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VOTE1040 is LIVE

April 8, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

An email I sent out tonight: Tax day, April 15th, will soon be upon us. Ten years ago many of you helped me launch the VOTE1040.ORG website by participating and telling people about it. Just to refresh your memory, VOTE1040.ORG is a simulation, you select your ZIP code, your estimated TAX BRACKET, and then allocate, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: April 15, Democracy in action, department of Defense, Department of State, Federal Budget, tax bracket, Tax Day, VOTE1040, VOTE1040.ORG

100,000 lines

May 1, 2016 by sergneri 1 Comment

http://cdnc.ucr.edu/ Text correction statistics Number of registered users: 4,174 Number of users who have corrected text: 2,283 Total number of lines of text corrected: 6,315,791 You (J Sergneri) have corrected 100,000 lines of text (rank 15 of 2,283 text correctors). Text Correctors Hall of Fame 1. Wes Keat 1,156,488 2. annh 580,961 3. AJD 387,630 … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Content, Faits Divers, Thinking about

SWITCH notice – Hosting – Change – Domain Name

April 17, 2015 by sergneri

Due to the wild and wacky world of domain registration, and after 9 years,  sergneri.ch is expired. I received the last notice from SWITCH, the Swiss registrar a few weeks ago, which warned me, again, that they were no longer in the business of registering web sites and I’d have to find a new registrar. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Content, Thinking about

Obviously, the trance had begun.

February 4, 2015 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Guache, india ink, 9.8 x 13.9 in, 2006. The title is literally ripped from the book Juliet of the Spirits where I opened the book at a random place and found the one sentence that fit the picture. That was pasted onto the paper and became the title.

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, Sea Stories Tagged: 2006, Federico Fellini, Guache, india ink, Obviously, sergneri art, the trance had begun.

Beyond the foliage …

November 22, 2014 by sergneri Leave a Comment
Posted in: Content, Faits Divers Tagged: Beyond the Foliage, gouche, ink, sergneri art

Orchid Flowers

June 23, 2014 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Orchids make great pets.

Posted in: Content, Photography Tagged: digital photography, Orchids

Crows at Dawn

June 23, 2014 by sergneri Leave a Comment
Posted in: Content, Photography Tagged: Crow, dawn, morning, Neuchatel, Switzerland

Time Lapse

February 19, 2014 by sergneri 2 Comments

I’ve been fascinated by time-lapse photography since the days when the Wonderful World of Disney was the only color television show and they had those great nature films. You can see the time-lapse film I’ve made over the last few weeks here http://www.sergneri.net/weather_data/index.php. I included some of the older time-lapse I’ve made over the years … [Read more…]

Posted in: Content, Photography Tagged: Neuchatel, Switzerland, time lapse, video, weather

Apostles of Moudon

February 19, 2014 by sergneri Leave a Comment

While attending fashnact in Moudon Switzerland circa 2008, I photographed these three individuals in the crowd. They inspired the creation of the digital collage seen here. I have no idea who they are save for the fact that there is a home for people with disabilities in Moudon, I think they may be residents. (Originally … [Read more…]

Posted in: Content, Photography Tagged: 2008, Apostles, Collage, digital collage, fashnact, Moudon, Switzerland

Start here

January 29, 2014 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Vincent van Gogh – Letter to Theo 1889 … To be good – many people think that they’ll achieve it by doing no harm – and that’s a lie, and you said yourself in the past that it was a lie. That leads to stagnation, to mediocrity. Just slap something on it when you see … [Read more…]

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, History, Thinking about Tagged: a blank canvas, the painter, Vincent van Gogh
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