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Category Archive: General

Don Quixote 27: Sancho’s deception

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First Sancho convinces Don Quixote that an ugly peasant girl stinking of garlic is Lady Dulcinea, then they bump into a troupe of actors and nearly get stoned again.

September 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 118

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 118. Here are my solutions to them. 1: 42, […]

September 27, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

A life of Perseus in paintings 2

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From his battle with the sea monster to the deadly fight at his wedding to Andromeda, paintings by Titian, Veronese, Burne-Jones, Vallotton and others.

September 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

A life of Perseus in paintings 1

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From conception in the rape of Danaë by Zeus, to his mission to bring the head of Medusa to King Polydectes, paintings by Klimt, Burne-Jones, and others.

September 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 118

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: 42, 3.14159, 0x2A, […]

September 25, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Podofyllin version 1.1 introduces lightweight bookmarks

New ‘marks’, lightweight bookmarks to make navigating large documents easier. They aren’t written out to the PDF document, though, leaving it intact.

September 25, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology, Updates

Impressionist painting in Britain: 10 Paul Maitland

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A pupil of Theodore Roussel, who introduced him to Whistler and Sickert, he painted Impressionist plein air oil sketches around London.

September 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Francisco Goya: Black Paintings 2

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The remaining seven Black Paintings, a double portrait of the artist with the doctor who had saved his life, and a heartfelt painting of Saint Peter.

September 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Francisco Goya: Black Paintings 1

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In 1819, Goya retired to live in a villa just outside the chaos of Madrid. On its walls he painted 14 nightmare visions. Here are seven of them.

September 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 3 Poussin’s modes

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Compositional techniques in some of Poussin’s finest landscapes to establish the mode, and draw the eye into the distant mountains.

September 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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