The Blork Blog

This guy has kindly loaned me a film and negative scanner. I’m looking forward to making copious use of it, as I’m running out of ideas for my Monday Morning Photo Blog (and I don’t seem to be creating many new photos — at least not interesting ones).
I have thousands of negatives and contact sheets […]

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The things you find when doing vanity Google searches!

Vancouver-based Brian Nation reminisces on his blog about a beery Montreal summer night in 1967 when he and a few friends enjoyed the company of the likes of poets Robert Lowell, George Barker, and Robert Creeley. The venue was the long-gone but well-storied Swiss Hut on Sherbrooke Street, near Ave. du Parc.
I’ve seen many references […]

It began with a simple bean salad, enough to supplement a few lunches during the week. A can of mixed beans, some chopped up red and green peppers, a bit of grated carrot, some slivers of red onion, all tossed with olive oil, lemon juice, a bit of white vinegar, and a handful of fresh […]

My Monday Morning Photo Blog has caught the eye of a Web site in Israel. It’s nice to see that my humble little photos are being viewed around the world, but that link alone has cranked up my page views by an order of magnitude.
Between that and the huge amount of linkage I’m getting from […]

Something I inherited from my Dad was the inability to grasp the passage of time.
Some battery companies put expiry dates on their alkaline cells. You see this on Duracells and Energizers, among others. Fortunately, the shelf life of an alkaline battery is longer than, for example, yogurt. In fact, the expiry dates are often so […]

Wow! I got a straight answer from a software developer today! Unless you are a technical writer you won’t appreciate how rare this is.
The question (by way of analogy so as not to give away trade secrets) was something like this:
When the chef puts fruit in the refrigerator, does he use the "first in, first […]