Cling-on cats. Yup. Ex-wife had a couple of feral kittens she rescued. They’d hide in the doorways and jump out and climb my legs when I walked by. I do not miss those cats.
These girls look 20-something-ish… I’m thinking it’s probably Saturday afternoon.
They’re off work… the scarves were sometimes covering pincurls, setting their hair for their Saturday night dates.
I was a kid, wide-eyed with admiration for my teenage cousin, who imitated this look, but with saddle shoes and bobby sox.
I didn’t get to see her much… we lived in Ohio, my aunt and uncle in Illinois…. but when we stayed there, I got to share her bedroom, full of lipstick and perfume and embroidered pillows…
And I could gawk at her older brother, who had a motorcycle.
When we got home I tried to roll my dungarees like that, till my parents said no.
According to Google, this is the entrance to world famous Tivoli Gardens, in Copenhagen, viewed in 1900 and in 2018.
Tivoli Gardens combines an amusement park with regular park features, gardens, restaurants and shops.
I believe I’ve said that my parents dropped me, and my sister and brother, at summer camp in Denmark for a couple of weeks one summer, when we were stationed in Libya.
We went to Tivoli one day during our stay… Not together, cos we were separated by age, and they each went with their own camp mates.
I don’t remember much about it, except we were shepherded through gardens, didn’t go on rides, and had no money to buy things… But it was pretty.
I was in Copenhagen a couple of times as a little kid in the early 60’s. It was one of everybody in our family’s favorite places to travel, and Tivoli Gardens was the highlight of every trip. Rides, plus carnival entertainment, plus gorgeous gardens. I remember one guy did a balancing act on top of a very long pole that swayed back and forth – a lot. He was marvelous.
in the early 1960s, accompanied by their first son and
her daughter…
who must be Jane Marie Mansfield, from her first marriage, and not their (later famous actress) daughter, Mariska Hagarty, who wasn’t born till they had divorced.
From yesterday.
Thanks for remembering I asked that question.
Those sea spiders are interesting creatures.
I didn’t hear anything in the video about its size other than 40 cms. so I went to Wikipedia where the article says they range in size from 1 mm to 70 cms.
I don’t know if all species have the same number of legs, but unlike its land counterparts the one in the video has only 7 legs.
From the credits, this one was somewhere in the Marshall Islands which are roughly east of the Philippines and north of New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean.
So, it’s been a bit of a week! (What do you mean it’s only Wednesday….)
On Monday, I started to configure the two replacement Win11 PC’s for a neighbour to replace Win10 machines because M$ decided that perfectly good PC’s should become landfill because they’d decided to kill off Win10. These are refurbished Dell Optiplex business machines, and will be ideal for what they need them for.
All was going well until I noticed that the PC’s only had 256Gb drives in them, and the ones I’d ordered should have come with 1Tb drives.
I contacted the company I’d bought them from, and after a bit of discussion they said they’d send me out replacement drives, but could I confirm the SKU number on the label on the machines.
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They’d sent me the wrong PC’s…….
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They then said they’d send me replacements, and the courier would collect the returns. So, today around lunchtime, I, and a courier, played ‘swapsies’ with two parcels, and I now have, what look like, the correct machines. Just need to sort them out now!
Tuesday morning, without warning, my LH monitor (I run a dual monitor setup) flashed its screen once, and went blank. A bit of testing revealed that the backlight had failed. This was annoying, for two counts. The first being that I was down to one monitor, and the second being the RH monitor had been having its backlight flicker on startup for a short while before stabilising for the last month or so, and I was expecting that monitor to fail at some point. But no, out of left field, the LH (Main) monitor lunches itself.
I then, after a bit of quick research, and asking a few people, ordered two new 2K resolution 27″ monitors. One will arrive today, the other at the end of the month (Supply-chain issues and all that). Not money I had intended to spend this month, but I was going to have to buy new monitors at some point anyhoo.
This morning (Wednesday) my RH monitor backlight failed completely, and took the PSU with it as well…. Crud!
I’m currently running on a spare monitor that I got from a neighbour when he upgraded his screen. It’s a good thing I have spare units!
On an up note, fibre was successfully installed this morning, by a guy who couldn’t believe that his co-worker from two weeks ago, said he couldn’t do it. It took just over an hour, everything got fitted where I wanted it, and I’ve even got my wired phones back up and running.
A silver lining in what has been, a very gloomy week.
Which is why I decided to get someone else to swap my SSD instead of doing it myself. I did regular hard drives before and it was a JOB!
I feel bad for the tech at my local Staples store. First, the SSD I bought was bad. Next, the software from Corporate wouldn’t work and had defects. When that was corrected, he found the adapter cable was broken and a new one wouldn’t be in until the end of the month. I’m still running on 256G right now. I’ll see what happens after Labor Day. Poor guy. He’s good and nothing’s his fault. When it’s all done I’m thinking of doing something extra for him.
I’m guessing a Staple’s gift card might not be a good idea, though.
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TADAAA!!!
{closing credits over Alexander Courage theme music}
Yay! The Starship Kibble continues on its interplanetary voyages!
Cling-on cats! I knew one of those! You can always find one if you’re allergic to cats. They can pick me out of a crowd.
Mr. Spot appears to have lost his spots…. but he doesn’t seem to mind. His brilliant mind is intact.
Hurray for Basset Trek!
My friend who loved the human copycat version said I shouldn’t call the human fans “Trekkies” cos they don’t like it…
Well, I’m a basset version fan, and I’m happy to be a Bassettrekkie!
Cling-on cats. Yup. Ex-wife had a couple of feral kittens she rescued. They’d hide in the doorways and jump out and climb my legs when I walked by. I do not miss those cats.
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These girls look 20-something-ish… I’m thinking it’s probably Saturday afternoon.
They’re off work… the scarves were sometimes covering pincurls, setting their hair for their Saturday night dates.
I was a kid, wide-eyed with admiration for my teenage cousin, who imitated this look, but with saddle shoes and bobby sox.
I didn’t get to see her much… we lived in Ohio, my aunt and uncle in Illinois…. but when we stayed there, I got to share her bedroom, full of lipstick and perfume and embroidered pillows…
And I could gawk at her older brother, who had a motorcycle.
When we got home I tried to roll my dungarees like that, till my parents said no.
,,.
According to Google, this is the entrance to world famous Tivoli Gardens, in Copenhagen, viewed in 1900 and in 2018.
Tivoli Gardens combines an amusement park with regular park features, gardens, restaurants and shops.
I believe I’ve said that my parents dropped me, and my sister and brother, at summer camp in Denmark for a couple of weeks one summer, when we were stationed in Libya.
We went to Tivoli one day during our stay… Not together, cos we were separated by age, and they each went with their own camp mates.
I don’t remember much about it, except we were shepherded through gardens, didn’t go on rides, and had no money to buy things… But it was pretty.
I was in Copenhagen a couple of times as a little kid in the early 60’s. It was one of everybody in our family’s favorite places to travel, and Tivoli Gardens was the highlight of every trip. Rides, plus carnival entertainment, plus gorgeous gardens. I remember one guy did a balancing act on top of a very long pole that swayed back and forth – a lot. He was marvelous.
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Bruce!
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Funny!
Good job on the photo, though.
Reminds me of what I just said about admiring my older cousin… is that Dad back there, or an admired older cousin, who works out?
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And then right after the body builder…
who made it okay for actors to NOT look like body builders…
And for a leading man to be imperfect, and not quite heroic…
to sleep with his girlfriend’s mother, and still get the girl…
The Graduate… here with Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson.
Wow… yes to the first thing
But “abducting”? That means kidnapping…. taking someone by force, usually to extract some ill-gotten gain in return, like money.
(If you’ve never seen the movie, though I hope you have… don’t watch this 3 minute video. It contains a big spoiler)
I wrote that with tongue in cheek.
And in the opinion of the other guests – who knows?
Jesus loves you more than you will know
Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪♫
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Well, so much for housework.
Those games are so much fun to the kids. I would bet that those are the best moments of parenting.
The kids will remember the tumbling, but not whether the floor got vacuumed.
Great workout!
Best workouts are the fun ones.
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Graceful, athletic, and artistic. Similar to ballet.
As well as talent and limberness, you have to have really long, skinny limbs to leave all that open space in this pose.
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Got ’em!
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You might recognize
in the early 1960s, accompanied by their first son and
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As I said…
a candid shot of me preparing my daily meal
Lucky blighter. You can afford a meal?
We had to try to subsist on rubbish that we pulled out of the dustbin.
“You had a dustbin?”
“You were lucky!”
Yeah but Nighthawks is a world famous cartoonist, with a successful comic strip that gets nearly 100 comments a day!
Last year he made over $0,000,000,000!
That’ll buy a whole LOT of nothing!
well, we do get a lot of comments..
mostlyfromme
Pee on the electric fence they said, It’s not switched on they said….
Good times.
A bad hair day by anyone’s definition!
From yesterday.
Thanks for remembering I asked that question.
Those sea spiders are interesting creatures.
I didn’t hear anything in the video about its size other than 40 cms. so I went to Wikipedia where the article says they range in size from 1 mm to 70 cms.
I don’t know if all species have the same number of legs, but unlike its land counterparts the one in the video has only 7 legs.
From the credits, this one was somewhere in the Marshall Islands which are roughly east of the Philippines and north of New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean.
This is good.
So, it’s been a bit of a week! (What do you mean it’s only Wednesday….)
On Monday, I started to configure the two replacement Win11 PC’s for a neighbour to replace Win10 machines because M$ decided that perfectly good PC’s should become landfill because they’d decided to kill off Win10. These are refurbished Dell Optiplex business machines, and will be ideal for what they need them for.
All was going well until I noticed that the PC’s only had 256Gb drives in them, and the ones I’d ordered should have come with 1Tb drives.
I contacted the company I’d bought them from, and after a bit of discussion they said they’d send me out replacement drives, but could I confirm the SKU number on the label on the machines.
.
.
.
They’d sent me the wrong PC’s…….
.
.
.
They then said they’d send me replacements, and the courier would collect the returns. So, today around lunchtime, I, and a courier, played ‘swapsies’ with two parcels, and I now have, what look like, the correct machines. Just need to sort them out now!
Tuesday morning, without warning, my LH monitor (I run a dual monitor setup) flashed its screen once, and went blank. A bit of testing revealed that the backlight had failed. This was annoying, for two counts. The first being that I was down to one monitor, and the second being the RH monitor had been having its backlight flicker on startup for a short while before stabilising for the last month or so, and I was expecting that monitor to fail at some point. But no, out of left field, the LH (Main) monitor lunches itself.
I then, after a bit of quick research, and asking a few people, ordered two new 2K resolution 27″ monitors. One will arrive today, the other at the end of the month (Supply-chain issues and all that). Not money I had intended to spend this month, but I was going to have to buy new monitors at some point anyhoo.
This morning (Wednesday) my RH monitor backlight failed completely, and took the PSU with it as well…. Crud!
I’m currently running on a spare monitor that I got from a neighbour when he upgraded his screen. It’s a good thing I have spare units!
On an up note, fibre was successfully installed this morning, by a guy who couldn’t believe that his co-worker from two weeks ago, said he couldn’t do it. It took just over an hour, everything got fitted where I wanted it, and I’ve even got my wired phones back up and running.
A silver lining in what has been, a very gloomy week.
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Have a bunny.
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BUNNY!
Which is why I decided to get someone else to swap my SSD instead of doing it myself. I did regular hard drives before and it was a JOB!
I feel bad for the tech at my local Staples store. First, the SSD I bought was bad. Next, the software from Corporate wouldn’t work and had defects. When that was corrected, he found the adapter cable was broken and a new one wouldn’t be in until the end of the month. I’m still running on 256G right now. I’ll see what happens after Labor Day. Poor guy. He’s good and nothing’s his fault. When it’s all done I’m thinking of doing something extra for him.
I’m guessing a Staple’s gift card might not be a good idea, though.
Get him a gift card from Office Depot ;)