The Veiled Woman – Antonio Corradini (c.1722)
The translucent veil carved by hand 300 years ago from solid Carrara marble. How was that possible ?
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Obviously Super Dave, you only have problems in the morning around here.
hee hee hee
In the end I decided I just wasn’t a good bullshit artist.
Good enough, anyway.
TT
I always wanted to be a grant writer.
🙂
I’m going to step away.
Because Super Dave showed up so late at night. CST.
Gee, what could go wrong?
Australian DishBrain team wins $600,000 grant to merge AI with human brain cells
Shannon, you may have a point there. I seem to remember having issues with that myself, once upon a time…
Well I see all the pictures, what’s the dang deal?
Gratiela appears just fine anywhere she goes.
The sculpture is amazing. Hello, all y’all
Here’s an improbable theory:
WordPress is having a nervous breakdown because I am signed in on two devices at the same time.
Texpat @ 6:52
Gratiela appears just fine on my phone.
But not on my laptop.
Thanx for the info – never thought about looking to see what the remotes look like…
BSue
I’ve been buying Sony TVs for a long time.
I have certain brand loyalties that I probably can’t justify. Sony TVs fall into that category.
The new style small remote is unforgivable.
But I figure they’re all this way now.
Bring back buttons!!!! Menus suck!!!
I forgot to comment on the OC pic.
Seeing it on a lap top vs. a phone is a completely different experience.
Dang, I want to see it in person. Where does it reside?
Shannon – what brand TV did you wind up getting? Asking for a friend 😉
Shannon – GREAT song – and your Feb sunset in #52 looks great on MY MacBook
54 Shannon
Gratiela Brancusi on the set of 1883.
At rehearsal this morning they sprung this one on me.
And by the way, learn it by Saturday night.
Mercifully, we’ll up the tempo a notch or two.
Texpat
Now, you post a photo in the comments.
And I’ll see if I can see it on one or both devices.
Same thing.
Posted from my phone, I can see the photo in #52 on my phone.
If I open up the blog on my MacBook, the photo isn’t there.
/cue the Twilight Zone music
Try posting another photo and see what happens.
Okay here’s a cool February 2023 sunset:
We actually got a shower as I was heading out earlier. The grass is still broken, but it’s not crunchy.
For now.
And the humidity… It’s like taking a walking shower, except that I need a shower after the walk.
I’ve been working on a history post for a while.
And getting detoured down various rabbit trails along the way.
Based on body count alone, Chairman Mao stands alone at the top of the heap of murderous SOBs of the 20th century, but Josef Stalin was a very nasty creature.
Shannon
Try posting another photo and see what happens.
I can see the picture on the spot you stole from M42 on my home pooter and the one at the office.
I still don’t understand why the photo isn’t visible on my laptop.
I’m going to blame WordPress instead of my Mac.
Shannon – the first time I looked/scrolled past #42, I saw the picture kinda disembodied from the post… then I didn’t see it at all…. Now there is that lovely shot of 5 people right there where it should be – good job 😉
when you live here, which we do, it’s simple.
45 Dr Phil Did you see they’re now giving out drivers’ licenses to illegals in Massachusetts and 100,000 applicants showed up ? Maybe we could get all the illegals to move to Boston. How do they get insured ? How does an insurance company insure someone whose identity cannot be verified ? Can I walk into the DMV in Massachusetts… Read more »
44 Shannon
Sorry, that only works on the original composition.
I went through your comment to the dashboard and the photo code is there and visible.
Remember in the run up to the midterm 2022 elections how the house eCan’ts were saying they were going to impeach Mayorkas if we elect them in the big red wave and now here in 2023 they don’t even talk about the border or mayorkas and continue to let the wooden dummy and Fidel Mayorkas get away with complete dereliction… Read more »
Texpat
I’m there, but on the dashboard I don’t see how to switch from Text to Visual.
43 Shannon
Yes.
On your laptop, go to the “Edit” feature for #42 and then look at it on the dashboard under the “Text” tab, not “Visual”, to see if the code for the photo shows up there.
Chairman Xi has more and more problems. Scroll down to… Missile commanders’ mishaps Apart from the absence of the Chinese foreign minister, lieutenant general Li Yuchao, the commander of China’s rocket force was conspicuous by his absence at a promotion ceremony of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in late June. China’s rocket force oversees the country’s tactical and strategic missiles… Read more »
Weird.
On my phone (from which I posted the comment) the photo in my #42 appears as posted.
On my laptop, the photo doesn’t appear at all.
And yes, I have tried refresh, clearing caches, and even doing a hard shutdown.
Weird.
Do you all see the photo in #42 ???
So I was reading this story about the vanishing foreign minister of China, Qin Gang, when the story turned into this drama. It seems Qin was having an affair with this beautiful newswoman, Fu Xiaotian, and she too is missing. Here is an extended news clip of the doomed couple in Washington, DC. It would be great if they defected… Read more »
A few weeks ago, just hours before the Saturday 6pm church service, someone discovered that our air conditioning had gone kaput in our Sanctuary. Reinforcements were called in and a temporary sanctuary was set up in the, next door, Faith Center. I love singing in that cavernous space because of the acoustics – think gym. In the real Sanctuary the… Read more »
Tedtam – I thought I’d let you know that I did finally get Nat King Cold fired back up… I let him go on vacay during the how-ever-many days we had of 100 plus temps and my feeling like poo, but now that it’s mid-afternoon and ONLY 93, I decided it was time to get his nose back to the… Read more »
39 Shannon RE: Emma-Jo Morris, former political editor at the New York Post and now at Breitbart. I found Emma-Jo Morris to be very impressive, especially given she only graduated from college in 2017 and 3 years later wrote and edited the bombshell story of the last decade at least. She is very sharp. It turns out she is married… Read more »
Another short clip from Ms. Morris’ testimony.
Is she single? What a great laugh.
32 Tedtam
Just great.
“Five brain cells, four aren’t working.”
Good for this sheriff.
From Dr. Malone’s piece, above: The report proposes the (then-innovative) idea of incorporating birth control into “the context of broader health services” in order to help make reductions in population “more acceptable to leaders and individuals who, for a variety of reasons (some ideological, some simply humanitarian) object to family planning.” The report recommends population control only in Least Developed… Read more »
Dr. Malone reluctantly goes down the population control conspiracy rabbit hole: In considering these documents, it is helpful to keep in mind that Henry Kissinger is a key mentor of Dr. Klaus Schwab, was involved (together with the CIA) in originally creating and continues to consult with the World Economic Forum as well as with the CCP/Xi Jinping. Reading through the comments, observations, and associated… Read more »
An official of Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance was sacked after the release of a video purportedly showing him having same-sex intercourse. The scandal emerged last week when the Radio Gilan Telegram channel shared a video allegedly showing Reza Saghati engaging in a sexual act with a young man. Saghati is the director-general of Culture and Islamic Guidance… Read more »
Can anyone recall all the lies the mr potato head media has told the last 6 years about Trump and then they recited in unison that the 2020 election was the most secure election ever. Not based on any facts of course but just because they said so. We still who don’t know who made the call to simultaneously stop… Read more »
Remember when we were told the clot shot was safe and saying otherwise was just another conspiracy theory much like the lab leak conspiracy theory?
And Ivermectin was a horse dewormer and completely ineffective against the wuhan flu?
someone?
anyone?
Ferris?
dr frankenfauci?
dr brix?
Justin Trudeau and his failed administration are now being internationally flogged for their monumental incompetence during the “pandemic”. The international journal also accused Canada of squandering its early leadership on vaccine research, only to spend billions purchasing vaccines, becoming one of the most, if not the most, prominent “hoarders” of the global COVID vaccine supply in the world From a… Read more »