I tried to track this down, and couldn’t find much.
It was on a page called “The three worst design fails of 2024”, and several others with similar titles. But they were all on Instagram, which will only let me in for a few seconds, and I can’t scroll or check links.
A couple of pages said, as if they knew, that the people had bought the dishwasher, but it didn’t fit, so they moved the sink and had that new grey counter made.
It makes sense, cos it doesn’t match the rest of the kitchen. I mean, makes sense as a description, not as an example of what to do.
But I don’t know whether they actually knew the story, or they were just guessing.
Conceived (pun intended) as an anti-abortion image… the thing is, this sculpture depicts a more than full-term infant, not a fetus. Full term is 39 to 40 weeks.
Most but not all states ban abortion in the 3rd trimester, and those done after 21 weeks, which is under the minimum age considered viable, account for less than 1% in the US.
A 21 week old fetus does not look like this sculpture. Yes, I know babies grow, and 2 or 3 months after birth, they will look like this. But not in the womb.
I’m not here to advocate for abortion… I do think it’s a very personal and difficult decision, but showing misleading images to scare people isn’t fair.
Bad as those were, my Dad had a worse one in his desk, which was where I did my homework every night in high school.
It’s like the one below, except ours was grayish white.
It’s not a totally fair comparison… both contain grit that’s supposed to scratch off a layer of the paper, taking the ink with it.
But the blue half above was softer, and less gritty…. meant for ballpoint ink, which is oily and sinks into the paper, and I don’t know why anyone ever thought a mild abrasive could take it off.
The wheel one was meant for typewriter ink, which is drier and very stubbornly bonded.
I don’t know if the eraser part was softer when it was new, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out my dad had owned it since his high school days.
It was hard as a rock, and exceedingly abrasive. Decades of use had hardly worn anything away. I was trying to use it for ballpoint ink… but a couple of swipes cut right through the paper, with a smeary trail of ink left behind. I have no idea why I kept trying.
The weird thing is, I think you can still buy both new, even though I’ve seen the wheel kind in antique stores. They just look older than they are.
It’s a beach crow. Remember, they have to compete with seagulls.
I watched a beach crow pester an eagle standing over a meal. Kept sneaking behind the eagle and pulling its tail.
I’ve just been having a little argument with PostImage…
I was testing the puzzle solution link….
I said “Please display this image”
It said “What’s in it for me?”
I think Cleo must have been a bad example all this time. I’ve been posting her puzzles and the site got the idea that it wanted to be demanding and disobedient too.
But I did a few little dances, stood on my head, and offered it treats…
And I think it’s working now. If it doesn’t work for you, come back in a while, say nice things to it, and it probably will. If not, please let me know.
Meanwhile… This puzzle, to me, wasn’t easy.
There are a couple of very subtle differences I could hardly make out on my tablet. First time, IIRC, in probably a couple of years I missed something and had to reach out to Nighthawks.
So, yesterday I finally got around to replacing the PIR floodlight on the side of my house. It’s been up near the apex of the roof for something like 20 years, it’s had two replacement bulbs in that time, both of them 5W LED units. The original bulb was a 75W halogen. Towards the end of last winter it developed a fault with the timing circuit, it would switch on when activated, but wouldn’t turn off until it got light enough in the morning. I didn’t worry about it too much as it was only a 5W lamp in it, but after about a week I took the bulb out so it wouldn’t annoy the neighbour across the street.
I’ve replaced the PIR/Lamp unit with a 10W LED floodlight, and a separate PIR unit that I’ve mounted lower down the wall so it shouldn’t trigger for people walking past on the pavement. At some point I will add another couple of lights operated by the PIR to increase the lighting along the side of the house, this is the other reason I went for the separate PIR unit.
“Every 20 minute job is one broken bolt away from a three day ordeal.”
I drilled through the wall and ran a length of four core flex to the PIR unit (Power/Neutral/Switched Live/Earth) from the switched fused spur box in the loft that fed the existing PIR light. I connected the switched live from the PIR to the power feed to the new light in the switched spur box, and kept the existing neutral and earth connections. Put up the new LED floodlight, and had to add a waterproof connection box to the outside of the wall as the new light had a pigtail where the old light didn’t. I could have put the attached cable through the wall and made the connection in the loft, but I figured it would be easier to replace the floodlight this way, if needed in the future. It started to rain as I was finishing up, so all I did was put some initial settings on the PIR and left it until it got dark (And stopped raining) to set it correctly.
It got dark, I went outside, the light didn’t come on. Bummer. Looking at the floodlight, it was apparent that the LED chips were glowing slightly. Double Bummer!
“NEW = Never Ever Works.”
So I thought about what was going on and came to the conclusion that either I’d lost the Neutral to the PIR, or the PIR itself was faulty. The glowing LEDs could be explained by capacitive coupling of the power feed and the Switch Live in the four core cable, if the Neutral was missing. So this afternoon I armed myself with a ‘Fluke’ multimeter (A Fluke 76 to be precise), and did some testing. As expected, no Neutral at the PIR. Went into the loft and checked at the switch spur box, and found that not only did I have a Neutral at the box, but the cable was also connected correctly and making good contact. Remade the connections just to be sure and tested again at the PIR. Still no neutral, I had 16V between Live and Neutral, and 248V between Live and Earth.
The brand new 3m length of four core cable, that I’d cut off a brand new, wrapped, 100m drum of cable, had a break in the blue Neutral core. You just can’t make this kind of crap up. I cut a new length, replaced the cable, and, as if by magic, it now works!!!
I need to go and lie down in a darkened room for a few hours now……
It’s been a lot of up and down ladders the last couple of days.
My sympathies. “If you eliminate the impossible; whatever remains, however improbabale, must be the truth.”(Sherlock Holmes/Arthur Conan Doyle :: & Spock)
For those wondering what “PIR” stands for, a PIR lamp is a light fixture with a built-in Passive Infrared (PIR) sensor that automatically turns on when it detects movement.
Did you test the rest of the cable? If there’e one break (I’ve never seen a break in a cable), there could be more. You should be able to get your money back.
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A now anonymous woman, her portrait was taken in Budapest in the late 1870s, by Hungarian artist and early photographer Antal Simonyi.
Colorized in 2020 from a sepia toned carte de visite, or visiting card, which was similar to a cabinet card, but smaller.
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OMG! A New Yorker cartoon I actually understand!
“FInd the nine differences…”
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Looks like someone took a bite out of the cheese, doesn’t it?
Took me a while to figure out what cheese you meant… but yeah.
Actually one whole edge has been nibbled away.
Space mice?
moon mice
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Hello neighbor!
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Really makes me love the contractor who did MY countertops.
Let this be a reminder!
Measure 16 times, cut once!
That has to have been deliberate, though the reason is a mystery.
Look at the construction of the tap and sink.
It wouldn’t work too close to the wall.
There’s no reason it wouldn’t work in the normal position. There’s a standard distance for installation, leaving room for the faucets behind the sink.
It’s wider than the counter, so it sticks out. Some do… but AFAIK no company would manufacture a sink you had to install at that angle.
Look again, please.
Is that a dishwasher or is it a range?
If that is a dishwasher it might be part of the reason.
well, the stainless-steel-fronted appliance next to the oddball-placed sink, appears to be a dishwasher
There isn’t a standalone stove, but an electric cooktop set into the counter.
The yellow teakettle is sitting on a burner, and the white things in front are the knobs.
Observe the time on the clock…
The Boys have gone to prep for their 4:20 break…
I tried to track this down, and couldn’t find much.
It was on a page called “The three worst design fails of 2024”, and several others with similar titles. But they were all on Instagram, which will only let me in for a few seconds, and I can’t scroll or check links.
A couple of pages said, as if they knew, that the people had bought the dishwasher, but it didn’t fit, so they moved the sink and had that new grey counter made.
It makes sense, cos it doesn’t match the rest of the kitchen. I mean, makes sense as a description, not as an example of what to do.
But I don’t know whether they actually knew the story, or they were just guessing.
Looks like they got a great view out the window
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HAH HAH HAH!!! They’re kidding, right?
Clickbait
Such an innocent face.
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Conceived (pun intended) as an anti-abortion image… the thing is, this sculpture depicts a more than full-term infant, not a fetus. Full term is 39 to 40 weeks.
Most but not all states ban abortion in the 3rd trimester, and those done after 21 weeks, which is under the minimum age considered viable, account for less than 1% in the US.
A 21 week old fetus does not look like this sculpture. Yes, I know babies grow, and 2 or 3 months after birth, they will look like this. But not in the womb.
I’m not here to advocate for abortion… I do think it’s a very personal and difficult decision, but showing misleading images to scare people isn’t fair.
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As I recall, it left a smeary mess
…or ripped the paper to shreds.
And a hole in the paper!!
Bad as those were, my Dad had a worse one in his desk, which was where I did my homework every night in high school.
It’s like the one below, except ours was grayish white.
It’s not a totally fair comparison… both contain grit that’s supposed to scratch off a layer of the paper, taking the ink with it.
But the blue half above was softer, and less gritty…. meant for ballpoint ink, which is oily and sinks into the paper, and I don’t know why anyone ever thought a mild abrasive could take it off.
The wheel one was meant for typewriter ink, which is drier and very stubbornly bonded.
I don’t know if the eraser part was softer when it was new, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out my dad had owned it since his high school days.
It was hard as a rock, and exceedingly abrasive. Decades of use had hardly worn anything away. I was trying to use it for ballpoint ink… but a couple of swipes cut right through the paper, with a smeary trail of ink left behind. I have no idea why I kept trying.
The weird thing is, I think you can still buy both new, even though I’ve seen the wheel kind in antique stores. They just look older than they are.
Typewriter eraser. There is a giant one at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington DC.
Yes… by Claes Oldenburg and his wife, who was often his collaborator. I just can’t remember her name.
I’ve seen pictures of it.
I did say that it’s a typewriter eraser, but I know it was a long comment.
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It’s just a crow, being a jerk. 😀
Why a jerk?
I thought they were having a nice conversation, except the doggie only knows a few words of crow, and the crow doesn’t speak dog.
Luckily they both speak a little English.
It’s a beach crow. Remember, they have to compete with seagulls.
I watched a beach crow pester an eagle standing over a meal. Kept sneaking behind the eagle and pulling its tail.
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There was a guy with almost this hairstyle in front of me in line at the grocery store last week.
When he was putting his stuff on the conveyor belt, he turned in my direction, and I could see that he had a deep receding hairline.
His little bun was right on the edge of the bald part, like a small tree by the lake.
I like long hair on men… I don’t even mind a ponytail on a balding guy…. but I’m not so sure about a man bun.
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Brownstones in Brooklyn.
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Other than that it’s from a book of photos, I couldn’t track this down.
I’ve just been having a little argument with PostImage…
I was testing the puzzle solution link….
I said “Please display this image”
It said “What’s in it for me?”
I think Cleo must have been a bad example all this time. I’ve been posting her puzzles and the site got the idea that it wanted to be demanding and disobedient too.
But I did a few little dances, stood on my head, and offered it treats…
And I think it’s working now. If it doesn’t work for you, come back in a while, say nice things to it, and it probably will. If not, please let me know.
Meanwhile… This puzzle, to me, wasn’t easy.
There are a couple of very subtle differences I could hardly make out on my tablet. First time, IIRC, in probably a couple of years I missed something and had to reach out to Nighthawks.
Hopefully on a computer you’ll see all nine….
X-1, and I think I did well to find them.
I’d say that’s a great job.
Only seven today.
Reasonable, for this one.
I found them all, but like you mentioned, Susan, some are very subtle.
Thank you for the solution for verification.
You’re welcome!
‘The Return of the Prodigal Son’ (2025), Nataliya Bagatskaya.
He’s not sure he’s ready to return.
Maybe only a brief visit…
Clouded Leopard, for Caturday.
Calliope Hummingbird.
How did the photographer know her name?
He probably guessed, when she tweeted that merry-go-round music.
“from the ecstatic harmony of her voice” (Wikipedia)
The Saga of the new Outside Light…..
So, yesterday I finally got around to replacing the PIR floodlight on the side of my house. It’s been up near the apex of the roof for something like 20 years, it’s had two replacement bulbs in that time, both of them 5W LED units. The original bulb was a 75W halogen. Towards the end of last winter it developed a fault with the timing circuit, it would switch on when activated, but wouldn’t turn off until it got light enough in the morning. I didn’t worry about it too much as it was only a 5W lamp in it, but after about a week I took the bulb out so it wouldn’t annoy the neighbour across the street.
I’ve replaced the PIR/Lamp unit with a 10W LED floodlight, and a separate PIR unit that I’ve mounted lower down the wall so it shouldn’t trigger for people walking past on the pavement. At some point I will add another couple of lights operated by the PIR to increase the lighting along the side of the house, this is the other reason I went for the separate PIR unit.
“Every 20 minute job is one broken bolt away from a three day ordeal.”
I drilled through the wall and ran a length of four core flex to the PIR unit (Power/Neutral/Switched Live/Earth) from the switched fused spur box in the loft that fed the existing PIR light. I connected the switched live from the PIR to the power feed to the new light in the switched spur box, and kept the existing neutral and earth connections. Put up the new LED floodlight, and had to add a waterproof connection box to the outside of the wall as the new light had a pigtail where the old light didn’t. I could have put the attached cable through the wall and made the connection in the loft, but I figured it would be easier to replace the floodlight this way, if needed in the future. It started to rain as I was finishing up, so all I did was put some initial settings on the PIR and left it until it got dark (And stopped raining) to set it correctly.
It got dark, I went outside, the light didn’t come on. Bummer. Looking at the floodlight, it was apparent that the LED chips were glowing slightly. Double Bummer!
“NEW = Never Ever Works.”
So I thought about what was going on and came to the conclusion that either I’d lost the Neutral to the PIR, or the PIR itself was faulty. The glowing LEDs could be explained by capacitive coupling of the power feed and the Switch Live in the four core cable, if the Neutral was missing. So this afternoon I armed myself with a ‘Fluke’ multimeter (A Fluke 76 to be precise), and did some testing. As expected, no Neutral at the PIR. Went into the loft and checked at the switch spur box, and found that not only did I have a Neutral at the box, but the cable was also connected correctly and making good contact. Remade the connections just to be sure and tested again at the PIR. Still no neutral, I had 16V between Live and Neutral, and 248V between Live and Earth.
The brand new 3m length of four core cable, that I’d cut off a brand new, wrapped, 100m drum of cable, had a break in the blue Neutral core. You just can’t make this kind of crap up. I cut a new length, replaced the cable, and, as if by magic, it now works!!!
I need to go and lie down in a darkened room for a few hours now……
It’s been a lot of up and down ladders the last couple of days.
My sympathies.
“If you eliminate the impossible; whatever remains, however improbabale, must be the truth.” (Sherlock Holmes/Arthur Conan Doyle :: & Spock)
For those wondering what “PIR” stands for, a PIR lamp is a light fixture with a built-in Passive Infrared (PIR) sensor that automatically turns on when it detects movement.
If only these posts were in English….. 🙂
There’s a few English words sprinkled in here and there , I’m almost certain
Magic pixies no likey gap in copper highway.
Did you test the rest of the cable? If there’e one break (I’ve never seen a break in a cable), there could be more. You should be able to get your money back.