Bishops, and Fishops...
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rain_gryphonNBC pays money to show the Para-Olympics. Who knew? I'd always figured that you had to show a certain number of hours of Para-Olympics as a condition of getting rights to the Olympics.
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I was going to be happy if the beef jerky turned out to be edible. It was, after all, a learning batch. It turned out magnificently! That's easily some of the best beef jerky I've ever had - it has way, way more flavour than the stuff from the store, and costs about a quarter as much too.
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My Gilda Griffon tee from RedBubble has arrived. I'm well-pleased with it. It's well-made, of good quality. My only regret is that they didn't offer super-heavy premium tees like some companies do. It's not a light-weight el-cheapo by any means, but heavier is better.
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Whoa! I've just discovered The Public Domain Review. This is amazing! It's an entire website filled with the sorts of articles and image collections that reliably fascinate me.
One example: People's snapshots from the late 1880s / early 1890s, taken with Kodak cameras. The lens seems to have been of excellent quality, and the film reasonably fast. These cameras cost $25 in 1888, about $600 in 2012 money, so the people using them were going to be mostly middle-class or upper class. You can see little circular bits of their world, frozen in time, which fascinates me. This is more or less what life looked like to the people in Victorian novels.
The two gentlemen are travelling via side-wheel steamer. They could very well be Holmes and Watson, to look at them. That's the top of the housing for one of the wheels behind them. The notice on the wheel-housing reads "PASSENGERS not ALLOWED on the BRIDGE going IN or OUT of PORT". A bit lower is written "First Class Passengers", which I'm assuming means the bench is reserved for 1st class only.
In the picture of the two girls with the wheelbarrow, if you look closely, you'll see that the man passing by is carrying some sort of box by a handle. His box has a circular opening in one end. Is that some sort of camera also? It doesn't look like a posed picture, but still...
That fellow posing jauntily by his cart seems to be a portrait photographer, set up at the beach. He's got a curtainy darkroom sort of thing attached to the cart, and pictures all over the front. The things at the left seem to be beach unbrellas for rent, and you can see the ocean and someone in a folding chair in the background. I wonder what he thinks about the portable camera? At the very least, he's doing the whole 'professional courtesy' thing, and posing for another photographer.
It was an age where decent people wore a hat to sit on the balcony and read.
*****
I was going to be happy if the beef jerky turned out to be edible. It was, after all, a learning batch. It turned out magnificently! That's easily some of the best beef jerky I've ever had - it has way, way more flavour than the stuff from the store, and costs about a quarter as much too.
*****
My Gilda Griffon tee from RedBubble has arrived. I'm well-pleased with it. It's well-made, of good quality. My only regret is that they didn't offer super-heavy premium tees like some companies do. It's not a light-weight el-cheapo by any means, but heavier is better.
*****
Whoa! I've just discovered The Public Domain Review. This is amazing! It's an entire website filled with the sorts of articles and image collections that reliably fascinate me.
One example: People's snapshots from the late 1880s / early 1890s, taken with Kodak cameras. The lens seems to have been of excellent quality, and the film reasonably fast. These cameras cost $25 in 1888, about $600 in 2012 money, so the people using them were going to be mostly middle-class or upper class. You can see little circular bits of their world, frozen in time, which fascinates me. This is more or less what life looked like to the people in Victorian novels.
The two gentlemen are travelling via side-wheel steamer. They could very well be Holmes and Watson, to look at them. That's the top of the housing for one of the wheels behind them. The notice on the wheel-housing reads "PASSENGERS not ALLOWED on the BRIDGE going IN or OUT of PORT". A bit lower is written "First Class Passengers", which I'm assuming means the bench is reserved for 1st class only.
In the picture of the two girls with the wheelbarrow, if you look closely, you'll see that the man passing by is carrying some sort of box by a handle. His box has a circular opening in one end. Is that some sort of camera also? It doesn't look like a posed picture, but still...
That fellow posing jauntily by his cart seems to be a portrait photographer, set up at the beach. He's got a curtainy darkroom sort of thing attached to the cart, and pictures all over the front. The things at the left seem to be beach unbrellas for rent, and you can see the ocean and someone in a folding chair in the background. I wonder what he thinks about the portable camera? At the very least, he's doing the whole 'professional courtesy' thing, and posing for another photographer.
It was an age where decent people wore a hat to sit on the balcony and read.
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Date: 2012-09-11 07:37 pm (UTC)My only regret is that [RedBubble] didn't offer super-heavy premium tees
I'd certainly like them to offer a wider range of styles. Personally I'd like polo shirts, but hardly anyone does those. WLF has a tiny selection that doesn't even cover all the Mane Six, and nobody else much does anything. My own RedBubble shirts are holding up okay after a few washes, so yours ought to be fine too.
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Date: 2012-09-11 09:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-11 08:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-11 09:43 pm (UTC)The time traveller is pretty plainly the little girl on the right, who's trying to disguise the fact that she's talking into some sort of handset.
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Date: 2012-09-11 09:50 pm (UTC)Oh, he could also be a doctor carrying some specialized equipment of the day.