This is a test. I apologize for all the emails subscribers have gotten today. I've been trying to work out a solution for blogging from my new ipad and it has been far more difficult than anticipated due to it surprisingly lacking some basic functionality. I am hoping that I've finally found a work-around that will allow me to use this. I'm crossing my fingers.
As a final test, I will now post some random pictures. I hope you enjoy.
One last photo, to see if this works…
Last night, I was watching Ken Burns' excellent documentary, “Baseball”, when an interview with Buck O'Neil was aired, preceded by mentioning his birth and his being the grandson of a slave. For those that don't know, Buck O'Neil was one of the last surviving players from the old “Negro Leagues” of baseball. What made me think, however, was how he only died recently (2006) and he was the grandson of a slave, therefore, surely met and knew many former slaves in his youth. So, I thought, there are surely people still alive today who met and knew people who had been slaves in the United States. How fascinating, I thought, to think that if I'd met O'Neil, and shook his hand, I'd be shaking a hand that had shaken the hands of many people who had once suffered under American slavery. O'Neil was born in 1911, only 6 years earlier than my own still-living grandmother. I had previously considered how my grandmother was a living connection to the past, and that she may have met someone in her youth that had met, or perhaps seen, a living Abraham Lincoln.
A web search, out of curiosity, brought up several conflicting claimants as the “last living former slave” to die in the U.S. One that seemed legitimate was a woman born a slave in 1861 that managed to survive for 122 years, dying in 1983, when I was already ten years old. So it isn't out of the question that people I personally know may have known former slaves, as well. Since January 1, 2013 will mark the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, I think it would be a fascinating project for someone to put together a “living history” of slavery, it's abolition, and the aftermath, by interviewing people that knew and remember the very people that went through it. There is still a living memory of slavery, though it is only second-hand at this point. We are not that far removed when you think about it. Perhaps it's because there is still that living memory of slave-owners, as well, that we still have the lingering, obsolete, backwards attitudes towards race that can't seem to be completely shaken.
I need to sell a bunch of stuff I don't use any more. Rather than make a Craigslist post for each one, I'm just going to post them here, and then post a link to here on Craigslist, if I can do that.
Stuff for sale (or trade)
The VS-1680 Digital Studio Workstation represents the new definition of
recording power: a 16-track, 24-bit audio recording, editing, mixing and
effects processing system in a compact tabletop workstation. With its
advanced features, amazing sound quality and intuitive new user
interface, the VS-1680 is a bold step forward in professional audio
recording.
You won't find one of these in better condition. Comes with all original manuals, and packaging. $300 or best offer.
Unopened, in box. $10
http://www.ibanez.com/electronics/model-LF7
$60 or best offer
New, unopened.
http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewCategory&localeCode=EN_USA&cid=9
$10
| NETOPIA 3347-02 WIRELESS ROUTER MODEM 4 PORT SWITCH |
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Refurbished, unopened.
I bought this online. It didn't specify that it was a modem for DSL, so I can't use it. These are still selling at over $100 in most places. $50 or best offer.
http://www.netopia.com/support/hardware/3347-02-1006.html
You can email me from here for any more details, photos, or if you want to offer a trade. Thanks for looking!