My nephew, very small at about 4 years old, begged for canned spinach because he believed in Popeye cartoons.
He hated it, but he made himself eat it, out of faith.
…
Unfortunately, it didn’t make him strong enough to stop the neighborhood bully.
That took parental intervention.
He was philosophical about it.
One day he explained it… obviously in his mother’s words, but wise-sounding from a four year old.
“You know, Aunt Susan, there are a lot of people in the world.
Some of them are going to like you, and (little shrug) some of them are not. And they might eat spinach too.”
For those having trouble seeing the two faces, I hope this is clear.
The black line divides the faces.
The red dot is the tip of the man’s nose.
The blue dot is the right corner of her mouth.
The green dot is the left corner of the man’s mouth.
You could say they’re in the mask, if you’re using the term to refer to “image masking”, which is probably how this picture was created.
The of the mask is on a layer, whether a photographic layer, or a physical cutout, or a premade “frame” in some programs, that has a transparent area, through which you can see and adjust the photograph used to fill it.
Thus the edges of the photo of the couple are “masked” by the frame, which happens to be an image of a mask.
Well, I still think those snakes might be cakes. I posted a snake cake quite a few years ago on Ballard St. (in those glory days gone by when we could post pictures) that everybody thought was a real snake. Then, I posted a second photo where the very same “snake” had been cut into, showing it was a cake. It’s amazing how some professional (or at least, very gifted amateur) bakers can create such realistic creatures!!
I tried looking for those original pictures that I had posted so long ago but to no avail. I did, however, find a whole page of snake cakes, 3 of which I’m posting now:
What amuses me when people argue over the details of this ancient sculpture… its height, oriention, whether or not it straddled the entrance to the harbor… even its location on the island…
Is that nobody knows!
I don’t know, historians don’t know, and no matter who you are and what you’ve read, YOU don’t know.
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The only thing anybody KNOWS is that there was a huge statue, representing the Greek sun God Helios, built on the Island of Rhodes, almost 300 years BC.
According to contemporaneous reports it was hollow, the outside covered in bronze plates riveted together.
An earthquake felled it not much more than a decade later, but not before its reputation spread in the ancient world.
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According to writers and travelers it lay in pieces for eight or nine hundred years before being completely destroyed…
Some say the pieces were sold for the scrap metal, others say they had already been stolen.
If you pick a dozen ancient scholars and historians, none tell the same tale.
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Some report sailing between the legs, others that it stood on a high predestal…
The latter is what modern scholars believe, because they don’t think the engineering of the time could have held it with legs on either side of the harbor mouth.
Many don’t believe it was in the harbor at all, but rather up a hill overlooking it, in the Acropolis of Rhodes.
It was nonetheless known to all, and accepted, as one of the seven wonders of the world.
I forgot to say that contemporaries of the sculptor reported that as he worked, from bottom to top, he filled each new section with rocks to weight it.
Otherwise it wouldn’t have stood long…
Not that it did, compared the the three millennia plus since it fell.
But for almost 1000 of those years, it was still very famous… many people traveled to Rhodes, to visit the broken pieces lying on the ground, and argue over where it used to be.
I heard this Walker Bros. song (“After the lights go out”) on a HBO commercial for the 4th season on “Barry” that’s coming up in a few weeks. I liked it immediately. They’re the same group who did “The Sun ain’t gonna shine anymore”.
For some reason, we couldn’t get the animated part of it to work on WP. In trying to get it to work, it created a big problem with saving the rest of the page. Finally, NH was able to delete the “super glue” strip and substitute it with the one above.
there it goes….before we figured out how to create animations that were confined to a single panel, we experimented with attempting to time the animation with the amount it
time it took to read word balloons leading up to movement of the character …..not realizing the widely varied reading speeds of folks made
the timing of the gag inconsistent, to say the least
But back then, I missed the animation, and the joke, at first, because I read too quickly to the end, and nothing happened.
A moment later, I caught it falling, out of the corner of my eye, and had to go back and try again.
….
The delay is longer at first, besides, because on most computers gifs are slower the first time or two, until they’ve downloaded and cached the frames.
And it’s not an action you can keep looping… you don’t want the cup jumping back onto its handle.
I guess you’ll just have to add a little animation to a some of the earlier frames. 😉
The coffee trail, as the mug falls is amazing! The final splash is likewise, very realistic. Did you drop a bunch of full mugs to get the effect so perfect?
Feel better soon. My wife and I dodged Covid while everyone around us got it. But then we got the flu and were as sick as any of them. We’d had the flu and Covid shots.
Wow, he completely left out the pressure from the sales team to low-ball the quote. That’s a common tool for bidding on large projects. You know there will be change requests, so you bid below cost and take advantage of change requests as excuses to increase the budget (even they have no real impact on costs). The pressure to low-ball exists whether you’re the contractor trying to win the job, or the politician trying to win public support.
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This little one looks like the blonde twin of Max! Too cute!!!
My first thought when I saw it.
Side by side, or I guess one over the other, Maxie is cuter.
Aw…thanks! I think so, too…but then again, I’m biased. I sure miss that little guy…
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My nephew, very small at about 4 years old, begged for canned spinach because he believed in Popeye cartoons.
He hated it, but he made himself eat it, out of faith.
…
Unfortunately, it didn’t make him strong enough to stop the neighborhood bully.
That took parental intervention.
He was philosophical about it.
One day he explained it… obviously in his mother’s words, but wise-sounding from a four year old.
“You know, Aunt Susan, there are a lot of people in the world.
Some of them are going to like you, and (little shrug) some of them are not. And they might eat spinach too.”
I’ve repeated that wisdom for years.
Vladimir Lievski
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Yes. I’m pretty sure it’s a man and a woman.
Looks like they are about to kiss.
Now i see it. Thanks!
once i see it, i can’t ‘un-see’ it.
The black line divides the faces.
The red dot is the tip of the man’s nose.
The blue dot is the right corner of her mouth.
The green dot is the left corner of the man’s mouth.
If I am seeing this correctly, it is really just one face with a woman and man each making up one side, I have seen better examples.
Um…
I see that Alexi has posted an enlargement.
It took me a while to see what others mentioned, and before I looked at the “secret boxes”…
As Arte Johnson would say… “Verdy Inter-estink”…
The of the mask is on a layer, whether a photographic layer, or a physical cutout, or a premade “frame” in some programs, that has a transparent area, through which you can see and adjust the photograph used to fill it.
Thus the edges of the photo of the couple are “masked” by the frame, which happens to be an image of a mask.
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Those are real snakes, not pastry.
This has been around for about 5 years now.
When I first saw the top of the picture, I thought they were some kind of frosted doughnut……. then I saw the eyes. YUCK!!!
Same here!
Though it was the skin texture that got me.
The white parts look so much like doughnut glaze…
But I didn’t think you could press that scale pattern into a doughnut.
Ew!
My words exactly!
Well, I still think those snakes might be cakes. I posted a snake cake quite a few years ago on Ballard St. (in those glory days gone by when we could post pictures) that everybody thought was a real snake. Then, I posted a second photo where the very same “snake” had been cut into, showing it was a cake. It’s amazing how some professional (or at least, very gifted amateur) bakers can create such realistic creatures!!
I tried looking for those original pictures that I had posted so long ago but to no avail. I did, however, find a whole page of snake cakes, 3 of which I’m posting now:
WOW!!
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Colossus of Rhodes?
or
Don’t look up!
Cover your eyes, Mabel!
Thanks for that laugh!!
Will the real Colossus of Rhodes please stand up!
Well, sorry, but he’s kind of indisposed.
What amuses me when people argue over the details of this ancient sculpture… its height, oriention, whether or not it straddled the entrance to the harbor… even its location on the island…
Is that nobody knows!
I don’t know, historians don’t know, and no matter who you are and what you’ve read, YOU don’t know.
…
The only thing anybody KNOWS is that there was a huge statue, representing the Greek sun God Helios, built on the Island of Rhodes, almost 300 years BC.
According to contemporaneous reports it was hollow, the outside covered in bronze plates riveted together.
An earthquake felled it not much more than a decade later, but not before its reputation spread in the ancient world.
…
According to writers and travelers it lay in pieces for eight or nine hundred years before being completely destroyed…
Some say the pieces were sold for the scrap metal, others say they had already been stolen.
If you pick a dozen ancient scholars and historians, none tell the same tale.
…
Some report sailing between the legs, others that it stood on a high predestal…
The latter is what modern scholars believe, because they don’t think the engineering of the time could have held it with legs on either side of the harbor mouth.
Many don’t believe it was in the harbor at all, but rather up a hill overlooking it, in the Acropolis of Rhodes.
It was nonetheless known to all, and accepted, as one of the seven wonders of the world.
Just pick a picture and a story you like.
I forgot to say that contemporaries of the sculptor reported that as he worked, from bottom to top, he filled each new section with rocks to weight it.
Otherwise it wouldn’t have stood long…
Not that it did, compared the the three millennia plus since it fell.
But for almost 1000 of those years, it was still very famous… many people traveled to Rhodes, to visit the broken pieces lying on the ground, and argue over where it used to be.
I heard this Walker Bros. song (“After the lights go out”) on a HBO commercial for the 4th season on “Barry” that’s coming up in a few weeks. I liked it immediately. They’re the same group who did “The Sun ain’t gonna shine anymore”.
…
What happened to the super-glue comic?
For some reason, we couldn’t get the animated part of it to work on WP. In trying to get it to work, it created a big problem with saving the rest of the page. Finally, NH was able to delete the “super glue” strip and substitute it with the one above.
Every so often, WP gets cranky!
lessee if it will work in the comments
there it goes….before we figured out how to create animations that were confined to a single panel, we experimented with attempting to time the animation with the amount it
time it took to read word balloons leading up to movement of the character …..not realizing the widely varied reading speeds of folks made
the timing of the gag inconsistent, to say the least
It’s still funny!
my feelings egg-lack-tally!
Thanks ! !
StelBel’s observation:
“Every so often, WP gets cranky!”
Is unfortunately true.
Fortunately, on the other hand, the animation is now working for me as it is for you and Tigressy.
Yeah… It’s still funny!
But back then, I missed the animation, and the joke, at first, because I read too quickly to the end, and nothing happened.
A moment later, I caught it falling, out of the corner of my eye, and had to go back and try again.
….
The delay is longer at first, besides, because on most computers gifs are slower the first time or two, until they’ve downloaded and cached the frames.
And it’s not an action you can keep looping… you don’t want the cup jumping back onto its handle.
I guess you’ll just have to add a little animation to a some of the earlier frames. 😉
The coffee trail, as the mug falls is amazing! The final splash is likewise, very realistic. Did you drop a bunch of full mugs to get the effect so perfect?
Sometimes I just get lucky
Yayyy!!! It works!! I wish I knew why it works in the comment section and not in the feature section, as I’ve run into the same problem on occasion…..
It’s like science fiction.
There’s the “other dimension mystery”: some animations, especially glitter, only work in smaller dimensions.
Along with the animated avatar enigma.
I had my first Covid test today.
It came out negative. I’m just normal sick.
Good night.
Feel better soon. My wife and I dodged Covid while everyone around us got it. But then we got the flu and were as sick as any of them. We’d had the flu and Covid shots.
Wow, he completely left out the pressure from the sales team to low-ball the quote. That’s a common tool for bidding on large projects. You know there will be change requests, so you bid below cost and take advantage of change requests as excuses to increase the budget (even they have no real impact on costs). The pressure to low-ball exists whether you’re the contractor trying to win the job, or the politician trying to win public support.
Drugstore clerk: “Spring this way, sir…”
Customer: “If I could spring that way, I wouldn’t need the Vaseline!”
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Yeah yeah… I know it doesn’t quite work.
It just reminded me of that ancient joke.
well, i liked both comics today! cleo was funny in both of them.
now, the Rawhide video always wakes me up! ear worm for today?
Still very ill. I slept most of the day.
Hang in there, Happy! Hope you start feeling better real soon!!!