Posts for: Cany143
Apr 7, 2024 10:59:33 #
Other people's art.
Apr 6, 2024 14:23:55 #
Apr 5, 2024 21:34:19 #
Interesting in a 'when Georgia O'Keeffe met Marcel Duchamp' sort of way, but the tones and brightness neither bespeak nor suggest rain. Were it me --which it isn't-- I'd crop the bottom off, about an eighth of the way up.
Apr 5, 2024 13:01:14 #
....and builds cosmic devices. Way, way out there in Castle Valley.
Apr 4, 2024 21:20:32 #
A slight revision, based on having met and spoken with a codger named John today:
Cany143 wrote:
People actually "read" stuff now-a-daze?... (show quote)
Apr 4, 2024 20:57:47 #
Retired CPO wrote:
From "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein. A science fiction classic. From 1961.
To understand utterly and completely. And much more.
If you haven't read it, it's worth a few hours of your time.
It's extraordinary!
To understand utterly and completely. And much more.
If you haven't read it, it's worth a few hours of your time.
It's extraordinary!People actually "read" stuff now-a-daze??? That's a pretty outre belief, Cheepf. Next, I suppose you'll be advocating having been made into a newt, as if newt-dom is the height of being weirdly --and which I might (in the revelations of having been pp'ed into the abyss of AI-dom, and is in it's less than crafty downloadable craftinesses-- tantamount into having been weirdly transformed into a.... newt? Huh?
None of that 'newt' stuff is strictly Heinlein though, but that may have just been a matter of oversight by H's less competant --and certainly not academic-- 'literary editor' (or whatever CEO it had been who'd figured that any amount of gratitous 'newt-ness' would NOT further the plot (which would have, somewhat newt-like, have resulted is a reduction his/her day-rate editorial rate, so R.A.H. was convinced into eliminating that bit.
The 'grok-ability' factor of that became the actual publication (which is readable in any of several manners, all ye prospective readers!!!) is still up for grabs, of course. Because --as Sartre wrote-- "I grok therefore I might sorta/kinda "be". Or 'am'. Or oughta 'be'.
Or maybe that prospective reader is actually a newt. One who's looking for redemption and/or a breakage of the spell.
Shall I demonstrate quite precisely what I mean, (slightly less than revered) Cheepfster? Here, hold my beer...........................
Apr 4, 2024 02:16:40 #
Retired CPO wrote:
Actually there is...but it's made of lead! 
Keith: No. Wrong answer. I don't know if you were trying to be humorous or if you were trying to be serious, but no. That is the wrong answer.
Apr 3, 2024 12:11:03 #
Retired CPO wrote:
"Before idiots arrived"?? I don't grok??
Lots of bullet holes associated with the RA in Nine Mile Canyon too.
Nice restoration, too bad it's not possible on-site!
Lots of bullet holes associated with the RA in Nine Mile Canyon too.
Nice restoration, too bad it's not possible on-site!
What's not to grok, Cheepfster? Unless mindlessly shooting up a Mona Lisa or a Sistine Chappel or a Kindergarten class is what somebody calls good, clean, intelligent fun, that is.
Apr 3, 2024 12:02:40 #
AzPicLady wrote:
Very, very nice, Cany. And your clean-up is very well done. I've seen similar snakes on other boulders, and I wonder if perhaps they're warning people that a really huge snake lives in the area.
Couldn't say how many snake petros/pictos I've seen, but I've seen a bunch. Could some have been meant as warnings? Sure, but not in a 'naturalistic' way --ooooh! I got snakebit!-- one might expect.
Won't try to describe the various ways snake imagery has been used and/or what their depictions may have meant to convey --UHH isn't a place where anybody'd want to read somebody's Master's Thesis on 'Symbolism In Native American Rock Art'-- so how 'bout if I just simplify things and tell you what a Bluebird Clan Hopi elder told me: "I may not speak of our Underground Brother this time of year. Our Ancestors the Clouds would not allow it."
Apr 2, 2024 23:37:51 #
NMGal wrote:
Are those bullet holes in the first?
Uh huh. Bullet holes, somebody’s initials and some scratched graffiti.
Apr 2, 2024 19:25:34 #
On the cliffs above Moab and below Sand Flats, just past the town dump. A place where locals like to hike or walk their dogs. The 'snake' is about 20' from head to tail. This is neither the largest nor is it the most ornate of snake petroglyphs that exist, but it's close to home and I felt like getting out.
Twelve images stitched together into panos that show a roughly 180-degree view of the site. The first pano is as the petro panel actually looks; the second pano is as the panel may have appeared before idiots arrived and did stupid things.
Twelve images stitched together into panos that show a roughly 180-degree view of the site. The first pano is as the petro panel actually looks; the second pano is as the panel may have appeared before idiots arrived and did stupid things.
Apr 1, 2024 14:00:40 #
Bill_de wrote:
Isn't this in the book you wrote? 
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--Yup. It's on page 11,643, toward the end of Chapter 3.
Mar 31, 2024 20:55:37 #
I concur entirely, Ysarex: first with your placement of the largest, blackest window smack in the center, and second with your choice of lenses. Fuji's 16-55mm lens is a really fine performer, isn't it [that's a statement, not a question]. (I used the same lens to shoot the post I posted today...)
Mar 31, 2024 20:28:30 #
dancers wrote:
I cannot grow these. No idea why. tried for many years but the have the most awful tiny blooms. ugh
Once I began to understand them, I had no problem husbanding them. Over time (in about a month and a half), each individual bloom will fade and turn to brown. Each of those browned-down 'past blooms' will have a dozen or more tiny black seeds inside, and by July (you'll have to extrapolate for the northern/southern hemisphere thing yourself) they'll further dry and 'burst', thus dropping the seeds contained therein. Catch the timing right, and you can harvest the seeds slightly before they drop and plant them (actually, no, don't 'plant' them, just toss the seeds someplace where the soil doesn't deserve to be called 'soil', and is barely even 'dirt', but is where you'd eventually like to see them, then forget about them altogether. Don't water, don't fertilize, don't do a damn thing other than wait for the next Spring. Couldn't be easier or more simple to grow you some gorgeous little mini-blooms that, once they bloom, if you crouch down low enough to smell them, will smell just like cat piss. Woo-hoo! Easy-peasy!
Mar 31, 2024 20:02:29 #
Grape hyacinths are what's out there in the (my) yard, that's wut. There's like a dozen little islands of them, all concentrated on the periphery of the (yet to bloom, toward the end of April or more likely early in May) prickly pear cactus that line the walk to my front door. Right on cue, the first of them started blooming --as they have for decades, here at home-- on the 13th of March, rather like clockwork.
The other 'flowers' --the tiny lavender ones and the even tinier pink ones-- I've endeavored to eliminate. Those are weeds or worse. The lavender ones if left unchecked become 'Goatheads', and that is bad. The pink ones --if left unpulled or allowed to grow-- can threaten civilization itself.
Flippy screens are good for getting an ant's view of things that are small and grow just inches above the ground....
The other 'flowers' --the tiny lavender ones and the even tinier pink ones-- I've endeavored to eliminate. Those are weeds or worse. The lavender ones if left unchecked become 'Goatheads', and that is bad. The pink ones --if left unpulled or allowed to grow-- can threaten civilization itself.
Flippy screens are good for getting an ant's view of things that are small and grow just inches above the ground....
