I thought it looked like a baby whale, bit not quite enough to be one.
It’s actually an Irrawaddy dolphin, in Myanmar, and looks more dolphin-like if you can see its long body.
They help the local fishermen by herding fish into their nets, and eat the that get trapped underneath or fall out.
But they’re being killed by illegal gill-net and electric shock fishing, and are now endangered…. Programs are in place to try to save them, partly by finding and destroying gill nets and other banned gear.
Yeah…I would have loved that storage box. Or really, a couple of dozen of them…back in the day.
After a dozen years of working in the manufacturing facility where I was hired, I was moved to the office to work with the computers, spending nearly another thirty years there. When I retired, they had a plaque made with a floppy disk on it 🙂
I put it on the wall next to the previous plaque for being there the first 25 years. (I got a watch too.)
It’s not even just that they’re old and outmoded… but also remembering that it took a whole set of them to install a program… often one that’s much more full-featured today, and you can download the new version in minutes.
Plus you often had to swap disks to run them… “Please insert side B of Disk 6…”
I bought a couple of old programs at a computer show… remember those?… that were on “modern” 3¼” floppies, but they were original single-sided single-density ones. I can’t remember exactly but something like 330Kb each… You spent more time changing disks than anything else.
My SIL had a digital camera that stored the pictures on a newer floppy… great idea cos they were already on disk when you wanted to load them into the computer. Only problem is both sides of a high density disk only equals 1Mb.
Remember You Must No. 46, 2023
By Seattle-based art photographer Aaron Leitz
Part of a series based on a 17th century Dutch genre of still life painting called vanitas, that incorporated mementos of earthly pleasures, along with symbols of mortality and death, supposed to remind people to focus on the spiritual.
They are! Along with other 1970′-80s toys… Leitz did a whole series, incorporating past joys and symbolic mementos… in this one it’s childhood pleasures… often mixed with symbolism of death, like skulls…
Supposedly as a reminder that life is brief and memories fade… or some such.
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
2 months ago
Poor Cleo looks, to me, vaguely traumatized. I wonder if she’s eaten at that diner previously.
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
2 months ago
X-1, though I will say I think the tire in the left image looks like a Goodyear, and the one on the right like a Bridgestone.
Claude and Clara and Cleo are walking past probably the least reputable looking diner in Cleveland. But you know, sometimes places that look like that have wonderful food.
Unfortunately, most of us, including the Cliffords, will never find out, since we know that sometimes places that look like that have not-so-wonderful norovirus and salmonella…. and we walk on by.
This place is making some changes, though. I’m not sure it’ll help, cos they’re all exterior.
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Not a thumb, pup. 😀
Close enough! Sure is a cutie-pie…
He has probably been dunking that ear in gravy.
I’m not getting the 2nd photo.
Re-read the comments above the first photo – the white pieces reflect available light so people can have better ability to follow the road.
Or he didn’t get the 2nd photo,
Even more remarkable — the Romans built carts with standardize wheelbases?
That scene looks a lot like Quebec City with a view of the St.Laurence river in the background.
Right country!
Shoot…. got distracted and forgot to post this….
It’s by Canadian painter Mark Grantham (b 1966)
“The Music of Winter”
Falkland St, Halifax NS, 2015
♫♪”I believe I can fly…”♫♪
First star to the right, and straight on ’til morning.
LOL!
For those that remember…
Sure outdoes the Fosbury flop…
Basketball players could teach the high-jumpers a few new tricks!
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Go on, try to tell me he didn’t chase his sister with that drone. Bwa ha ha ha!
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Don’t know who the dude on the left is.
Good eyes, you guys… You’re both right.
I can only say that cos I did an image search.
Seger’s hair is short (and not black anymore <grin>) but he still has that wide open smile.
Got ’em both! Woo Hoo!
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A little warmer than yesterday’s photos…
That’s an incendiary photograph.
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Eventually they’ll be putting little M’s on the cells.
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I was going to say “porpoise” but apparently they’re calling it a dolphin this week…
They’re doing it on porpoise just to mess with you.
Or just for the halibut…
I would have thought porpoise as well, but I’d be wrong.
I thought it looked like a baby whale, bit not quite enough to be one.
It’s actually an Irrawaddy dolphin, in Myanmar, and looks more dolphin-like if you can see its long body.
They help the local fishermen by herding fish into their nets, and eat the that get trapped underneath or fall out.
But they’re being killed by illegal gill-net and electric shock fishing, and are now endangered…. Programs are in place to try to save them, partly by finding and destroying gill nets and other banned gear.
Go dolphins!
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What re those things? /s
I see something called “Lotus”. Maybe it has something to do with flowers.
🙂
Yeah…I would have loved that storage box. Or really, a couple of dozen of them…back in the day.
After a dozen years of working in the manufacturing facility where I was hired, I was moved to the office to work with the computers, spending nearly another thirty years there. When I retired, they had a plaque made with a floppy disk on it 🙂
I put it on the wall next to the previous plaque for being there the first 25 years. (I got a watch too.)
It’s not even just that they’re old and outmoded… but also remembering that it took a whole set of them to install a program… often one that’s much more full-featured today, and you can download the new version in minutes.
Plus you often had to swap disks to run them… “Please insert side B of Disk 6…”
I bought a couple of old programs at a computer show… remember those?… that were on “modern” 3¼” floppies, but they were original single-sided single-density ones. I can’t remember exactly but something like 330Kb each… You spent more time changing disks than anything else.
My SIL had a digital camera that stored the pictures on a newer floppy… great idea cos they were already on disk when you wanted to load them into the computer. Only problem is both sides of a high density disk only equals 1Mb.
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Find the hallucinogens
Remember You Must No. 46, 2023
By Seattle-based art photographer Aaron Leitz
Part of a series based on a 17th century Dutch genre of still life painting called vanitas, that incorporated mementos of earthly pleasures, along with symbols of mortality and death, supposed to remind people to focus on the spiritual.
curiously, those appear to be View-Masterâ„¢ disks on the bottom
They are! Along with other 1970′-80s toys… Leitz did a whole series, incorporating past joys and symbolic mementos… in this one it’s childhood pleasures… often mixed with symbolism of death, like skulls…
Supposedly as a reminder that life is brief and memories fade… or some such.
Poor Cleo looks, to me, vaguely traumatized. I wonder if she’s eaten at that diner previously.
X-1, though I will say I think the tire in the left image looks like a Goodyear, and the one on the right like a Bridgestone.
Rotifer? Is that you?
Here I am! Here I am!
Claude and Clara and Cleo are walking past probably the least reputable looking diner in Cleveland. But you know, sometimes places that look like that have wonderful food.
Unfortunately, most of us, including the Cliffords, will never find out, since we know that sometimes places that look like that have not-so-wonderful norovirus and salmonella…. and we walk on by.
This place is making some changes, though. I’m not sure it’ll help, cos they’re all exterior.
Did you find all nine?
Eight again….
Location. Both the sidewalk line and the manhole cover were moved, making it harder to notice. Use Cleo’s ear as a reference.
Ooooo…tricky…
YAY! I got all nine.
Seven here…
Six on my phone.
The interior of the Livraria Lello, a bookstore in Porto, Portugal.
Top Cat, for Caturday.
Young male Rose-breasted Grosbeak.
There are some powerful machines out there.
A good operator is worth every penny of their pay.