Dan K. where are you?
David L. Beem
start of June. No warning that he was finally going to Cuba & just starting
to wonder where he is. Anybody know?Let me see if his e-mail bounces....
David
Da...@gilanet.com
Dan Kalish
Hi, Dave:
Thanks for your interest.
I'm alive and well and still in the US of A, just haven't been doing
much with PS/2s and didn't have much to contribute. Still looking for
work and love. At least I may have found the latter (a wonderful woman
from Moldovia) and my main hobby now is watercolor painting.
Best wishes, everyone.
Dan
Peterwendt
>I'm alive and well and still in the US of A, just haven't been doing
>much with PS/2s and didn't have much to contribute. Still looking for
>work and love. At least I may have found the latter (a wonderful woman
>from Moldovia) and my main hobby now is watercolor painting.
Watercolor painting ?
Didn't do that any more after 4th grade. I would guess that "light blue" is
your favourite colour - because it gives a link to your earlier PS/2 hobby ...
;-)
Fortunately you seem to be well up and life didn't treat you too bad.
That's good to know.
Have a nice weekend.
Very friendly greetings from Peter in Germany
http://members.aol.com/mcapage0/mcaindex.htm
Ferrousp
(just kidding, Dan)
Tim K
Helmut P. Einfalt
Ferrousp schrieb in Nachricht
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>We should start calling him Pablo Picass/2..........
"PP/2 is a co-pirated trademark of Dan Kalish, Inc." ... *g*
Helmut
Dan Kalish
What a narcisistic fantasy: a thread about me! :-)
peter...@aol.com (Peterwendt) wrote in message news:<20010721065528...@nso-fa.aol.com>...
> Hi Dan !
>
>
> Watercolor painting ?
Let's not forget, DeVinci used a primitive form of watercolor in the
Sistine Chapel (that's why its so dark in there: the paint isn't
lightfast) and Degas preferred it.
Its my foray out of black and white; my late father had spent a
lifetime
of watercolor painting as a hobby. That cuts the expenses down.
Mostly
tubes of paint, brushes (Siberian black squirrel is considered high
quality),
paper and accessories.
>
> Didn't do that any more after 4th grade. I would guess that "light blue" is
> your favourite colour - because it gives a link to your earlier PS/2 hobby ...
> ;-)
Actually, the chemistry of blue paints is very interesting. I was
never much for chemistry but, as with glass and materials science,
there's a lot of engineering involved. My favorite brand is Schmincke
which, of course, is German. They don't have a color called "Big
Blue"
but they do have "Prussian Blue" which would be Peter's favorite
color.
Right??? :-)
Most important for me, is that being a German company, they are
extremely
fastidious about providing details. :-) I find it helpful to use the
details of a color wheel, FWIW.
http://www.schmincke.de/uk/uk_index.htm
http://www.schmincke.de/ (pick your language)
>
> Fortunately you seem to be well up and life didn't treat you too bad.
> That's good to know.
>
> Have a nice weekend.
>
Here's an interesting site my artistic leanings found. She's a
database
administrator, no less. Check out the "leenks".
http://poopieshowse.homestead.com/index.html
Dan
Peterwendt
>What a narcisistic fantasy: a thread about me! :-)
Yeah - let's hope that this wasn't your individual "15 minutes of public
attention"
;-)
>Let's not forget, DeVinci used a primitive form of watercolor in the
>Sistine Chapel (that's why its so dark in there: the paint isn't
>lightfast) and Degas preferred it.
Ah - I see. The "Mona Lisa" was originally intended as a watercolor painting
... but the italians use to add oil to almost everything ... Hehehe
>That cuts the expenses down.
Can see that.
>Mostly tubes of paint, brushes (Siberian black squirrel is considered
>high quality), paper and accessories.
Last time I bought a brush it was "white ordinary housepig" ... used to clean
the inside of my PS/2 computers.
>Actually, the chemistry of blue paints is very interesting.
It was (and still is) problematically to get a good blue base color from
natural stuff. See jelly beans or LEDs for instance.
>I was
>never much for chemistry but, as with glass and materials science,
>there's a lot of engineering involved. My favorite brand is Schmincke
>which, of course, is German. They don't have a color called "Big Blue"
>but they do have "Prussian Blue" which would be Peter's favorite
>color.
>Right??? :-)
Nope. I live in Westphalia, which was largely a collection of small countries
mainly independent from Prussia. My favourite colour (apart from black, which
-like white- isn't just a colour) is "IBM Deep Blue". And "dark cherry wine
red" on cars. Especially in metallic. But I guess that doesn't count at all.
>Most important for me, is that being a German company, they are
>extremely fastidious about providing details. :-) I find it helpful to use
the
>details of a color wheel, FWIW.
The japanese are catching up. Some of their companies are very much
"detail-lovers" too. But "artistic abilities" are not a question of these
details of course. Mine go hand in hand with my technical qualifications. I'm
pretty artistic with a soldering iron and screwdrivers. Some of my "Creations"
are at least unique and ingenious - but not considered "artworks" at all. Even
if they include new ideas of recycling components and simplifications of some
sort. Whatever.
>Here's an interesting site my artistic leanings found. She's a
>database administrator, no less. Check out the "leenks".
>
>http://poopieshowse.homestead.com/index.html
Will look at it recently. For now I go to bed I think.
See you !
Dan Kalish
Pablo Picasso/2? I wish. May I have 1/10th as many admirers and
lovers
and 1/1000 the talent as he did. At least our political leanings are
similar! (But then again, I ate at a restaurant, since closed, at
which
Trotsky and Castro hung out).
peter...@aol.com (Peterwendt) wrote in message news:<20010721170342...@nso-cm.aol.com>...
> Hi Dan !
>
> >What a narcisistic fantasy: a thread about me! :-)
>
> Yeah - let's hope that this wasn't your individual "15 minutes of public
> attention"
> ;-)
>
I've long ago used up my 15 minutes of public attention and, as Tim
puts
it, being an asshole. One recent incident combined both: I politely
(he he) asked a woman driver, who turned out to be an off-duty police
officer, to
refrain from parking in the spot I was pulling into. She proceeded to
beat
the sh*t out of me and in reaction the neighborhood (MY neighborhood
in New York City) rose in arms and legs to defend her. A few hours
in the
police holding cell will make a person rethink a lot of things.
> >Let's not forget, DeVinci used a primitive form of watercolor in the
> >Sistine Chapel (that's why its so dark in there: the paint isn't
> Ah - I see. The "Mona Lisa" was originally intended as a watercolor
painting
> ... but the italians use to add oil to almost everything ... Hehehe
That's funny!
Leonard also invented an airplane; that probably needed oil: he did a
lot of things.
>
> Last time I bought a brush it was "white ordinary housepig" ... used to
clean
> the inside of my PS/2 computers.
>
I'm not experienced enough to mess around with ordinary household
brushes.
My father would draw on whatever was handy: he produced many cartoons
on
restaurant linen napkins.
> >Actually, the chemistry of blue paints is very interesting.
>
> It was (and still is) problematically to get a good blue base color from
> natural stuff. See jelly beans or LEDs for instance.
In the last century the better manufacturers have moved from natural
to
synthetic. Some lower ended companies still use honey as a binder.
The downside to honey is that
insects and insect tracks on a painting aren't usually consistent with
the
artist's vision. Really.
>
> >I was
> >never much for chemistry but, as with glass and materials science,
> >there's a lot of engineering involved. My favorite brand is Schmincke
> >which, of course, is German. They don't have a color called "Big Blue"
> >but they do have "Prussian Blue" which would be Peter's favorite
> >color.
> >Right??? :-)
>
> Nope. I live in Westphalia, which was largely a collection of small countries
> mainly independent from Prussia. My favourite colour (apart from black, which
> -like white- isn't just a colour) is "IBM Deep Blue". And "dark cherry wine
> red" on cars. Especially in metallic. But I guess that doesn't count at all.
>
So now I'm learning about Moldovia. In the last century, its been
part of
two different countries (Romania and the USSR) and is now independent.
I have some hope of learning Russian, but Romanian can wait.
> >Most important for me, is that being a German company, they are
> >extremely fastidious about providing details. :-) I find it helpful to use
> the
> >details of a color wheel, FWIW.
>
> The japanese are catching up. Some of their companies are very much
> "detail-lovers" too. But "artistic abilities" are not a question of these
> details of course. Mine go hand in hand with my technical qualifications. I'm
> pretty artistic with a soldering iron and screwdrivers. Some of my "Creations"
> are at least unique and ingenious - but not considered "artworks" at all. Even
> if they include new ideas of recycling components and simplifications of some
> sort. Whatever.
>
This is my style. I'm mathematically and detail oriented, but also
artistic
and creative. These talents work together well.
Please don't think I've given up computers and especially PS/2s. My
girlfriend wants to learn about computers; I offered to
set one up for her. 80? 90? 750? (I have two of them now)? Not the
95, 77
or Thinkpad, though.
I also continue to search on garbage collection day for
useful items. A laff: the local high school was throwing out a bunch
of
computers to upgrade them, but they had installed the computers with
so much
physical security that they could only be removed from the tables with
a
crowbar. Of course, no one could find the keys to unlock the secured
NECs. They had given up on one computer (or had reached time clock
punch out
time) but I didn't have a crowbar handy.
I've been paying attention to Hewlett-Packard calculators since two of
the three I had
went bad. Sold them for $100 and now have 4 calculators, two (21,
34C) being vintage
from the 80's.
Another OOT: recent cartoons.
Hagar the Horrible: People of all nations should learn to communicate
with
each other and live in peace. Yes, but that means an awful lot of
people
will have to learn Norwegian.
Ziggy: As the mailmain delivers two cases of tuna, he asks his cat
since
when did you learn to use Ebay?
Does Europe have Goths as the states do, or do you just have
environmentalists and anarchists and wannabee consumers?
Of course, Romania, which includes Transylvania, is the home of
vampires.
Sig: Dan the fledgling artist.
"Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the
privilege."
attributed to Stalin.
Helmut P. Einfalt
Dan Kalish schrieb in Nachricht
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>So now I'm learning about Moldovia. In the last century, its been
>part of
>two different countries (Romania and the USSR) and is now independent.
Make that three -- you forgot Austria... Lemberg / Lwow / Lviv was the
border city, and my own grandpa was born in Czernowitz / Cernauti /
Chernovtsy and whatever the spelling may be at present...
Europe has changed a lot in the 20th century (even in *my* lifetime...)
In the early 1950s, Alfred Polgar, a very renowned Austrian author and
theatre critic -- one of the last real gentlemen of a bygone era -- wrote
about the City of Linz:
"First, Linz lay in Upper Austria. Then it went to the Upper Danube Gau
(district). Now it's in the American Sector. Getting around, these cities
are lately..."
Helmut