It’s supposed to give tourists the feeling of climbing the mountain, while walking, safely contained by the railings.
No ropes, pitons, carabiners, or death-defying acrobatics, hanging over the steep mountainside in safety harnesses.
However, I can’t help noticing that it’s at least 3 times farther that way.
No, that’s not exact. I’m sure there’s a formula but I don’t remember it and you have to know the distance, the pitch of the stairs, the radius of the circle, etc.
But the main thing I notice is that the distance doesn’t matter, cos I’d never do it in a million years.
I saw the number right away, I guess… according to the answer Alexi found.
But I kept looking because I thought it couldn’t be the actual answer.
It’s kind of small and vague, so I thought there must be lots of vague number shapes, but a big numeral would jump out…. bigger, clearer, and more central.
I even let my eyes drift, thinking it was one of those pictures you have to look at the right way and a 3d image appears..
Photo of Lítla Dímun Island, a small, uninhabited island, part of a North Atlantic Island group and is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADtla_D%C3%ADmun
Today’s Songs:
‘ Tears of a Clown,’ ‘ Teen Angel,’ ‘ Tell Laura I Love Her,’ and ‘Telstar,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe ‘Breakfast Tortilla.’
The Wikipedia article (link below) on ‘Tears of a Clown’ has some good history in it.
Back on October 3, — Greyhame’s prediction was correct about the really sappy girlfriend-killed-in-a-car-crash song.
This is the one Greyhame thinks is worse than the above (I agree / I like both songs because every now and again a good YEEEEECCCHHH ! ! is as good for your soul as a good stretch is).
I’ve put a picture/logo link to a NASA article about the satellite the song is the namesake of.
No hot peppers of any type for breakfast, and the salsa had better be mild.
I don’t remember Greyhame’s comment that you’re referencing (sorry Greyhame)…
But I know I’ve posted here, maybe not in these exact words, that I think “Teen Angel” is one of the most unbearably maudlin songs ever…
And that it’s one of two I can’t abide… the other being “Ruby (Don’t Take Your Love to Town.)
I really dislike that kind of manipulative emotional exploitation, especially when it’s cheesy or corny.
I’m not sure I can say that’s the complete list, though, cos there might be a couple more that I either don’t remember or, fortunately, have never heard.
Yes, Teen Angst was a big thing back then. It tended to be rather heavy-handed, and I understand SS’s dislike. I was studying them to learn what NOT to do when acting and playing. Tell Laura . . . should have fit right in with the others, but the lyric flow seems to break down in the middle, like he was searching around for a rhyme.
Now I thought that Ruby . . . was was somewhat more artistic. Of course having a background in C&W, and being a Vietnam Era Veteran meself may have colored my opinion some.
Of course, it is hard to quibble with the poesy of an Eagles lyric. IMHO Lying Eyes was a critique, not so much of City Girl’s morals, but of the California Rich People lifestyle. Like many of the Eagles tunes
Just for fun, I put together a table to demonstrate the effect of the curvature of the Earth and its 23º tilt on sunrise and sunset times for today.
The towns and cities in the table do vary in longitude, but as it’s latitude that governs the length of a day, the table is accurate.
As an example, Munich has a day length of 9 hours 42 minutes today and Bellingham, Washington 6/10 of a degree further North has 9 hours and 38 minutes as its day length and Seattle 4\10 of a degree further south has the longest day at 9 hours and 43 minutes.
Port Radium, Northwest Territories and La Paz, Baja California Sur are, for any purpose we need, 2,900 statute miles apart North to South.
Click on the table to magnify it.
.
A link to the website “timeanddate“ where I got the times listed in the table.
WOW, Alexikakos. The Day Length between us in Calgary and Edmonton is 16 minutes, the land distance is around 280 km (or around 175 miles) only. The tilt as you go further north certainly makes a difference!
Cleo struck the freezer door instead?
“Don’t know where; don’t know when” – just be glad she hasn’t gotten her paws on nuclear missiles (yet).
Oh; the date – you once complained I wasn’t mentioning the date of the cartoon I posted. That’s why.
From today’s London “Daily Mail” too.
I wasn’t going to copy and post this this far out from Christmas, but then I remembered that American Thanksgiving is coming up on the 24th of the month.
They would compliment either apple or pumpkin pie, I think.
There’s one here… across town, but worth driving to.
Not all kind of meats, but lots of the one you choose. Huge pile of freshly fried chips, at least half an avocado, grilled green onions, tons of fresh salsa…
I have to make chilaquiles the next day from the leftovers.
And very reasonable.
.
It used to be cheap, but nothing is cheap any more.
I don’t really know how much it is now…
I haven’t been there since the pandemic started, because it’s also tiny, and packed to the point that strangers often share your table.
Loud Mexican music blasting from the jukebox, kids running loose.
Three guys working nonstop… nobody to bring food to your table, much less out to your car.
.
It’s a train
And at its full speed, you have to give it a full yard and a half to stop ! !
2 NOSES!!
,
feets!
“I’ll have the full cuticle treatment, please, and Passion Pink gel polish.”
The paws that refreshes?
..
.LONDON’S ‘DAILY MAIL’ ON THIS
It’s supposed to give tourists the feeling of climbing the mountain, while walking, safely contained by the railings.
No ropes, pitons, carabiners, or death-defying acrobatics, hanging over the steep mountainside in safety harnesses.
However, I can’t help noticing that it’s at least 3 times farther that way.
No, that’s not exact. I’m sure there’s a formula but I don’t remember it and you have to know the distance, the pitch of the stairs, the radius of the circle, etc.
But the main thing I notice is that the distance doesn’t matter, cos I’d never do it in a million years.
Are you kidding me???
😀
If you were born on Thursday, November 7, 1963 this is the last day of your life you would be permitted to climb the stairs.
Well, that’s another thing.
I was trying not to bring up the age factor, since so many of us are a bit… um… more mature… than are allowed.
I thought some might enjoy thinking that we have the power to reject this silly challenge…
when in fact the Chinese government has ruled us out anyway.
I hate to say this, so I won’t.
NOSE!
,
. WIKIPEDIA ON Chefchaouen, Morocco.
ABOUT CHEFCHAOUEN ‘s CATS.
what number do you see?
This is a very poorly put together puzzle in my opinion.
That is a bogus puzzle! I was looking for something like the color blindness tests.
Gee, I finally find one and everyone says it’s a bad puzzle.
me, too!
I don’t see a number.
I see a number of them.
I saw the number right away, I guess… according to the answer Alexi found.
But I kept looking because I thought it couldn’t be the actual answer.
It’s kind of small and vague, so I thought there must be lots of vague number shapes, but a big numeral would jump out…. bigger, clearer, and more central.
I even let my eyes drift, thinking it was one of those pictures you have to look at the right way and a 3d image appears..
Monster island!
Photo of Lítla Dímun Island, a small, uninhabited island, part of a North Atlantic Island group and is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADtla_D%C3%ADmun
(thanks to GoComics RBION)
You’re kinda cute!
Wanna play?
2 NOSES!!
‘ Tears of a Clown,’ ‘ Teen Angel,’ ‘ Tell Laura I Love Her,’ and ‘Telstar,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe ‘Breakfast Tortilla.’
The Wikipedia article (link below) on ‘Tears of a Clown’ has some good history in it.
Back on October 3, —
This is the one Greyhame thinks is worse than the above (I agree / I like both songs because every now and again a good YEEEEECCCHHH ! ! is as good for your soul as a good stretch is).
I’ve put a picture/logo link to a NASA article about the satellite the song is the namesake of.
No hot peppers of any type for breakfast, and the salsa had better be mild.
LINK TO WIKIPEDIA ON “TEARS OF A CLOWN”
The logo is a link to NASA’s article about Telstar; written in 2012.
I don’t remember Greyhame’s comment that you’re referencing (sorry Greyhame)…
But I know I’ve posted here, maybe not in these exact words, that I think “Teen Angel” is one of the most unbearably maudlin songs ever…
And that it’s one of two I can’t abide… the other being “Ruby (Don’t Take Your Love to Town.)
I really dislike that kind of manipulative emotional exploitation, especially when it’s cheesy or corny.
I’m not sure I can say that’s the complete list, though, cos there might be a couple more that I either don’t remember or, fortunately, have never heard.
‘…you painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere?….’
Gee, thanks.
Right up there with…
“I’ll never kiss your lips again.
They buried you today.”
Wow! That long ago?
Yes, Teen Angst was a big thing back then. It tended to be rather heavy-handed, and I understand SS’s dislike. I was studying them to learn what NOT to do when acting and playing. Tell Laura . . . should have fit right in with the others, but the lyric flow seems to break down in the middle, like he was searching around for a rhyme.
Now I thought that Ruby . . . was was somewhat more artistic. Of course having a background in C&W, and being a Vietnam Era Veteran meself may have colored my opinion some.
To me, “Ruby” was just too corny for so much pathos.
So specific, and so whiny, it was like a pathetic soap opera.
“Lying Eyes” does the same story way better, without the maudlin details.
…
I guess another thing I dislike in a song is too much whining and begging…
I’d rather hear strength… just lyrically speaking, not musically…. “I will survive”, not “Baby please please please come back!”
I realise your mileage may vary.
It’s ok.
“I will survive” is a little hard to come by when:
“It won’t be long, I’ve heard them say, until I’m not around”
Of course, it is hard to quibble with the poesy of an Eagles lyric. IMHO Lying Eyes was a critique, not so much of City Girl’s morals, but of the California Rich People lifestyle. Like many of the Eagles tunes
Just for fun, I put together a table to demonstrate the effect of the curvature of the Earth and its 23º tilt on sunrise and sunset times for today.
The towns and cities in the table do vary in longitude, but as it’s latitude that governs the length of a day, the table is accurate.
As an example, Munich has a day length of 9 hours 42 minutes today and Bellingham, Washington 6/10 of a degree further North has 9 hours and 38 minutes as its day length and Seattle 4\10 of a degree further south has the longest day at 9 hours and 43 minutes.
Port Radium, Northwest Territories and La Paz, Baja California Sur are, for any purpose we need, 2,900 statute miles apart North to South.
Click on the table to magnify it.
.
A link to the website “timeanddate“ where I got the times listed in the table.
WOW, Alexikakos. The Day Length between us in Calgary and Edmonton is 16 minutes, the land distance is around 280 km (or around 175 miles) only. The tilt as you go further north certainly makes a difference!
I noticed the list is heavily tilted towards Alberta (for some reason 😁).
The rest of us mostly don’t know how the other cities compare with us, or each other, in latitude, unless we look it all up ourselves.
Yes, and it probably was easier because of him knowing the region.
As far as I know, Alexikakos lives in or around Edmonton.
Lol… Yeah, in, I believe he’s said, when he posts grocery ads.
That’s why the parenthetical “😁”.
I think I’m not far south of Provo, Utah… but it’s far away, and not such a familiar place I can be sure without checking.
Sunrise: 6:51
Sunset: 16:57
10 hours 08 minutes
Where am I? ☺
Directly above the center of the earth.
I know!
I know!
On CleoandCompany.net!
Or possibly anywhere along a line encircling the earth at your latitude…
Or the matching southern latitude..
What do you call a sleepwalking nun?
Boo! 😀
The piñata looks rather alarmed.
I don’t think it would be a whole lot happier, though, seeing a blindfolded kid coming at it with a big stick.
It’s probably the piñata that should be blindfolded.
Meanwhile, has Cleo considered what a bazooka will do to those treats?
Or is she so bound on destruction that she doesn’t care about collateral damage?
….
Hmmm… Saying that reminds me of someone else’s possibly similar comment.
Have we seen this one recently?
My memory has been leaking.
We have seen it.
And Cleo missed. Big time. See Ballard Street above (from exactly ten years ago)…
Sorry, I like that Ballard Street strip, but I don’t get what it has to do with how long ago we saw the piñata cartoon.
Cleo struck the freezer door instead?
“Don’t know where; don’t know when” – just be glad she hasn’t gotten her paws on nuclear missiles (yet).
Oh; the date – you once complained I wasn’t mentioning the date of the cartoon I posted. That’s why.
Oh.
I thought you were answering my question, about how long since we’ve seen that particular Cleo strip.
Not long.
Ah…
I thought we might have seen it much more recently…
I vaguely remember somebody commenting, I’d say in the last week or two, that Cleo would destroy something she wanted if she used a bazooka to get it.
Maybe it was something other than candy from a piñata.
I would just hate it if someone were to put that plate of nachos in front of me right now.
I wouldn’t.
I would hate that too, if it means they didn’t put one in front of me.
From today’s London “Daily Mail” too.
I wasn’t going to copy and post this this far out from Christmas, but then I remembered that American Thanksgiving is coming up on the 24th of the month.
They would compliment either apple or pumpkin pie, I think.
there’s a place up here that serves a HUGE plate of nachos with all kinds of meats. we ordered it and a side of tacos. we took home TONS of leftovers!
There’s one here… across town, but worth driving to.
Not all kind of meats, but lots of the one you choose. Huge pile of freshly fried chips, at least half an avocado, grilled green onions, tons of fresh salsa…
I have to make chilaquiles the next day from the leftovers.
And very reasonable.
.
It used to be cheap, but nothing is cheap any more.
I don’t really know how much it is now…
I haven’t been there since the pandemic started, because it’s also tiny, and packed to the point that strangers often share your table.
Loud Mexican music blasting from the jukebox, kids running loose.
Three guys working nonstop… nobody to bring food to your table, much less out to your car.
I’ve missed it… And I got Covid anyway.
sorry, cleo, there’s no room left for candy!
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