Pictures and Words, a Blog
I write for myself and to soften the passage of time
Monday, December 1, 2025
Monday, November 24, 2025
Studio Tour
The family visited Warner Bros. Studios and toured over 100 years of storytelling history:
Labels:
architecture,
buildings,
costumes,
design,
family,
movies,
painting,
props,
sets,
sneakers,
street photography,
studio,
theater,
tour,
TV,
water tower
Monday, November 17, 2025
Tradecraft
Use Your Tools
"Technology gets better everyday. That's fine. But most of the time all you need is a stick of gum, a pocket knife and a smile."
- Nathan Muir
Monday, November 10, 2025
Area Code Day
Area Code Day is celebrated on November 10
| Phone Booth: photo by Cliff Hutson |
Wikipedia tells us; "Telephone administrations that manage telecommunication infrastructure of extended size, such as a large country, often divide the territory into geographic areas. This benefits independent management by administrative or historical subdivisions, such as states and provinces, of the territory or country. Each area of subdivision is identified in the numbering plan with a routing code. This concept was first developed in the planning for a nationwide numbering plan for Operator Toll Dialing and Direct Distance Dialing (DDD) in the Bell System in the United States in the 1940s, a system that resulted in the North American Numbering Plan for World Zone 1. AT&T divided the United States and Canada into numbering plan areas (NPAs), and assigned to each NPA a unique three-digit prefix, the numbering plan area code, which became known in short-form as NPA code or simply area code. The area code is prefixed to each telephone number issued in its service area."
Someone decided that this needed to celebrated.
Monday, November 3, 2025
Reading Log: October 2025
The books that I finished reading in the month of October 2025
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