Aah, but you’re probably in the rich, well-connected 1%. You were telling us not long ago about the woman that you kept trying to teach how to use her computer. Those are the kinds of people that this is teasing.
Why hasn’t anybody ever told me? It sure would have saved a lot of trouble and worry in my life!
1% no less! Now I know why you’re so friendly.
Sorry to disappoint anybody… LOL.
I started out on a 2nd hand commodore… Eventually moving up(?) to a borrowed 8086, if that means anything to you. Then a 386 someone was throwing out… It seemed like magic, though it was probably 10 years old.
When I was tutoring the woman I think you mean, I had probably advanced to the 486 clone I got from the Goodwill store for $40, when everybody else had pentiums.
She had, at first, a computer so old it should have been a door stop… But around the time I got a slightly newer computer that my then boyfriend had rebuilt from old parts (and rebuilt again a few years later) she bought a brand new, if low end, Dell.
I was a bit jealous, I admit… Her computer was years ahead of mine and she didn’t know how to use it.
Why am I saying all this? Because people use the excuse that they can’t afford the latest and bestest as a reason to not use a computer… But you can learn a lot using stuff that was, after all, the latest and bestest at some previous point.
I did eventually buy a wonderful $400-on-sale Acer laptop in 2013, that lasted about 10 years.
Right now I haven’t had a computer in almost 3 years… I’m using an 8″ Android tablet, or sometimes my 2023 Android phone, to do everything I do here.
And BTW… the woman I was tutoring… She crashed her computer, and never was into doing much on it except email anyway.
She lives in a care home now.
She’s always been a little crazy, and an artist, and ornery as hell… but she has no dementia, and still occasionally calls me to ask ridiculous questions about using her phone, to the point that I’ve said “no more!”
But she’s just turned 97 years old… knows a few of those acronyms, tries to use much-too-young slang that she hears on TV, and HATES old people jokes.
Yeah, the old age jokes are getting, well, old. But I confess to being as guilty as the next old(ish) person: I exaggerate how bad it is.
As for computers, I started on TRS-80 systems (Dad worked for Radio Shack). Then the 8088 IBM PC, upgrading to the XT (8086) soon after. I’ve had several dozen since then. But I just bought a used laptop that took my entire tax return. (I still do CAD drawings for former customers when they need something custom.)
But the funniest thing was the “no more!” to the friend calling for help. I had one guy that it was the same thing – constant questions. Thirty years ago my ex-wife told me that he wasn’t allowed to call me at home anymore. So I gave him my work number. When I retired, I didn’t let him know. Just disappeared. (Sorry, not sorry kind of thing.)
I’d say we do have about a 20 year span… And we’ve had a very few younger ones, like my friend Gerard, in his early 30s, but not a lot in between, or at least nobody has mentioned being, say, 40 or 50.
Some cartoonists worry that the market for print cartoons is dwindling with the aging population…. traditionally, their income comes from newspaper syndication.
1/3rd pint, and I got them at school in the early 1970’s. Free school milk was curtailed shortly afterwards, by a certain Tory politician who earned the nickname ‘Milk Snatcher’ (Rhymes with her name), and tells you all you need to know about her.
We’ve had this one before… It’s a planeload of Hollywood stars flying to Washington to protest HUAC .. the House Un-American Activities Committee…and the blacklist.
The nominal leader of the group was Humphrey Bogart, front right.
The woman three steps up, in front of Danny Kaye, was blacklisted because of this trip, and her career ruined, others also had repercussions.
I saved the picture months ago, so my tablet won’t download it to today’s images. To get all the names, I’d have to search for my old copy and Google it again…. which would take till way beyond bedtime.
Not that I had $577 for a TV… It was a lot of money, about a month’s rent for my ex in San Francisco. I know cos we had a store together and I handled the bills.
But in 1978 or 79, our other partner and I went together and bought him a TV for Christmas. We were all good friends, and paired up in twos to find a gift for each of us.
Our limit was $300, and after much searching, we found one for $299. First color TV any of us owned.
They bought me one the next year, and it was a bit easier.
I’ve been picking up vintage home stereo equipment…always loved it. And the Inter-webby-thing seems to be quite helpful in getting information on things – like the ads for these items when they were new. Specs and service manuals too, but those are harder to find for some of the odd stuff. Like one vintage radio – can’t find the correct manufacturer (“store brand”, made for but not by the name on the cabinet) – so I have no idea what tubes to find for it…they’re all long gone.
Oh, right! I give thumbs up for the picture, cos it’s funny, and Nighthawks found it .. he didn’t pack the box.
I got some chocolates on sale after last Christmas, from someplace you wouldn’t expect… I think Albania.
Luckily, I read the label. The boxes looked like a pound but the net weight was like 5 oz or something… And they were 90% off, so maybe 89¢, and I didn’t care.
But they were all directly under a little round cello window in the lid.
Photo information from the Library of Congress, quoted on another website:
“Marching under banners emblazoned “We Want Beer”, and to the tune of 36 bands, more than 1500 union men paraded through Broad Street, Newark, N. J., on October 30th 1931, in spectacular anti-prohibition demonstration.
Over 20 labor unions and 800 musicians took part in the huge demonstration which is said to be one of the largest and most impressive of any staged in the country. The photo shows the head of the line of marchers with their signs.”
Thanks!
Too busy today – preparing stuff for my husband’s birthday party.
Mostly kosher, but I don’t know about the duck. The chicken is halal (from the Turkish shop nearby), calf’s heart isn’t afaik. No dairy.
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Looking rather noble and proud of himself (in a quiet, dignified way).
majestic doofus
I got one of those.
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Beg to differ.
Deliberate placement by guys who should have known better.
Yeah, sorry… unfortunate, yes… But I just don’t believe it was accidental.
Yeah, but ya gotta work with what ya got, eh?
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Sorry, but this kind of stuff makes me crazy!
Pretty sure I’m in the target age range, but I’m online all the time. How old are these people supposed to be?
People my age and older made the first computers, and invented most of these acronyms, at least the ones that actually exist..
I do have to say that LOL did mean “little old lady” before computers… and “lots of love” before that, on envelopes.
Aah, but you’re probably in the rich, well-connected 1%. You were telling us not long ago about the woman that you kept trying to teach how to use her computer. Those are the kinds of people that this is teasing.
Whoa… I’m rich and well connected??
Why hasn’t anybody ever told me? It sure would have saved a lot of trouble and worry in my life!
1% no less! Now I know why you’re so friendly.
Sorry to disappoint anybody… LOL.
I started out on a 2nd hand commodore… Eventually moving up(?) to a borrowed 8086, if that means anything to you. Then a 386 someone was throwing out… It seemed like magic, though it was probably 10 years old.
When I was tutoring the woman I think you mean, I had probably advanced to the 486 clone I got from the Goodwill store for $40, when everybody else had pentiums.
She had, at first, a computer so old it should have been a door stop… But around the time I got a slightly newer computer that my then boyfriend had rebuilt from old parts (and rebuilt again a few years later) she bought a brand new, if low end, Dell.
I was a bit jealous, I admit… Her computer was years ahead of mine and she didn’t know how to use it.
Why am I saying all this? Because people use the excuse that they can’t afford the latest and bestest as a reason to not use a computer… But you can learn a lot using stuff that was, after all, the latest and bestest at some previous point.
I did eventually buy a wonderful $400-on-sale Acer laptop in 2013, that lasted about 10 years.
Right now I haven’t had a computer in almost 3 years… I’m using an 8″ Android tablet, or sometimes my 2023 Android phone, to do everything I do here.
And BTW… the woman I was tutoring… She crashed her computer, and never was into doing much on it except email anyway.
She lives in a care home now.
She’s always been a little crazy, and an artist, and ornery as hell… but she has no dementia, and still occasionally calls me to ask ridiculous questions about using her phone, to the point that I’ve said “no more!”
But she’s just turned 97 years old… knows a few of those acronyms, tries to use much-too-young slang that she hears on TV, and HATES old people jokes.
Yeah, the old age jokes are getting, well, old. But I confess to being as guilty as the next old(ish) person: I exaggerate how bad it is.
As for computers, I started on TRS-80 systems (Dad worked for Radio Shack). Then the 8088 IBM PC, upgrading to the XT (8086) soon after. I’ve had several dozen since then. But I just bought a used laptop that took my entire tax return. (I still do CAD drawings for former customers when they need something custom.)
But the funniest thing was the “no more!” to the friend calling for help. I had one guy that it was the same thing – constant questions. Thirty years ago my ex-wife told me that he wasn’t allowed to call me at home anymore. So I gave him my work number. When I retired, I didn’t let him know. Just disappeared. (Sorry, not sorry kind of thing.)
Very interesting “discussions” here.
And, I guess we are all in a similar demographic for the most part.
I’d say we do have about a 20 year span… And we’ve had a very few younger ones, like my friend Gerard, in his early 30s, but not a lot in between, or at least nobody has mentioned being, say, 40 or 50.
Some cartoonists worry that the market for print cartoons is dwindling with the aging population…. traditionally, their income comes from newspaper syndication.
Edward Hopper
More Hopperesque than yesterday’s, which seemed a departure.
perhaps because yesterday’s painting was a watercolor
Yes… One of the only ones I’ve seen from him.
Unfairly judging from a single example, it seems to make his work look less moody … or maybe he chose watercolor because he felt more light hearted.
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That’s about as attractive as the lamp in “A Christmas Story”.
Gosh!! I think this one is beautiful!
I can’t seem to find any info about it.
It’s on a bunch of Facebook and Instagram pages, sometimes as someone’s profile picture, but no caption.
Just one site said “may be AI modified”.
steampunk lamp
I’d like to have one…
My wife wouldn’t let me…
But I would still like to have that on by nightstand…
then will come—-the accident
You aren’t a “War of the Worlds” fan by any chance?
I wouldn’t say “fan”… I was an HG Wells fan in high school (when we had to read on the cave walls by candlelight.)
That’s probably the only time I read it, in spite of reading The Time Machine and The Invisible Man several times.
I’ve never seen the movie, or movies, if there’s an old one.
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An extreme example of “sh** happens…”
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They werea lot smaller in my school, and I think we had to pay 2¢.
Ours came with graham crackers.
We paid 10 cents a week…
Which is the same 2¢ a day!
We had school on Saturdays, too.
1/3rd pint, and I got them at school in the early 1970’s. Free school milk was curtailed shortly afterwards, by a certain Tory politician who earned the nickname ‘Milk Snatcher’ (Rhymes with her name), and tells you all you need to know about her.
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We’ve had this one before… It’s a planeload of Hollywood stars flying to Washington to protest HUAC .. the House Un-American Activities Committee…and the blacklist.
The nominal leader of the group was Humphrey Bogart, front right.
The woman three steps up, in front of Danny Kaye, was blacklisted because of this trip, and her career ruined, others also had repercussions.
I saved the picture months ago, so my tablet won’t download it to today’s images. To get all the names, I’d have to search for my old copy and Google it again…. which would take till way beyond bedtime.
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That’s $577 including the lovely wood cabinets, guaranteed to fit any home decor.
IIRC, that was really cheap for 1977!
Not that I had $577 for a TV… It was a lot of money, about a month’s rent for my ex in San Francisco. I know cos we had a store together and I handled the bills.
But in 1978 or 79, our other partner and I went together and bought him a TV for Christmas. We were all good friends, and paired up in twos to find a gift for each of us.
Our limit was $300, and after much searching, we found one for $299. First color TV any of us owned.
They bought me one the next year, and it was a bit easier.
I’ve been picking up vintage home stereo equipment…always loved it. And the Inter-webby-thing seems to be quite helpful in getting information on things – like the ads for these items when they were new. Specs and service manuals too, but those are harder to find for some of the odd stuff. Like one vintage radio – can’t find the correct manufacturer (“store brand”, made for but not by the name on the cabinet) – so I have no idea what tubes to find for it…they’re all long gone.
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Thumbs down for the fraudsters who packaged them like that!
Oh, right! I give thumbs up for the picture, cos it’s funny, and Nighthawks found it .. he didn’t pack the box.
I got some chocolates on sale after last Christmas, from someplace you wouldn’t expect… I think Albania.
Luckily, I read the label. The boxes looked like a pound but the net weight was like 5 oz or something… And they were 90% off, so maybe 89¢, and I didn’t care.
But they were all directly under a little round cello window in the lid.
sorry to be difficult, but I DID design and pack that box.
I laughed diabolically while I did it , too.
Oh dear….I just gave you a thumbs up.
Maybe it was supposed to be a thumbs down….
Life is so confusing.
I like em. Looks like the kind of thing I buy on sale at Cost Plus after holidays.
Gesundheit!
Now that’s cold!
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I want one!
Me too!
Slightly resembles Bill the Cat.
I’d look like that too if I had to watch lunch go around and around and never get to eat…
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Photo information from the Library of Congress, quoted on another website:
“Marching under banners emblazoned “We Want Beer”, and to the tune of 36 bands, more than 1500 union men paraded through Broad Street, Newark, N. J., on October 30th 1931, in spectacular anti-prohibition demonstration.
Over 20 labor unions and 800 musicians took part in the huge demonstration which is said to be one of the largest and most impressive of any staged in the country. The photo shows the head of the line of marchers with their signs.”
I remembered “Don’t Hang Up” when I heard it.
Gee I’m getting old.
I have to go out, briefly… So I’m trusting you guys with the solution early.
No peeking!
But I can’t ask you to close your eyes, cos with that giant dog around, you have to watch where you’re walking.
So carefully navigate around the dogs, find TEN differences…
WOO HOO!!
One of the easier ones of late.
Thanks for the Official Solution, Susan!
You’re welcome!
And yeah, I agree… except there was one I didn’t notice at first. I did find it though.
I noticed that the tenth was very slight. Was it
Um… No, for some reason I noticed that early on
I had a harder time
I could say it’s maybe cos my screen is small, but honestly, I see the rest, so that’s probably no excuse.
That’s the one I’ve missed.
Got my usual n-1. Kept looking at the one I missed, but didn’t see it.
Lough Tay in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland.
Clouded Leopard for Caturday.
Blackbird.
Thanks!
Too busy today – preparing stuff for my husband’s birthday party.
Mostly kosher, but I don’t know about the duck. The chicken is halal (from the Turkish shop nearby), calf’s heart isn’t afaik. No dairy.