As promised, here’s the earlier version of the Sunday A&J comic from last November, that reran here yesterday. It wasn’t quite as old as I remembered; it was from 1993. I included the two bonus panels at the top, which are designed to be disposable, because I wanted you to see the store shopping bag. In the recent version of the strip, you’ll notice a cardboard box. In the strip from 2014, most of us would conclude Janis purchased the skirt online, and it had been delivered. I think that’s probably the single biggest difference in the strips, drawn 21 years apart. There’s something else that sticks out, something that bedeviled me for many years. In the older strip, Arlo and Janis are roughly the same height. By most reckoning, this would put Janis on the tall side or Arlo on the short side or a little of both. It just seemed to be that way. For no particular reason other than creating visual contrast (think “Mutt & Jeff”), I consciously reminded myself for years to make Arlo a little taller than Janis. Now, it comes kind of naturally, but it took awhile. I now think of Arlo as average in height and Janis perhaps a little taller than average. But not much. There, have I written enough for today?
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182 responses to “Redoing the Redux”
emb, the word you are looking for is clerestory. Per Wikipedia, they are any high windows above eye level.
eMb, you might mean “clerestory”.
Birds inside: would hanging netting be likely to entangle any safely? Hanging old fashioned sticky flypaper is too drastic unless there is a real health risk in having the wild birds present.
Ya beat me to it, Mark!
Get the artificial owls from a garden center and hang them near the doors outside. That should discourage any smaller birds from trying to enter there.
Like the ones here: http://www.lowes.com/Outdoors/Insect-Pest-Control/Animal-Repellents-Traps/Bird-Repellents/_/N-1z0wggi/pl#!
clerestory.
Mark and c x-p. Thank you much. JJ should be able to write off any costs here because it’s a non-profit educational site.
Peace, emb
Did a scan hier. Probably scanned away my ID. emb
Ghost that was a great convergence there as my hip replacement was about $30,000 or so. No word from the wife as to how much a total Steve replacement would be!
I did get my 20 miles in yesterday. The cold weather has been brutal and it’s been hard to walk every day. The last 2 or 3 miles were tough. It was about 20-25 degrees but not a cloud in the sky. I will be reading the scriptures at Church this morning with a nice tan on my nose and face. I guess I need to wear sunscreen.
Steve: My dermatologist [= former student, probably now close to retirement] would have a frown on her face. 20 miles with no sunscreen!
Attended college performance of The Mikado yesterday afternoon. Everything was quite correct. Almost. They didn’t realize the “Japanese” pronunciation is vAHse, not vAYse. Splendid tenor as Nanki-poo. Katisha was a hoot. Not all the voices were A-1 [or HP, for that matter], but the overall production was spot-on. The Mikado, sung by an English prof who is the deepest bass in town, was in Noh [speelczech recognizes that and Koko, but neither Nanki nor Katisha] make-up. They must think The Mikado is really about Japan.
Odd that Koko was in a wheelchair; turns out the actor/singer injured his back. Worked around that nicely, using an ancient prop-shop wheelchair that wife used a quarter century ago in the second act of Octet Bridge Club. She played the oldest of 8 sisters in the octet.
Peace, emb
Jimmy- Race you! 🙂
Steve, are you sure that’s a tan and not frostbite? I think emb’s dr. would have additional objections about out in such cold for so long…..
Debbe is there a screen or netting across the window you have to leave open? If not, perhaps that’s where the birds are getting in. And you’ve probably already thought of that one. 🙂
OF is lovely this morning.
Have a good day y’all.
The note at 9:12 PM from Anonymous was me. Evidently my tablet doesn’t know who I am!
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emb, I hadn’t considered that the bird might be fleeing something and head into the building to escape. In the bookstore, birds would often enter through the stockroom doors during deliveries. They primarily stayed high in the room (ceiling about 25 feet up) unless pursued; then they would often drop down toward the floor and skitter under or between things.
Caged canaries I’ve had over the years seemed to get confused and panicky if they got out and went to ground pretty quickly…except for Bing, who liked to fly around for a bit. He would then head to the den, land on the floor under the desk, and admire his reflection in the chrome base of the desk chair. Or perhaps he was courting the bird he saw. Since it was just about impossible to get him out from there, I used to just leave his cage with the door open on the floor and close the room door. In a half hour or so, he’d be back in his cage, looking a little smug after his adventure. In spite of my best efforts, he did this once a week or so for his entire life. I seriously considered changing his name to Houdini.
eMb: would that wheelchair’s design make it likely that it might have been used in a production of The Man Who Came to Dinner?
Facebook post from Jackie:
“Jackie Monies: In Longview Texas. with flu friends took me to hospital and”
That’s the entire post.
Replacing my CRT-D in January cost just over $100K, Medicare paid what it paid, the accountants did what they did, and I was billed less than $100. None of that makes sense, but I found myself smiling when I mailed in the check.
Thanks LLee for that update. Here’s hoping Jackie gets well soon and back on the road.
Jackie sent me photos on Facebook on Wednesday, but I don’t do Facebook so I don’t know what it is. You may remember my step-granddaughter’s drug problems. Before it was supposed to be pills and drinking. Now I understand that she has been doing cocaine for three months. This time the police are not involved. Her mother found the coke. I am tempted to call the police myself before she kills herself. She is still only 17.
So sorry, Jerry. Prayers…
Prayers coming from here, too, Jerry.
And thank you, Llee, for the info on Jackie.
Sorry, it is winter in Michigan and when the sun is out it is so bitterly cold we tend not to be outside that long. It never occurred to me that I was getting exposure like that until I got home. I will try to remember the sunscreen next time out. When I used to run in below zero temps, I usually put Vaseline on my exposed parts. It was in the 20 to 30’s with very little wind and I did not feel any discomfort so I did not even put the vaseline on.
OH due 1339-1359 CST. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Also, about two dozed bison NW.
“Man who came to dinner”? Quite likely. Would do for any play before the ’50s, I’d think.
“about 20-25 degrees but not a cloud in the sky.” If those are + degrees with little wind, not much danger of frostbite. We’ve had lows of -20-25 lately, but today’s high w/b over 20F. Had a few thaws in Jan. Not sure we had any in Feb. Will likely have some soon.
Peace, emb
Jackie is indeed fortunate to have friends in so many places, low or otherwise. Influenza is much more than just an inconvenience, especially at her age (sorry, Jackie, but you know what I mean) and especially with what I gather is her medical history. Even with the best of outcomes, it may be a few days before we hear from her. Facebookers, please keep us posted if you hear anything before she gets back here.
Steve, I’ve been meaning to ask…what is your time for your 20 mile walks?