Grace and Ken’s back yard.
Hardware/Software: old iPhone.

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New Price as displayed. Found art.

Quick update
Interesting read for me as I’ve ruminated about Newton before.

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Messy Media:
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Details.

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Metaphysical Life Enrichment Center

I really like this place.

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Over the years, I’ve found that some inanimate objects serve as touchstones to help ameliorate the effect of planet transits, like, a cure for Mercury in Retrogade, Mars in Retrograde (in a minute), or the up and coming, Retrograde Venus.

After the last worshop in Las Cruces, I looked at the store owners’ collection. One image has stuck with me.

Up next. Truck Stop Sign

Competence:
Isn’t sexy.

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The take is the last paragraph, or so, “I’m no threat to write another book.”

Sure, writing a book, astrofish.net/book, is easy.

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Never have forgotten the Austin roots and the Austin pronounciation, “VirGIN day Gwad-ah-LOOP.”

This image is from a sunny day in El Paso (TX), from an outing to the Outlet Mall, and she’s on the wall by the food court.

Taurus coffee girl made the cappuccino, and the image was a tweaked on the phone — didn’t turnout like I wanted it to, I was hoping to tease up the sepia background of the adobe walls. Turned out red. Must’ve been the high-desert light that afternoon.

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For iPhone art, I figure it conveys a message well. Found art. Compare and contrast.

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Perhaps part Two?

ebooks

Competition improves the breed. (Old racing axiom.)

I’d prefer it as “Racing improves the breed,” but whatever.

Take away from the article? What I don’t get, the cost of digital storage, the price of keeping a file on hand for digital delivery approaches zero. Even costing it out, bandwidth and storage is cheap.

What’s entrenched is the old ways of doing business. I own several songs, whole albums in some cases, that I would never own unless it was digitally delivered.

I still prefer a hard copy of the CD, when possible. Certain authors, too, the book is what I prefer. However, more and more, the eReader — especially Amazon’s universal tablet — that does work.

I have an Amazon Kindle emulator on my iPad and iPhone, although the thought of reading a book on the phone is abhorrent.

In literature, I still own several paperbacks, bought them second-hand, with a price of 99 cents on the cover. “Pocket Books,” one name I recall. Although I’ve never seen one in person, I studied the “dime westerns” that gave way to the whole genre of Science Fiction.

Price point. Storage and bandwidth are very inexpensive making the delivery of digital books a profitable enterprise, more so with prices fixed.

I’d rather sell 100 books at 99 cents with a net around 60%, instead of one book at $9.99 with a net closer to 90%.

I know, as a writer, I’m better at managing grammar, but the numbers are kind of obvious.

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