I’m away from my studio this morning, so I’m digging out old material between the seat cushions of my laptop. This little poem first appeared in 2006 and ran here on the Web site three years ago. I’ve always thought it was rather cute. Note the candle: although it is a deliberate exaggeration in this case, I am struck when I go back through the old material with the anachronisms—or things on their way to becoming anachronisms—that are present in the everyday comic strips. VHS, telephone books, video recorders the size of cigar boxes, audio CDs, the CD itself. The list goes on and on.
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Good morning Village, rise and shine y’all.
Jerry: “Does anyone know if that was the space station by the moon this morning? It was really something and it was the only light in the sky other than the moon.”
It was Venus.
Peace, emb
Maybe an alternative title for today’s website cartoon and paragraph:
“Tandem Sleepers”
Hello again, Sand I thunk you know how to get in touch with Ghost, anyone eelse? Can someone try? We are all concerned. I know both his mom and BIL were having trouble healthwise.
Me and tablet not doing well, poor relationship.
No Debbe, I am heading for a boating event on Stockton Lake for weekend. I have the 20# ham, boxes of cookies, six bottles of wine and big bottles of rum and vodka for those who drink, not me. They will probably like that better than my boat. Love.
About today’s strip, good advice on syncing ones hours with a mate. My late husband and I were on the same schedule as mongeese and rats in the cane fields in Hawaii.
Debbe, here’s some funny animals for you: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/11918890/Comedy-Wildlife-Photography-Awards-2015-even-more-of-the-best-entries-so-far.html?frame=3467157
Ghost has been MIA since 10/3. “Car 54 Where Are You?”.
Another thing from that strip that you don’t see any more is men in nightshirts.
^°^°^°^°^ has no back alley access to GR6.
wonder if one of these is our Ghost Rider?
http://www.ghostriders-online.org/index3.html
Before you panic about GR, remember he has been having internet problems, and he lives in the Gulf Coast area. About 3 months ago, we had a thunderstorm that popped up in my area (I live north of Houston) and a bolt of lightning hit near us, although not on our property. The bang scared the you-know-what out of me, and the lights flickered, so we got some kind of a surge. It took out our modem, which we replaced, but still no internet. Took 5 days for the ISP repair man to find the problem and fix it – apparently it had fried or reset stuff not only on our line, but up from us. Hopefully GR’s absence is tech and not family related.
I know I don’t post much, but will be doing so even less. Going to go see my son which I haven’t done in about 8 years. 2 weeks to drive a total of a little over 2k miles, and see my sister enroute. Going to be fun and hard both.
Mark, if Ghost doesn’t surface soon write me about how to do a search for an unknown name. Just email or contact on Facebook. You may know how.
Me, I’m hoping he is on a hot date or vacation or even a honeymoon, unlikely as that may be. Love.
Trucker: Stumped my daughter, too, so sent her this:
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Kaf, Here are the relevant posts from the A&J blog.
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“TruckerRon 04 Oct 2015 # 232. With the various holidays showing up on the calendar beginning with Hallowe’en, ‘Why do computer programmers confuse Hallowe’en with Christmas? Because Oct 31 = Dec 25.’ [Actually, Trucker wrote Halloween.] emb # 239. Trucker: Stumped my younger niece with base 8 vs. 10. Too bad our ancestors didn’t foresee our binary future. Base 8 would have fit our world better.
TruckerRon # 249. Debbe (and others who don’t already understand): Cptr programmers work in a number of different number bases, such as binary (base 2), octal (base 8), decimal (base 10) and hexadecimal (base 16). To avoid confusion, they often indicate which base they are working in by prefixing their numbers with the first three letters of the base name (bin, oct, dec, hex). The decimal no. 25 is 31 in octal, so Oct 31 = Dec 25. If you’re still in the dark, that’s OK. You can always Google (or bing) Octal for a more detailed explanation.”
In Octal, the digits are: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 only, no 8 or 9. Therefore, 8 decimal = 10 octal: Look at the backs of your hands, hide your thumbs, and count from the left pinky: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10. Therefore, 16 decimal = 20 octal; 24 decimal = 30 octal, and 25 Dec = 31 Oct. Neat. If we had Disney hands, our base would be 8, which would mesh nicely w/ the base 2 of cptrs. Love, Dad
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Peace, emb
Safe journey, Ursen. See you when you get back. 🙂
We’ve been having a lovely time in the mountains – gorgeous cool weather, lots of fall color, good food. Legs are a little sore from trails that aren’t flat like they are at home and our lungs have done some complaining too. Luckily, just when we’re feeling old and out of shape, we notice some youngsters huffing and puffing as much as we are.
While we’ve been on the Blue Ridge Parkway for the last few days, we’ve been somewhat out of touch. Little or no phone signal and only minimal wifi at the little lodge where we stayed – kind of nice, actually.
Jerry – check out http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/
Time for an Arlo memorial strip: http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2015/10/paul_prudhomme_dead.html#incart_river_home
Paul was a nice guy, his family all cooked. I never much cared for the blackened thing and I remember everyone originally doubting if K-Paul’s would make it. The scary thing is that I always thought he was much older than this. The weight was an.issue so he was lucky to live this long.
Thanks, Mark
You’re welcome, Anonymous. Since we have a fair representation of Gulf Coast readers, thought that would be of interest. And an even larger group of cooks/eaters!
I wear a night shirt in winter – maybe not so long as his.
I sure feels good walking to that little room when we turn the heat down at night.
When we heated with wood – Ma-ma had a kerchief & I had a cap. And our noses still
got cold – no wonder the Eskimos rubbed noses.
Jerry:
About the space station –
I’m not sure when or if Jimmy will have time to clear my first post. It went into limbo because I put two links in it.
Here’s the basic text but without the links:
I receive emails that tell me when and where the space station will be visible.
Here’s the basic url: (Use a search engine with the term “spot the station.”
Click the “sign up” link…
Good morning Villagers…
Jerry, Emb had been educating me on morning stargazing….read his comment from a couple of days ago. And yes, Venus is very bright this time of morning (5:50)….but this morning is cloudy, sigh. I actually copied and pasted some of it at the very end of “And, of course, pisces” Check it out.
Mark, those pics…the first one threw me…I didn’t know they could stretch like that 🙂
Steve, I’ve a story of a railroad track that ran between our house growing up and my grandparents house….but I’m running late.
gotta go…
Somebody, please find GR…..I fighting withdrawals from ‘Mood” music.
Judy, I hope and pray that is all that is wrong with GR.
Ya’ll have a blessed day.
spot the ‘real’ one…
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/8572855808/hBCCED02B/
Ursen…be safe in your travels and enjoy your visits……
Jerry, check out this website for visual and info…..thanks for the link too Emb.
http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-four-planets-bright-star-before-sunrise-october-10