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Backups

Guy Pace October 10, 2019 0 Comments
Many long years working with computers has taught me three very important rules. Backup.Backup.Backup. That's right. No matter what you have, phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop, you MUST have some kind of backup established. The alternative is disaster. The other day, I came up to my desktop computer and there on the screen I saw something called Mac OS Utility. It's also called Mac OS Recovery...

Interview

Guy Pace August 18, 2019 0 Comments
At last week's SpoCon 2019, the Grown Folks Kids Show (a Spokane-local podcast about comics, movies and such) asked to interview me. The topic was Spider-Man and the early (1960's) origin story and characters. It was fun, if a lot ad lib. I had no prep for this other than some earlier discussion in a panel. The guys from GFKS are Andre (Dre) Ervin and Charles (The Great Gunny) Brown. We were in...
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SpoCon 2019

Guy Pace July 28, 2019 0 Comments
The Spirit Missions Series It's been a very busy summer and I'm looking forward to attending SpoCon 2019. The topics list and schedule came together thanks to the incredible efforts of Deby Fredericks. Once again, I'm one of the "speakers" at SpoCon. This year, the convention is in the Historic Davenport Hotel in downtown Spokane, WA, August 9-11, 2019. My participation is listed on the Events...
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Formula Analysis

Guy Pace June 1, 2019 0 Comments
In 2013, I wrote down some notes on the formula for modern disaster movies. My wife loves these, so I made the notes as we watched way too many of them. This is what Hollywood does in developing a script from either a story or book they acquired. Often, the resulting script has little resemblance to the original work. A formula isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially if it works and draws the...

More Family

Guy Pace April 15, 2019 0 Comments
Recent events in my attempts to discover more about my family history brought me to a unique family reunion. It was the Jones-Harrison family reunion and it took place on the Oregon Coast. Thanks to the efforts of a newly-found second cousin, about 70 people showed up to meet, share stories, and learn. We celebrated the wife of the late Frank Harrison—the son of Lee Frank Harrison by another...