Norm van Maastricht | November 15, 2008
Every painting has a story but some have more story than others… James Cameron’s TheTitanic came out in 1997 and was, as we all know, a huge hit. I saw it and I thought the visuals were pretty impressive. The epic special effects chronicled the historical disaster as best it could, being wrapped as it was, around a fairly standard [...]
Norm van Maastricht | October 14, 2008
Somewhere lives a computer programmer who should be drawn and quartered. He/she would be the person who came up with the idea that the already frustrating task of making a phone call to a company and having to go through endless selections, menus and button pressing is lightened by creating something called “voice [...]
Norm van Maastricht | October 8, 2008
A little after 4:30… Time to go home. I go to the elevator and, as is always prudent that time of day, step back a bit. Folks going down often mistake my stop on the second floor for the ground floor and sometimes rush out and nearly trampling me. Sure enough, there came an Arrowhead [...]
Norm van Maastricht | September 29, 2008
…a true story stranger than fiction… I’m sure you/ve heard of “dowsing” or “water witching” a method of finding water in rural areas using brass rods or forked sticks. The “dowser” holds his locator of choice and follows what seems to be an unnatural directional pull of their locator. People close to the land believe [...]
Norm van Maastricht | September 18, 2008
I was never much of one for riding horses… Oh, of course I’d had my young cowboy fantasies and the daydream of being the only kid in school to ride his horse to classes but as time went on the closest I got to that was when my folks would take us to a riding [...]
