Ray's X-Blog

Usually perfection can’t be attained.  Bare minimum for me:  An adequate result. I snail-mailed the last paper edition of my zine.  Why?  Not the computer but the printer. This Windows-compatible  printer is the third one I’ve owned.  All three were crap.  This one started to print faint copies.  I tried the usual fixes.  Nothing.  I searched via Google for other fixes.  They didn’t work.  Two hours wasted. I had to take my PDF file to a print shop.   Text was OK but the images were muddy.  A problem I could’ve fixed with the file if my printer had been working.  The file was uneditable so it couldn’t be properly fixed at the print shop. Online the images look great, in color, not B&W as with print. Since 1994 I’ve been cranking out my paperzine The Ray X X-Rayer .  No more.  I don’t want to waste money on another crap printer or take the option of trying to get adequate copies at a print shop. Online writing and editing can be a pain but not like producing hardcopy.  

Are you in there Nick?  I can hear you…  Good interview, crap video. I click the remote control to watch another segment included in the DVD “Aliens, Abductions, & Extraordinary Sightings.”  This one is entitled “The U.K. UFO Sightings.” This segment jumps right into a sit down interview without IDing the interviewee.  I recognize UFO Researcher Nick Pope from photographs seen online and in magazines.  For those viewers unfamiliar with him, tough luck.  You’ll have to look for clues in the interview. Nick discusses his experience working for the U.K. Ministry of Defence’s UFO Project.  Unlike some UFO personalities Nick is rational, neither a true believer nor diehard skeptic.  It’s the first time I’m seen a video interview with him. Unfortunately whoever edited this interview decided the average viewer suffers from limited attention.  The attention of such a viewer will wander unless you draw him back in with some visual tricks. Gesundheit!  (Better see the

© Ray X  10/25/15 I never got the memo.  The world was supposed to end on October 7th. I can’t remember how many times I’ve survived Doomsday. Previously in “The Ultimate Deadline” [1] I discussed another doomsday prophecy from last month involving the blood moon and asteroids destroying the earth.  The lunar eclipse happened with no incident and I don’t recall a massive meteor storm that spoiled everyone’s picnic. Now we have another group, E Bible Fellowship, claiming the 2011 End Day prediction (another no show)) of the late great preacher Harold Camping was going to come true [2].  This group is based in Pennsylvania, an indication that the Keystone State cut too deep into its mental health services.  At the E Bible website there’s a post entitled “October 8th” [3] that attempts to explain away why the world didn’t crap out, the usual backpedaling hyperlogic.  (The E must stand for evasive.) Responding to the question “Did We lie?” E Bible says it had qualified its Doo