Currier & Ives, c1876

Copyrighted by Jos. Hoover, 1877.
Published & Printed by Jos. Hoover.  1129 Chesnut St. Philadelphia

Library of Congress image.

Sunday Commentary.

Just thought to use the phone to see if I could do some posting. So far, using the BlogPress ap, I’ve done it with limited typing on the keypad. The phone has a speech to text function that seems to work. With care, it may be easier-to-use than trying to type with its itsy-bitsy keyboard.

We have had smart phones for 2 1/2 years now, but the iPhone adds a different degree of functionality to smart phones use for us. Our previous phones were palm pre –which were not mainstream at all, so the availability of apps was minimal. For iPhone and android, on the other hand, there is a greater much greater availability of applications for use on the phones. In fact, yesterday when we started looking at those, we found over 14,000 news apps available for the iPhone in the App Store.

One thing that is different about using the speech to text for blogging is you have to gather your thoughts in advance or write them down. Of course, you can always go back and edit the post after the fact — it’s just not quite the same writing a blog post as opposed to speaking the blog post. Another option, of course, would be to write it all down and then speak it, but then you’re not gaining anything, are you?

Of course, I’m not going to pretend that I spoke all of this the way that it reads. I’ve gone back and edited, reedited, and edited again on the phone, using its on-screen keyboard and the voice-to-text feature and, lastly, on the laptop (italicized text.)

– Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Summary: Illustration shows the new year, “1911”, arriving by airplane, while on the ground Father Time looks aghast at the airplane overhead and the wreck of his automobile labeled “1910”.

Cover of Puck, December 28, 1910.  Illustrator Bryant Baker.

Library of Congress image.

Summary: Print shows a fashionably dressed young woman carrying a bag labeled “1897” arriving at the entrance of a building and being greeted by a small man with a bespectacled, globe-shaped head, as another woman carrying a bag labeled “1896” and a paper that states “Very Bad Character – World”, departs.

Cover of Puck, January 16, 1897.  Illustrator John S. Pughe.

Library of Congress image.

Dauphin Island – Fort Morgan Ferry, July 3, 2011

Summary: Illustration shows two young women stopping in the snow so that one of them can write her New Year’s resolutions in the snow, “1913 No Jealousy No Anger No Flirt”; it is unclear whether she intends to say flirting, or is having second thoughts.

Cover of Puck, January 1, 1913.  Illustrator Leighton Budd.

Library of Congress image.

Copyrighted 1876 by E.P. & L. Restein
E.P. & L. Resteins’s Oil-Chromo.

Library of Congress image.

Summary: Illustration shows a large crowd of people in front of the “Exchange Desk”, bearing Christmas gifts which they wish to exchange.  (Puck, December 1906 cover illustration)

Illustrator: Louis M. Glackens.

Library of Congress image.