Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Stephen Colbert's first Late Show is tonight!



   Watch whole episodes here:   http://www.colbertlateshow.com

   The Stephen Colbert on Late Show Youtube link:
                                   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig

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  1. Howard and Stephen are First!

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  2. Records were broken yesterday. At 94F, it was the hottest Labor Day here on record, breaking the old record of 88F set in 1945. And, at very least, we tied the old record for September 7th of 94F, but I saw the bank sign in downtown Burlington and it read 95F. Too hot for September!

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  3. So, who else is going to watch Colbert tonight? :-)

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  4. The big fire in the mountains east of Fresno grew by 10,000 acres over Sunday-Monday night, and the smoke has descended into the Valley. Driving east to work this morning, about five or six miles down the road I could smell the smoke, the sunlight was reddish, and the mountains were invisible. At work (about ten miles) it was worse. Coming home this afternoon, it was smokey all the way home and beyond as far as I could see--no blue sky at all. This could get old in a hurry.

    I today received a book on how to improve one's handwriting; at a quick glance it doesn't look promising. I pulled some samples of my casual handwriting out of the trash at work, and looking with a critical eye, it seems moderately promising. And I won an eBay auction for a second very nice fountain pen; that's enough money spent on that for now.

    The affidavit I had to prepare turned out to just require a little editing, so no big. Today I got a packet of documents to review for another case. After I read through that and make notes, I shall commence my handwriting journal this evening.


    --Alan




    ---Alan

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    1. Thank you very much, Alan. I'll get to work on the handwriting stuff t his weekend.

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    2. My pleasure, Cat. Today I received a handwriting book ("Improve Your Handwriting" by Rosemary Sassoon and G SE Briem) and it proved nearly worthless; perhaps slightly helpful for someone writing in italic, but not for anyone writing anything resembling Palmer cursive. The MonkeySee videos plus the YouTube video and a quick look through the introductory section of any one of the Palmer, EC Mills or Champion books beats it hands down IMO. Last night I came across an interesting note about the Palmer Method; Palmer himself wasn't very particular about the forms of letters, and mentioned various alternatives. For him, the "Palmer Method" was the way the words were written, using the fingers only slightly, and the muscles from the shoulder through the forearm mostly, with the arm resting on a point about three or four inches in front of the elbow, and the paper and body in a satisfactory relationship (again, there were variants suggested). And the system is designed for nib pens. Maybe a Uniball or some other easy-writing modern pen would work almost as well, but not a ballpoint, which must be forced into the paper at a rather high angle (which is hard on the hand). If I remember rightly, Palmer was a graduate of a Spencerian penmanship school, and when he got a job (in a railway office?) he saw that the clerks wrote in a different way (that was the basis of his published method); that they wrote much faster and longer without pain or discomfort. He then realized that he had been taught to draw letters, not to write, and set about re-educating himself and then teaching others.

      --Alan

      --Alan

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  5. A little before sundown today I was in the back yard, and looking up, I saw the sky was blue (if a bit hazy) again; and looking to the north and northeast (we don't have a clear vie to the east), there was the smoke--pushed back by the breeze into something resembling a huge off-color fog bank near the mountains.

    --Alan

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