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Comment on A Week (Almost) Off the Grid by Mark Frankel

Mark Frankel — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:55:26 +0000

Duly noted, Brian Barker. Anything tio fosters better global communication should esti embraced. Mi etendi mia sincera apologies al Esperanto speakers ĉie.

Comment on A Week (Almost) Off the Grid by Brian Barker

Brian Barker — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:45:10 +0000

Just to put the record straight, can I add that many people do in fact speak Esperanto
In fact many people do not realise how popular, as a living language, Esperanto is.
The new study course http://www.lernu.net is now receiving 120,000 hits per month.
That can’t be bad

Comment on Do Not Fold, Kindle, or Mutilate by Oliver Potts

Oliver Potts — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:31:38 +0000

Do Not Fold, Kindle, or Mutilate | Brave New Whirl is an interesting name for a blog, keep up the good work, thanks, from Oliver Potts

Comment on “Free,” as in Freelance by Kel

Kel — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:15:54 +0000

Same thread was picked up in The New Republic. Seems to have hit a raw nerve. Most depressing. Reminds me of that scene in an old Woody Allen movie when an interior designer starts haggling with a painter. It ends with his admonition that he doesn’t paint by the yard. The only thing that keeps me and Susan safe is the fact that we are hands on. For the most part, what we do can’t be outsourced (but if they could, I bet they’d find a way to do it.)
Hang in there

Comment on Those Not-So-Obscure Objects of Desire by Kel

Kel — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:37:40 +0000

Great post, too bad they don’t give Pulitzers for creative writing on the internet!

Comment on About Mark Frankel by Brendan

Brendan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:46:55 +0000

Hey Mark!
Kudos on your ongoing published career. Unlike magazines, this content will be around FOREVERRRRRR!!!!!!!

Happy Sails!
BW

Comment on Opening the Midden Box by Kel

Kel — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:08:51 +0000

Very sad and very true. I thought about this problem several years ago and started to use Apple’s Kodak connection to make books of photographs. Over the years I have made books from different trips. I usually make them in duplicate and give them to each of my children. Hopefully they will save them and it will mean something to them in the future…we’ll see.

Comment on Opening the Midden Box by Nancy Brandwein

Nancy Brandwein — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:52:46 +0000

This is a lovely piece, Mark. I am inputting my grandmother Rosie’s handwritten memoir onto my computer, hopefully so it can be published and distributed to her daughters–my mother and her two sisters and their families. My grandmother wrote it in lovely calligraphy on lined paper, which is a little brittle but which still smells of her apartment, like mink coats and mothballs. While I know that much will be lost by putting this on the computer, my hope is to be able to cost-effectively distribute it, on PAPER, to everyone in my extended family. Anyway, thanks for another wise and moving post. You have a book in there somewhere, me thinks.

Comment on About Mark Frankel by esther

esther — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:54:44 +0000

Hey Mark,
Just found out. Sorry about the job loss. Love your sense of humor. Good luck,
ESTHER

Comment on So Long, Uncle Walter by Andrea Strout

Andrea Strout — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:54:35 +0000

Lovely stuff, Mark.

I’m happy to report that the phrase “above the fold” has, in fact, made it into the digital age. In the web world, it refers to everything that can be seen on the screen without scrolling.

Go, Mark!