I’m with you, Susan. The lighting seems a little off and the sway in the lower part of the pole doesn’t look normal. I think a cat on a fence post has been overlaid on the view from a highway overlook. The other suspicious part is the photographer’s angle on the scene.
Our shelves are higher than the visible part of that pole; about 7 foot. No problem for our cat… and she’ll turn 17 soon. Especially if she’d jump to the higher surface where the photographer seems to has taken the picture from… or my bed. Harumph.
I’m guessing the bottom of the pole is on the ground where that fence is…. Maybe 50 feet down.
It’s true that the bottom could be on a higher level that we can’t see… nearer the tops of those trees.
Pictures have been known to fool people.. even me.
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Even so, I’d think jumping to and from shelves with a flat landing surface and room to turn around is quite different from landing on the top of a pole barely wide enough to sit on.
I didn’t say I knew the answer; I said it was my guess.
I’d love to see a larger part of the picture…
The cat has climbed up there for sure. And it does look quite relaxed to me. Which means it knows how to get down from there safely. Or be got down.
Or it is really, really stupid…
Harumph: Nothing more sure to wake you than a cat landing on your bed from that altitude…
Definitely Photoshop.
Cats can get into some very odd spots, but none of them would shut their eyes (or lift a paw) in a place like that.
Also, there’s a bit of an “aura” around the cat’s head where the pixels from the two photographs didn’t quite mesh properly.
The caption below comes from HERE. There are other pictures of very narrow houses there as well (Cary Grant lived in one of them in New York City).
“Kleine Trippenhuis, Amsterdam
The eight-foot-wide 1696 building is located across the street from the Trippenhuis mansion, the former residence
of the Trip family, which now houses the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science. Legend has it that upon
seeing the size of his employerβs home, the familyβs coachman remarked that he would be happy with a house as
wide as their front door, which is what he received. Given that the home was built after the deaths of the Trip
brothers, thereβs little truth to the lore.”
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Wow!
Four to nine grams of bird.
Black Throated Bushtit.
Tiny!
28 grams is one ounce…
3 to 7 birds per ounce.
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Yet they’re about 4″ long.
I think that includes the tail, though, and birds are very light.
These little guys are about the size of marshmallows, plus their heads and tail feathers.
That’s what I’d call one determined little face.
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Go in silly kitty. It’s cold out!
One has to wonder how he got up there. And why.
…cat.
I hate to be cynical, but for now, my money’s on Photoshop.
I’ve known too many cats who wouldn’t back down even a much smaller vertical perch…. in fact they have an intense dislike of going backwards at all.
That’s why the stories of firemen rescuing cats.
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And if they can’t turn around, and do keep going upwards, they’re panicking and wailing by 8 feet off the ground.
A 60 foot pole overlooking a 300(?) foot drop?
I just don’t believe it.
The pole isn’t that high. I’ve seen a cat just run down a tree from a higher altitude than that – when I just had adjusted a ladder, of course.
i think a tree would be easier to run down. my $$ is on photo shop.
I’m with you, Susan. The lighting seems a little off and the sway in the lower part of the pole doesn’t look normal. I think a cat on a fence post has been overlaid on the view from a highway overlook. The other suspicious part is the photographer’s angle on the scene.
The light it so much strongrr on the left side of the pole than on the cat’s fur, it could even be that the whole cat is ‘shopped in…
Not saying it is… I’m not expert enough. Just could be.
Unless that’s snow blown onto the pole, not light…
But that would have been some storm, to coat it so evenly, and perfectly sideways….
And it woud be unlikely to be undisturbed from the cat’s ascent.
Our shelves are higher than the visible part of that pole; about 7 foot. No problem for our cat… and she’ll turn 17 soon. Especially if she’d jump to the higher surface where the photographer seems to has taken the picture from… or my bed. Harumph.
I’m guessing the bottom of the pole is on the ground where that fence is…. Maybe 50 feet down.
It’s true that the bottom could be on a higher level that we can’t see… nearer the tops of those trees.
Pictures have been known to fool people.. even me.
…
Even so, I’d think jumping to and from shelves with a flat landing surface and room to turn around is quite different from landing on the top of a pole barely wide enough to sit on.
I didn’t say I knew the answer; I said it was my guess.
You’re welcome to yours.
Why the harumphing?
I’d love to see a larger part of the picture…
The cat has climbed up there for sure. And it does look quite relaxed to me. Which means it knows how to get down from there safely. Or be got down.
Or it is really, really stupid…
Harumph: Nothing more sure to wake you than a cat landing on your bed from that altitude…
How could that picture have been taken without a drone?
Higher surface.
Or Photoshop π
Definitely Photoshop.
Cats can get into some very odd spots, but none of them would shut their eyes (or lift a paw) in a place like that.
Also, there’s a bit of an “aura” around the cat’s head where the pixels from the two photographs didn’t quite mesh properly.
I don’t see an aura.
And as I said…
I think it’s Photoshop as well, but the aura is likely just Jpeg compression. I see it along the road as well.
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In translation: “Jellyfish” By: Dom Dom (Vietnamese illustrator)
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Did the artist see the movie?
good point, Hap. maybe he just read the Wells book. this is a shot from the movie that the poster is advertising:
eeek! i still can’t watch it!
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The caption below comes from HERE. There are other pictures of very narrow houses there as well (Cary Grant lived in one of them in New York City).
“Kleine Trippenhuis, Amsterdam
The eight-foot-wide 1696 building is located across the street from the Trippenhuis mansion, the former residence
of the Trip family, which now houses the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science. Legend has it that upon
seeing the size of his employerβs home, the familyβs coachman remarked that he would be happy with a house as
wide as their front door, which is what he received. Given that the home was built after the deaths of the Trip
brothers, thereβs little truth to the lore.”
Do you use a ladder to get between floors?
Probably.
perhaps a spiral staircase?
I think I have found all ten (Yippee!) But I’ll await Susan Sunshine’s template to confirm.
!!!
Good evening sophisticated Cleoites and puzzle people…
accustomed as we are becoming to our Saturday forays into Central Park, to solve the mysteries of our weekly puzzle
Here we are, yet again, via another of StelBel’s New Yorker cover alterations.
Find a mere ten of them, and you’ll be a seasoned puzzler… well OK, yes, you’re all seasoned puzzlers already….
How about… Find as many as you can… And you’ll be….
I got 9 easily. Knew where the one I missed must be, but didn’t spend a lot of time searching for it.
Same here.
i got 8 easily, ran out of time.
I got eight easier than I expected. Nine was tough. As for # ten, it’s back to kindergarten for me..
Ballard Street?
I wanted to post this on yesterday, but got distracted till too late.
The pictures are very tiny cos I didn’t find a way to enlarge them using what I have on my tablet…
But they’re the size we originally saw them anyway, so I hope this works.
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This is for anybody who couldn’t see the mail truck in that puzzle…
StelBel already showed its location.
Here is the area in which she blacked out the shape of the truck, or perhaps found it already blacked out in the online solution.
I said look at it sideways but that didn’t work for some of you.
So I rotated it and colored a wheels yellow and the truck vaguely blue just to make it more apparent.
In reality those mail trucks are white but otherwise do look just like this:
See the truck?
BTW maybe you can see in the top image that the wheels were two of the clock faces on a little building I thought was suspiciously covered in clocks.
That’s how I found the truck once I gave up looking for one that was actually part of the picture, and started looking for a hidden object.
I was pouncing on things that looked like they could be the wheels of the hidden truck, even at the “wrong” angle… And they were!
That’s how I found it. I noticed the building next to it was oddly shaped outside of the normal variation of the rest of the picture.
isn’t this amazing how we can find these things at ALL?
thanks, susan.
shrimp scampi
It’s not scampi, but it still sounds good.
mmmmm … mmmmm … good!
thanks for dinner tonight, NH !
Wait… Is Nighthawks making dinner?
I’m coming too!!
clever!
from Ripley’s this morning:
ο»Ώhttps://cornelldailysun.github.io/pumpkin-feature/
The cat did it.
A picture link to an NPR 2017 article with more on the story.
That was crewel ! Nine of ten, I believe that’s an A- .
I got 90% too.
I found nine last night. I found the tenth one a short while ago.
Yeah. I’m bragging.
Tsk tsk.
π
Published answer 189
A + B + C + D = 243 (given)
A β 8 = B + 8 = C/8 = D Γ 8 (given)
So:
A β 8 = B + 8
β΄ A β 16 = B
A β 8 = C/8
β΄ 8A- 64 = C
A β 8 = D Γ 8
β΄ (A β 8 )/8 = D
So:
A + ( A β 16 ) + ( 8A β 64 ) + ( A β 8 )/8 = 243
Simplifying:
8A + 8A β 128 + 64A β 512 + A β 8 = 1944
81A β 648 = 1944
81A = 2592
A = 32
β΄ B = 32 β 16
B = 16
β΄ C = 8 Γ 32 β 64
C = 192
β΄ D = (32 β 8 )/8
D = 3
32 + 16 + 192 + 3 β 243 (yes)
Required answer is the difference between the largest and smallest numbers:
192 β 3 = 189a
β΄ 189 is the answer