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Small Faces

May 25, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

A few “heads” I made between 2004 and 2009:

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers Tagged: Connie, DDS, Paint, Plaster, Self-Portrait, Small Faces, Smiley G., Varnish, Weather Man Blue, Weather Man Red

Farmer Cemetery

May 25, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment
Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: Douglas County, Farmer Cemetery, Washington State

A few photos of the Alps

May 25, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

While living in Neuchatel Switzerland, we captured some incredible photos of the Alps from the balcony in our apartment. Here are a few:

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: Alps, Eiger, Jungfrou, Monch, Mont Blanc, Neuchatel, Switzerland

Twingo Hood Ornament

May 25, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In 2006, I bought a Renault Twingo. I was able to change the Renault hood ornament for one I made of plaster and paint.

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: 2006, Custom Hood Ornament, Neuchatel, Renault, Switzerland, Twingo

Creation of the Label Ball

May 5, 2017 by sergneri 1 Comment

You know the labels, Dole and Whole Foods bananas, ORGANIC on most everything, FUJI etc. on the apples, the annoying labels that food suppliers place on the food we buy in the supermarket. In late 2015, while adding some home-made compost to the garden, I was picking these labels out of the garden soil. We … [Read more…]

Posted in: Content, Thinking about Tagged: Fruit, Label Ball, Organic Food, Recycling, Vegetable

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
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