This has been years in the making, but it always takes time, opportunity, and motivation for a project to come into fruition.
My name is Alondo. If you look around on Google or Yahoo, I assure you that I am not one of the Alondos who has a stunning mugshot portrayal of them prominently brandishing their criminal accomplishments. Well, not yet.
I am a middle-aged African American who, like you, dabbles in topics that you take interest in, too.
I have been programming and tinkering with computers for well over 20 years, first programming on a TRS-80 from Radio Shack. I have been a casual runner for about 4 years, participating in a few 5Ks, two Tough Mudders, and a couple of half marathons. As for my nerd-cred, I love good Sci-Fi. No cheesy films with horrible special effects and middle-of-the-road dialogue; if I can’t suspend my disbelief, you don’t get my undivided attention. I also love comics, but I am getting tired of the art of resurrection and alternate realities. Writers out there, these should be used as an “Oh my gawd!” mechanism to throw the reader a curve ball they were never expecting, not a gimmick to bypass the obvious inadequacies of horrible story lineage and poorly researched character history.
That being said, I hope that you enjoy my silly little outpouring of thoughts, aggregation of pertinent news, and recounting of life experiences.
Oh and my email address is alondo@alondo.com
Hey Alondo, I just ran into your blog about comic book pressing. Ive been thinking and wanted to ask…a white book stays out in the light, over time it it turns a bit yellow…now you can gently go over it with as gum eraser/tools for cleaning, steam, press etc, but that tan the book got would never get cirrected. Scientificly, is there there a light that would change in back to white/led,black light,neon etc?idk just a question.
This is a great question, Ivano. A gum eraser or similar tool is a great way to remove elements or marks where something has been added to a page, like pencil, dirt, or other foreign compounds. Unfortunately, the yellowing that occurs on most paper is actually caused by the oxidation of lignin in paper. Lignin is the stuff that allows a tree to stiffen and grow tall. Once lignin oxidizes in sunlight, it can’t change back to the way it was. The only way to slow this process is to reduce paper’s exposure to sunlight. For more information, check out this article from How Stuff Works.