description. Similarly, to have a valid mortgage on a property, the mortgage also must contain this legal description. Learn more.In order to transfer ownership of real estate, the deed must contain a unique legal description of the property that identifies it. Malcolm’s other interests include collecting vinyl records, minor ![]() Variety of print and online publications, including SmartCapitalMind, and his work has also appeared in poetry collections,ĭevotional anthologies, and several newspapers. ![]() Since then, he has contributed articles to a Trivia, research, and writing by becoming a full-time freelance writer. In addition, the descriptions included in metes and bounds is sometimes helpful to amateur and professional genealogists who are attempting to prepare family histories that include details on properties once held in the family line and reconstructing the series of events that led to the sale of those properties.Īfter many years in the teleconferencing industry, Michael decided to embrace his passion for The sometimes prolific prose that is included in the property descriptions are often helpful when it comes to tracking the transfer of the land from one owner to another over several generations, since the inclusion of geographical landmarks can often help settle boundary disputes and other issues that may arise after the property has changed hands several times. Metes and bounds provide data that goes beyond simply the assignment of a lot or parcel number to the property. "Metes and bounds" is a term that is often utilized by property surveyors to describe the boundaries of a specific parcel of land. ![]() Thank you for your prompt response, this was very helpful. Go to the Device Settings dialog (Transcoding tab) to delete transcoded files for your Chromecast dongle. After making changes, remember to delete the previously transcoded files for your Chromecast so you can see the effect of the subtitle changes. The Subtitle Settings dialog will let you change the font, colour, size, etc. If you don't like the subtitle's text, font, colour or size, then go back to Mezzmo app and go to the Options dialog (Subtitles page) and click the 'Global Settings' button. Try streaming a video and see how you go. This tells Mezzmo to just burn subtitles. On the Device Settings dialog, go to the Subtitles tab and turn off external and embedded subtitle streaming. To do this, go to the Media Devices dialog and edit your Chromecast dongle. Rather than streaming external subtitles to your Chromecast, you can burn your subtitles into the transcoded video and this will let you choose the font, colour, text size, etc. Currently there's no to change this in Mezzmo, but we'll look at this for a future version. This is the default Chromecast subtitle style. for this to work in your player (i use kodi-dsplayer) you must enable subtitles and forced only in the settings. For Chromecast dongles, when you stream external or embedded subtitles, they will have a black background as you say. Search for a file in ".kodi/userdata/addon_data//temp".Glad you like Mezzmo. What I have found is that the addon still downloaded the subtitle file in a temp diectory. Back at the main menu, navigate to SYSTEM > Player Settings > Language > Preferred Subtitles Language and select the language you would like to. At times you may get an error (maybe because it finds a zip file for a whole season of shows, etc) and be told to check the error log file. You can then search for subtitles and try to load them. ![]() To do this simply go to the Addons section and add a free subtitles service such as "Super Subtitles". Adding a Subtitle ServiceĪnother thing for consideration is to add a default subtitle service so that you can search for subtitles and potentially save them for later use. Now when in a movie - popup the subtitle screen and make sure to use “Download subtitle…” to load a local subtitle file and the screen will popup allowing you to select the file.
* All functions of all the original games in the series are emulated: * Prediction of resources, to speed loading times. * Autosave savestates that allow you to continue the game from the same point, exit windows, alt+x, etc. * Grabs and vaults as in the original games. * The same score system algorythm that is used in SOR2. * Collisions and damages based on the original games. * 64 modules of AI per enemy to represent walking and reactions. * Animation timing, animation positioning, control response, X/Y/Z positions and physical movement for all characters are accurate to the original games. It’s all based on visual interpretation, comparing how things work in the original games and trying to mimic it for Streets of Rage Remake.Īs of now the official site was asked to take the game down for download. To finish lots of projects take time, it's a choice, they didnt make any amazing thing of if they even tossed this aside for years, if it work like a charm for newbies players it's fine, i like this only for his actual casual side but if it's the kind of game you want SEGA to make as a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 4th episode, you are all bruying the originals undergroud yourself.Streets of Rage Remake is a project created from scratch, it does not use reverse engineering nor a single line of code from the original games. ![]() The only thing that would make this game more play and fun => Online. (putting hard gay theme song with Ash entry on dance pole raise the note of the fangame from 1/20 to 5/20.) it has exellent and even better custom fangames on internet than remake itself (only sad that the AI is still ♥♥♥♥ and nobody cant change those code lines) The only good thing about it is => it has SOR maker. SORR is like a beautiful cake its undeniable but it taste like shi†. ![]() (who's the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ who put the sniper ♥♥♥♥ in sor2r path for exemple?) They added a lot of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, useless things through the overly long ass story route +1h making this unplayable more than once by month, i finish all 3 BKs games in less time than someone doing remake, wtf ? replayability 0. If you go serious on SORR the game become "Shiva" SORRv5 The Mania only mode game Kappa lol #unbalanced ♥♥♥♥. The options are like all those next gen games wanting to show "lenghts" over quality proposing cute things but not working together but they dont care it's legit content for fanboys who doesnt even finish the originals in hard difficulties. Why not keep the original aspect of the gameplay, why this game is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ final fight ? Secondo they didnt respected any of the game aspect by changing the AI intentionnally making it a wreck train. This isnt better, it's destroying the originals with ♥♥♥♥ system and outragous fan service.įirstable they're not amateur, they got you. If only they made them like they used to, with talent and passion. ![]() This is a real gem, a banned masterpiece, which trully and honestly offends NO ONE and is a genuine and great piece of work. Also you can have both the 3's gauge and 1's police call. It is worth to note that you can have 3 different versions of Axel, Blaze, and more than one version of a character appearing in more than one game, with differences in both stats and moveset, depending on game of origin. It is entertaining even for the new generation kiddies! They even added different stage routes and plot twists, some to match new characters like Rudra (a kunoichi), a loot system and a shop to unlock the players/cheats/game artwork, plus a great soundtrack mixed and face lifted. This is an EXAMPLE to everyone, how well in modern times an old game's remake can trully be. They didn't steal any code or material from Sega, they created everything from scratch. Please don't drop any hammers, this game has been FREE, no one charges anything for it. The community is very live and a plethora of mods are already around, most of them EXCEPTIONALLY WELL made, too, like the SOR 1, 2, 3 faithful remakes, the V4 remake, way of the warrior, rage in time and the Knights of the Round, Warriors of Fate and King of Dragons! Hell, they even made a golden axe trilogy mod, crossover with Streets of Rage! They even released the maker, so you can either make from scratch, or edit an already existing, mod. Game with updates (apply them separately, don't forget to, they change many things and add even more): Even Electra and Mr.X are playable in this VERY POLISHED, refined and wonderfully made, game, which albeit amateur, feels and plays like a PROFESSIONAL work! ![]() A big remake of the Streets of Rage series, complete with all enemies and playable characters, even the secret ones like Ash, Roo, Shiva. An amateur group has been working for SEVEN years on this project. ![]() Fast Building: WorldEdit lets you build large structures quickly with commands to place, replace, or delete blocks.Professional Minecraft builders widely use it and provide various features to enhance the building experience. WorldEditĪnother must-have Minecraft server plugin that allows players to modify their Minecraft worlds efficiently. Hosting providers Apex Hosting and GGServers provide guides for setting it up. Get Multiverse-Core from the Bukkit Plugins project page. World Management: Generate new worlds, import custom ones, and manage existing worlds, including setting spawn points, game modes, difficulties, and game rules.Teleportation: Easily teleport between different worlds using commands or portals.Multiple Worlds: Create and manage multiple worlds on your server, each with unique settings and characteristics.Some key features of Multiverse-Core include: Perfect for minigames, creative builds, or separate survival worlds. Multiverse-Core lets you have different experiences worldwide. It’s a popular plugin for managing multiple worlds on a server. API Compatibility: EssentialsX integrates seamlessly with other plugins, allowing them to use its features through its API.ĮssentialsX is free, open-source, and supports Minecraft 1.19.4-1.18.21 on CraftBukkit, Spigot, and Paper.ĭownload EssentialsX from the official website or the Bukkit Plugins project page.Economy Features: EssentialsX has built-in economy features, like sign shops, command costs, and Vault support. ![]() ![]()
Guest evaluator: Elliot Walker, glass artist, season 2 winner Guest evaluator: Julia Rogers, Robin Rogers, glass artists Guest evaluator: Miranda Tempest, aerial acrobat, circus company owner Guest evaluator: Briony Douglas, Sculpture artist Guest evaluator: Donna Davies, Deputy Director Pilchuck Glass School, Art Historian Guest evaluator: Chris Clarke, Director of Operations at the Pittsburgh Glass Center Guest evaluator: Veronica Saye, award winning cocktail bartender Guest evaluator: Rob Cassetti, former senior director of Corning Museum of Glassīlown Away: Christmas (2021) No. Guest evaluator: Deborah Czeresko, glass artist, season 1 winner ![]() Guest evaluator: Sunny Fong, Project Runway Canada season 2 winner Guest evaluator: Stephen Weatherly, defensive end for the Carolina Panthers Guest evaluator: Michel Germain, fragrance entrepreneur Guest evaluator: Bobby Berk, design expert on Queer Eye Guest evaluator: Heather McElwee, executive director at Pittsburgh Glass Center Guest evaluator: Kathryn Durst, artist and illustrator Guest evaluator: Benjamin Wright, artist director of Pilchuck Glass School Guest evaluator: Alexander Rosenberg, glass artist and educator, season 1 contestant Guest evaluator: Eric Meek, from the Corning Museum of Glass Guest evaluator: Greta Hodgkinson, principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada Guest evaluator: Janet Morrison, president of Sheridan College Guest evaluator: Catherine Osborne, former editor-in-chief of the architecture and design magazine Azure Guest evaluator: Perry Tung from Bonhams Auction House ![]() Guest evaluator: Sommelier Emily Pearce-Bibona Guest evaluator: Jay Macdonell from the contemporary and design manufacturing company Bocci Guest evaluator: Marc Lepine from the restaurant Atelier Guest evaluator: Chris Taylor from the Pilchuck Glass School Industry experts from the Craft and Design Glass Studio at Sheridan College, Pilchuck Glass School, and the Corning Museum of Glass consulted the producers during the construction of the facility and provided advice and evaluation to the contestants each round.Ĭontestants Season 1 Contestant īlown Away: Christmas Contestant The first season was filmed in a converted warehouse in Hamilton, Ontario, a facility that was "custom-built to accommodate 10 glass blowers working simultaneously". The winner receives a prize package worth the equivalent of $60,000, including an artist residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. Hunter March became the host for season 4. Nick Uhas, a former Big Brother USA contestant and science YouTuber, hosted the show for its first three seasons. ![]() Katherine Gray, an artist and associate professor at California State University, San Bernardino, is the chief judge. The contestants on the show are 10 glassblowers. A four-episode Christmas series was released in November 2021. Season 2 was released on Netflix in January 2021. Ĭasting for a second season was announced in November 2019. ![]() The series is filmed in Canada and is produced by Marblemedia. The 10-episode first season was released on July 12, 2019. Blown Away is a Canadian reality glassblowing competition television series that premiered on the Canadian channel Makeful before a subsequent release on the streaming platform Netflix. Oil stick Medium, a colorless oil stick, may be used to produce transparent effects and glazes. Once applied they can be painted over with oil stick or oil paint and if desired be diluted with turpentine. The oil sticks must be applied in a thin film application of no more than 1mm thick. It will form again after a few days of non-use, protecting and conserving the color. They need the same archival priming (acrylic gesso or oil ground) that oil paint requires.īefore use, the surface film of the oil stick must be peeled off. They are applied directly to any traditional oil-painting support, such as canvas, wood panel or fine art paper. ![]() The oil stick colours can be used for an entire painting. SENNELIER Extra-Fine Solid Oil Sticks can be used alone or in combination with to oil colours in tubes. Raw Materials for Specialist Decorating.Is really a sort of watered out POSTER PAINT, pigment based. So SOME calligaphy ink is designed for POSTERS, cards, etc and as such Or may wreck or stain the pen very seriously. ![]() White ink, forĮxample is obviously pigment based, and doesn't belong in a FP, yet it FP ink should be DYEīased, pigment base is getting into the area of paint. I belive PR Bubble Gum is a pigmentīase, for example, although I am not positive. Yet, some FP ink has been pigmentīased, although its kind of rare. Should be pigment based as that means the color is made of SOLID It is a PIGMENT based ink rather than dye based. Lacquer or shelac based ink, rather than a water based ink. Briefly Higgins ink is USUALLY (not always) a Ok so that was waaaaaaay baaaaaack when,īut yup, I tried em. Hey I tried em all at one time or another That doesn't stop people from using it, and, yes, sometimes, it Waterproof ink and cannot, or at least should not be used in fountain But probably 95% of all Higgins ink made over the years is Higgins has made ink for fountain pens and that should beįine. Since I cannot see the actual ink you are using I cannot give you anĪnswer. > chemical formulation such that it does actual damage? Is it simply too thick for most fountain pens or is the > not working with it which prompted my original message) I just don't I'm not disagreeing (after all its my little pelikano > In what way is it not suitable for fountain pens? That aside, could you add a bit of detail please. Started on the first stroke, nib smooth as butter till the day I have been using the Higgins Calligraphy Ink uneventfully in Reply to author | Forward | Print | View thread | Show original | Report this message | Find messages by this author if you put one of those in an FP, you can kiss it goodbye! Edited Jby fenrisfox It's non-waterproof, and should flush out if you don't like it (oh, and because of that property, the Noodler's is way more permanent).īe very, very careful which Higgins ink you get, though - some of them are waterproof, meant only for dip pens. If you want to try the Higgins Fountain Pen India, I say go ahead. if I did more drawing, I might consider keeping an FP filled with Higgins, specifically for drawing I would carry my main pen filled with Noodler's, though. The Noodler's is more runny, easier to clean, and an all-around better writing ink. Why do I say this? The Higgins gives a denser black, and a better, more uniform black fill when drawing. In short, I'd call the Higgins a "drawing ink," and the Noodler's a "writing ink" - although they could both be used for the other purpose, obviously. ![]() I am both an artist and a writer - however, I consider myself primarily a writer (when I sit down with a pen, it's well over 10:1 writing-to-drawing). However - it is somewhat messy, and a bit harder to clean from the nib than either Cross cartridge ink, or Noodler's Black. it does work, and gave me no clogging problems. I've used Higgins Fountain Pen India in my Cross Century II. ![]() This grumpy native of Mason County loved dueling so much that before he committed suicide in 1855, he had participated in 14 duels and killed 10 men. Not a trace of it is known to now exist.ĪLEXANDER McCLUNG. JOHN BANVARD: Louisville artist who created the largest painting in the world, a panorama of the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio Rivers on a canvas 3,000 feet long. Bates married a woman even taller than he was. Two Kentucky giants, measuring 7’9” and 7’5” respectively. Since publication, I have come to believe that stories about the more scandalous aspects of Johnson’s life, as related in the book, may owe more to scurrilous campaign propaganda than fact. Vice-president under Martin Van Buren, noted for behavior that got crazier as he aged. The town drunkard of Lexington, who proved to be made of heroic stuff when he buried victims of the 1833 cholera epidemic. The book spotlights the following illustrious personages and sports delightful illustrations by my twin brother Kyle: Then a thought permeated my concrete skull: why not write a book about a wide variety of strange and unusual Kentuckians, and include a chapter about Porter? Thus was Offbeat Kentuckians born, not unlike a baby with a dozen heads. To my dismay, I found that no matter how much research I did, there just wasn’t enough information to fill an entire book. OFFBEAT KENTUCKIANS (Kuttawa, KY: McClanahan Publishing, 2001)Īround 2000, I considered writing a book about Jim Porter, the Louisville Giant (1811-59), whom I have long considered a fascinating character. Update! It is now available as an e-book: ![]() Better yet, write to Turner Publishing and tell them to reprint it. Clay, Freedom’s Champion appears to be out of print. Note to Cassius Clay fans: since the publication of the book, I have found even more new information about him, which will be appearing in some short articles written for the Madison County Historical Society’s newsletter.Ĭassius M. Plus lots of photos, some never in print before! In addition to strictly biographical material, the book includes information on the construction of White Hall, a room-by-room tour of the house, White Hall ghost stories, rare letters by and about Clay, and a section or two deconstructing myths and misinformation about Clay. I decided to write a new biography of Clay utilizing all of this new information, and the result was my first book. While there, I heard many interesting stories about him from descendants, many of which had never been in print also, while doing research on other things I kept finding long-lost news items about and interviews with Clay, many of which complemented or contradicted material in extant books about him. I worked as a tour guide at Clay’s mansion, White Hall, from 1995 to 2001. He lived a life of such excitement, color and violence that it would require a separate website to tell it all in full. ![]() Clay (1810-1903), not to be mistaken with Muhammad Ali, was an emancipationist who lived near Richmond, KY. CLAY, FREEDOM’S CHAMPION (Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing, 2001)Ĭassius M. |
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