I went full screen for the picture, and put a protractor to the wall and stringer; for our purposes, 60 degrees. They are a bit beyond any reasonable code at least.
It also looks like a very old house. It was common for old houses to have a main stairway and also a “back” stairway, which was usually very narrow and steep. I have such a second stairway in my house, which is 237 years old…long before there were building codes, I imagine.
In fact, in some houses, including the first one I lived in here, built about 1910, the attic is still reached by a ladder, not stairs. Some pull down from the ceiling.
….
But by your saying “there were no stairs as we know them,” I thought you meant ladders were invented first, when stairs didn’t yet exist…
I was just noting that there were wooden or stone staircases in some buildings, like castles, and theaters, long before every house had one.
…
And yeah, some old houses everywhere had their ladders converted to stairs many years after the original construction.
I had my attic ladder replaced by steep narrow stairs, as well, cos that’s all that would fit, but I wanted a handrail.
My house (built in 1954) has disappearing ladder/stairs into the unfinished attic space. Pretty common in my neighborhood. Mine opens into the hall. Some open into the attached garage.
, (Tigressy) You found some of Dali’s work too weird for you.
Some of the works of Mark Bryan included in the interview at this LINK even I found disturbing; and I don’t disturb easily.
The first one is “Ship of State”. Otherwise, hover over the work, and its title will appear (if it does not, move your cursor off the work and then back on).
Batbasset giving us his best James Bondbasset – 006 impression with a pithy remark as he dispatches yet another threat. Quelle surprise!
And will wonders never cease? The device has a reverse gear! It’s gonna be a good day after all.
I was in the pub today, and the music channel playing was a weird mix.
This came up as I went to the bar to pay my tab;…
Lindsey, (the day bartender) was in stitches when I arrived. Her customer there before me (to cash in a V.L.T. ticket, I think) had apparently only heard “Surfin Bird” as part of “Family Guy”, and didn’t know it was a hit from 1963 (there’s more to it, but you had to be there and explaining it here would bore you to tears) “A Summer Song” is 1964.
Anyway, my answer to her was “The only parts of “Family Guy” I actually like are the chicken fights” (example below).
dennisinseattle
Member
2 years ago
Love all three videos tonight. The Piano Man video adds to the song.
Aha! As predicted, BatBasset and Sparrow are finding their way out of their wee predicament…
which will soon no longer be wee, we hope…. and when they attain full size, they can begin to overpower the evil cats.
…
Normally, that wouldn’t be a problem for a couple of strong basset hounds, and especially not for two superhero hounds…
but these are no normal cats…
Two with the ingrained power of evil, plus a small horde… OK, about half a dozen… of their feline sycophants with… well… really not much to offer, but they do occasionally follow orders.
…
Meanwhile, Sparrow did not lie about his vertical climbing prowess, and BatBasset easily dispatches a … pit bull size(?) spider.
I guess it’s pit bull size to a 6″ (upright) basset hound… I’ll forgive him a slight exaggeration.
Everything looks gigantic when you’re shorter than a chihuahua.
….
Let the unshrinking begin…. only be careful, Sparrow!
Unless there are presets, you could create a 20 footBatBasset!
Saaayy… there’s an idea….
But it might go against the superhero code, or some such…
and as I said… BatBasset is upright.
He still occasionally has to cool down the gung-ho and over-eager young Sparrow.
Made by Waring Commercial.
4 waffles every 1 minute 40 seconds (that’s what Waring says).
WMB400X
$ 464.99
Quantity
–
1
+
OUT OF STOCK
Most of Waring Commercial’s description and specifications
Elevate any menu with deep-pocketed mini Belgian waffles
topped with berries, syrup, ice cream, or even chicken.
Designed to produce up to 100, 1″-thick mini Belgian waffles
per hour, this innovative unit makes it easy to create endless
variations of these savory and sweet treats. Each mini Belgian
waffle is baked to perfection with precision temperature
control and a rotary feature that ensures even baking and
browning. Easy-to-clean, triple-coated nonstick plates release
the waffles fully intact and flawlessly formed. An audible beep
alerts users when to cook and when to serve.
Produces up to 100, 1″-thick, 2 ¾” inches in diameter mini
Belgian waffles per hour
Heavy-duty die-cast housing
Rotary feature for even baking and browning
Triple-coated nonstick plates for easy removal of waffles and quick cleanup
Specs-
MODEL #WMB400X
Width 10.5 inches
Height 8.5 inches closed (21 inches open)
Depth 17 inches
Plug Type NEMA 5-15P
Cord length 3 feet
Voltage 120 volts
Approvals cETLus, NSF
UPC 040072086519
Wattage 1200 watts
Frequency 60 hertz
Way too large and too expensive, and too specific in function, for such low output, even for a restaurant.
And absolutely silly for a home. You’d have to live on mini waffles for ten years to make it worth it… And then you’d want a dozen at a time, not four.
In a restaurant, what a waste of labor if six orders come in at once, and somebody has to stand there baking and refilling, baking and refilling. That 12 or 15 minutes is precious time lost in a busy restaurant at brunch time.
….
The kind you’d find at a thrift shop would probably not be commercial, and would burn out in a restaurant… But it’s fine for home use.
I saw new ones at Target just recently for ten dollars. A whole crop of small, specific appliances, soon to be household clutter, then donated to thrift shops, I imagine.
Mini Belgian waffle maker, ice cream cone maker, and mini donut maker, I believe. $10 each… And suggested for dorm rooms! Just what every college student needs. Where do they keep the ice cream and eggs?
.
I’m seeing nothing but a large white panel.
It shows up on my monitor (pink parakeet sitting on pink rock crystal). Keep trying, refresh or maybe reboot. You’ll get it eventually…
Back after an hour or so and she appears. She isn’t one of those shape/color shifting creatures, is she? Just blending into the background?
Wow!
I see a pink bird on a pink rock.
Hmm… I saw the bird when I first opened the page, but subsequent refreshes turned the image into a blank white rectangle.
Now it’s back… wow, unless it’s the lighting, even her feet and beak are pink.
I think I’d name her Rosie.
Speaking of lighting, those look like Himalayan salt lamps… hope that’s OK for birds.
I can’t make up my mind if the bird is a (baby) Galah (Rose-Breasted) Cockatoo, or a Bourke’s parrot; both are native to Australia.
Beautiful!!!
,
“What’s wid all dat racket? Don’t make me come down there!”
Is it just me or does that look like a steep set of steps. Not code, i think.
I went full screen for the picture, and put a protractor to the wall and stringer; for our purposes, 60 degrees. They are a bit beyond any reasonable code at least.
It also looks like a very old house. It was common for old houses to have a main stairway and also a “back” stairway, which was usually very narrow and steep. I have such a second stairway in my house, which is 237 years old…long before there were building codes, I imagine.
In olden times, there were no stairs as we know them – there were ladders.
Some archeologists say stairs were first… that the ones dug into mountainsides or stone walks came before the making of ladders.
Others disagree, since there may have been rope ladders that have since disintegrated.
….
I climbed some purpose-built, not dug out, ancient Roman stone stairs when I lived in Libya… I think now the ruins are more protected.
Last year (I think) they excavated some 12,000 year old human-built stairs in Anatolia.
Who knows whether they had ladders.
….
It’s kind of funny to Europeans and Middle-Easterners that in the US, we consider a 300-year-old building practically ancient.
It’s a comparatively young country… about 250 years, so Candi’s house is almost historic.
….
You guys have us beat by hundreds of years…. not that Germany was united into one country for all of it…
but I know there are buildings way older than anything here.
I know buildings right here in Munich where only ladders were only a few centuries ago.
Here too… In some old colonial houses.
In fact, in some houses, including the first one I lived in here, built about 1910, the attic is still reached by a ladder, not stairs. Some pull down from the ceiling.
….
But by your saying “there were no stairs as we know them,” I thought you meant ladders were invented first, when stairs didn’t yet exist…
I was just noting that there were wooden or stone staircases in some buildings, like castles, and theaters, long before every house had one.
…
And yeah, some old houses everywhere had their ladders converted to stairs many years after the original construction.
I had my attic ladder replaced by steep narrow stairs, as well, cos that’s all that would fit, but I wanted a handrail.
My house (built in 1954) has disappearing ladder/stairs into the unfinished attic space. Pretty common in my neighborhood. Mine opens into the hall. Some open into the attached garage.
Mark Bryan
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At least all of his masks are smiling. 🙂
All of them?
Kinda depends on your definition of “smile.”
The Laugh
More of his work.
Some of the works of Mark Bryan included in the interview at this LINK even I found disturbing; and I don’t disturb easily.
The first one is “Ship of State”. Otherwise, hover over the work, and its title will appear (if it does not, move your cursor off the work and then back on).
That is some interesting art, thanks for the post.
scarrrrrrrrrry!!!
,
I like that we can see the spot/flood lights set up for dusk. Makes me wonder what color(s) they use.
From A(ustralian)BC HERE The caption for the photograph in the spoiler box.
“Support” by Lorenzo Quinn at night
Posted 19 May 2017, 5:37am
The hands were modelled on those of Quinn’s son, Anthony.
Supplied: Lorenzo Quinn
Batbasset giving us his best James Bondbasset – 006 impression with a pithy remark as he dispatches yet another threat. Quelle surprise!
And will wonders never cease? The device has a reverse gear! It’s gonna be a good day after all.
I remember hearing this when i was young.
You’re kidding me! You were young? 😉
It’s a flexible word, isn’t it… “young”?
Funny to think about…
YouTube says this was 1964.
….
In 1964, a few here weren’t even born yet.
Some, like Happy³, were quite young indeed, and some of us were teenagers.
Probably not many in this group, and maybe none, were over, say, 22 or 23, which in my book would still have been pretty darn young, as well.
The oldest person I know of on GoComics, if he’s still around, would have been about 32.
….
Now here were are in 2022… 58 years later… how does that happen?
our WEDDING was 8-8-64!
Are you going to try to tell me you weren’t young when you got married?
You were a child bride!
awwww. how sweet. i just turned 20, MMM didn’t want to be accused of marrying a teenager.
I was in the pub today, and the music channel playing was a weird mix.
This came up as I went to the bar to pay my tab;…
Lindsey, (the day bartender) was in stitches when I arrived. Her customer there before me (to cash in a V.L.T. ticket, I think) had apparently only heard “Surfin Bird” as part of “Family Guy”, and didn’t know it was a hit from 1963 (there’s more to it, but you had to be there and explaining it here would bore you to tears) “A Summer Song” is 1964.
Anyway, my answer to her was “The only parts of “Family Guy” I actually like are the chicken fights” (example below).
Love all three videos tonight. The Piano Man video adds to the song.
And now, Surfin Bird! What a night!
Released on the 28th.
Where the Johnston Atoll is.
gorgeous!
Aha! As predicted, BatBasset and Sparrow are finding their way out of their
weepredicament…which will soon no longer be wee, we hope…. and when they attain full size, they can begin to overpower the evil cats.
…
Normally, that wouldn’t be a problem for a couple of strong basset hounds, and especially not for two superhero hounds…
but these are no normal cats…
Two with the ingrained power of evil, plus a small horde… OK, about half a dozen… of their feline sycophants with… well… really not much to offer, but they do occasionally follow orders.
…
Meanwhile, Sparrow did not lie about his vertical climbing prowess, and BatBasset easily dispatches a … pit bull size(?) spider.
I guess it’s pit bull size to a 6″ (upright) basset hound… I’ll forgive him a slight exaggeration.
Everything looks gigantic when you’re shorter than a chihuahua.
….
Let the unshrinking begin…. only be careful, Sparrow!
Unless there are presets, you could create a 20 foot BatBasset!
Saaayy… there’s an idea….
But it might go against the superhero code, or some such…
and as I said… BatBasset is upright.
He still occasionally has to cool down the gung-ho and over-eager young Sparrow.
almond butter crunch
yum, yum, YUM.
Made by Waring Commercial.
4 waffles every 1 minute 40 seconds (that’s what Waring says).
WMB400X
$ 464.99
Quantity
–
1
+
OUT OF STOCK
Elevate any menu with deep-pocketed mini Belgian waffles
topped with berries, syrup, ice cream, or even chicken.
Designed to produce up to 100, 1″-thick mini Belgian waffles
per hour, this innovative unit makes it easy to create endless
variations of these savory and sweet treats. Each mini Belgian
waffle is baked to perfection with precision temperature
control and a rotary feature that ensures even baking and
browning. Easy-to-clean, triple-coated nonstick plates release
the waffles fully intact and flawlessly formed. An audible beep
alerts users when to cook and when to serve.
Produces up to 100, 1″-thick, 2 ¾” inches in diameter mini
Belgian waffles per hour
Heavy-duty die-cast housing
Rotary feature for even baking and browning
Triple-coated nonstick plates for easy removal of waffles and quick cleanup
Specs-
MODEL #WMB400X
Width 10.5 inches
Height 8.5 inches closed (21 inches open)
Depth 17 inches
Plug Type NEMA 5-15P
Cord length 3 feet
Voltage 120 volts
Approvals cETLus, NSF
UPC 040072086519
Wattage 1200 watts
Frequency 60 hertz
I’m more of a toaster waffle guy myself
If that thing is $464.99, so am I. That’s a lot of waffle breakfasts at your favorite restaurant. Geez!
Or go to the Goodwill and get one for $10.
Way too large and too expensive, and too specific in function, for such low output, even for a restaurant.
And absolutely silly for a home. You’d have to live on mini waffles for ten years to make it worth it… And then you’d want a dozen at a time, not four.
In a restaurant, what a waste of labor if six orders come in at once, and somebody has to stand there baking and refilling, baking and refilling. That 12 or 15 minutes is precious time lost in a busy restaurant at brunch time.
….
The kind you’d find at a thrift shop would probably not be commercial, and would burn out in a restaurant… But it’s fine for home use.
I saw new ones at Target just recently for ten dollars. A whole crop of small, specific appliances, soon to be household clutter, then donated to thrift shops, I imagine.
Mini Belgian waffle maker, ice cream cone maker, and mini donut maker, I believe. $10 each… And suggested for dorm rooms! Just what every college student needs. Where do they keep the ice cream and eggs?
i’m with BatBasset. not one of my favorite smells. but, if he put on some Handy-Dandy BBQ sauce……….
Good morning Cleofans! Floridians are here. bizzy bizzy bizzy
Lung update: Getting dental clearance next month after getting work done, then on the list and wait.
(((((HuGz!)))))
ah! THERE you are…..haven’t heard from you in a while.
HUGS back atcha
Hugs to you!
glad to hear from you! i was getting worried. lots of hugs being sent your way!!!
Good afternoon! 😀