The weekend post with … the extras. You haven’t already seen these on the site so you can see them here now. So we’ll get right to it.
I like that someone took the time to print up a slip of paper and slide it into this little name holder. You seldom see that sort of dedication, but our friend Sally Ann is dedicated … to her recipes, it seems.
I’m also interested in the nicks on the Remington Rand sticker. Remington Rand split off of Remington Arms and made things like office equipment and electric shavers. They’d add companies that made adding machines and binders. During the war they made pistols and in the 1950s they got into the electronic computing business. Sperry Corp., a mainframe company, bought Remington Rand in 1955 and then merged in 1986 with business equipment maker Burroughs to form Unisys, which now measures their financials in billions and employs more than 22,000. Odds are you have a Unisys products in your home.
Bet you didn’t see that coming when this started with a recipe box.
Took this in the stairwell beneath my office. It was a dreary day, looked like this, felt like this and opaque windows captured it all:
Dewayne, our friend the balloon maker, made an Akbar action figure:
Allie is posing for you. Every now and then she likes to be famous on the Internet.
