Refreshing my memory how to script images to loop in sequence.
Dave's Journal, May2023
Refreshing my memory how to script images to loop in sequence.
Ogunquit today was windy chilly but nice as ever to visit, even that half the shops have not yet opened. Parking is $5 this time of year, and they trust you to pay through the mail slot when you leave. Traffic on I495 was spooky free of jams.
A favorite movie of mine - Pygmalion with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller (1938).
I always thought the name referred to Wendy Hiller, and I was wrong.
In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was a legendary figure of Cyprus, who was a king and a sculptor. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.
He made a sculpture of a woman that he found so perfect he fell in love with it. Pygmalion kisses and fondles the sculpture, brings it various gifts, and creates a sumptuous bed for it. He quietly wished for a bride who would be "the living likeness of my ivory girl". He kissed his ivory statue, and found that its lips felt warm. He kissed it again, and found that the ivory had lost its hardness. Aphrodite had granted Pygmalion's wish.
Pygmalion married the ivory sculpture, which changed to a woman under Aphrodite's blessing. In Ovid's narrative, they had a daughter, Paphos, from whom the city's name is derived.
Kind of kinky if you ask me !!
I am on a kick for Art Deco and Art Nouveau, so a trip to B&N brought me home with these $8 bargain books !! Extremely enjoyable and interesting stuff about this 1900 vintage "New Age" artistry.
Very impressive museum dedicated to American military history through Vietnam. Great displays of tanks and armored vehicles, very nice short overhead videos.
Yesterday we trek'd down to what is formally known as
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
and commonly referred to as Webster Lake. Rick and Karen guided us through the day - ferry tour, lunch at lakeside, rendezvous back at their place.
Weather was perfect New England. I had to skip meds for all the beer I drank.
Kimball's, a local dairy / ice cream place started up Vintage Car Friday Nights. It was okay for a first night. A few more pictures to follow.....
This car was a quiet beauty among the many corvettes and muscle cars.
Okay, more pictures from Friday: Cars2023
Well.... yesterday was Catherine's birthday and guess who forgot ? Me - I remembered today when I looked at the date. I've been upset all day about that. I made a peace offering, let's see how that goes. I am so bad about birthdays.
And Rebekah reports that the Honda did not pass inspection because "It needs new engine mount" !!! What ? It passed inspection up here in February and has never had any trouble with vibrations, so who the actual hell thinks it needs engine mounts? This drama continues.
I have become a diet monster. Rick started me on this a few weeks back. I now have a phone app that scans barcodes in the supermarket and rates the healthiness of the contents. It's now an addiction. I've stopped 95% of my sugar intake (which was bad), no deserts not even a cookie or a mini milky way. Eating Museli and granola and oatmeal now instead of Frosted Mini Wheats. No sweetened coffee creamer, switching to organic vitamins. I feel very good but like a man possessed by a curse. No hot dogs !! I am not totally unhappy but it is not easy ("How much could one snickers bar hurt me?")
Mike put our air conditioners in today - a semi-annual chore. Then he and Chrissy evicted a chipmunk that Tux dragged in - it was quite the drama that started up in the bedroom and looked for a while like a 1940's comedy movie. But they got the job done and happy because I had no chance of catching that critter.
Last 2 or 3 years I lost the drive to garden. Blame it on COVID or the weather or just loosing interest. But I am now getting back out there. Slowly. Easily. Tidying up, cutting small tree branches, trimming some hedges. Actually have a groundskeeper coming in (where is he??) for the heavier work (very large tree branches) and power washing. Lawn looks like total s##t. Need a plan for that. I am actually threatening to plant clover seeds!!! That'd keep the local bees happy too.
Technology.
I've had this Amazon tablet for a year, and it's nice portability for crusing the internet and streaming Netflix, etc as long as you connect to wifi. Which I cannot always do, and the streaming channels don't always have the movies I want to look at at the moment.
I slipped in an internal microSD card a while back and store some junk on that, and it's good, but ....
I just found this SD card reader that clips into the USB-C port and it works!! Can take a 32GB SD card, which will hold about 16 movies in mp4 format. So ..... I can now put a stack of mp4's on various SD cards and watch a large choice of movies or whatever without needing WIFI.
Which is cool, I think.
