McIsaac Family Crest

I purchased the high resolution McIsaac Family Crest from House Of Names. Click the image to enlarge it.

The McIsaac family comes from the ancient Scottish Dalriadan clans of the mountainous west coast of Scotland. The name McIsaac is derived from the personal name Isaac. The Gaelic forms of the name are Mac Isaac or Mac Iosaig, both of which mean son of Isaac.

Spelling variations were extremely common in medieval names, since scribes from that era recorded names according to sound rather than a standard set of rules. McIsaac has appeared in various documents spelled MacIsaac, MacIsaack and others.

Vintage Photos of Stephenville, NL

Some family picture albums have been lost so I was looking for old photos of Stephenville on the WWW. Google pointed to photos at this site www.c-and-e-museum.org/Pinetreeline/Photos/. The top-level domain redirects to the Military Communications And Electronics Museum which does not yet have the Stephenville 1959 photos. I got permission from the museum facebook page to use them.

Most of the photos are about the military site on "table-top" mountain usually called Pinetree. There were many Pinetree sites with big dish antennas for communications and RADAR. Powerful snowstorms sometimes ripped the roofs off buildings since there was nothing to break the wind.

There are photos of the British Queen Elizabeth visiting Stephenville in 1959.

See photos here: NORAD Pinetree Site

Cod Jigging

I thought of my maternal grandparents when reading an article about the decline of Newfoundland outports and scattered villages. Little is known of my grandparents before World War II, I believe they were Acadians who made a living from fishing and farming. Many outport residents having these occupations were paid subsidies to move to urban centers for less costly, more efficient, goverement services.  But my grandparents did not need to move because modernity came to them with the construction of Harmon Air Force Base by the Americans.  See Memoriam.

Second Brain In The Gut

Scientists have discovered that animals have neuron (brain) cells in their gut. This is probably to manage the complex energy factory down there. It seems like a second brain so they call it a butt-brain.
What will those smartass scientists think of next?

Humans are living creatures that move so we are animals. Except, maybe couch-potatoes.

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In The Cloud Of Google Domains

Bobmc Dot Net was hosted at the HostDime data center in Orlando for more than 10 years. It was on a server of HasWeb, a HostDime company where the bobmc site had a legacy designation. It was cheap and reliable. Now All the HasWeb services are on hold because it is merging with HostDime. My old password did not work and trouble tickets would bounce between HasWeb and HostDime such that nothing was done. In addition, Dotster was the site registrar so I had to deal with Dotster, HostDime, and HasWeb. It was too much bother for something no longer needed.

So I decided to move to Google Domains for bobmc dot net registration, G Suite for email, and Blogger for random musings. It seems more complicated than the web site admistration in my experience. I am comfortable with scripting and updating server control files. However, Google hides or abstracts all these details. There are a ton of documentation pages, some already deprecated, and there are various forms to fill out.

The idea is for all web pages in my domain to include "bobmc.net" as part of the URL. It is almost working. Eventually, when you search for "bobmc.net", you should see "whatever.bobmc.net" which links to this blog. I have had this blog for many years with postings here and there. It is really "bobmcisaac.blogspot.com"

Perhaps everyone should register their own domain to have a unique presence on the web if only for future use. With Google Domains plus Gsuite you can have aliases for your email address and for web sites, blogs and documents.