Wow… I’ve never seen another city that looks like this.
I’ve read that Barcelona is famous for being planned, not just once, but several times in its history, with builders and architects being required to follow the designated streets and areas for things like shops and parks.
An early urban planner became famous – not that I know his name – in the 19th century for laying out those square blocks, where every corner is rounded, or at least angled, to create wide diamond-shaped intersections…. but I’ve never seen an aerial view.
I guess i imagined more green, but Spain is very hot… And I didn’t visualize the impact of all the red tile roofs. It’s kind of amazing.
I got to 20 by the time I got halfway up from the bottom…
And if the image resolution were better, and if I didn’t have to know their actual names, but could just identify a few by the program or role I remember, I think I’d know more than half of them.
I’m not saying that’s a good thing. It might represent a lot of misspent hours.
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BTW a few surprised me… For instance I didn’t expect to see Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and is that really Alfred Hitchcock down front?
I can’t identify any of them, might be something to do with them not being on either the BBC, or ITV, which were the two TV companies here in the UK at the time.
Thanks for the Tom Lehrer information and skit it was a fun listen (I had never heard it before / he always had great timing).
Having been a victim of it (not too strong a word) this has been a favourite of mine since I first heard it.
If you’re a victim of New Math, you must be younger than me.
Though that one wasn’t too bad… there have been a couple of newer New Maths since the one he’s demonstrating. I had to try to learn them back in the days when I was tutoring.
The one where beginning arithmetic was all about set theory was maybe the worst.
Then I went back to tutoring after a decade or three just to help a friend’s kids early in this century… OMG!
I had to take the 7th grader’s book home for a weekend to teach it to myself ahead of him. Expressing Fibonacci numbers in algebra was not something I was expecting to tutor… or even to have to understand.
I’m only an arithmatician, not a mathematician. Yikes.
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That is what I would call a skeptical dog.
Part (or all?) husky, maybe.
Probably all. My parents raised Siberian Huskies for decades. They had exact two that were 100% white with blue eyes, like the one in the photo.
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Woodpeckers!
How much wood would a woodpecker peck if a parrot could peck wood?
Miguel Fretas
It’s a new perspective on “fun.”
It ain’t Toronto!
I found the title… “Path to the Beach” … but no place said where it was.
I did see a similar painting of his… he must be incredibly prolific… where there was a restaurant with signs in Italian.
The bio I read yesterday says he’s done a lot of painting in Europe.
Chances are they’re both scenes in Italy.
It looked old world.
I was thinking more France.
Barcelona
OMG! The Gettysburg Address spelled out in houses!
First glance i thought it was a wall.
Wow… I’ve never seen another city that looks like this.
I’ve read that Barcelona is famous for being planned, not just once, but several times in its history, with builders and architects being required to follow the designated streets and areas for things like shops and parks.
An early urban planner became famous – not that I know his name – in the 19th century for laying out those square blocks, where every corner is rounded, or at least angled, to create wide diamond-shaped intersections…. but I’ve never seen an aerial view.
I guess i imagined more green, but Spain is very hot… And I didn’t visualize the impact of all the red tile roofs. It’s kind of amazing.
I know it’s where Manuel the waiter comes from…
RIP Andrew Sachs…
Didn’t have time to say earlier… he’s the reason I still can’t stand Russell Brand.
Do you know about that scandal?
Actually, there are probably plenty of reasons to dislike Russell Brand but that started it
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What if I recognize at least ten?
Then you’re WAAAAAYYYYY old.
Then I must be WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY old.
I got to 20 by the time I got halfway up from the bottom…
And if the image resolution were better, and if I didn’t have to know their actual names, but could just identify a few by the program or role I remember, I think I’d know more than half of them.
I’m not saying that’s a good thing. It might represent a lot of misspent hours.
….
BTW a few surprised me… For instance I didn’t expect to see Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and is that really Alfred Hitchcock down front?
yes
I can’t identify any if i can’t focus on the faces. Too small tonight.
I can’t identify any of them, might be something to do with them not being on either the BBC, or ITV, which were the two TV companies here in the UK at the time.
They’re not all TV people… They just happened to have (or also have) programming on or associated with CBS.
That still doesn’t mean you’ve necessarily heard of them, or can recognize these teeny, sometimes out of focus pictures.
I found Capton Kangaroo!
Miracle I am alive!!!!
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I can recognize five of these too!
The labels might help😁
Even without the labels!
I had these stamps.
At least he didn’t go head first.
Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!
I guess spraying water on it must have softened it up🙄
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find the A
Where is Fonzie when you need him?
Found the Z first!
Same here.
Me too.
And me.
Yes indeed.
And me.
In fact, my eyes were saying “That’s enough. Somebody else can find the #$&@ A now!”…
but they suddenly saw it before i could quit.
Got it now too.
Dead center…wasn’t too hard. But yeah, got the Z first.
me, too.
Got it. Z found 1st.
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The EWC runs away from home!
I know this guy. He was a professor at my alma mater.
They.
From yesterday.
Thanks for the Tom Lehrer information and skit it was a fun listen (I had never heard it before / he always had great timing).
Having been a victim of it (not too strong a word) this has been a favourite of mine since I first heard it.
If you’re a victim of New Math, you must be younger than me.
Though that one wasn’t too bad… there have been a couple of newer New Maths since the one he’s demonstrating. I had to try to learn them back in the days when I was tutoring.
The one where beginning arithmetic was all about set theory was maybe the worst.
Then I went back to tutoring after a decade or three just to help a friend’s kids early in this century… OMG!
I had to take the 7th grader’s book home for a weekend to teach it to myself ahead of him. Expressing Fibonacci numbers in algebra was not something I was expecting to tutor… or even to have to understand.
I’m only an arithmatician, not a mathematician. Yikes.
This is cute.
Another thing some humans can do (not this one).
That’s at least got to be sped up a whole bunch — probably other enhancements too!
1917, Miles City, Montana.
Love that leather skirt!
Wilson?
From today’s London “Daily Mail” (I’ve read all of the “Modesty Blaise” novels / if you can find them, they’re a fun read / the movie is only so–so).
She needs Peter Pan and Wendy to sew her shadow back on!
Just Wendy.
Peter Pan was useless at sewing.
He was too thimble-minded for that.
Boo! 😀