# Tagged for a stupid facebook meme — Oct 25, 2019 Will not tag anyone to end the Karma chain. No particular order, except the order in which I thought of them 1) Jack Vance Planet of Adventure series https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_Adventure Thrilling adventures on alien planet. And The Dying Earth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_Earth
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cartoon life: Too late for a Carbon Tax…
Black Death Comes to The City I was futzing about again with marks becoming an image. Over a few days the scribbles turned into this. Today the article below showed up in a news feed. https://www.fastcompany.com/90423806/its-too-late-for-a-carbon-tax-its-time-for-a-world-war-against-climate-change Basically, all the dithering and moaning and whining about costs and delays have brought
Continue readingcartoon life: A speculative history of my Y DNA 3
Micheal Rogers, (not surprisingly, not a relation) wise moderator of the FamilyTreeDNa project Rogers/Rodgers comments on this rare entire lack of DNA matches. … it’s apparent that your own ancestral path branches off below R-L23, a very ancient R1b branch just below M269. Your L23 branch is ancestral to major
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The thing which twigged this genetic geneological historical research was discovering I held an ancient late Ice Age mutation. Discovering The Families of Savigno answered so many questions in one swell foop. The story handed down was that we had been in Italy forever. This wasn’t completely true. How does
Continue readingcartoon life: Frustrations
Twitter it seems has cracked down on ‘bots’ posting to feeds. This seems to be excluding, as far as this affects me, IFTTT autoposting images from Londontlife.wordpress.com to @londontlife. Even WordPress’ autopost mechanism fails to post the image. Driving clicks to the blog has been interesting, but just ain’t the
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Ancestry has done an update. Information in databases grows. My Italian has dropped from 21 to 14 to 4%. Interesting. And I’m not going to go on all alarmed and screeching on Facebook about how they got my ethnicity wrong. The earliest record for my family in Monteleone di Puglia
Continue readingcartoon life: Yes, I am working on this project….
And no I am not daydreaming off some field. Seriously, some thumb pain.
Continue readingcartoon life: Ouch
Maybe an RSI, maybe Gamer’s Thumb. Maybe arthritis? Trying some methods for drawing without holding the iPad.
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Continue readingcartoon life: Sensitive contentment: Doug Ford not smoking.
In response to a tweet, I went searching for this image. It was used in an editorial cartoon parodying Doug Ford, an alleged youthful drug dealer, now premier of the province of Ontario, engaged, satirically, in a newly perfectly legal activity. The post, suitably, but not provocatively tagged, will not
Continue readingcartoon life: Sensitive to smoking content.
This image also is being suppressed for sensitive content on Twitter. I can only assume it shows either smoke, or a person smoking. Post at LondOntLife. https://londontlife.wordpress.com/2019/09/17/this-aint-holland-yah-know/
Continue readingcartoon life: Lemon Aid.
Mistake! Loaded a reference photo and drew on another layer not realizing it screwed up the size and pixel density making the inking fuzzy from resizing. Should have loaded a page then added the reference. Also I could have resized the ink and copied over it for sharper lines. Live
Continue readingcartoon life: Thieving Bastards
The View from Oxford & Maitland Theft as defined by Merriam-Webster1a:: the act of stealing specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it 1b:: an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property I’m livid these days when
Continue readingcartoon life: Botie, Yamnaya, then a few centuries later, a grandfather in Italy.
The Nature of Things – Equus: The Story of the Horse – First Riders https://gem.cbc.ca/share/episode/38e815a-010b367336d
Continue readingcartoon life: Theres only one taxpayer is not ideology, it’s math!
The chant “There’s only one taxpayer!” has come to mean “Me”, and, “Stop taking my money”. When Doug Ford says it, he means him, not you. When you say it, it means you, not someone else. Let’s not forget it was some kind of “common-sense” wisdom started by those who
Continue readingcartoon life: The return of the King.
The daughter has returned home from University for the summer. We are settling into restoring a bedroom long become a closet for large things. Beneath the bed, in detritus of years, lay the King. Where do the lost socks go? Mysteriously they disappear from the wash and laundry cycle. Or
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