Technojungle

I am please to announce that I have added the final chapter to book two and I met my promise of finishing the book content by the end of April. This final chapter is bold and different from all the other chapters. It’s full of surprises, but don’t cheat! Make sure you read your way through the Technojungle safari to get to it. No taking shortcuts. The path is clear. So, what next you may be…

Merry Christmas! Book One Done!

I wish to announce the completion of my first online book—The Future Never Arrives… at least not as expected, and it always brings baggage. This milestone in the Technojungle Safari Project began many years ago. I completed writing a few years ago, but have been caught in a seemingly endless circle of editing, due mostly to my having never written a book before and therefore, not knowing where I…

Book One: The Future Never Arrives… at least not as expected, and it always bring baggage is right on track for completion by mid-December. This will be and exciting milestone. The next step will be to get images finalized and original ones created and inserted. A big decision will need to be made—is is polished enough for moving forward in the publishing process, or will a professional edit be…

Visit My Jungle Photos

I just created a page of photos I call My Jungle. They were taken minutes away from my home. When you get tired of reading, go for refreshing. The green is relaxing and humanizing. I have hundreds of similar photos. They represent my favourite genre of photography.

I hope you enjoy them.

I just made a page of short photo collages I call My Jungle. The photos were taken only minutes away from my home. They represent my favourite subject matter. I have hundreds of Pacific Northwest jungle photos I made over the years.

When you get tired of reading, go for a refreshing. The greenery is both refreshing and humanizing. I hope you enjoy them.

Information on pre-publishing of books

Recently I have had conversations about why I would pre-publish my books online. This is a process that came to me one day and I began the project without a lot of thought—it just seemed like a good idea at the time.

Now, after some discussion, I have been able to think through the pros and cons better and I have discovered that for me, pre-publishing online makes more sense than I thought…

Well, yesterday was it, the big one. Not since turning 16 and getting my licence has there been such a big one. I am now officially a senior. I don’t know if I like that idea. It happened, of course, during this pandemic, so not much whoop-de-do about it. Perhaps that is good, but our 30th anniversary was last month and also during this pandemic we are retiring. Oops, getting married was another…

I have been busy tweaking and working out the kinks in how to actually publish my books for editing here under the Books tab. I think I am very close to having a workable process. All I need now is for input from you out there the pre-reader/editors.

Remember, my plan is that this will not take a great deal of time out of your week. I am spreading this out by publishing only a couple of…

Just had our free birthday burgers

We’ve just returned from Red Robin where we had our annual free birthday burgers. Thank you to Leroy for serving us with his mask on. This was our first trip out, other than shopping where I just stay in the car, since the pandemic came upon us. We had a great time. Did I mention that we had six servings of those jumbo monster fries with malt vinegar and ketchup, huge burgers, and then I got two…

I have two health concerns bothering me everyday and a third minor one.

First, I have battled Essential Tremor(ET) for all my life. It caused me great embarrassment and interfered with my becoming a better trumpet player. I used to try to hide it, but now tell people who, unfortunately reply, “What?” To say that alcohol attenuates tremors is simply dangerous, at least it was for me. I survive…

Today is another hot one

Yup, today is another hot one. It is difficult to get much done in heat. As for my conditions, I am experiencing high average symptoms. It is a bit difficult to type, so I have just switched over to dictation on my Mac. I’ve been trying to get dictation working for me, but it is not perfect. I still have to intervene and it is then that I realize my tremors are there to be in my way. So far,…

I’m now living in my own future!

I trek on my path into the future; technology engulfs me and wraps around every aspect of my life; information is rampant and inundating. It is fun, but, have I been seduced and become addicted—numbed? Many problems plaguing humanity have been solved, or are being solved, but have other emerged? And then I wonder, do I understand this future life I now live? Am…

The Future Never Arrives

…At least not as expected and it always brings baggage

Being human better beings & living in a world of technology—the Technojungle.

Samuel Butler:

“Darwin among the Machines” is the name of an article published in The Press newspaper on 13 June 1863 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Written by Samuel Butler, it warned of the possibility that machines were a kind of “mechanical life”…

Notes about editing of the book

This could be called, How to publish and edit a book using WordPress. I don’t have a set method in mind, but here are some thoughts that come to mind along with issues I need to work out.

How you can edit: 

Each chapter is a Post in WordPress. At the bottom of each Post is a Leave A Reply box. Here you can comment, make suggestions, and even copy chunks of text from the chapter and paste…

I wish to deeply thank Dr. Rev. Ed Hird for reading my blog and remarking that I, “…seem to have an ambivalence toward technology.” He got me writing more about my love/hate relationship with technology exploring what that really meant to me.

When Ed Hird suggested I pursue the writing of this book, I had no idea of how to go about this sort of project. I had done some journalism and an…

But not because of technology

We are about to talk about change. Change in what it means to be human. Change that results from technology that can seem rampant and out of control in nearly every aspect of our lives. Change which requires us to examine our humanness and humanity. While technology is usually involved, it is not always the main cause. Wars and natural disasters come to mind. In both…

Life gets busy and, as I have discovered, a book is a demanding project. Writing a book seemed a daunting task initially, yet I was naively unprepared for the unexpected task of editing. I have edited and over edited, changed and re-changed, everything—including the book itself.

Last year I decided to split the overgrown book into two. I had always planned to write a second book. So, now you…