What we'll see will defy explanation
So, again, just in case LiveJournal does get sucked off the net, I have a duplicate of this whole blog on Dreamwidth. You can follow me there or probably add /rss to the end of that URL and put me in your RSS reader. LiveJournal being sucked off the net would wreck my photo gallery, but that's the most bearable problem of our times.
On my humor blog this week I soft-launched a gimmick that I figure should be good through to April. Does it work? Not as well as it would if I knew how to make polls in WordPress blog entries. (Don't explain to me how to make polls in WordPress blog entries. I'm cool.) Anyway it's getting me a good likes-given to writing-effort ratio. Can you spot what the gimmick is in this list of the past week's posts?
- MiSTed: JSH: War of attrition (Part 1 of 3)
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Bruce Springsteen vs Sandwiches
- Statistics Saturday: Some Popular 19th Century Gambling Games, So Far As You Know
- 60s Popeye: Ballet de Spinach, a cartoon without spinach in it
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Walls vs Spider-Man
- What's Going On In Prince Valiant? When did King Arthur retire? December 2021 - March 2022
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Mauve vs Commercial Passenger Air Travel
- MiSTed: JSH: War of attrition (Part 2 of 3)
Am I through the Glenlore Aurora trail? No, not yet. But we are coming up on an interactive part that I hope you enjoy.
Farther along the trail. The projector shows an animated story-book scene, that a snowman peeks into and back out of.
And here, a game! People gather around to toss hollow plastic balls at the screen and knock over snowmen at a snow fort.
And that's our band's first album cover. I really, really like how the texture of the snow-covered ground came out.
Past the video game. I think part of the ominous purple of this is scattered light from the game. The gingerbread man with the candy cane on the right changed appearance, over time, as the colors and pattern of the cane changed. I think that his face changed, too.
One of the last sections here, with the replica of church walls and stained glass inside. Also, one of the handful of couples that overtook us. We never overtook anybody.
The ``stained glass'' of the church setting. It was a projection, or maybe a monitor, so that the pictures would evolve over time.
Here a candy cane assembles in the stained glass window.
Trivia: In 1906 there were five vaudeville houses in Cleveland: the Lye, the Empire, B F Keith's, the Arch Hall, nad the Star. In 1921 there were four: B F Keith's Hippodrome, B F Keith's 105th Street, B F Keith's 17th Street, and Loew's State. Source: The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville, Anthony Slide.
Currently Reading: NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection: Redefining the Right Stuff, David J Shayler, Colin Burgess.