I hope you had an enjoyable Labor Day holiday. I remember having fun with this 2009 A&J when I drew it. I’m afraid it’s obvious that my video-gaming experience was limited to early versions of Nintendo, but we are talking about a cat here. Ludwig can’t be expected to master “Call of Duty.” That is a video game, right? I was pretty good at “Duck Hunt,” to which Ludwig’s game above owes much.
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Ghost: I live in Texas. Nobody ever tells me that.
emb: All I know is that there wasn’t a white uniform for British admirals (or officers) in the nineteenth century. But, of course, an admiral afloat could wear any darned thing he wanted to
It looks like civvies > a uniform to me, but I can’t tell if the artist even IDed him as an admiral. Frustrating.
whoops: looked again. Hadn’t noticed the naval officer hat against the dark background.
Straight out of G&S, Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, First Lord of the Admiralty, HMS Pinafore.
Current games: three versions of a bridge-playing game (name escapes me) for which one needs to shell out several dozen dollars each. The newer the version, the better the bridge and the more rapid, but the game’s idea of what ought to have happened on a given hand is sometimes totally unbelievable! It beats my play, and easily….
http://www.lufthansa-vp.com/vp1/play.html gets to a good game of “know your European geography”. It is challenging, especially as there is a time limit of, say, 5-8 seconds. Three sublevels are included, easiest identifying cities (by anonymous dots), a second without dots but still with country borders, and the last without even country borders. Give it a shot; it is worth your time. I have had it in my favorites list for a few years.
Used to have a challenging miniature golf game; addictive to the extent of playing 15 – 25 games in a row. My love of things geometrical (to figure out at which angle to hit the ball) was the attraction. Finally, I aced the game – all 18 holes-in-one – then printed out the score sheet as proof, and ditched the game since improvement was no longer possible.
Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, – without his adoring entourage of sisters, cousins (whom he reckons up by dozens), and his aunts??
I’m volunteering at the office of a local nonprofit organization. Their website needs some editing; I’ll use the tools they’ll provide. The biggest problem is someone converted several of their files from .HTML to .PHP format without updating all the links.
Can one of you recommend a tool for finding the bad links in a website that is cheap (free would be best!), safe (will do no harm), and reliable? An understandable list of bad links and which files to find them in would be good to have. I understand some tools put out a list of all links, good and bad, for the user to wade through.
Probably my favorite game of all time was “Going Postal”. Just a simple little thing that I called up when having computer issues. As long as you held the mouse button down it fired off rounds and blasted the bejeebies out of the screen. You could sniper that meddlesome usoft command or you could open up rapid fire and lay the whole screen to waste. Once you felt like you had gotten your revenge on whatever program was giving you fits (usually it was some sort of code for me, at that time) you just hit ctrl-z and everything returned to normal.
I’d still use it but I could never convince my current mal- virus hunter software that it really was not evil code and finally gave up the fight.
That’s Beda’s “A Gentleman Bemused.” The source of his bemusement is, of course, left to the imagination of the viewer. My guess: Something he’s heard from the next room through the doors ajar.
The modern day caption is amusing, if not particularly bemusing.
Well, c ex-p, where my Lufthansa airliner didn’t reach the desired destination, I did at least manage to land in both the correct country and within a comfortable train ride to the correct destination…with one exception. And who’d want to go to Latvia, anyway? 🙂
emb, here’s what I found: http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/1515529
LillyBlack, if you want to play Civilization, but don’t like the price, look here: http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page FreeCiv is a free version that runs on many platforms, including Windows.
Mark: Thanks. In that site, it is aptly entitled ‘Eavesdropping.’
Just thought of another question. We’re indoors in a substantial bldg. of some sort. Here’s a dressed up gentleman[?] of importance with his hat on in the house. He is not a Hassidic Jew. What sort of manners is this? Of course, eavesdropping itself is impolite. Whatever. My guess also is that the hat is not necessarily a military one. Somebody else can investigate that.
The bicorne and tricorne hat was not necessarily military. They were considered a bit more formal than the “round hat,” though.
Lily: Thanks. emb
http://www.artnet.com/artists/francesco-beda/a-gentleman-bemused-GMDOkYcEuXrrlPWFPy9HSg2
According to the OCD Art Historian over at That Is Priceless who comments on every painting, there have been two recent (and unsuccessful) attempts to auction off the Beda work, once under the name “Eavesdropping” and once under “A Gentleman Bemused.” Wonder how that happened?
Well, once again I dozed off. It is kinda embarrassing to wake up in my room getting dressed in my nightie, but it is better than waking up on the couch! Nighty-night, all!
Debbe 😉
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Debbe 😉
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Good morning Villagers….
No sleep, no time….
Thanks GR 😉 …now I’ll have that earworm in my head all day 🙂
later
Good morning, Villagers. Eight miles this morning, and now we are back in The Office Is My Life without any surgery, boo.
Apple has announced that the nude photos (or otherwise revealing pictures…I haven’t seen them myself) that were hacked from the owners’ private iCloud accounts were obtained the old fashion way…by cracking targeted accounts’ user names, passwords, security questions, etc.
While that means that you and I (well, me, anyway; not sure about you; you may actually be a gorgeous female celebrity with a penchant for getting nekkid in front of iPhones) probably don’t need to worry too much about our information or privacy being compromised, it does serve to remind us that we should use strong security and passwords for our accounts. (Hint: “ABC123” is not a “strong password”.)
You mean “SweetSusie#1” is not a strong password? 🙁
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http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html