Welcome to John's ePub primer, a DieselPunks.org exclusive.
** FIRST SOME E-HISTORY When the iPad first appeared and I flipped my first touchscreen page of an eBook, I knew I was holding the future in my hands. The more I poked at the device the more I was convinced it was a time machine that would bring me into the future. At the iPads debut, there was already a lot of content on it and I wanted to participate. I knew it was possible to get a book on this thing, because I was looking at the results in my hands. I just needed to know how the others did…See More
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John: Not interested in posting this stuff. I'll gladly send anything to an email address (via yousendit). --Ken
Aside: You used to live in Frankfort. We retired down here 10 years ago from Crete.
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John:
Thanks for the friend offer AND your beautiful collection of Shadow covers. Ever need any Shadow stuff, just holler.
best, Ken
Thank you. I moved last week and my daughter found a box full of my comic collection from the 1980's. When I saw your post I went into the newly discovered time capsule and I found all four editions of Chaykin's Shadow series. It was very cool.
all my best!
Hello John,
haven't got any garbage truck in my vaults at the moment, but if you're looking for some please check these cool sites:Just A Car Guy and Hemmings Blog. Both are searchable. In case there's any difficulty in retrieving an image from Hemmings', please contact me.
Besides, here's something ultra-cool - not exactly a garbage truck but can be easily modified.
PS: I forgot. Your artwork is always stunning for some reason... And what an interesting synchronicity for the Temet Nosce thing...
Hope to hear from you soon, my friend!
What I want to point out at an American eye, is that my country is divided. The north and the south are really different - in terms of culture, traditions, lifestyles. And linguistics too (it's more easy to me to understand an American mothertongue than a south-italy dialect mothertongue hahahaha)
It's not a matter of "racism" - we are all Italians, but in really different ways: people feel very proud of their origins in my country, whether they are from. Did you know of the Comunis? Sort of death-fighting rivalry between the little local dominators in the Renaissance, mainly regrouped in 3 principal estates: the North,the Church (central Italy, Rome), the South and the Islands. It began in these days, I think.
Foreigners often think that Rome, Sicily and pizza are all the same. But, have you ever heard of the Celts? They used to live in the North, my city was once a Celtic tribe!
I've never heard about Milano Mints (they must be very good as all American products! Love 'em especially Cookies ^^). But I am one of the (few) people who still carry Celtic blood in their veins. 100% Milanese, you would say. Milan and Rome are experimenting a secular rivalry (Economic, Governative, etc)
Have you got anything similar in your country, across your local traditions? I once heard that Europeans see the U.S.A. as a big map of "99% Texas" with a little autonomous 1% dot over New York, haha!
Anyway I love to explore foreign curiosities and peculiarities and I appreciate your interest!
Haha, your Italian knowledge made me smile smartly!
I think it's all correct... Except for the fact that you write "MACCHERONI", and the Sopranos are American (but you knew this)! ;)
Oh, I think you are now ready to enter the Pizza, spaghetti and mandolino logic ;) --> this is tipically Sicilian stuff, from the south.
Well, I just notice how bizarre is the relation all over the world thanks to the WWW. An American artist, formed after the American culture is speaking to a young girl which comes from the country of the one who discovered the man's country first... And the girl thinks to know American culture enough to put up a proper conversation in English without causing international incidents ^^ as you say
And I know American culture (and something about other European countries, anyway America's influence is the most important especially here) not only through the Web and the cosmopolitan TV (the visitors double meaning, haha!! so pointy!), but also from books, movies, mothertongue teachers I had at school, cultural history which is now an essential part of any English course for children (here we call it 'civilisation'...)
The cosmopolitan world is destroying the monads.
(let it go, it was just a mechanical flight of my mind ^^)
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