Besides MONEY TALKS: the Comic Strip
I'm also webmaster for and a major contributor to the Masonic Poets Society,
I'm "weblion" for both the local Lions club I belong to, Santa Fe Host Lions Club
and for the website that serves the two Districts that cover New Mexico, New Mexico Lions M.D.40.
Because of my increasing deafness, I'm no longer active in Toastmasters, but I did set up the
sites for two local clubs, which still use my theme designs,
Santa Fe Sunrise Toastmasters Club and
Power Talkers Toastmasters Club.
I've started two blogs for articles, both named Money Talks neither of which I update very frequently. LiveJournal has only one article so far, "Blame It On The Gays" dated 9/3/04. BlogSpot has several articles: "War" 7/22/04, "The REAL Ten Commandments" written 10/28/02 and posted 7/11/05, "GoogleAds" 10/20/05, and some artwork that didn't show up, leaving just the cryptic title "Handicapped Points". All three BlogSpot articles have spam in the comments, but no one has ever made any real comments about any but lone LiveJournal article.
And I own, moderate, or am a major contributor to a large number of e-mail lists. I love to forward jokes, but I don't want to shower my friends with a lot of unwanted e-mail, so I set up a bunch of topic lists and offered my friends a chance to pick which subjects they'd like me to send them jokes on. Although I send out a lot of stuff all together, each individual list gets so few that several of my original lists were deleted for lack of activity! I also invited my friends to share their own jokes on the topics, within some usually tight guidelines, so most of these are open lists, but moderated to keep out spam, and keep everything on-topic.
NOTES: All lists very irregular, most averaging an item or two a week, except pictures,
which are much heavier. Most are listed as @egroups — @yahoogroups absorbed @egroups a few years
ago, but the old @egroups eddresses still work, so they're listed since they're shorter and
distinctive.
COthers contribute heavily, and/or I am not the owner of the list.
TText only, no attachments or embedded pictures allowed.
Poetry. I've produced a lot of poetry over the years, and need to put most of it onto the web. Besides the collection of Masonic poetry at the MPoets site, there is also a collection of my poetry about cats at Flippy's Cat Philes, and one poem in particular, "Cat Eyes," has been added to several other websites. But I've also written science/fantasy poems, humorous poems, love poems, poems for Lions Clubs, limericks, and even a few haiku that need a better home than my own hard drive. Some are available at Yahoo Groups but it's a jumbled and incomplete collection, though it does include most of what I've written since 1999 in chronological order.
Braille Fonts. I have a number of Braille fonts I created, which need to be given their own site. If you wonder why a deaf man is involved with Braille, it's because my wife is legally blind, although thanks to some miraculous operations in 2004, she now sees as well or better than when she was a kid. She is still active with the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), even though she no longer uses a white cane. But for a while, she lost her sight entirely, and it looked as if she might lose it permanently. To help her morale and encourage her to learn Braille, I learned to sight-read it myself. Then, to make use of this new skill, I did what I don't think anyone else has ever accomplished — I created an alphabet of characters that have the same appearance as the arrangement of Braille dots, but are still recognizable as Roman letters as well. I intended them to be a teaching tool, and still think that a person losing their sight could use them to make the transition form reading inkprint to reading Braille. If I ever figure out how to embed fonts in a web page, I'll put a sample here for you to see.
I read over 100 comic strips and panels daily, searching for gags to steal inspiration for
brand-new ideas. That leaves me something of a connoisseur, I think, of the sequential art form. I don't
read them all — there are over 5000 reasonably cataloged -- or even all that I'd like to -- several
either have complex indexing patterns that I've been unable to link to; or insist on charging for access,
and I'm a starving artist with no funds to buy subscriptions with. So you won't find "Kevin & Kell" or
"Funkey Winkerbean" here, which might otherwise rank in my top ten. Instead, here's a top five
accessible daily comics.
Comics Rings or Organizations these are not necessarily endorsements, but if I hear anything bad about one, I'll pull it off of here.
I picked up coin images from a lot of places on the net, not always being too scrupulous about attribution because I rarely use the image in anything like the state I find it in. I stretch, brighten, flip, flop, twist, chop, darken, enhance, and rotate everything enough that it's a new piece of work. But while individual images may be untraceable, here's paths to some of the general sources I'm most thankful to.
Doug Smith's Ancient Greek & Roman Coins is one of the most educational sites on Numismatics you'll find.
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