Also present in the 7th. image. Kind of a caleidoscopic line down the left side. Starts just where the leaves meet in a 135-ish angle…
Easier to spot in ‘frame 8’.
Not that I mind.
Yes, CatMan, it worked when I did as you suggested. Rob’s link was also helpful 🙂
I suspect that is simply part of the texture Catman is using for the sky. No glitch; merely a limitation of CGI. While I am not competent to make such images, I understand enough of HOW to make them to recognize the effect.
Update for all who asked yesterday. We lost power in my part of the city yesterday (Wednesday) at approx. 0900 and didn’t get it back until after 0300 this morning. With no power I, of course, had no computer and no internet (separate router and modem for DSL) plus my phone was low on charge. Additionally, the rotating (but selective) blackouts are affecting the water system’s pumps such that we have had only a bare trickle coming out of the tap since Tuesday. My daughter got on the power company’s website on her phone and discovered they have been “sharing power” with other parts of the state at San Antonio residents’ expense. Call me a cynic but somehow I doubt the wealthy parts of the city experienced any loss of power. As you might expect I do not live in such an area. In fact TPTB consider the area in which I live to be inhabited by little more than “white trash and n***rs”. In 2000 we had a huge thunderstorm hit a couple of weeks before the election. Straight line winds knocked down over a mile of poles taking out power to over 10,000 people. Of all the outages in town (storms don’t give a shit how big your bank balance is) ours was by far the largest and yet was the very LAST to be addressed. We wound up being without power for just over 31 hours. When I called CPS Energy (Which proudly proclaims itself to be “the nation’s largest municipally owned energy company”) on it they had no explanation for why the most severe outage was left until dead last.
Apparently Amazon pushed some sort of update out Tuesday night while my Fire was sleeping. When I opened the tablet it was hollering about not having internet access so it couldn’t complete some sort of setup. Bottom line was I had nothing to do during the power outage. Found a book to read and played a shed load of solitaire.
I suspect that CPS is selling power to other parts of the state while interrupting ours. Would be just like the poxy bastards to do so. Government-owned monopolies; what could possibly go wrong?
Final note: When I got up Sunday morning (always an early riser) I noticed that the house was cold despite the central air running. Figured out our heat is out. Couldn’t call for repair till Monday and they (of course) were swamped) They put us on a list. Upstart is that during an all-time record cold snap we have been without heat. Fortunately the coldest it has gotten in the house is mid 50s. I had this place built with extra insulation in the walls and attic – mostly to reduce cooling costs. Fortunately that translates to less heating costs on the rare occasion we need to heat the place.
Final note: The wife and daughter went on an expedition to find some place with power to get something for supper (all electric area without power so no cooking possible) and they brought back Macky D’s. Had to be the WORST MOST SLOPPILY MADE HAMBURGER EVER! To add insult to injury something about the burger disagreed with me and I wound up doing a core dump. Ain’t never gonna buy anything from that MacDonald’s again. Might not go to ANY Golden Arches again.
Good news! It turns out our heat isn’t out after all. We have a heat pump i stead of resistive heating coils. We had to replace our central air system a few years back. When we did I had ’em put in a nice, modern, high-efficiency system. That means it has a heat pump. One problem. Heat pumps are first cousin to useless when the temp falls much below 30 degrees f – which is what we’ve been at most of this week.
Reminds me of my last installation job at Osan AB, ROK back in 1980. The receiver site had a modern HEAT PUMP for heating and cooling. Well, the air was kind of moist and the coils outside FROZE! Since this was a “smart” heat pump, it knew how to take care of that. The unit promptly reversed itself and started pumping heat OUT of the building instead of INTO it! All those references on M*A*S*H weren’t fooling. It can get damned cold in the ROK. We wound up opening the doors to warm the place up – with 6 inches of snow on the ground!
Bill – here in Indianapolis I have had heat pumps the whole time (not by choice, but necessity.)
I found that the Trane brand was – as you say useless – but it did include resistive heating (Emergency Heat) coils in the air handler indoors.
(Reckon they all do here. at times that was the only heat we had with the Trane.
They could not even keep their sequentially programmed heat relays working. I kicked them to the curb . . . with prejudice.
We switched to AMANA in 2018. An outstanding product.
We have had -1F here off and on with other single-digit temps for at least two weeks – and nothing above 21F until today.
It blew away the snow off the outdoor condenser unit too – did not miss a lick.
Call the AMANA people and lay it out.
The only thing I have ever liked about “Micky-D’s – their fries. All else and my cats were not interested either.
You are right about the fries at GA. Oh, and their sausage, egg muffins are good, too. Half dozen years ago we wound up in Denver over Thanksgiving. Great-granddaughter having rejection episode – heart-lung xplant and her ditzy parents weren’t great about her meds. Anyhow, we wound up at the GA next door to the hotel for breakfast every day and I developed a taste for mcmuffins. When we got back home I found out Hamilton-Beach makes a nifty breakfast sandwich maker. Makes a quick, easy breakfast. Most days I just do a sausage muffin but sometimes I go whole hog and do sausage, egg and cheese. Ummm! Good!
Bill –
I have been microwaving some Kimmy Dean’s croissant egg/”bacon”/cheese thing for breakfast sandwiches when n o time for the regular stuff we do.
Looks like I may investigate Hamilton Beach to see what they do.
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there is word for people who see faces in non-face things . . . can’t find it now – yup – I seem to be one of them.
yup – pareidolia . . . Nah – says we not be crazies !
The phenomenon of “pareidolia” is just our minds imposing order on chaotic things. We cannot really “see” something we do not recognize. That’s what make camouflage effective. By breaking up the outline it makes it difficult for the mind to recognize the presence of something in its visual field. That’s why digital camo works. Even though it does not resemble anything in nature, it breaks up a soldier’s outline and makes it difficult for an opfor troop to spot.
Pareidolia is the cause of the (in)famous “face on mars”. Higher resolution images have conclusively debunked that myth but it persists. LOL I remember years back when it was supposed to not only be a face, it was supposedly the face of TEDDY KENNEDY of all people. Gotta love the scandal sheets. They’re always good for a chuckle. Back in early January I saw one with a headline about “poor Johnny Depp”. Seems he had somehow managed to lose a fortune of over $160 MILLION! How the hell do you piss away A HUNDRED AND SIXTY MILLION DOLLARS?!?! Talk about talent!
On a side note: the sky in the last image appears Mirrored.
Also present in the 7th. image. Kind of a caleidoscopic line down the left side. Starts just where the leaves meet in a 135-ish angle…
Easier to spot in ‘frame 8’.
Not that I mind.
Yes, CatMan, it worked when I did as you suggested. Rob’s link was also helpful 🙂
I suspect that is simply part of the texture Catman is using for the sky. No glitch; merely a limitation of CGI. While I am not competent to make such images, I understand enough of HOW to make them to recognize the effect.
Update for all who asked yesterday. We lost power in my part of the city yesterday (Wednesday) at approx. 0900 and didn’t get it back until after 0300 this morning. With no power I, of course, had no computer and no internet (separate router and modem for DSL) plus my phone was low on charge. Additionally, the rotating (but selective) blackouts are affecting the water system’s pumps such that we have had only a bare trickle coming out of the tap since Tuesday. My daughter got on the power company’s website on her phone and discovered they have been “sharing power” with other parts of the state at San Antonio residents’ expense. Call me a cynic but somehow I doubt the wealthy parts of the city experienced any loss of power. As you might expect I do not live in such an area. In fact TPTB consider the area in which I live to be inhabited by little more than “white trash and n***rs”. In 2000 we had a huge thunderstorm hit a couple of weeks before the election. Straight line winds knocked down over a mile of poles taking out power to over 10,000 people. Of all the outages in town (storms don’t give a shit how big your bank balance is) ours was by far the largest and yet was the very LAST to be addressed. We wound up being without power for just over 31 hours. When I called CPS Energy (Which proudly proclaims itself to be “the nation’s largest municipally owned energy company”) on it they had no explanation for why the most severe outage was left until dead last.
Apparently Amazon pushed some sort of update out Tuesday night while my Fire was sleeping. When I opened the tablet it was hollering about not having internet access so it couldn’t complete some sort of setup. Bottom line was I had nothing to do during the power outage. Found a book to read and played a shed load of solitaire.
I suspect that CPS is selling power to other parts of the state while interrupting ours. Would be just like the poxy bastards to do so. Government-owned monopolies; what could possibly go wrong?
Final note: When I got up Sunday morning (always an early riser) I noticed that the house was cold despite the central air running. Figured out our heat is out. Couldn’t call for repair till Monday and they (of course) were swamped) They put us on a list. Upstart is that during an all-time record cold snap we have been without heat. Fortunately the coldest it has gotten in the house is mid 50s. I had this place built with extra insulation in the walls and attic – mostly to reduce cooling costs. Fortunately that translates to less heating costs on the rare occasion we need to heat the place.
Final note: The wife and daughter went on an expedition to find some place with power to get something for supper (all electric area without power so no cooking possible) and they brought back Macky D’s. Had to be the WORST MOST SLOPPILY MADE HAMBURGER EVER! To add insult to injury something about the burger disagreed with me and I wound up doing a core dump. Ain’t never gonna buy anything from that MacDonald’s again. Might not go to ANY Golden Arches again.
Good news! It turns out our heat isn’t out after all. We have a heat pump i stead of resistive heating coils. We had to replace our central air system a few years back. When we did I had ’em put in a nice, modern, high-efficiency system. That means it has a heat pump. One problem. Heat pumps are first cousin to useless when the temp falls much below 30 degrees f – which is what we’ve been at most of this week.
Reminds me of my last installation job at Osan AB, ROK back in 1980. The receiver site had a modern HEAT PUMP for heating and cooling. Well, the air was kind of moist and the coils outside FROZE! Since this was a “smart” heat pump, it knew how to take care of that. The unit promptly reversed itself and started pumping heat OUT of the building instead of INTO it! All those references on M*A*S*H weren’t fooling. It can get damned cold in the ROK. We wound up opening the doors to warm the place up – with 6 inches of snow on the ground!
Bill – here in Indianapolis I have had heat pumps the whole time (not by choice, but necessity.)
I found that the Trane brand was – as you say useless – but it did include resistive heating (Emergency Heat) coils in the air handler indoors.
(Reckon they all do here. at times that was the only heat we had with the Trane.
They could not even keep their sequentially programmed heat relays working. I kicked them to the curb . . . with prejudice.
We switched to AMANA in 2018. An outstanding product.
We have had -1F here off and on with other single-digit temps for at least two weeks – and nothing above 21F until today.
It blew away the snow off the outdoor condenser unit too – did not miss a lick.
Call the AMANA people and lay it out.
The only thing I have ever liked about “Micky-D’s – their fries. All else and my cats were not interested either.
You are right about the fries at GA. Oh, and their sausage, egg muffins are good, too. Half dozen years ago we wound up in Denver over Thanksgiving. Great-granddaughter having rejection episode – heart-lung xplant and her ditzy parents weren’t great about her meds. Anyhow, we wound up at the GA next door to the hotel for breakfast every day and I developed a taste for mcmuffins. When we got back home I found out Hamilton-Beach makes a nifty breakfast sandwich maker. Makes a quick, easy breakfast. Most days I just do a sausage muffin but sometimes I go whole hog and do sausage, egg and cheese. Ummm! Good!
Danny, I just logged in with your new account. So it’s working on this end.
Got in PC, Thanks for the help
That mirrored cloud thing – fascinating – looks like a cloud-racoon watching the cat clobber the OPFORs.
Miral’s cheering section?
I like the face in the dark cloud in 3 where the exhaust gives it a smile. It has a scowl in four. Then it becomes a n animal in 5,7 & 8. Nice.
Bill –
I have been microwaving some Kimmy Dean’s croissant egg/”bacon”/cheese thing for breakfast sandwiches when n o time for the regular stuff we do.
Looks like I may investigate Hamilton Beach to see what they do.
—- —- —-
there is word for people who see faces in non-face things . . . can’t find it now – yup – I seem to be one of them.
yup – pareidolia . . . Nah – says we not be crazies !
The phenomenon of “pareidolia” is just our minds imposing order on chaotic things. We cannot really “see” something we do not recognize. That’s what make camouflage effective. By breaking up the outline it makes it difficult for the mind to recognize the presence of something in its visual field. That’s why digital camo works. Even though it does not resemble anything in nature, it breaks up a soldier’s outline and makes it difficult for an opfor troop to spot.
Pareidolia is the cause of the (in)famous “face on mars”. Higher resolution images have conclusively debunked that myth but it persists. LOL I remember years back when it was supposed to not only be a face, it was supposedly the face of TEDDY KENNEDY of all people. Gotta love the scandal sheets. They’re always good for a chuckle. Back in early January I saw one with a headline about “poor Johnny Depp”. Seems he had somehow managed to lose a fortune of over $160 MILLION! How the hell do you piss away A HUNDRED AND SIXTY MILLION DOLLARS?!?! Talk about talent!
EDIT – TYPO –
Jimmy Dean’s – . . .
sigh.
You guys are weird.
I’m going to bed. It’s raining.
Can’t get out on my motorcycle.
Yuck.
Hey, YOU attracted/gathered us.