This week cartoons and anger at comic strips got me out of my rut of doing nothing but reposting Talkartoons reviews. Here's stuff you could read over there if it weren't already on your Friends page
- MiSTed: Reboot: Breaking the Barriers (Part 12 of 16) which is taking a pause for something special-ish ...
- TCM is showing a bunch of Fleischer Cartoons Saturday
- Statistics Saturday: Some More Promotions For The Coming Month
- Reposted: The 32nd Talkartoon: Boop-Oop-A-Doop, At Last
- Reposted: The 33rd Talkartoon: The Robot, surely Not A Time-Traveller's Prankish Insertion To History
- What's Going On In Dick Tracy? Why is there time travel now? July - October 2021
- How Angry Should You Be About the _Crankshaft_ and _Funky Winkerbean_ Stories Not Being Done YET?
- MiSTed: Safe Fun for Halloween (Part 1 of 4) which is the start of a special October event! Enjoy!
Ready for more amusement park pictures? Too bad! What you're getting is pictures of our visit to Baseline Meridian State Park, where the north-south surveying reference line joins the two east-west surveying reference lines, and where we planted a letterbox back in 2019 that needed a checkup.
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bunnyhugger's car, parked at the first place we drove to together there (after driving home): Meridian Baseline State Park, where we had planted a letterbox.
Butterfly of some kind, part of the nature we saw at the entrance to the park. There was also some kind of lizard-y creature that disappeared into the bush as we noticed the butterflies.
And hey, a large bird of some kind where we can barely see anything!
More butterfly action. Also a fallen tree, an essential clue in any letterboxing puzzle.
The path that connects the northern and the southern intersections of the survey meridian and the two lines of latitude that weren't quite as identical as they figured.
I took this picture by accident but I like the way it came out, especially the S-curves of light within the green patches of tree.
Do you see it? Let me know when you see it.
There it is! A frog who hung out and let us grab a good number of pictures before deciding they had other things to do than put up with us.
Trivia: Claude Chappe, developer of the (visual) telegraph, thought to call his system the tachygraphe, for ``fast writer''. His friend Miot de Mélain, a government official and classical scholar, suggested ``telegraph'' instead. Source: The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's Online Pioneers, Tom Standage.
Currently Reading: Off the Map: the Curious Histories of Place-Names, Derek Nelson.
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