Erg

[altivo]

One of those days where you don't know what happened because it was all under cover of an antihistamine blur, which just reduced and did not quite control the effects of a massive cold. And now I'm falling asleep over the keyboard, though I seem quite unable to sleep when horizontal for fear of drowning in, well, you know...

Already short work week shortened by an extra day, as I did not go in today. Early in the day dabbled with software installation and configuration under OpenVMS, but as things hazed out I switched not to reading but to watching a DVD that contains a collection of movie serial episodes from 1935. Precisely, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin in glorious black and white. The sequence of half hour cliff-hangers begins with, believe it or not, a horse story involving the horsenapping of a black stallion from an island somewhere off the coast of Saudi Arabia. Said black stallion is revered as a god by his human neigh-bors, who are therefore not amused. Nonetheless, the horse, who comes to be known as Rex, arrives in California where he immediately runs away from the new owner who plans to make a polo pony of him... I began to wonder when Rin Tin Tin Jr. was actually going to appear, but appear he did, to befriend the lost horse, after which each rescues the other by turns from various fates worse than moldy hay. It amounts to camp when viewed through 21st century eyes, but it's not all bad, really, just very stereotyped and predictable.

Meanwhile, outside the windows, the two inches of snow that accumulated overnight all melted. All of it, gone by sunset.

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[quickcasey.livejournal.com]

The best camp is '30s camp.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

It's pretty good, all right.

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Oh, my. Allergies and colds do not seem to mix very well. I hope you are better today. If there is one thing I don't like it is having sinuses full of gunk. I see, to suffer from similar, sans cold. :|

Hmm... A black and white movie you say? And a black horsie? Oh, dear, ohd, dear, oh dear. I think there might be a possibility the horse was actually played by a zebra. Much like how it was in Mr. Ed's case. http://www.snopes.com/lost/mistered.asp . ^)^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Umm, no. Ed was a horse. Zebras are patently obvious on black and white television.

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Nuuuu, read the linky, you'll see ;)

*noses*

()||()
(^\^)
(oo)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Read the link from that article to the explanation at the end. It's one of a collection of articles the Snopes did to show how convincing a web page can be even though it uses fake references. In other words, it's an April fool joke.

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Nuuuuu... :'

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I was immediately suspicious because I've read about the horse who played Ed before. I also knew that the moving lips when he talked were done not by training the horse, but by using fishing line or black thread. He was "trained" to permit that without trying to back away.

The clincher, though, was the photographs where the zebra in color turns to a horse in black and white. They didn't even try to match the pose. And you can take that color zebra picture and turn it to grayscale in any photo processing program. It will still look like a zebra, and a very convincing one at that. ;p

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Nuu, the photo processink programzors don't wurk in the same way as da black an' white telewuzions. o.o

And we zebras are rather lively animals so it is difficult to get 2 identical pictures of the same one. :)

I heard a claim they used some peanut butter-like substance which he would then try to get out by working his lips. Ed can really talk, but he just pretends he normally can't. :P

This is why we don't normally talk: http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=csizb&uc_full_date=20090308

[altivo.livejournal.com]

*snicker* Obviously those reporters never heard the expression, "Straight from the horse's mouth"??

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Apparently not.

We just need to listen to them. ;)

[saythename.livejournal.com]

My daughter went to school the last two
days sick. She has off after today for
a week and was dragging herself, almost
literally around the house when I got
home this morning.

One look at her trying to put on the little
makeup I let go showed me she was not going
to school.

"Go back to bed Raccoon eyes..."

*she cries and I hold her and sorry*

"Go to bed, your too sick."

*calls the school and finds out half her
/grade/ is sick.*

@.@

*retreats to the foxenbunker*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Heh. Most kids would be glad to get a "free" day off school and wouldn't cry about it. I'm impressed.

I shoulda stayed home today too, but Gary had to bring his car to Harvard for service so I said I would come and have breakfast with him. At that point, might as well come in here, but may not stay all day.