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About Art Zemon

Omni-curious geek. Husband. Father. Airplane builder & pilot. Bicyclist. Photographer. Computer engineer.

Stretching a Photo

April 21, 2025 Art Zemon 1 Comment

sunrise over the Gulf of Mexico

I did a little experiment today. I took one of my photos (sunrise over the Gulf of Mexico on New Years Day 2025) and stretched it to be twice as wide as it was originally. Here is the result. Not bad, eh? I used the Seamcarve filter in the G’Mic-Qt plugin for GIMP. Here is […]

Photography, Software

There are Elephants in the Room

April 10, 2025 Art Zemon 3 Comments

a blue and a red elephant hovering in the background of a family Seder

There are elephants in the room that would like some attention and it’s time we give it to them, because it might literally be a matter of life and death. These elephants have been around as long as people, but they’ve gotten a lot meaner and scarier since last Passover.

Judaism

Let’s Eliminate Real WFA

April 1, 2025 Art Zemon 1 Comment

American flag

I received an email today from a museum that I care deeply about, the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. Some of its funding is threatened since the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has been effectively shut down. When I investigated further, I discovered that IMLS also supports many other Missouri organizations […]

Government

Thumb Wrist Neck Waist Height

March 18, 2025 Art Zemon 2 Comments

Richard Zemon, Marjorie Zemon, and young Art Zemon on the back of a dark horse. There is snow on the ground. All of the people are wearing cowboy hats.

I was somewhat older than I am in this photo of my parents and me when my dad taught me something kind of amazing. It popped into my brain while I was trying to take a nap this afternoon. Go get a long piece of string or yarn. Wrap it around your thumb. Now double […]

Fun

Avoid Targeted Advertisements

February 5, 2025 Art Zemon

computer keyboard button labeled Data Privacy

I would wager that you have been dismayed to see an advertisement targeting you very shortly after you searched for similar products. Maybe the ads showed up in Facebook. Maybe they showed up on a completely unrelated website. This practice goes by several names: targeted advertising, targeted marketing, and remarketing to name a few. It […]

Internet, Recommendations, Software, Technology

Sunrise over the Gulf of Mexico

February 5, 2025 Art Zemon

sunrise over the Gulf of Mexico

Back in December, I decided that I wanted to start 2025 by watching the sunrise over the Gulf of Mexico from Grand Isle, LA. Candy and I hauled our travel trailer down to Grand Isle State Park. The weather cooperated, and I got three gorgeous shots. Here are small versions of the photos that I […]

Photography, Travel

Come Back – תחזור

January 24, 2025 Art Zemon

Cantor Shirel Richman and Shinshinit Gaya Zohar on stage

I want to share a beautiful song with you, Come Back performed here by two Israelis, Cantor Shirel Richman and Shinshinit Gaya Zohar. Earlier this week, Hamas released three civilian Israeli hostages, all young women, in exchange for 90 convicted Palestinian prisoners. Today, Hamas released four Israeli soldiers, all women ages 19 and 20, in […]

Judaism, Mideast

Warm Weather Pictures for a Grey Day

December 25, 2024 Art Zemon

bicycle on a bridge in with bluffs in the background

Though we are only hours away from the beginning of Chanukah and a whole 12 hours into Christmas, outside it is definitely not a winder wonderland here in St. Louis. It is grey and drizzly and in the 40s. As an antidote, I have published a small set of photos from a warmer time of […]

St. Louis to Atlanta, Travel

My Hands Shook with Essential Tremor

December 22, 2024 Art Zemon

masculine hand

My hands have shaken or trembled for years. For instance, I used to be able to solder with confidence. Then I had to concentrate and find workarounds because sometimes the soldering pencil would not stay in exactly the position it needed to be, knocking the wires loose. It had gotten worse over the last couple […]

Health

Centr Multi-Gym Review

December 18, 2024 Art Zemon

Centr Multi-Gym

I have been doing some strength training to maintain fitness and mobility and to stave off osteoporosis. They say that you need weight-bearing exercise for that and neither my bicycle riding nor hoisting tankards of ale seem to count. Thus, I am reduced to mundane exercises like biceps curls, lat pull-downs, chest presses, and so […]

Health

Springfield and the Quad Cities

July 9, 2024 Art Zemon

woman sitting in the shade of a travel trailer, looking at a lake

A couple of weeks ago, Candy and I took our first real trip with our travel trailer. We spent a day in Springfield, IL and then a few days in the Quad Cities area. We opted for full service campgrounds on this trip, with full hookups (electrical, water, and sewer), so that we could have […]

Travel

Launching into an RV Life

June 18, 2024 Art Zemon

travel trailer parked in the woods

Saturday night, Candy and I did something we had never done before: we spent the night in a state park in our travel trailer. We are the proud owners of a new-to-us 2020 KZ Sportsmen LE. It has recliners, a kitchen big enough to cook real meals, and air conditioning (a must-have in Missouri!). It […]

Travel

STL2ATL 14-16 – Chattanooga, TN to Marietta, GA

May 29, 2024 Art Zemon

Art & David Zemon in David's driveway

Mission accomplished! I made it to David and Katie’s house. All in all, it was a 630 mile tour with 33,700 feet of ascending spread over 17 days of pedaling. You can geek out on maps and miles and feet in my STL2ATL RideWithGPS collection. Day 14 – Chattanooga, TN to LaFayette, GA Having hauled […]

St. Louis to Atlanta

STL2ATL Day 13 – a Long Long Day from Winchester, TN to Chattanooga, TN

May 24, 2024 Art Zemon

map of an 80 mile bicycle ride

I bedded down at the end of day 12 to a gorgeous sunset over Tims Ford Lake. I woke up on day 13 and headed out with some trepidation. This ride, from Tims Ford Lake State Park in Winchester, TN up to Sewanee, TN had the climb that was going to be, by far, the […]

St. Louis to Atlanta

STL2ATL Days 10-12 – Nashville, TN to Tims Ford State Park

May 23, 2024 Art Zemon

map showing a bicycle touring route from Nashville, TN to Chattanooga, TN

Tennessee is a pretty state with an oddity, at least as far as I am concerned. For the route that I am traveling, southeast from Nashville to Chattanooga, there are often no roads other than interstate 24 and US highway 41. I could have chosen long looping routes to take rural roads but I opted […]

St. Louis to Atlanta

STL2ATL Days 6-9

May 19, 2024 Art Zemon

friendly goat

The next four days took me from Cave-in-Rock State Park, IL, through Kentucky, and into Nashville, TN. Day 6 – Cave in Rock, IL to Princeton, KY I started day 6 in sunshine, liquid sunshine. It poured so hard in the morning that I delayed my start by two full hours. Once the worst of […]

St. Louis to Atlanta

STL2ATL – A Few Photos from Days 1 and 2

May 17, 2024 Art Zemon

bicycle on a bridge in with bluffs in the background

I am writing this from Pleasant View, TN after three more days of pedaling. On day 6, I rode from Cave-in-Rock State Park, IL to Princeton, KY. Day 7 was from Princeton to Hopkinsville, KY. Day 8 took me from Hopkinsville to Pleasant View, TN. I will write more about those soon but, since my […]

St. Louis to Atlanta

STL2ATL Days 1-5

May 13, 2024 Art Zemon

deer mural in Murphysboro, IL

I am five days into my bicycle tour from St. Louis to Atlanta. So far, it has been quite the adventure with all of the “issues” not related to the actual bike riding. I am typing this in a cabin at Cave-IN-Rock State Park, IL, overlooking the Ohio River. For those of you not intimately […]

St. Louis to Atlanta

Bicycle Touring from St. Louis to Atlanta

May 7, 2024 Art Zemon

map of a bicycle tour route from St. Louis to Atlanta

I am two days away from launching on my next bicycle tour. This time, I am riding from St. Louis, MO to Atlanta, GA. You can follow the details of my trip in my RideWithGPS collection, STL2ATL – St. Louis to Atlanta. It has an overview map. It also has the route for each day. […]

St. Louis to Atlanta

2024 Solar Eclipse

May 4, 2024 Art Zemon

composite image of the 2024 solar eclipse

Candy and I drove to Perryville, MO to see the solar eclipse on April 8. My cousin, Melanie, and her husband, Norm, had come down from Wisconsin. The four of us made an outing of it. To make a long story short, the traffic made a short drive long. We left the house at about […]

Cabbages & Kings, Photography

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