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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

Oh relax. He’s just the welcoming committee.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

Forget Godzilla. That is a prehistoric monster!

Saint
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

He seems nice…

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

You should see these illusions through double vision. Take it from me, they look incredibly intricate.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

This has a strobe effect when i scroll, but not as bad.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
7 months ago

This one is far strobier… er.. strobe-ish (?) than that zebra, to my eyes.

In fact, I had to open it in another tab, and confirm that it’s a .jpg, before my brain could accept that it’s not an animated .gif.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
7 months ago

Funny thing, for me it’s worse this morning than it was last night.

Arfside
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
7 months ago

As I recall, it relies on the fact that your eyes don’t actually stay still when looking at an image, but move back and forth slightly. Also part of the drunk “follow my pencil” test.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

Clearly it’s the invisible man. His feet are still wet, and he throws a shadow. 😉

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
7 months ago

“Clearly”?

Yeah, I think that’s one of the criteria for being invisible.

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
7 months ago

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
7 months ago

Thank you for picking up on that.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

Neat trick, inserting a profile of the actor in, I presume, Pulp Fiction. Delete bartender and customers, add hitman.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

This pairs well with the Henry Mancini video (above) playing in the background.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

Makes me glad I’m not a horse. Hope he likes my horse instead of me.

P51Strega
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Reply to  Arfside
7 months ago

The horse need only be faster than you ☺

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
7 months ago

Um… seems to me I need to be faster than the horse!

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

Supposedly, my ancestors sailed to the US from Hamburg, Germany. Don’t know if they were fleeing, or seeking to get rich (apparently that didn’t happen).

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

Sulu (George Takei) always had that striking, James Earl Jones-like bass speaking voice. It lent gravitas to everything he said.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

Old Star Fleet officers never die, they just become warped.

Liverlips McCracken
Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

It had to be done; a needle in a haystack.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

I shock myself! I got it! 😮

mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

I was at the point of giving up (no pun intended) when I found it.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

Everybody seems to have sharp eyes tonight…

So I didn’t circle the needle.

But this is still a spoiler –

Cos I threaded it!

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P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

Couldn’t find it at normal resolution, but found it quickly when I enlarged it.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 months ago

Please tell me that it’s real.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
7 months ago

Ok.. it’s real.

I don’t really know, and haven’t found it yet.

But you only said to tell you, not that I couldn’t lie. 😁

happyhappyhappy
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7 months ago

Mine was a little pot bellied wood burner…

P51Strega
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
7 months ago

I had to crank mine up.

happyhappyhappy
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7 months ago

happyhappyhappy
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7 months ago

happyhappyhappy
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7 months ago

Good night. 🙂

Arfside
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7 months ago

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SusanSunshine
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7 months ago

That looks like a little Apple IIe or some such… Hard to tell cos it’s a cartoon.

If that’s right, an expensive toy for the Cliffords…. they cost upwards of a thousand bucks.

That would also mean they might have had the first computer on the block. Might explain why they never found anybody to show them how to use it.

….

I didn’t get a computer till a few years later… then I went the Commodore direction. Even those were $650 or so, when that was about 3 months of my rent.

That was including one floppy drive, which made up about a third of the total price.

No hard drive and no modem. You booted it from a floppy, then swapped that for the program you wanted to run, on another floppy.

But the monitor displayed a glorious 16 colors!

And at least Commodores ran on regular instead of ethyl.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
7 months ago

Cassette tapes!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Greyhame
7 months ago

Tandy!

baconboycamper
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
7 months ago

I remember playing Monopoly on a Tandy with cassette…

P51Strega
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Reply to  Greyhame
7 months ago

Me too, C64 & cassettes. I got the floppy drive later.

Tigressy
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Reply to  P51Strega
7 months ago

Vic20…

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
7 months ago

Sinclair Spectrum 48K, rubber keyboard and tape cassette for loading games etc. was my first computer. My brother had a Dragon 32, which had a proper keyboard, still loaded from tape, but had a cartridge slot for games as well. Later on I upgraded the Spectrum to the 128K version, still tape cassette, but had a proper keyboard, and I added an interface for an Amstrad NLQ (Near Letter Quality) dot matrix printer that could use tractor-feed, or normal A4 paper. The Interface came with a 1K word processor in firmware, so the Spectrum could be used for word processing. My brother did his A Level exam projects using the Spectrum, and got extra marks for ‘Using modern technology’. This was around 1989/90.

Last edited 7 months ago by More_Cats_Than_Sense
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7 months ago

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Tigressy
7 months ago

BUNNY!

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