Hard to believe the top picture is 1965… It looks way older, but I think that’s because it’s in England, where workmen still wore caps.
Anyway, it looks like the same building, below.
In 1964 I was taken to see some computers in a chilly basement lab at UC Berkeley…. each as big as a couple of refrigerators, and towering over me.
In 1979, my programming pocket calculator had more memory.
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Speaking of computers, I’m still using a tablet to comment.
They’ve come a long way… . but now I have to contend with autocorrect thinking it knows more than I do, and constantly “re-correct” it, back to what I meant.
Sometimes it’s ok, or close… but when I wrote “Looks like the same building” my autocorrect substituted
My grandfather preferred Hudsons. Fixed a spun bearing with bacon rind one time. Brought a family back from Oklahoma to California in the Depression one time, supposedly without ever stopping sleep. He’s the same guy who said, “I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll tell a story a hundred ways to keep from lying.”
More interesting stuff on filming and animation: Watching a documentary on Max Fleischer and Betty Boop, I came across his patent on rotoscoping. It’s a technique that is being used even now and has developed into more computer generated imaging. He especially used it to image Cab Calloway, whose dance moves were more fluid than most cartoon characters animation at the time.
Hey, you have to give Cleo SOME credit… she correctly read and repeated some fairly complicated words off those balloons.
I read posts on the comics, and especially on YouTube, where people can’t spell words, even characters’ names, that are written right on the page where they’re commenting.
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That’s a campaign photo if I’ve ever seen one.
NOSE!
(with a big smile on my face!)
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amazing!
Hard to believe the top picture is 1965… It looks way older, but I think that’s because it’s in England, where workmen still wore caps.
Anyway, it looks like the same building, below.
In 1964 I was taken to see some computers in a chilly basement lab at UC Berkeley…. each as big as a couple of refrigerators, and towering over me.
In 1979, my programming pocket calculator had more memory.
…..
Speaking of computers, I’m still using a tablet to comment.
They’ve come a long way… . but now I have to contend with autocorrect thinking it knows more than I do, and constantly “re-correct” it, back to what I meant.
Sometimes it’s ok, or close… but when I wrote “Looks like the same building” my autocorrect substituted
“Loud like the dead bulldog.”
You can’t be too careful. Those dead bulldogs can be deafening.
Well, at least their bark is usually worse than their bite.
If they’re bitin’, I’m outta there!
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Shipboard?
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My grandfather preferred Hudsons. Fixed a spun bearing with bacon rind one time. Brought a family back from Oklahoma to California in the Depression one time, supposedly without ever stopping sleep. He’s the same guy who said, “I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll tell a story a hundred ways to keep from lying.”
A Hudson was my dad’s favorite car, also.
Some friends I used to see in the 1980s had a 1950 Hudson… gorgeous car. About the same color as this one.
He was a mechanic, and spent years restoring it on a limited budget.
She pretty much wasn’t allowed to drive it, not that I think she wanted to.
We kind of lost touch after they had a baby, in the early 90s.
I’ve wondered whether the kid ever drove it… with or without permission.
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Break the wall leading to the picture from outside.
or, break the window?
The painting isn’t worth much after being jaggedly sawn from its stretcher and frame with whichever dull knife he chose.
And he certainly couldn’t use the dim lightbulb that lit in his pea-brain to give him this plan.
BTW I wonder what they’re calling a fanlight… It usually means a semi-circular transom window over a door.
NOSE!!
Hi!
More interesting stuff on filming and animation: Watching a documentary on Max Fleischer and Betty Boop, I came across his patent on rotoscoping. It’s a technique that is being used even now and has developed into more computer generated imaging. He especially used it to image Cab Calloway, whose dance moves were more fluid than most cartoon characters animation at the time.
Enjoy this later example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=250MMq0fTrU&ab_channel=JuanjodeGoya
Here’s the info on rotoscoping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
reading the word balloons. whatever will cleo think of next?
clever girl!
raspberry cake
Hey, you have to give Cleo SOME credit… she correctly read and repeated some fairly complicated words off those balloons.
I read posts on the comics, and especially on YouTube, where people can’t spell words, even characters’ names, that are written right on the page where they’re commenting.
Tsk tsk, talking about me before I even get here.
LOL…. I don’t recall you having any spelling problems, but if I took any inadvertent potshots at you or any of my Cleo pals, I truly apologise!
I never fault people on inability to spell…
No matter the temptation, I consider spelling and grammar correction on forums quite rude.
A lot of it is typos anyway, and everyone makes them.
But I do laugh (usually only to myself) when people on some strips mutilate the title character’s name.
(or it’s medical like my problems) 🙂