Cynthia

Wha’ happened?

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:24:21 +0000

It's dawned on me that I need to explain: I'm not dead, sick or otherwise incapacitated. It's just that the blog is on temporary hiatus until I get around to fixing a bunch of stuff.

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Tiny white casket

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:36:49 +0000

The father placed the small white casket into the back of the family SUV. He stood there a moment, hand resting on the pearl-lacquered surface, staring at the ground. Then he slipped into the...

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Cookie coma

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:13:14 +0000

There are cookie lovers, cookie monsters...and then there's Monica. I work with Monica, and every year at Halloween* she takes a couple days off to send us into diabetic comas. More specifically,...

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Tools: Cropping templates

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:18:41 +0000

Sometimes removing all the extraneous junk from a composition makes it easy to see. All it takes is a piece of cardboard and an Xacto knife. Photographers and art directors in pre-Photoshop days...

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The great hornet battle

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 07:40:01 +0000

Members of my family invade countries, capture brutal dictators, face down suicide bombers, challenge the IRS, Christmas-shop the Beltway. Given what happened Saturday night, I suspect I'm adopted.

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Kickstartled

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:17:10 +0000

Crowdsourcing--where an inventor/artist/creative funds a beloved project by selling it to the masses, eschewing the more formal stuffed-shirt, naysaying, elitist big-cheese venture capitalist--can be...

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I found The Black! (licorice)

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:30:32 +0000

You ain't no kinda candy lover if you don't live for The Black. You want a great candy? Smooth, supple, grab-your-socks candy? Candy that sends your mouth to heaven, darkens your tongue, brightens...

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A thousand posts

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:36:46 +0000

You're looking at this blog's 1,000th post. I almost didn't notice, but now that I have, I'm thinking I should make this a 'specially profound, think-piece kinda thing. Or maybe an...

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Tools: Worktable clean-up brush

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:13:20 +0000

Long ago I took a drafting class, bought all the required supplies and, at the end, wondered why the heck anyone in their right mind would draw all that stuff by hand when a computer and a little CAD...

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Tools: Reactivity charting

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:03:52 +0000

I've mentioned this before: Before you go combining frits, it's a good idea to understand what reacts with which. The linked post explains it in more detail, but in general: When a warm glass meets...

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