I told you when I began showing you this little series on Tuesday that I like it. Having seen it again, I haven’t changed my mind. Not all but most of the gags involve the dry, conversational humor I like to think I’m good at. Anyone who has followed baseball will tell you that if you hit a single every time you come to the plate, well… you’d only be the greatest baseball player who ever lived. Most of these are singles and doubles. I’m not holding these strips up as great, but if you’re at all interested in what the guy who draws this stuff likes, this is it. I like this.
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I’m not sure of the reasons, Morphy. There were only 3 rows of keys versus the normal layout. Made switching to use a regular typewriter a learning experience every time you had to do a report on one. If you look up the Model 28 on Wikipedia there is a color advertising folder you can enlarge. Most of the ones we used looked like the one on the far left, with the tape punch built in. The paper tape was the recording medium, punching up to 5 holes per character. Arrangement of the hole punches determined the character. We had to learn to read directly from the punched holes while the tape was coming out of the punch.
Ghost said that was good observation Morphy. I wonder if you noticed the huge variety of pet supplies, gardening, decor items, clothes, toys, even foods?
Tractor Supply amazes me.
But it was a different code than the already established Braille, because it served a different purpose, and reduplicating digits on a-j did not make sense.
When I was learning Basic, I wanted to make use of what was barely called graphics, a six-cell character set addressable as an extension from ASCII if you memorized the binary progression. My goal was to create a reasonable representation of rolling a pair of dice for a short Craps game. But I sidelined myself creating a Braille representation using the graphics set. Totally useless as a practical idea, of course. Press as hard as you like, you can’t feel the difference on a CRT display. But it was a practice for calling up and displaying any character I generated from the set available.
When the movie The Matrix came out people would ask if geeks could really ‘see’ code the way they presented Tank and Dozer doing it. I said no, ‘ but ask a geek of appropriate age about bug-hunting a stack of 80-line cards, and you’ll see their eyes spin.’
Jackie, yeah, I mean there may be bigger ones around Tulsa, if they need to keep inventory on hand between load-ins. But the ones I’ve been to Maximize variety and range by keeping a minimum quantity of each item on hand. I learned more about caring for a horse in my twenties by browsing 3 aisles at Tractor Supply, than I learned from my High School Girlfriend. But I may have been unfairly distracted by the one that would laugh at my dumb jokes. She was definitely more fun to snuggle.
Oh, also some time back I think we joked about ‘Chicken Poop’, a lip balm guaranteed to stop you from licking your lips too dry. A product I found at TS.
Also, don’t underrate their mechanic’s section. Worth stopping there before hitting the overpriced auto store chains.
Unfortunately, if country of origin is strictly important to you over price, you may be disappointed the two do not go hand in hand. Hobby Lobby, another strong retailer has a similar difficulty for crafters.
Yesterday I got an unsolicited email from a food site called Well Done. They referenced another site called Extra Crispy. Extra Crispy has, and I am not making this up, a “Bacon Critic”. (Where is lilyblack when I need her to be repulsed by bacon, as well as by sex?) He is New Orleans native, life-long pork fan, and food writer Scott Gold, and he beat out 1500+ other applicants for the position. His first project for Extra Crispy was to find the best bacon in the United States. He, cleverly, entitled the article “The Best Bacon in the United States”.
There were several categories, but the one I want to mention is Best All-Purpose, No-Frills Supermarket Bacon. The winner is…Smithfield Thick Cut Bacon. Way to go, Lady Mindy!
In case you are interested, or even if you’re not, the overall winner was Vande Rose Farms Applewood-Smoked Artisan Dry-Cured Bacon. With a name like that, it’s got to be good. And it damn well better be…it’s $79 for a 2.25 pound pack. Jackie says she could buy a whole pig, slaughter it, and cure the bacon for less than that.
Only 1500+ applications? Did they close the mailbox after 3 hours?
Not to pile on needlessly, ok maybe a bit, glad again I missed out on some prior contributors. I’ve known people with faith reasons, and people of vegan ideals who drool at the smell of bacon just short of crispy. They may look on longingly, but I suppose I have been unfairly privileged that none of them have reacted with raised voice that I might enjoy what they prefer not to. They still share their humus with me.
Long-time citizens of the Village will know I have a slight fondness for sundresses. Well, OK, I have a near-fetish level of appreciation for sundresses. L-TCs will also know I have bemoaned, in recent years, that sundress spottings have become quite rare, even in the Deep South. Alas, I have found them nonexistent in Oklahoma. So, I decided if one cannot find sundresses in the wild, one may cultivate their presence.
As Jackie has mentioned, she and I have undertaken a joint project to jazz up Terrie the Denim Jeans Cut-Off Shorts Housekeeper. Jackie provides the fashion input, and I provide the sex-appeal input. We had to make another run to Good Will Store Town yesterday, so we stopped in for some more bargains. Somehow, one of those was a strapless sundress so short it came with its own panties. We gave it to Terrie today, and she loved it. Coincidences will never cease, will they?
No double-dipping the pita chips though. I’m not thoughtless.
I do applaud both of you in your tireless efforts in the resurrection of the sun-dress!
We should all make efforts to see that comforting coolness never goes out of style.
Afterthought, are you sure that item was in the summer wear collection?
That may have been misplaced from lingerie?
Jackie, leave those poor garden snakes alone! They are deadlier than you know…
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/garter-snake-lounge/6238-garter-snakes-can-very-dangerous.html
BTW, tonight the sky was very clear (a nice storm dropped the temperature over 20°F and blew all the dust out of our valley’s air) and Saturn was amazingly bright and certainly more than a star. Our planet’s relationship to Saturn has changed over the past few weeks and it clearly has a ring around it at 40x. The last I saw it the image wasn’t as sharp and as Galileo first described it, it had “ears.”
That is hilarious Trucker. Ghost will like it.
What he isn’t telling you is I am not as tiny as Terrie but not shabby. I wear brief shorts, rompers and sun dresses at my advanced age. Hence the request to shop for Terrie, she likes my clothes.
Yes, that was definitely shorts with strapless top and skirt, made like a one piece bathing suit.
Today I told Ghost I was taking some too large clothes to give to my hairdressers church and he asked, “You have clothes suitable for church ladies to wear?”
Thank you David in Austin for the link to that wonderful gardening cart. I ordered a red one. Do you use one?
Trucker:
1. Hilarious.
2. That’s Thamnophis sirtalis, two words.
3. Garter snakes, can in fact, be dangerous. Their saliva is mildly poisonous, or maybe infectious just because it is contaminated with nasty microbes. If you catch one safely, holding it just behind the head so it cannot bite, it will wipe its vent on you, guaranteeing you will stink. If a dog grabs it, it may drop it because of the foul taste. Good critters to let be.
Peace,
Ghost Sweetie, now that you mention it I do remember reading the bacon article somewhere, and thinking that even if I can’t afford the top of the line bacon, I do buy all-round good stuff. If anyone in The Village should splurge and buy the Vande Rose Farms bacon I might be persuaded to take a taste of it for comparative purposes. Just saying.
I learned how to make bacon, cut pork when I took butchering course in college. Three hours credit for that course and three hours credit for judging livestock while alive and in meat form.
Made the national collegiate livestock judging team and meat judging team, only female in America that year.
I pick good meat for Ghost to grill. We are having Smithfield pork loins cut into chops for lunch.
Today is Flag Day. We bought new ones to display. Now if I can wake the Tall one of us up?
Display your flag proudly. Freedom isn’t free.
https://pixabay.com/en/usa-flags-stars-and-stripes-1149896/
Hooray for Mindy’s bacon! Hope all is going well for you, Mindy!
I guess it’s time to get back to something I said I would do a month ago – post links to some of the bands we heard at the Gamble Rogers Music Festival in St. Augustine. (I’ve been distracted by some crochet projects, making dinosaurs for an elementary school classroom.)
The Grass is Dead, a bluegrass Grateful Dead cover band, really got the crowd on their feet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0FxffmRBgE
Yup happy Flag Day. Go ahead and debate whether or not Betsy Ross designed the first flag. At least it will make you think about our flag and what it means.
When I was in school, Ursen, I was taught that Betsy Ross persuaded the men who asked her to create the first flag to use five-pointed stars instead of six because she could make them by folding the cloth and making one cut, simplifying the task. The basic idea of a blue canton, white stars and red and white stripes had already been worked out.
Off topic of Betsy, but the stars number of points reminded me of a question I’ve never quite satisfied. Five points were used occasionally in history, and I’ve read many arcane reasons that people believe that to be. But recent history has made it (the equidistant style at least) pretty well identifiable with the United States.
My observation has been that it is nearly universally shown ‘standing’ on two points like the letter A holding out it’s arms. Except on Navy uniforms, where it sands on a single point like the letter V.
Is it like the hull of a ship in the waterline? Is it the Army/Navy rivalry? Do I fixate on things no one else cares about? Questions for the ages.
Ruth Anne, crocheted dinosaurs sound pretty cool! I’ve crocheted bunnies and birds.
HAL thinks ‘sands’ makes perfect sense. My keyboard has a reluctant ‘t’, and a slightly more cooperative ‘5’. ‘g’ works fine.
Stands is the word I wanted, Navy uniforms have stars that point ‘down’ to the cuff. Possibly because arms are never held perfectly straight, and a body in use is more often closer to 36° from vertical than straight up and down?