Gary McDonald "inRefinement" by A. McPope

The front, the back of my new card February 26, 2020 My new cards arrived eight days after I ordered them from VistaPrint (one of several companies who reinvented the printing business). I tell the story that only a few decades ago the cost of design, photography, typography, colour separation, film, printing, and trimming for a project such as this one would cost approximately $2,000.00 and delivery time might have been three to four weeks. VistaPrint did all of it (with my copy, typesetting and photography placed into their preset design) in a week and delivered it to my home for $35.00 total! And that's what happened to the Printing Business. The Lithographing [printing] business I enjoyed from 1963 to 1998 was entirely different for most of these years. The materials and processes required craftsmanship to pull it together into a professional looking document; some craftspeople were better than others, their products looked and felt better. At Arthurs Jones Lithog...

I peruse the News and Website articles that tweak my interest; and some of them I read, causing me to question these ideas along with my own ideas on the subject. That makes sense to me. This blog as you know is new, and I want to make it unique and different to my past postings on TGLF.ca  dealing with a broad spectrum of my interests. Most of what you will see here will be my views, but today I thought I would offer Jay Bazzinotti's Quora  contribution:  Is the Jury in on Trump's Handling of the Economy? ""Trump lies about everything and covers it up. In old Greek mythology, Prometheus tricked the gods into giving good meat to the humans by creating a good looking pile of tripe by shaping into an attractive appearing piece of beef when really it was shit. The Gods chose the good looking but disgusting tripe for themselves as a result. Trump is doing that with the economy now - dressing up a disaster and selling it to gullible people as something good. In Hi...

It's a lovely winter morning in Toronto and I'm booked on AC498 to Montreal at 15:30 where I'll meet Greg and drive to Shawinigan for a long weekend. He is picking me up in Montreal instead of Quebec because he's dropping David Hogg and family at the Montreal airport. The Hogg family have had a rough time in that Peter (the father) passed away recently and his wife has been in the hospital for two months. David is Greg's high school friend that has remained constant and a realty for thirty-five years now. The other two who made the group, 'Sci Guys' are Chris living in British Columbia and Meek who lives in Toronto.  I believe I'll see Ben and Sarah this weekend as well, but not Nathan, who at seventeen years is also living and schooling in Montreal. I called Lyft at 12:30 and the ride was there in two minutes. The driver hardly said hello and had me at the airport in twenty minutes; I was through security by 13:20 and a beer and hook up with the Ma...