From my adventurous son ...

This is the one wave I got on the big day of the swell.  The conditions weren't very good all morning, super big and very junky.  But things eventually cleaned up and I got one.  I rode the wave for a while, but the section after the one shown eventually got me.  Afterwards I watched my friend JoJo catch a good one, and then Greg got one.  And the tail end of Greg's wave cleaned me up, and I was stuck in a rip that no one would ever wish upon themselves.  Greg's wave held me down so long that when I finally made it to the surface, I took a breath as soon as possible but got nothing but foam and water in my one gasp before the next wave steam rolled me.  After that I was fighting back puking and trying to get air while seeing stars and getting blasted by the next 8 or 10 waves, stuck in the rip and getting absolutely no closer to the beach.  I tried waving for a jet ski, but no one could see me, by then I was way down the beach in NO MAN'S LAND.  Fortunately as stuff was starting to get really hard, the rip surrendered and I made it to the beach.  After that I puked and coughed the water out of my lungs and called it a day.  That was the worst beating I've ever had, I'm very glad to be here and ready for the next swell out the back.  

I liked this vignette from a remembrance of Ralph Cleason Miller by his son, Lynn, both of whom founded the publication  "Small Farmer's Journal" about thirty years ago.  It appears in the Spring 2011 edition of this large-format print magazine.

Ralph Miller was born on a farm in Wisconsin and showed some artistic ability.     When Ralph was 21 in 1938, he left home.  He went to Burbank, California:

to answer a magazine ad calling for cartoonists.   There he was amongst hundreds who were interviewed by Walt Disney. Dad was given a blank tablet and instructed to draw a ball on each page, showing the increments of it falling and bouncing.  The object was to have a finished pad you could flip through to see "animation."  When, at the end of a long day of meticulous rendering and shading, he handed it in the judge said, "You've done an outstanding job.  Everything is so realistically shaded, but we need to find artists who can do it quickly. "  Dad went searching for other work. 

Disney was an early render farm in its pre-Pixar days but processing time even then meant something.

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Kim Sheridan, an assistant professor at George Mason Univ. shared this slide with me.  She said it was from Gardner's "Frames of Mind."   Gardner was Kim's Ph.D. adviser.   I met Kim during a workshop on interest-drive arts education organized by Kylie Pepper of Indiana University at the Wallace Foundation in NYC.