tagged by andystardust

[fflo]

I'm supposed to post six random facts about me, then tag six others to do the same.

1.  There are several posts I've vaguely been thinking of making here these past coupla weeks but haven't gotten to. My enthusiasm for writing them seems to wane as the notions they involve age in my noggin.

2.  My childhood obsession with body symmetry resurfaces once in a while. Happened the other day when I kicked the inside of one ankle, prompting the classic childhood impulse to even it up, sensation-wise-speaking. I was already moving to kick at the opposite/mirror point on the other ankle when I realized what was going on. (I gave it one little knock anyway, as I chuckled at myself.)

3.  Kitchen things that please me particularly include whisks, bottle openers, glass/plastic spoon-straws and cocktail stirrers, tea kettles, very small lovely spoons, and pitchers.

4.  I also like old transparent glass paperweights with pictures on the bottom, and see-through things like stuff suspended in lucite. And fake-o 3-D images on 2-D surfaces. But not holograms, really.

5.  I love to float, esp. when I can achieve a high degree of letting go & spacing out.

6.  My mother's father, whom I never knew, was once thrown out of the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago for being colored. His folks were from Odessa; who knows how "of color" he was, in any way the Palmer House people might have thought of it. (I like to think it was at least a little.) Here's a picture of him I meant to post in the dead-family-people series I was doing a while ago:


(Yeah, Andy--- I was thinking about ancestors cuzza looking at your list of facts again for inspiration.)

I tag 2 who actually post sometimes:
kohkae
atleastdefiant
and 4 who don't, at least not much, in hopes of prompting them to do so:
headbump
altamont
dreampower
sprig5.

Comments

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

...And fake-o 3-D images on 2-D surfaces. But not holograms, really.

Do you mean the lenticular 3-d technique? That's the one where there is finely grooved plastic over the image. The plastic acts as a series of cylindrical lenses so that you see one of two or three (maybe as many as four) images from a given direction. Sometimes it gives a three-d effect, sometimes it gives an alternating image effect (like a winking eye). I'm kicking myself for not picking up a camera that was sold no more than ten years ago with three or four lenses for making pictures like that.

I have a little ruler with space images like that. They used to make these really cool Apollo space postcards like that. The last time I saw a three-d postcard for sale though, it was 3-D Jesus postcards.

If you mean what I think you mean, yes, it is an appealingly cheesy-yet-striking technology.

Speaking of 3-d, did I mention that I bought Viewmaster reels at the Grand Canyon and Meteor Crater?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I'm kicking myself for not picking up a camera that was sold no more than ten years ago with three or four lenses for making pictures like that.

eBay?

I saw your Viewmaster reels. They were still sealed up and there was no Viewmaster viewer in the immediate environs, so I didn't ask to see 'em. Besides, we were building rockets.

I have at least one of those Apollo postcards like that. Yeah, that's the cheese in question. Or one form of it.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

The best thing about being educated in science is that when you grow up you can figure out how those things work.

[atleastdefiant.livejournal.com]

Odessa, Missouri? Or Ukraine? I thought he was American Indian just from looking at the picture.

Do you know anything about your grandfather's family? Was he 2nd generation? I wonder if his was a case of "passing," or the result of Asian and Eastern European bloodlines that you sometimes see? Both prospects fascinate me, because not only does it throw a wildcard into the whole concept of race, but it means there are all these shadow lineages and relations, messy and disconnected as they are, floating around out there.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Ukraine. He was first generation. I started to answer you last night with dribs and drabs I knew about, but then I got all distracted looking up people on this rootsweb site. There are a lot of dead ends in the family, including one that stops at this guy's father, Jakob. I have fantasy-imagined Jewish ancestors and Native American ancestors, too. More chance of African or Jewish roots in the past few hundred years, I reckon, all things considered.

This grandfather's mother's family has a line that's been traced way back. It's kinda weird looking at the names and realizing they're the names of my great-times-x grandparents, where x = a big number. Of course we're all related, right? So it's just a matter of distance...

He sure did have the tight curls, though, from other pictures I've seen. My brother got a little of that his own self.

[andystardust.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Excellently random facts. And what a great picture. Thanks for posting.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for asking!