sorry, everyone, I meant to rerun ‘Perro’ starting November 1st instead of October 1st. I’ll rerun this in month and restart the ‘Perro’ adventure
October 1, 2024
sorry, everyone, I meant to rerun ‘Perro’ starting November 1st instead of October 1st. I’ll rerun this in month and restart the ‘Perro’ adventure
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Aw! Little birdy fell in the paint box!
I want to think he’s real, but I couldn’t find any info… Just that he’s included in collections of pretty bird images and the like.
Please be real, little birdie.
It’s AI. There are a few videos with those created creatures on TikTok – it’s very cute, finger-size kittens, donkeys, and birds.
The fingerprint swirls are a bit too far off alignment with the crease to be typical, and the talon on the right foot doesn’t match the one on the left (3-toes vs 4).
I admit that neither of my points preclude it from being real, but they make AI more likely.
I can’t really see the fingerprint whorls but that foot is just wrong.
Thing is, with small songbirds, you never know what their feet are going to look like. Leg and toe bones have less strength then a toothpick. Ive had several small birds whose feet were wrong. One little bird had his back toe broken and bent forwards, so he had four forward facing toes, one whose claw pointed up. My lovebird lost all four toes on one foot. And for the most part leg and foot problems don’t slow down many small birds. Even sone bigger birds.
Thanks.
So I can still pretend he’s real ? (She asked hopefully…)
Yup!
Good information. I bet it’s painful for the poor little guys.
We had a regular visitor in our garden decades ago – a crow whose feet must have frozen off. Did fine!
Thanks… I think….😢
And welcome back to Cleo and Company!
That is so sad… this AI-Stuff – it will kill us, our hopes and feelings and soon we are no longer what we are/were/have been/will be.
Nothing will be credible and there will be no more respect and awe.
Sorry, but I had to get rid of this worry. I’m calm again too
Hear, hear!
I agree!
It’s sad, cos I have never been against progress… you can’t hold back the tide.
But I’ve always thought progress was taking us higher and higher…
enhancing human knowledge, building a better future…
I didn’t expect the carelessness and greed, the profiteering and fighting…
And somehow AI is fitting right in, making fools of us who were believers in human goodness, in art as expression of man’s higher aspirations.
I’m sure the original intent was to use it for good, but it’s.more often the agent of lies and trickery, leading us on quicksand and laughing.
Yep. Just take the World Wide Web. Original thoughts were for sharing of (true & correct) information, all for the benefit of mankind…
“The best laid plans of mice and men.”
Sniffle….
But I can’t say I’m surprised.
Had i not been suspicious, I wouldn’t have begged him to be real.
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Goldfish? What goldfish?
this must be the Bic building in downtown Cleveland
I thought something clicked…
Where a corner office is probably not a good thing.
But “my Oval Office” has a nice ring to it.
I hope it’s got, you know, like, replaceable furniture and stuff…
and the whole building isn’t disposable.
The caption cited comes from HERE. ” United States (The Lipstick Building, 885 Third Avenue, Sutton Place, Manhattan, New York, United States (40°45′28″N, 73°58′08″W).40°”
On Google Earth Street view, the Lipstick Building appears much taller than the building next to it (the one that seems dominant in the picture).
well, it LOOKS like a Bic
That’s what I was thinking.
You can even see where the flame would pop out.
(If you can light a Bic lighter… A talent which I’m totally lacking).
I think they removed the little wheel for safety reasons.
VanGogh
Pigeon one: “Betcha five bucks I can hit her on the head.”
Steve!!!!!
Hey! It’s what pigeons do…
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1931?
2025?
“…atlantic giantess for the Canadian Pacific“?!?!
I googled it and found lots of other copies…
But they all say 40,000 tons, not 2025.
Wonder what that was about.
Calendar?
No idea on the “2025” notation, the ship displaced just over 40,000 GRT (Gross Register Tonnage). My best guess is that this one from nighthawks is from a 2025 calendar, judging by the coils at the top.
From Wikipedia:
RMS_Empress_of_Britain_(1930)
The Empress of Britain was the second of three Canadian Pacific ships named Empress of Britain, which provided scheduled trans-Atlantic passenger service from spring to autumn between Canada and Europe from 1931 until 1939. Sunk by torpedo by U-32, 28 October 1940.
Found the calendar on Amazon:
B0723BQ13N
“2025 Wall Calendar [12 pages 8″x12″] Ocean Cruise Ships Vintage Travel Poster Ads”
Thanks.
Mystery solved.
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Interior of the S of L?
I’m probably wrong, but I thought the SoL had a steel girder frame and not a brick column inside. Though there’s no reason why it couldn’t have both, I suppose I could look up about the internal construction.
In my area at work, we had a spiral staircase in one of our major substations. It used to be part of a power station, so a bit more ornate than a humble substation.
Yes… A steel frame designed by Gustave Eiffel, whose company also designed and built the Eiffel Tower.
Looks more like the interior of a lighthouse.
That’s a drawing by M.C. Escher.
I thought it was, too…
But I just searched it…
One place says it’s an Escher drawing but another says it’s an “Escher-esque wood print” by Mark Miller.
And a third is selling it as an “Escher-esque photograph” by Mark Miller…
“Interior view of Barnegat Lighthouse, Barnegat Light, NJ. Taken March 2012.”
I was right! 🙂
Looks a bit like the worlds deepest hand-dug well in Greensburg, KS.
May have to look that up.
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I wonder where that was painted…
Probably Cleveland.
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Do you mean a heat-stressed pooch or…?
I think they’re all a bunch of hot dogs.
This looks very much like the work of a cartoonist from long ago… Trying to think of his name.
I don’t know whether this is a vintage puzzle, or someone is borrowing his style.
I think I found the hot dog, though… the edible variety, not an English sheepdog in August.
I hope you’ll keep looking too… And then tell me….
(Please ignore the accidental little pink smudge)
Agreed, that’s what I found too, Susan. And your colourization just confirms it for moi!
I think that’s it.
That is begging for a child and a box of colored pencils.
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I’ve heard of elevator shoes…. But unicycle pants seem extreme.
hat’s amazing is that he could get that kiss and not fall off!
What’s amazing is that he could get the thing vertical in the first place!
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I took the same picture in 1967 with color film and my red filter…
You should sue.
It might take me six months to find the evidence!
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Oh boy, Perro! A swashbuckling, cliff-hanging adventure in every installment. Whee!
starting November 1st
And modest, too…
Yay!
Perro™ is back… with Episode 1.
and it’s muy beeootiful!
If you haven’t seen it, you’re in for a treat…. and if you have seen it, you’re in for a treat anyway.
I mean, if someone brings you a home made blueberry pie, or a basket of backyard tomatoes… or anything you consider a treat…
You don’t say “No thanks. I had some two years ago.” You enjoy!
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A galleon on the ocean, under sunset skies…
And on board is el basset valiente who will soon be our hero…
But he’s as yet hiding out as his alter ego, the handsome, mustachioed Don Doggo de Basset!
He’s coming home to save early California from some serious problems…
One of them being the total lack of a superhero.
He may not have superpowers, like X-ray eyes, enormous strength, or the ability to fly…
but he’s got enormous brown eyes…
and he’s a whiz with a sword, wears really tight pants, and can capture ladies hearts in a single bound…
I think sometimes he even wears a cape!
Good enough for me.
I’m so sorry, Susan (and all)! I have so many Halloween strips and animations that I want to run this month—I meant to run the start of Perro on November first, which I will.
Consider today’s strip a preview of the ‘Perro’ adventure
ah. love the love
S’ok, of course!
Except for… you know…. leaving more room for ghosts and gore…sigh…..
Maybe I’ll get a Halloween mask with no eyeholes 😁
D’you think I can wrap up my comment and put it in the freezer, and it’ll stay fresh for Nov 1st?
We’ll take what we can get!