gad, I’ve been reluctant to rerun those things again for fear of over-saturation…….
but I’d be happy to….starting in November ,of course.
we’re right in the middle of your least fav month…but Stel agreed with me that October was the best.
(with the possible exception of May in Indy)
I came in at the tail end of the most recent Perro run, I think. I was still working then, and reading comics at work, so I didn’t go into the archives to pick them up from the beginning.
If he falls, he’s probably going to hit a lot of branches on the way down! It might even wear out Don Martin trying to come up with all the different sounds.
Gosh… It never occurred to me that I’d find the answer to that question when I searched the image. But I did.
This is a giant sequoia called the President, in Sequoia National Park, in California… 3,200 years old.
Its crown is bigger than that of the world’s largest tree, the General Sherman redwood, and carries some two billion leaves, more than any other tree… plus for seven months a year, a huge weight of snow.
According to National geographic:
(The photograph involved )”a complicated pulley system rigged up in a neighbouring giant, three cameras, pictures taken in tandem at set intervals from top to bottom, and a complex computer exercise stitching together the final mosaic of 126 images.
What makes the red figure at the top seem taller than the one at the bottom is the fact that he’s standing forward on one of the tree’s mighty limbs.”
Thank you…as and amatuer photographer, albeit better than average, I was flabergasted by that photo. I do horizontal panorama composites, usually 8 to 12 shots. Grand Canyon, Crater Lake, long stretches of mountains, etc., but there’s no way I can do vertical like that, and keep it in scale. The pros have more toys than I do.
And the other thing you get is fine detail – instead of one really big tree jammed into one small photo, you have 126 hi-res photos all perfectly aligned. I love it. The photo I did at the Grand Canyon could be printed at about 12 feet wide, 3.5 feet tall, and be in fine detail and sharp focus (with the possible exception of the exact points where some of the individual photos intersect – those can be just a hair off at times, since I don’t have NatGeo grade cameras and computers.)
It’s like the microphotographs they’re taking of (e.g.) insects, where they take multiple photos “through” the insect and then stitch them together to produced one image in perfect detail.
Last night I thought I saw another person, also in a yellow jacket, a bit higher up, on a branch to the right of the trunk… maybe a third of the way from that guy to the one on top.
Then I decided it was too big, and too out of focus, so probably just yellow needles. But now I wonder.
What you see there, I think, is an opening in the branches and you see the trunk of the tree behind it. Compared to the size of the three men, that’s way to big to be much else.
Built in 1896. It has bicycle wheels and it’s chain-driven, but it does have an engine… a two cylinder one that could produce 4 horsepower. One site says it ran on gasoline, another says pure ethanol.
It had two gears, first, up to 10 mph, second, up to 20 mph (its top speed), but no reverse. It was steered using a tiller, and had a bicycle bell in front and a 3 gal fuel tank under the seat.
Later that year, he sold it for $200, but later regretted selling his very first car, and eventually bought it back for $60.
Well, I might pay up to $60 for it, if it was for sale. It’s a pretty steep price for only 4 horsepower and 20mph. Maybe I could use it on something like Catalina Island or some place like that. It sure wouldn’t work on LA freeways, it’s too fast during rush hour.
Got redirected in southern California a few years ago – freeways were closed due to fires. Spend several miserable hours in bumper to bumper traffic. Do not want to do THAT again.
That happened to me when my nephew was driving me, my niece and his daughter home from a wedding in Portland, during a terrible fire season in 2018.
We were in the middle of nowhere, driving south through northernmost California, where you rarely see a car, and suddenly there was bumper to number traffic, barely moving, detoured onto tiny roads, to avoid a fire.
On the way up, three days earlier, we could see flames from other fires, off to our left, towards the Oregon coast, and considered turning back, but we kept going.
I have a similar photo of mountain climbers on El Capitan. You don’t realize just how immense these things are until you put something in it for scale.
This one didn’t look real, especially the hair, so I searched it… And yeah it’s an AI produced image sold on a poster.
But the one below is real… Not a real toy for kids, but a joke for adults. I just found it on eBay, but I remember seeing it about 10 years ago.
I wanted to get one for my crazy cat lady friend (±35 rescue cats at any given time!), but it was somewhere around $25…. too expensive for a joke, and she didn’t really appreciate toys the way I do, anyway.
A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in an Armani suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie (Corb), leans out the window and asks the shepherd, “If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?”
The shepherd looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly answers, “Sure. Why not?” The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T cell phone, surfs to a NASA page on the internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of complex formulas. He uploads all of this data via an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the shepherd and says, “You have exactly 1586 sheep.”
“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my sheep.” says the shepherd. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car. Then the shepherd says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my sheep? ”
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?”
“You’re a consultant.” says the shepherd.
“Wow! That’s correct,” says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?”
“No guessing required.” answered the shepherd. “You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked; and you don’t know crap about my business. . . ” … Now give me back my dog.”
Not me at the moment – but the nanny-bots get crazier and crazier.
Is there anything bad with this limerick I tried to post on “Ballard Street”?
Hearing the song “I’m a dreamer”
sounding more like a screamer
alas, close to the beat!
So Jimmy’s true to the feat –
but the mystery meat is a wiener.
While this must be a gag photo… an employee at the big local hardware/home improvement store, where they have a model bathroom display, and an aisle with many toilets set up, none of it connected or private, told me that they sometimes find toilets that somebody used, or let their children use.
The employees have to clean up the results, including the nasty contents of the bowls, plus urine running onto the floor, because there’s no plumbing connection. They do have a janitor a few nights a week, but that’s not something they can leave till then.
Not only is it horrible to contemplate that someone would do this to the poor salespeople…. there’s a large, free, public restroom right there in the store! It’s on the other side, but the sign is visible from just about everywhere.
both are 100 years old
What a classic! The poster AND the tale. The tail too, for that matter.
Love the masked heroes!
I love Perro!
This is the poster for the world famous basset movie….
but I also love the Cleo and Company cartoon series.
Gazing longingly into the future for any potental reruns then…
Do you hear that, nighthawks??!
I could read it over and over… Along with Batbasset, Sam Basset, and all the rest.
gad, I’ve been reluctant to rerun those things again for fear of over-saturation…….
but I’d be happy to….starting in November ,of course.
we’re right in the middle of your least fav month…but Stel agreed with me that October was the best.
(with the possible exception of May in Indy)
I came in at the tail end of the most recent Perro run, I think. I was still working then, and reading comics at work, so I didn’t go into the archives to pick them up from the beginning.
ok…but for anybody sick of seeing the adventures of Perro , Batbasset, Robin Hound and Sam Basset–sorry!
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If he falls, he’s probably going to hit a lot of branches on the way down! It might even wear out Don Martin trying to come up with all the different sounds.
A grove of redwood smell like nothing else in the world.
He’s not going to fall… cos he’s a lumberjack and he’s OK.
But why does he look so much bigger than the one on the ground?
Is the photographer up in the air?
Gosh… It never occurred to me that I’d find the answer to that question when I searched the image. But I did.
This is a giant sequoia called the President, in Sequoia National Park, in California… 3,200 years old.
Its crown is bigger than that of the world’s largest tree, the General Sherman redwood, and carries some two billion leaves, more than any other tree… plus for seven months a year, a huge weight of snow.
According to National geographic:
(The photograph involved )”a complicated pulley system rigged up in a neighbouring giant, three cameras, pictures taken in tandem at set intervals from top to bottom, and a complex computer exercise stitching together the final mosaic of 126 images.
What makes the red figure at the top seem taller than the one at the bottom is the fact that he’s standing forward on one of the tree’s mighty limbs.”
Thank you…as and amatuer photographer, albeit better than average, I was flabergasted by that photo. I do horizontal panorama composites, usually 8 to 12 shots. Grand Canyon, Crater Lake, long stretches of mountains, etc., but there’s no way I can do vertical like that, and keep it in scale. The pros have more toys than I do.
126 stitched images!
National Geographic can do that… I’d think not many other entities… even government agencies, would perservere to that degree, or even finance it.
Looking at it when I’m more awake, I notice even more how it’s amazingly in focus at every point. It’s because the images are separate. Wow.
And the other thing you get is fine detail – instead of one really big tree jammed into one small photo, you have 126 hi-res photos all perfectly aligned. I love it. The photo I did at the Grand Canyon could be printed at about 12 feet wide, 3.5 feet tall, and be in fine detail and sharp focus (with the possible exception of the exact points where some of the individual photos intersect – those can be just a hair off at times, since I don’t have NatGeo grade cameras and computers.)
It’s like the microphotographs they’re taking of (e.g.) insects, where they take multiple photos “through” the insect and then stitch them together to produced one image in perfect detail.
Note also the third man, in a yellow slicker, climbing about 1/3 of the way up on the left side.
Good eyes! He has a long way to go.
Wow… Thanks.
Last night I thought I saw another person, also in a yellow jacket, a bit higher up, on a branch to the right of the trunk… maybe a third of the way from that guy to the one on top.
Then I decided it was too big, and too out of focus, so probably just yellow needles. But now I wonder.
What you see there, I think, is an opening in the branches and you see the trunk of the tree behind it. Compared to the size of the three men, that’s way to big to be much else.
And how about that bear swinging from a branch just over half-way up?
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Built in 1896. It has bicycle wheels and it’s chain-driven, but it does have an engine… a two cylinder one that could produce 4 horsepower. One site says it ran on gasoline, another says pure ethanol.
It had two gears, first, up to 10 mph, second, up to 20 mph (its top speed), but no reverse. It was steered using a tiller, and had a bicycle bell in front and a 3 gal fuel tank under the seat.
Later that year, he sold it for $200, but later regretted selling his very first car, and eventually bought it back for $60.
Well, I might pay up to $60 for it, if it was for sale. It’s a pretty steep price for only 4 horsepower and 20mph. Maybe I could use it on something like Catalina Island or some place like that. It sure wouldn’t work on LA freeways, it’s too fast during rush hour.
Got redirected in southern California a few years ago – freeways were closed due to fires. Spend several miserable hours in bumper to bumper traffic. Do not want to do THAT again.
That happened to me when my nephew was driving me, my niece and his daughter home from a wedding in Portland, during a terrible fire season in 2018.
We were in the middle of nowhere, driving south through northernmost California, where you rarely see a car, and suddenly there was bumper to number traffic, barely moving, detoured onto tiny roads, to avoid a fire.
On the way up, three days earlier, we could see flames from other fires, off to our left, towards the Oregon coast, and considered turning back, but we kept going.
Yeah, scary stuff. I’ve driven past wildfires in Oregon, Utah and California.
I love the back roads through northern California. But not bumper to bumper.
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Manila, capital of the Philippines, August, 2013, when tropical storm Trami combined with especially heavy monsoons to flood the city.
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I still say that looks better than a big old smokestack vomiting out black clouds of toxins.
there’s some politicians who call the shots who seem to disagree with you.
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You wouldn’t catch me trying that for love nor money!
Even better if it was an ACME cable, and he was carrying an anvil to drop on the roadrunner..
Found him!
I did too, finally. Took way longer than it should have.
I have a similar photo of mountain climbers on El Capitan. You don’t realize just how immense these things are until you put something in it for scale.
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Were they ever that young?
But I had to search to find
I did recognize the one the middle as some producer, but would have had to Google for a name…
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It’s a cold, cruel world out here. Thank God for coffee!
I was going to say you’re too late for coffee and eggs.
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Well, it IS a fairly wide ledge, but still….
Nope!
Get off there, right now, before I tell your mothers!
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Needs to be dark chocolate and a few more kitty accessories and kitties.
This one didn’t look real, especially the hair, so I searched it… And yeah it’s an AI produced image sold on a poster.
But the one below is real… Not a real toy for kids, but a joke for adults. I just found it on eBay, but I remember seeing it about 10 years ago.
I wanted to get one for my crazy cat lady friend (±35 rescue cats at any given time!), but it was somewhere around $25…. too expensive for a joke, and she didn’t really appreciate toys the way I do, anyway.
Trailer Trash Barbie?
No, just a cat lover.
In trailer parks you usually can’t have six cats.
She’s missing the 18 inch carving knife.
It not a horror movie!
Some of my best friends have had six cats. <sniffle>
(Though the one I was talking about in my post passed away in 2022.)
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BUNNY!
Bunny or pussycat?
I was ready to vote kitty till I finally saw its ears.
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I never knew Romulus and Remus were so hairy…
I hope she didn’t feel that she had to move them someplace else after the photo.
I’m hoping it’s telephoto, so she doesn’t realize.
Or possibly a trail cam. If this is at a wildlife preserve of some sort, they probably have cameras mounted in a lot of places.
I love the look on her face. 😀
…….
He smells funny, but we love him.
Reminded me of the old joke below; found it here: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/consultant-joke
A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in an Armani suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie (Corb), leans out the window and asks the shepherd, “If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?”
The shepherd looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly answers, “Sure. Why not?” The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T cell phone, surfs to a NASA page on the internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of complex formulas. He uploads all of this data via an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the shepherd and says, “You have exactly 1586 sheep.”
“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my sheep.” says the shepherd. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car. Then the shepherd says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my sheep? ”
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?”
“You’re a consultant.” says the shepherd.
“Wow! That’s correct,” says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?”
“No guessing required.” answered the shepherd. “You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked; and you don’t know crap about my business. . . ” … Now give me back my dog.”
It’s been around, but it’s so absolutely true. If management listened to their employees and customers, they wouldn’t need consultants.
LOL!
Found him!
anybody else having problems loading gocomics?
Sonetimes
Not me at the moment – but the nanny-bots get crazier and crazier.
Is there anything bad with this limerick I tried to post on “Ballard Street”?
Hearing the song “I’m a dreamer”
sounding more like a screamer
alas, close to the beat!
So Jimmy’s true to the feat –
but the mystery meat is a wiener.
wiener?
Wiener sausage.
thanks
Started Sunday I think, Still haven’t been able to get on.
thanks!—I appreciate the confirmation that it’s not on my end
I’ve been having trouble with them since the last upgrade.
I got on yesterday. Nothing today.
Lunch with friends today. 🙂
Tacos are messy…I’ll have tostados instead.
But that’s here the fun is! 😀
I’ve ruined too many shirts lately…can’t keep doing that 🙁
The secret is to wear shirts that you don’t mind staining.
I’ll be having coffee with friends tomorrow…
Small print: Toilet paper not supplied.
While this must be a gag photo… an employee at the big local hardware/home improvement store, where they have a model bathroom display, and an aisle with many toilets set up, none of it connected or private, told me that they sometimes find toilets that somebody used, or let their children use.
The employees have to clean up the results, including the nasty contents of the bowls, plus urine running onto the floor, because there’s no plumbing connection. They do have a janitor a few nights a week, but that’s not something they can leave till then.
Not only is it horrible to contemplate that someone would do this to the poor salespeople…. there’s a large, free, public restroom right there in the store! It’s on the other side, but the sign is visible from just about everywhere.
The local store put the toilets out with no seats – those are sold separately. Less likely to get abused too.
But there’s no way. Not me. I’d rather pass into eternity plugged up than…well, you know…
Except for one or two in the model bathroom(s), these have no seats either, cos you buy the kind of seat you want, from a display on the wall.
Idiots use them anyway!
I don’t really know how often, but one a month is way too many.
Yes. The crappy fact is well-known.
And I suspect that photo was taken by one of those poor employees.