I got to the hall at round 11AM after spending the morning in my hotel room writing yesterday’s blog. Quiet is good. Like an
Read MoreAuthor: Larry Grinnell
Larry Grinnell has been a Mac user since before there were Macs, first being exposed to his brother-in-law's Apple Lisa 7/7 office system, in 1982 or 1983.
After a nine year stint in the US Air Force, he took an electronics technician job at Motorola, Inc., where he stayed for almost 27 years. In that time, he held additional diverse positions from manufacturing engineering technician to technical writing to print production consultant to department webmaster.
Currently, he's the sole technical writer for a small communications/electronics firm in Davie, FL. He is a member of the MyMac.com writing staff, and recently completed a two-year stint writing a weekly Macintosh and Apple-oriented column for the Palm Beach Business website (http://www.pbbusiness.com). In his copious free time, he does layout and prepress work for the Grinnell Family Association's quarterly newsletter, and runs their website at http://www.grinnellfamily.org.
In 2013, one of his photographs was published in the New York Times.
He just finished editing, layout, and prepress work for an all new Grinnell family genealogy, which promises to be roughly 2,800 pages in size. Publication date is tentatively scheduled for late 2015 or early 2016.
Larry collects jazz guitar recordings, and is currently trying, for the fifth time, to learn to play the guitar.
He lives in Greenacres, FL.
Thursday at MWSF
Again, I wound up walking the five really long city blocks to the Moscone Center this morning, right after I posted my last blog.
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What a week! What a show! Frankly, the new MacBook Air was anticlimactic, the rumor sites having described it so well (though I am
Read MoreColor: Correcting and Grading in Final Cut Studio
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At the request of some of the folks who participate in the MyMac.com mail list, here’s a transcript of a recent email thread. It
Read MoreFantom GForce MegaDisk NAS Review Rebuttal
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Read MoreWhy I Hate the Mac
Check out this video (sorry ’bout the commercial…).
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In the latest issue of Computerworld magazine, an industry trade journal, they returned to Auto Warehousing Co. to see how their Macintosh switch was
Read MoreJimmy Raney: Bebop’s Quiet Master
Jimmy Raney, one of the great unsung heroes of bebop jazz guitar was born in Louisville, KY, in 1927. He moved to Chicago in
Read MoreWhat’s Larry Listening To This Month?
After doing that profile on Jimmy Raney a few weeks ago, I went back through my collection of Raney material and came up with
Read MoreWhat I’m Listening to That (Mostly) Isn’t Jazz Guitar
Art Tatum There is a famous story about pianist extraordinaire Art Tatum that has made the rounds for years. Fats Waller was playing a
Read MoreGene Puerling (1929-2008)
Gene Puerling died a few weeks ago at age 78, and sadly, most obituary editors of newspapers around the nation chose to ignore this
Read MoreGeorge Van Eps – The Quiet Master
George Van Eps with his original Epiphone Deluxe 7-string guitar One of my all-time favorite guitarists is the late George Van Eps (1913-1998). Van
Read MoreMaking bitmap graphics from outline fonts on the fly
I have a little problem, partly of my own making. My department creates product manuals for consumer products that have custom keyboards and LCD
Read MoreHow I got to sit in the Enola Gay and other youthful excursions
My siblings and I spent several weeks with our sister and brother, Jan and Art, in McLean, VA, every summer. On one of these
Read MoreWhat I did on my summer vacation
Most summers, I travel up to the mid-Atlantic states to see many of my siblings, who are clustered in the Washington D.C. area. I
Read MoreDo it Yourself!
This is an unsolicited endorsement–it just worked out that I used a MyMac advertiser’s products to satisfy a need. I just wanted to share
Read MoreWhytheheck am I still in South Florida?
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Read MoreBest Quote Ever
I’ve been watching the portable Mac announcement saga on Engadget (refresh…refresh…refresh…etc.) for the last few minutes. Some neat new stuff coming out. The best
Read MoreJazz Guitar on YouTube
I haven’t done one of these in a while, and I have a few days off from work, so what better time to catch
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