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  • Traditional Television Experience In The Age of Streaming TV
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    Traditional Television Experience In The Age of Streaming TV

    ByMark Tisdale November 15, 2020January 9, 2025

    Traditional Television Channel Surfing For Seniors In the past few years since my Dad’s death I’ve been working on cutting some cords. What these traditional services like a landline phone or cable TV cost these days is truly crazy. My parents have had cable TV since I was in Kindergarten and at the time those…

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  • Connecting a Cell Phone to Landline – Panasonic KX-TGF575S
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    Connecting a Cell Phone to Landline – Panasonic KX-TGF575S

    ByMark Tisdale February 20, 2020January 9, 2025

    I’m sure other cord cutters have gotten here sooner than I did, but I knew there had to be a good way of connecting cell phone to landline and my research led me to the Panasonic KX-TGF575S. There are actually quite a few models of Panasonic that has what they refer to as “Link2Cell” technology….

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  • The Mystery of Big Train – AKA Those Melvins
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    The Mystery of Big Train – AKA Those Melvins

    ByMark Tisdale December 15, 2019January 9, 2025

    While not one of the great mysteries of life, I’ve had a 90’s Album that off and on over the years, I’ve wondered about the band that recorded it. You see, despite having their album Land of Steady Habits, I had never heard of Big Train. I’m not sure exactly what year but probably either…

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  • My Father, Me, and Chuck - 1976
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    Chuck Wilson – Sad News & Loss

    ByMark Tisdale December 19, 2018January 9, 2025

    It feels like I’ve hit that place in life where I only come to my blog with sad news and I guess tonight is no different although surreal. I had logged on to Find A Grave to update a couple of family connections. Although I have long used the site to supplement what I knew…

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  • Windows 10 Update Stuck
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    Windows 10 Update Stuck – AKA Windows Hell

    ByMark Tisdale May 14, 2018January 9, 2025

    Into every life, some rain must fall, I suppose, but having a windows 10 update stuck was a long, slow boil! A bit over a month ago, windows 10 seemed to be updating every day, or so I thought. It took me a bit to realize that something was up. Way too many updates. That’s…

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  • Harvey's Store Sign - Closing Soon
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    Harvey’s Closing – A Chapter Ends

    ByMark Tisdale March 17, 2018January 9, 2025

    I had read grumblings about Southeastern Grocer’s financial problems in the news recently, but was still a little stunned this week to read of the pending Harvey’s closing in our small town of Montezuma, Georgia. They are closing a pile of stores by the end of April as they enter bankruptcy. For me, it was…

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  • Book Shelf - Default Image
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    Dad Would Have Been Amused By This

    ByMark Tisdale February 19, 2018January 9, 2025

    A funny “ha-ha” story. When Dad bought his little used Ford truck – his last one. The handle that was meant to raise and lower the spare tire from the back was nowhere to be found. The manual said the handle was behind the bench seat and nothing was there. So he always kept the…

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  • Best Pillow For Side Sleepers - A Maternity Pillow?
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    Best Pillow for Side Sleepers?

    ByMark Tisdale January 31, 2018January 9, 2025

    When you see the photo that goes with this, you may think I’m crazy, but bear with me as I think I found the best pillow for side sleepers – at least it is for me! I have always liked to sleep on my left side. Every so often I migrate over to my stomach…

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  • Tech Armor Screen Protector Experience for iPad Pro 12.9
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    Screen Protector Experience – XP-Pen Artist 16 VS iPad Pro 12.9

    ByMark Tisdale July 9, 2017January 9, 2025

    On a recent post on my art blog, I  mentioned having gotten a new XP-Pen Artist 16 display tablet – similar to the Wacom Cintiq range. So far I’ve quite liked it. The colors are great which was a real surprise. My main monitor is a 27 inch Benq (SW2700PT) which covers close to the…

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  • Verizon Deserves A Bad Service Award
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    Verizon – No Service Experience

    ByMark Tisdale May 5, 2017January 9, 2025

    It’s amazing after you’ve lost a loved how much worse some businesses can make the experience. Verizon is one example we’ve encountered in the months since my Dad’s death last December. It’s already a grinding experience having to call x company and y company and go through the same spiel over and over. When you’ve…

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  • Cursed - the click click click of my silly phone
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    Cursed – What Is That Clicking Sound?

    ByMark Tisdale February 27, 2017January 9, 2025

    You ever have that feeling you’re cursed? I think I’ve had it off and on over the years. I’m sure many of us do. After the past year, it’s been an especially acute feeling. Nothing is small right now. Everything is major! I was setting off to Americus this afternoon to have my vision checked….

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  • SEO Expert Promise - Your Site On Page 1
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    SEO Experts With Gmail Addresses – A Pet Peeve

    ByMark Tisdale February 1, 2017January 9, 2025

    To be honest, I am chock full of pet peeves but one of them that gets dinged regularly is SEO experts contacting me with their gmail addresses. Never mind how unprofessional it feels to some. I can get past that. There are plenty of people who have contacted me in regards to projects they had…

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  • Redragon Gaming Mouse - a great artist's mouse
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    Artist’s Mouse or Gaming Mouse?

    ByMark Tisdale February 1, 2017January 9, 2025

    Is it a gaming mouse or an artist’s mouse? I guess that’s in the eye of the beholder!  The logic that led to my selection was that I needed something with precision. And if there’s any group of computer users that care about precision, it’s gamers. The end reason may be different. They want to…

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  • CoPromote Boost Stats Compared - A Review
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    CoPromote Review – Thoughts On The Numbers

    ByMark Tisdale January 23, 2017January 9, 2025

    It’s been over a year since I saw a sponsored post for Copromote and decided to give the service a try. It’s one of those apps that in theory is a beautiful idea. CoPromote is a network of creators dedicated to helping each other reach new and larger audiences. It hits all the right chords…

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  • My Android TV Box Experiment
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    How To Choose The Right Android TV Box

    ByMark Tisdale January 6, 2017January 9, 2025

    How to choose the right Android TV box was a subject I spent about a week researching last Fall. At the outset, I was looking for something that wouldn’t take up a lot of space but in theory would have an OS that my disabled father could operate. My reasoning for choosing Android was simply…

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  • 2016 Left A Hole In My Life
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    2016 Left A Hole In My Life

    ByMark Tisdale January 2, 2017January 9, 2025

    It’s been far too long since I’ve posted anything. It wasn’t for lack of moments of inspiration. I thought of plenty things to write about both involving the events of my life in 2016 as well as tidbits I wanted to share. And it never happened. As bad as the year started with Dad’s stroke…

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  • Good Web Hosting from Hawkhost For My Sites
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    Good Web Hosting For A Small Business – Hawkhost

    ByMark Tisdale September 1, 2016January 9, 2025

    For awhile now I’ve intended to write a post about my experience looking for a good web hosting service. I signed up with Hawkhost back in late November of 2015. And if life had cooperated, I’m sure I would have said more about that sooner. If your life is hectic, you can appreciate that on a good…

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  • Book Shelf - Default Image
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    Life After A Stroke

    ByMark Tisdale May 12, 2016January 9, 2025

    It’s been 8 weeks since Dad had his stroke. I think I could write a book if I talked about everything that’s happened since but it wouldn’t be a very entertaining read. So I’ll hit the highlights. Dad was at Grady a little over a week after his stroke. He probably would have been moved…

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  • California Coastal Lighthouse Art by Mark E Tisdale
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    Tomorrow Is Never Promised

    ByMark Tisdale March 21, 2016January 9, 2025

    I posted this to my Facebook page tonight where the folks have only been wondering where I’ve been for a day or two. Any actual readers of my blog have probably wondered that for far longer. I need to do a real update sometime but the following at least hits the most important point in…

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  • Keep It Simple Stupid Graphic
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    Keeping It Simple

    ByMark Tisdale April 25, 2015January 9, 2025

    Keep it Simple Stupid is far from an original mantra, but one I digested last night. If you haven’t noticed, I’m in the midst of revamping my little garrison of websites. They had all gone somewhat stale and my motivation to change that was fleeting. Part of that was the desire to change the domain…

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  • RCPM – Latest Album And Feeling Disconnected
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    RCPM – Latest Album And Feeling Disconnected

    ByMark Tisdale April 30, 2014January 9, 2025

    My how times change. There was a time when I would have pre-ordered any album coming from RCPM (Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers). It would have been waiting in the mailbox as close to the day it came out as possible. They are, after all, the only band that I’ve followed to out of state…

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  • Logitech TK820 Vs Wacom Intuos Pen and Touch Tablet – Touchpad Grudge Match
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    Logitech TK820 Vs Wacom Intuos Pen and Touch Tablet – Touchpad Grudge Match

    ByMark Tisdale April 30, 2014January 9, 2025

    After years of mainly being a Mac user, the time had come that I needed a new beast to work on. My Macbook is hardly surplus property quite yet but doing my artwork on it was beginning to become an exercise in frustration. Large panoramas or photoshop files with a lot of layers allowed me…

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  • Book Shelf - Default Image
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    My Experience With Progressive Lenses And Zenni Optical

    ByMark Tisdale March 7, 2014January 9, 2025

    I mentioned late last year that I was getting progressive lenses. It’s taken awhile for me to finally report back on that experience… Wow, well, first off the bat, I believe there was an issue with the first pair I got. It took several days of trying to adapt, but I finally came to the…

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  • Book Shelf - Default Image
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    Wasting One’s Breath on Facebook Likes

    ByMark Tisdale February 11, 2014January 9, 2025

    Ah, Facebook, my old friend… I’ve had little to say on the subject of late and there’s not much to add. I’m only on the site in brief fits these days. The last time was made even worse by a cacophony of auto-play videos. Auto-play anything is a sure way to make me hit the…

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  • Net Neutrality Needed
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    Net Neutrality Needed

    ByMark Tisdale January 16, 2014January 9, 2025

    This topic came up today in an entirely unrelated forum, but it stirred up the hornet’s nest for me. I don’t tend to post on these sort of topics, but to me this is one that should cross all lines. Of course, this all boils down to the news of the day, about a federal…

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  • Book Shelf - Default Image
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    Trying New Things – Standing

    ByMark Tisdale January 6, 2014January 9, 2025

    I decided to try something new today. I’ve long thought about how much time I spend sitting. Between photo editing and general online tasks, I’m attached to my laptop a lot. And while a laptop is a go-anywhere kind of device, you tend to sit with it a lot, eh? I’ve had a vague interest…

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  • Book Shelf - Default Image
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    Feeling Human – Holiday Ills

    ByMark Tisdale January 2, 2014January 9, 2025

    I’ve gotten where I rarely report on illness, especially on social media. I just hate to be one of those woe is me people. So, if I’m ever quiet, it may be that I’m busy or it may be that I simply have nothing positive to report! But hey, it’s my personal blog, so I…

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  • Book Shelf - Default Image
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    Eye Feel Anxiety

    ByMark Tisdale December 11, 2013January 9, 2025

    There’s something about going to see an eye doctor that always feels me with dread. It’s not that I’ve ever had a bad experience with one, mind you. Still, I manage to build it up pretty much every time. There’s something about having someone peer into your head at things you can’t see. What might…

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  • The Game Of Picking Winners And Losers
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    The Game Of Picking Winners And Losers

    ByMark Tisdale September 10, 2013January 9, 2025

    Facebook recently announced more changes to the already-involved algorithms that decide what users see in their news feed when they log in. When I read the news, I admit, I already foresaw a little of the impact that would come, i.e. ever-more-decreased reach for the things I share through my Facebook page. Despite the best…

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  • Pin It All To Your Heart's Content!
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    Pinterest Ultimately Needs A Re-Think

    ByMark Tisdale August 7, 2013January 9, 2025

    I purposefully waited to post what are more or less my closing thoughts on Pinterest. I had a mission to complete before this day came… If you’re curious about what came before, you can see a little of my evolution on thoughts about the social bookmarking service by reading my past posts on Pinterest. Pinterest…

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  • Book Shelf - Default Image
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    Scorpio Leisure From The Stagger Rats

    ByMark Tisdale August 4, 2013January 9, 2025

    Sometimes the musical connections I make are pretty unusual. I have my share of bands I discovered by overhearing them on my travels, but I think The Stagger Rats may be the first I found based on travel daydreams! I have long wanted to go to see Up Helly Aa, a yearly fire festival in…

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  • Book Shelf - Default Image
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    Why Do I Feel So Spaced Out?

    ByMark Tisdale July 2, 2013January 9, 2025

    Wow… what a night… Yesterday afternoon, I started really feeling worn out for no good reason. It’s not the first time. In fact, it’s almost right at a decade since that first time. The first time was equally scary. I had a week of just feeling tired and like every step was dragging. Not like…

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    Never Ending Painting

    ByMark Tisdale June 4, 2013January 9, 2025

    The title of this one is somewhat tongue in cheek. Certainly had I been painting non-stop, I’d be done by now. But the humorous part is that observant people will remember when I broke my foot last year, I was doing what? Yes, painting! And yes, the same room! I wish the room were that…

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  • Book Shelf - Default Image
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    An Entertaining Afternoon At the Theater

    ByMark Tisdale May 23, 2013January 9, 2025

    I haven’t been a heavy movie goer since leaving Atlanta. I could probably count the movies I’ve seen since 2009 if I sat down and thought about it a little. When there was a theater down the street, it was a no-brainer. Now I have to gear myself up and convince myself that it’s worth…

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  • Screenshot of Flickr Redesign
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    Flickr Redesign Is Kind of Pinteresty

    ByMark Tisdale May 21, 2013January 9, 2025

    When I stuck my head out of the rabbit hole today, I saw the news that there had been a major Flickr redesign. I was… lukewarm… at the news. Flickr… what can I say about Flickr? I’ve been a member since 2006, but I didn’t initially join for a place to share photos. I was…

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  • The Doctor’s Name
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    The Doctor’s Name

    ByMark Tisdale May 21, 2013January 9, 2025

    Ugh, I spent the past few days battling what was either food poisoning or a side-effect of Zyrtec. I’m not sure which it was but I wish it on no one. Oh well, not a friend anyway. Ha! Anyway, in the midst of that, I sat up and watched the finale to Series 7 of…

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Hi, I'm Mark Tisdale, a self professed creative geek, a life-long fan of sci-fi, fantasy and technology. Somehow, I stumbled onto a love for travel and shortly after found my calling in life as a visual artist.

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