Author Archives: skierpage

About skierpage

As you might guess, my site is mine. My Schema.org info is at .

design: Parker pen pals

Posted on 2025-01-05 by skierpage

TL;DR: bring back the Parker 25! I’m interested in pens, but as with watches (and hi-fi, ski pants, rain coats, etc.) once I find what seems the best design, I’m done. Until I lose it or it wears out. I … Continue reading →

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web: online shopping non-assistance

Posted on 2025-01-01 by skierpage

Amazon and other online stores are drowning in returns, yet they still do a terrible job of helping customers locate the right product. Our ironing board and wall holder accept an iron at most 5 inches wide, and modern irons … Continue reading →

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art: Tamara de Lempicka’s supreme shaded style

Posted on 2024-11-10 by skierpage

Tamara de Lempicka is melodramatic swagger, backed up by superb shading of colored areas (chiaroscuro?); it reminds me of Georgia O’Keefe’s landscapes yet the complete opposite. Look at the heart shape in the draping of her lover’s dress, it’s phenomenal. … Continue reading →

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cars: more EV fiascos at Faraday, Nikola, and Canoo

Posted on 2024-10-01 by skierpage

I blogged about EV scam company Mullen Automotive and its bat-sh*t insane stock price shenanigans: a single $MULN share that today costs $3.64 was theoretically worth $1.926 billion dollars 12 years ago! There are other joke companies that are still … Continue reading →

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Mullen, the king of EV stock scams

Posted on 2024-09-29 by skierpage

I care about the environment, so I care about transportation, so I care about EVs (or better yet, not carting your sorry ass and a laptop and/or a few kilos of groceries around in a 2-ton manufactured product), so I … Continue reading →

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web: let me link to a song, not a service!

Posted on 2024-09-19 by skierpage

I blog a lot about music. I want you to be able to play the songs I write about. You probably pay for a music streaming service that has millions of songs on it including the ones I discuss; you … Continue reading →

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software: preserving the pen-based computing past

Posted on 2024-09-11 by skierpage

I’m fortunate to have been a minor supporting character to some some ground-breaking software that failed in the marketplace: the PenPoint operating system from GO Corporation, the NeWS network/extensible window system from Sun Microsystems, ingenious forward quadratic texture mapping from … Continue reading →

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music: Phil Collins drums way Beyond the Lines

Posted on 2024-09-01 by skierpage

YouTube decided to feature a couple of overlong videos about the legendary drum fill in “In the Air Tonight.” (I’m not linking to them, because the same information is in its Wikipedia article, and just because YouTube pushes people to … Continue reading →

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eco: it’s not easy telling the gas company to shove it

Posted on 2024-08-27 by skierpage

We have electric radiant floor heating and electric domestic hot water (after an expensive failed Rube Goldberg attempt years ago at solar thermal tubes with air-water heat pump backup that I still need to blog about), and an excellent Mitsubishi … Continue reading →

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art: Jhane Barnes greatness

Posted on 2024-08-25 by skierpage

Jhane Barnes‘ legendary shirts are just too beautiful to hide in a closet. I need a glassed-in mobile of shifting shirts that move close and recede. Failing that, after I wear one I leave it out to catch my eye … Continue reading →

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