One day at the office I went into the break rooom and spooked one of the ladies. She jumped back and uttered “Oh my God!” I said “That’s okay – you can just call me Tim.”
In 1932, according to Google, the average house price in the US was about $6,000.
But the Hollywood Hills were already getting pricy. This one probably would have sold for an outrageous 10 or 15 thousand.
The one I remember reading that has stuck on my mind is that Pickfair, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks’ famous mansion, was built for $30 thousand right before the crash of 1929.
But this is way smaller… I’m guessing that its 2021 price would be around 4 million, unless it’s not as big as I think
Rescued my neighbor’s dog for a night. They thought he’d be OK for just one (not even a full) weekend trip, but he got LONELY! That boy was singingthe blues!!! Sweet dog, great neighbors. We’re doubly lucky.
“Woman feeding iguanas in Simon Bolivar Park / Iguana Park in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The iguanas are free to roam around, and happily co-exist with other animals such as pigeons and squirrels. There are signs placed around the park warning people not to give the animals food, but you can buy strips of mango from street vendors to feed the iguanas.”
When searching, I saw other pictures from the same park… different people, but lots of iguanas.
Maybe even on Ballard Street, before we had Cleo, but I’m not sure.
These are Himba children from Namibia… I had to look up the tribe again to make sure, cos in image search they’re often misidentified.
The with the two braids and heavy necklaces are girls, the others boys. The braids are meant to mimic cattle horns, because cattle are beautiful and valuable.
Women and children wear a coating of red clay mixed with butter, to protect from the sun and from biting insects
i didn’t see the same article I read then… but I saw similar posts, saying that these children are amazed, seeing an iPad for the first time ….
A fellow from Namibia posted back then that it made him angry when people assumed that.
He said the Himba are proud of their culture and lifestyle… they stick to it, even though they travel to towns to shop in supermarkets, and are aware of things like TV and computers.
He knew the photographer, and said that the children are excited because they’re looking at a photo of themselves. They don’t see many, because their culture rejects cameras and mirrors.
Unless they catch a glimpse in a shop window, some don’t know what they look like.
And by the time you catch him and bathe him, you’ll need one too.
Plus a change of clothes, and a hour or two to clean the tub, the bathroom floor, and the part of the living room and hall rugs he ran across or stepped on, after he got away when you were hosing him off.
Alone would probably have been on the machine itself, not the factory. Other manufacturing was most likely going on around her. I would guess the blank pieces would automatically be fed into the press. Her job would be making sure all the pieces were in place before pressing the button to drop the form to shape them. when the parts were complete, they would automatically go on to the next step and new blank pieces would be fed into the machine. Pressing the button, simple. Having an eye and a dedication to ensure everything was in place correctly BEFORE pressing the button, critical.
This is only from what I can see from the photograph.
Having spent a few years in factory production work, I concur. And the sound was a big part of the process too. You hear a part drop wrong, and you know it. You hear something stress incorrectly, and you know it. I’m very atune to sounds around me. When I drop something and it bounces/rolls away, I know almost exactly where it ends up, mostly because I hear it.
Similar thin in the power industry, I could walk into a substation that was making fifteen or twenty different noises and know immediately something was wrong, either by the sounds that were being made, or by the one that wasn’t.
When I was in hospital for a week due to a cardiac issue, sleeping at night was nearly impossible for the first few days because I was in a small ward that had other patients on drug dispensing machines. The sequence of beeps they made were exactly the same tone and pattern as the battery chargers we had in our substations would make if there was an Earth Fault on one of the battery strings….
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“Don’t sneak up on me like that!!!”
One day at the office I went into the break rooom and spooked one of the ladies. She jumped back and uttered “Oh my God!” I said “That’s okay – you can just call me Tim.”
All of us have schnozzles… if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.
Jimmy Durante
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In 1932, according to Google, the average house price in the US was about $6,000.
But the Hollywood Hills were already getting pricy. This one probably would have sold for an outrageous 10 or 15 thousand.
The one I remember reading that has stuck on my mind is that Pickfair, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks’ famous mansion, was built for $30 thousand right before the crash of 1929.
But this is way smaller… I’m guessing that its 2021 price would be around 4 million, unless it’s not as big as I think
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Morning Song
Rescued my neighbor’s dog for a night. They thought he’d be OK for just one (not even a full) weekend trip, but he got LONELY! That boy was singing the blues!!! Sweet dog, great neighbors. We’re doubly lucky.
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I’m going to call shenanigans!
That’s just dandy until the Komodo Dragon gets wind of the free food.
Not in that neighborhood.
It’s actually real…
From one site:
“Woman feeding iguanas in Simon Bolivar Park / Iguana Park in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The iguanas are free to roam around, and happily co-exist with other animals such as pigeons and squirrels. There are signs placed around the park warning people not to give the animals food, but you can buy strips of mango from street vendors to feed the iguanas.”
When searching, I saw other pictures from the same park… different people, but lots of iguanas.
Wow!
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“Oh, man, I’ve got a crick in my neck like you read about.”
Don’t you wish you could reach just THAT spot on your back?
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“A new cutting board! Just what I need!!”
Hey, I posted this picture a long time ago….
Maybe even on Ballard Street, before we had Cleo, but I’m not sure.
These are Himba children from Namibia… I had to look up the tribe again to make sure, cos in image search they’re often misidentified.
The with the two braids and heavy necklaces are girls, the others boys. The braids are meant to mimic cattle horns, because cattle are beautiful and valuable.
Women and children wear a coating of red clay mixed with butter, to protect from the sun and from biting insects
i didn’t see the same article I read then… but I saw similar posts, saying that these children are amazed, seeing an iPad for the first time ….
A fellow from Namibia posted back then that it made him angry when people assumed that.
He said the Himba are proud of their culture and lifestyle… they stick to it, even though they travel to towns to shop in supermarkets, and are aware of things like TV and computers.
He knew the photographer, and said that the children are excited because they’re looking at a photo of themselves. They don’t see many, because their culture rejects cameras and mirrors.
Unless they catch a glimpse in a shop window, some don’t know what they look like.
All kids look like that when they’re watching Road Runner and Wile E Coyote cartoons!
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That’s a beautiful piece of work. I can’t imagine how long it took to sculpt it.
I would guess at least a couple of hours….
Depends on how fast you are with AI software.
“Produced by Codex AI”
I saw many variations in both ship design and person standing there… No way there are a dozen versions in real life.
Somebody pointed out that the windows make no sense. Then again, neither does the rest of it.
The ITtanic.
Ouch. Brilliant, of course, but ouch! 😉
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Somebody’s gonna get a bath…
And by the time you catch him and bathe him, you’ll need one too.
Plus a change of clothes, and a hour or two to clean the tub, the bathroom floor, and the part of the living room and hall rugs he ran across or stepped on, after he got away when you were hosing him off.
Looks like fun! I think I’ll join him!
Time to get out the garden hose.
Mud puppy!!
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Got it.
Ouch…my brain hurts…
I think i see two that would work now.
Me too.
May have to rethink.
No, the 2nd one doesn’t work.
Susan is correct. I thought there were two, but more examination mentally 3-D’ing it puts one triangle on the wrong side.
I’m
I’m going with library paste!
I’m thinking Sharpie marker and a ruler. Plain white cube, and put the black corners on after.
Snip snip here, snip snip there, and a couple of lah-de-dahs. That’s how we put the cubes together in the merry old land of Oz.
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I thought this might be fake, but it’s real.
2015 … A waterspout… a type of tornado over water… moving towards Genoa, Italy. Apparently it never made landfall. Whew.
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Cool… I have no idea what they’re talking about, but I do get that the outcome is cool.
However… I can’t believe they left a 19 year old to do that job alone!
Alone would probably have been on the machine itself, not the factory. Other manufacturing was most likely going on around her. I would guess the blank pieces would automatically be fed into the press. Her job would be making sure all the pieces were in place before pressing the button to drop the form to shape them. when the parts were complete, they would automatically go on to the next step and new blank pieces would be fed into the machine. Pressing the button, simple. Having an eye and a dedication to ensure everything was in place correctly BEFORE pressing the button, critical.
This is only from what I can see from the photograph.
Having spent a few years in factory production work, I concur. And the sound was a big part of the process too. You hear a part drop wrong, and you know it. You hear something stress incorrectly, and you know it. I’m very atune to sounds around me. When I drop something and it bounces/rolls away, I know almost exactly where it ends up, mostly because I hear it.
Similar thin in the power industry, I could walk into a substation that was making fifteen or twenty different noises and know immediately something was wrong, either by the sounds that were being made, or by the one that wasn’t.
When I was in hospital for a week due to a cardiac issue, sleeping at night was nearly impossible for the first few days because I was in a small ward that had other patients on drug dispensing machines. The sequence of beeps they made were exactly the same tone and pattern as the battery chargers we had in our substations would make if there was an Earth Fault on one of the battery strings….
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I give you Jay and the Americans “Come A Little Bit Closer.”
Everybody is having fun.
You do realize the song is about a woman trying to lure a man so her boyfriend can beat him up?
She’s having fun. Him, not so much… though he does run away.
Well, it’s better than “El Paso”, where all the guys that the girl lures die.
I have to disagree with your interpretation due to the last lines of the song….
… “and as I rode away I could hear her say to José,
‘Come a little bit closer you’re my kind of man'”…
She doesn’t belong to anyone including José.
Here is another oldie…
I want one of those! Does Amazon sell Handy-Dandy Utility Belts with Bat-Lasers?
Temu is your best bet.
I hope that now-teeny-tiny Bat-Laser™ doesn’t now have a teeny-tiny flame. Then again, the cage bars are thinner too, so maybe it doesn’t matter.
And their diminutive size doesn’t effect the Caped Canines™’ powerful strength, stamina or egos, all of which they’ll need to defeat this evil gang.
As I just know they will!
The first guy really was a trapeze artist and circus performer as a young man, before his WWII service and subsequent Hollywood career.
All the girls in 4th grade had a crush on the 2nd guy, which seems funny to me now.
The costume on the actress in the middle almost outdoes Madonna’s metal bra and princess Leia’s gold bikini.
Got them all!
Barn Owl.