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Lakewood Centurion, 11-1990

Throwback Thursday for Lakewood class of 1991, the second issue of the Centurion for that school year. Here’s the 11-1990 Lakewood High School Centurion. The file is around 100MB, so the viewer may take a moment to show up. Download Lakewood Centurion 11-1990 (Right-Click)

Lakewood Centurion, 6-1990

This was the final issue I worked on as a senior. I have a few more to post from the year after I graduated. What strikes me most about these papers is the content. The bleeding-edge technology was one thing, but most of the stories inside were written way above what …

Lakewood Centurion, 4-1990

Let’s talk technology. When these newspapers were published, they were done so with brand-new desktop publishing technology – to a point. In 1986/87, the typesetting was done mostly in headlines and columns, which was then was physically pasted-up on boards using hot wax. The black and white photos were developed in-house, and …

Lakewood Centurion, 2-1990

Looking back at these issues of the Centurion is amazing. So many of the writers already had the voice that I recognize in them today. Most of the people involved with the Centurion have gone on to take jobs in media. It’s really proof of what a great program that …

Lakewood Centurion, 12-1989

I went to Lakewood High School in St. Petersburg, FL, and was on the newspaper staff from 1989-1990. Every time we published, I snagged a few copies, and I had the foresight to sock them away somewhere fairly safe. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been doing some archival scanning of …

Tree Felling – Video

I also shot some iPhone video of a few branches of our dying oak being cut down. Pardon the dirty window. Part rigging, part climbing, part saw technique, all bad-assery.

Tree Felling – Time-lapse

An oak on our property situated between our house and a neighbor’s, has been progressively leaning, causing us to worry about it falling during a storm. Its roots were affecting our foundation, and it had a decaying hole from a branch that broke off years ago. All in all, an …

Snow Leopard HTML Signatures Wrinkle

Molecular Media has re-branded, and with this comes new HTML signatures. Most of our users are on a recent version of MacOS X, which has a fairly straightforward – but user hostile – method of adding HTML signatures. A couple, though, are holdouts on Snow Leopard due to Parallels not …