tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53998268527909215682024-03-28T08:54:26.116+09:00wh5wh5 = who, what, where, when and why. The five basic questions that are the structure of any story. Explored in "Who says what, where, when and and Why: Context in Conversation." An introduction to Sociolinguistics through Conversation Analysis. wh5 is the blogsite of the book published 2008 by Nanundo-Phoenix, Tokyo.Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.comBlogger1153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-61442799882587670532024-03-25T13:32:00.000+09:002024-03-25T13:32:27.390+09:00Coffee Font<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPOw2BLOiKBgzOYYdmFK7xZMzQ9JdFrCmVyMt1uri0Ih_2K2KQXHwnJ15MO7Jk4vlUx738yMiR2JVPLLVW4gk06LF7hnAsxyaGvteK8P2qpkkYJ279DNcFLbOHwkRrE1le9MNUtKWl9UW5hCk_4vbr83t3g41xK1GIXsQF5wSCkZgmP37km1WtZoCC5EI/s1068/Komedas%20Coffee%20shoji%2001a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="1068" height="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPOw2BLOiKBgzOYYdmFK7xZMzQ9JdFrCmVyMt1uri0Ih_2K2KQXHwnJ15MO7Jk4vlUx738yMiR2JVPLLVW4gk06LF7hnAsxyaGvteK8P2qpkkYJ279DNcFLbOHwkRrE1le9MNUtKWl9UW5hCk_4vbr83t3g41xK1GIXsQF5wSCkZgmP37km1WtZoCC5EI/w200-h123/Komedas%20Coffee%20shoji%2001a.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Conversation at mid-morning…</span></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ralph</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Check out the sign on the window.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Bill</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Yeah, looks alright, I guess.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ralph</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: But do you see how the letters resemble coffee beans? Pretty clever, right?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Bill</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Hmm, seems like a bit of overthinking, don't you think?</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ralph</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: It's like a modern-day Chinese pictograph, telling a story with its design.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Bill</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Well, to me, it's just eye candy.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ralph</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Different strokes for different folks. But you know, companies shell out big bucks for cool font designers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Bill</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: True. I mean, imagine if they used Comic Sans. Huh. Epic job loss.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Ralph</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">: And Helvetica would be too sterile for a cozy coffee shop.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">_______<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Matching a name to a font involves consideration of the person or entity’s personality, symbolic associations, expression of an abstract concept, visual allegory, perhaps a cultural or a narrative connection. You can go with instinct but having criteria in mind help.</span></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-73995228646357669292024-03-20T08:37:00.000+09:002024-03-20T08:37:00.153+09:00A cluster of contributing events<p><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium;">After a near miss near home…</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Penelope</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: You nearly got bowled by that cyclist. You didn’t see him?</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Adam</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Nope. He just appeared out of the blue, going like a bat out of hell.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR-zB5qTsMzdafuNtweWIegLhe2JPjO0fFY6J3DDUAbd1AJdUYwfXMT5kKolj9hOeNBhi3aoc-0kX9FwnyfTsNFeElOZz1WTLjFLQAytVX_QikIQaXRVaY5PRzZ_EJnbGNWRerUroPUcTZsVdZFpl6cbHrzlxQ6tVmng0uZuKOKCbzIPW7QbJ5PqfN2LA/s800/biking_dribbble2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR-zB5qTsMzdafuNtweWIegLhe2JPjO0fFY6J3DDUAbd1AJdUYwfXMT5kKolj9hOeNBhi3aoc-0kX9FwnyfTsNFeElOZz1WTLjFLQAytVX_QikIQaXRVaY5PRzZ_EJnbGNWRerUroPUcTZsVdZFpl6cbHrzlxQ6tVmng0uZuKOKCbzIPW7QbJ5PqfN2LA/w200-h150/biking_dribbble2.gif" width="200" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Penelope</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Distracted?</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Adam</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: You can say that again. When I think about, there’s this howling wind, the lady asking me for directions, the bus coming and maybe not going to stop. Sure, I was distracted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Penelope</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Lucky with all those converging hazards swirling about you got off scot-free.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #990000;">Adam</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #990000;">: But traumatized.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium;">__________<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium;">In an accident report, a phrase like "a cluster of contributing factors" might have been used. Or concurrent complications. Or even fortuitous event (meaning unforeseen or chance event).</span></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-77296403531572778392024-03-17T22:30:00.001+09:002024-03-17T22:30:47.096+09:00Leg swelling<p><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After the 12 hour flight from Rome…</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3YPYbJZAWLl_tmPb1FMPcI9bZacq8T3fIEM-u7xe3KgV4Pz1M1ud5iaT5xWnnbi-eVs4M31t0KbALTaKwjkYrHtm1nXAMO9Gf6kjUc5WB-VaB0lzuGuYbfHMVPWBWICiol46bOefIt_jbb8aPkJPnFl4Uqow8zyqxU_NjaKnIX-5wRa6eHlDkRNfqGQ4/s702/DVT%2001aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="420" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3YPYbJZAWLl_tmPb1FMPcI9bZacq8T3fIEM-u7xe3KgV4Pz1M1ud5iaT5xWnnbi-eVs4M31t0KbALTaKwjkYrHtm1nXAMO9Gf6kjUc5WB-VaB0lzuGuYbfHMVPWBWICiol46bOefIt_jbb8aPkJPnFl4Uqow8zyqxU_NjaKnIX-5wRa6eHlDkRNfqGQ4/w119-h200/DVT%2001aa.jpg" width="119" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Ariana</b>: What do you this about this lump in my leg? </span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b>Yuka</b>: Let’s have a look... No redness, no swelling. Is it painful? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Ariana</b>: None.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b>Yuka</b>: Well, better get it checked out. There’s a vascular specialist not far from here. I can take you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Ariana</b>: That serious?</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Yuka</b>: Better safe than sorry.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">_________<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A long flight with prolonged immobility can trigger thrombophlebitis, either superficial or more serious (deep vein Thrombosis). Yuka is onto it.<br /></span></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-86518474680495105792024-03-14T18:40:00.000+09:002024-03-14T18:40:04.231+09:00Destressing at School<p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5MU9_Xx0nG2sD3pMl61iyy2-BEczJFVHDLohdtoQsiXr1gsfEWhCwOo1vGOIuLrBSdfT3k4TixfuBzWN0JqvSmjCZNZNZUpqwh_E7lPcl8K6q7tIOhLCYCdVT_yTbx31O0AVug1NEfUBffy94GnN-iZbDECUV_YzsifDiaAJmNy91b_XdfhnH5Ql2Lik/s1046/Yoga%20Dance%20Pose%2001aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1046" data-original-width="824" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5MU9_Xx0nG2sD3pMl61iyy2-BEczJFVHDLohdtoQsiXr1gsfEWhCwOo1vGOIuLrBSdfT3k4TixfuBzWN0JqvSmjCZNZNZUpqwh_E7lPcl8K6q7tIOhLCYCdVT_yTbx31O0AVug1NEfUBffy94GnN-iZbDECUV_YzsifDiaAJmNy91b_XdfhnH5Ql2Lik/w158-h200/Yoga%20Dance%20Pose%2001aa.jpg" width="158" /></a></div><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dean Erik meets Vice Dean Siri…<o:p></o:p></span></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Erik</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Student Affairs reports more students seeking counselling.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Siri</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: We’re deep in the semester. How about a de-stress event?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Erik</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Like?</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Siri</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Yoga and meditation sessions. Art workshops. A music concert. Teach animal massage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Erik</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Animal what?</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfllu7QvHAZPN3rNitHkIi0-U8KYNOuQiRyETzVjBrk_6QErqkC77uybid2AxzXtYTQLigbHNWyXyibHa9pyptytGCTtYNiy93KeYnm-vEcYLOj-KKwq5loOa2YCm6z2Y8qCW-7kbDFX1Nb_Bd-wg_Jh4QusiSy7zooIrTnoLKRA55W3lMoffdIrOo0A/s852/Chocolate%20donut%20with%20sprinkles%2001aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="852" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfllu7QvHAZPN3rNitHkIi0-U8KYNOuQiRyETzVjBrk_6QErqkC77uybid2AxzXtYTQLigbHNWyXyibHa9pyptytGCTtYNiy93KeYnm-vEcYLOj-KKwq5loOa2YCm6z2Y8qCW-7kbDFX1Nb_Bd-wg_Jh4QusiSy7zooIrTnoLKRA55W3lMoffdIrOo0A/w200-h186/Chocolate%20donut%20with%20sprinkles%2001aa.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Siri</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: I have a friend who specializes in animal massage. Dogs. Cats. Rabbits. Helps the animals and the handlers feel more relaxed too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Erik</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Great. And we could draw them in with free donuts. Kremes I have a contact in there.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">__________<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not so many came for the yoga, more to hold the animals, and the line for the donuts stretched way out down the corridor.</span></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-27026186474212045022024-03-10T14:29:00.000+09:002024-03-10T14:29:21.759+09:00Jade Vine Blooming<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIARQjYp-uZec0YMeR_cfQOFhKpGgROXAEAshf-vqCkrDTEzJt01__WsnC3O870L9aqyuXaNmDmBpXDxvkohdSHmrGJifvkhb_0xOZWHKaBUnZ5tp9KRmjrzifzjdLw7GplOByZMLBuGo48P-U9lVb8YGGxmQoEMq5S9kqal8xW-GigrX3QblA6IHC25w/s1512/Jade%20flower%2001aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="1134" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIARQjYp-uZec0YMeR_cfQOFhKpGgROXAEAshf-vqCkrDTEzJt01__WsnC3O870L9aqyuXaNmDmBpXDxvkohdSHmrGJifvkhb_0xOZWHKaBUnZ5tp9KRmjrzifzjdLw7GplOByZMLBuGo48P-U9lVb8YGGxmQoEMq5S9kqal8xW-GigrX3QblA6IHC25w/w150-h200/Jade%20flower%2001aa.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a hothouse…</span></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Vivian</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Look! It’s still here. The jade vine. Remember the last time?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Suzanne</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: It feels like ages ago. Five years ago. It was in bloom then.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Vivian</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: The color. Intense turquoise. Still looks like something out of a fairy tale. You expected fairies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Suzanne</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: And you squashed the romance in that by saying…</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Vivian</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">: …that they’re pollinated by bats.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">_________<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Strongylodon macrobotrys</i> (native of the Philippine rainforests) is an endangered species because of deforestation and habitat loss. Its beauty protects it to some extent by being cultivated as an exotic plant in botanical gardens and tropical greenhouses. Not easy though.<br /></span></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-14685362878500580772024-03-01T19:54:00.001+09:002024-03-02T20:01:42.971+09:00White Rabbits at Stoke-on-Trent<p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzV7QPJHMhD4nGP3PbV6I2vRQC7rUNFolG8peCQ92LOtMsEhyphenhyphenM2GjYObRZLaZna6FH85wYOY5YzS1ieDxSy0Qfk6J4xw5TKvzmWTsb7UZHkMzg6LN30kUNC6fX_Iu6thTs_uxsVZUdXcL4zg_V60_bhmbe0_sPqHIA2xJT4R8TqpqQ5icF5kL0kgutQXY/s1020/WR%20Wedgwood%20Dolphins%2001aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1017" data-original-width="1020" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzV7QPJHMhD4nGP3PbV6I2vRQC7rUNFolG8peCQ92LOtMsEhyphenhyphenM2GjYObRZLaZna6FH85wYOY5YzS1ieDxSy0Qfk6J4xw5TKvzmWTsb7UZHkMzg6LN30kUNC6fX_Iu6thTs_uxsVZUdXcL4zg_V60_bhmbe0_sPqHIA2xJT4R8TqpqQ5icF5kL0kgutQXY/w320-h318/WR%20Wedgwood%20Dolphins%2001aa.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">WHITE RABBIT WHITE RABBIT WHITE RABBIT<o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Three rabbits drinking tea out of Wedgwood cups. I asked an AI generator to draw teacups with a “Dolphins” motif of shells and instead it drew dolphins and tried to spell the word on the cup leaving the shells scattered around on the ground. Was AI joking with me? Is it sentient? A work in progress but I’m reminded of how some scoffed at Google and Wikipedia 20 years ago.</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY68_LXDqwjuuZh_qCUA3_kRHI82bIYLjwzQeS2sZc6J4gd-ktOwJEUbRR-Y0_DToXQzsumlPfOj-nN_Yj8ls3YBRPpTV5Rk25DWSb6gpxVFNsphVJ3dNSDHCAL4NV34WsniQ1AI0nN4GuRJrRt6A6kuQfUMZT6ARkbIsJjTMu1ZevjGDm9MkV7jdaraY/s864/WW%20Dolphin%20JPG%2001aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="864" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY68_LXDqwjuuZh_qCUA3_kRHI82bIYLjwzQeS2sZc6J4gd-ktOwJEUbRR-Y0_DToXQzsumlPfOj-nN_Yj8ls3YBRPpTV5Rk25DWSb6gpxVFNsphVJ3dNSDHCAL4NV34WsniQ1AI0nN4GuRJrRt6A6kuQfUMZT6ARkbIsJjTMu1ZevjGDm9MkV7jdaraY/s320/WW%20Dolphin%20JPG%2001aa.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><p></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-52291883260895823922024-02-26T12:12:00.000+09:002024-02-26T12:12:46.277+09:00Bugs in AI image generators<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXDQnx8kfbHeM_2Ic8OiwzW0ekJjDnh-XBRIUe69Z4M7GPv9WmYM5QUfAkBh76dMr2SaulyS7QggPK0JCfviCR_9svrTzDRzOCQQMbYUclvxn3zEfc9LH1ecEu3nEhn1ikA1fg6NVI6Og3rC__KbiHmfha4yWeTCb8Q7FE2UMK3bapKO_bNzigLhxYl0A/s496/Multiple%20coffees%2001a.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="494" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXDQnx8kfbHeM_2Ic8OiwzW0ekJjDnh-XBRIUe69Z4M7GPv9WmYM5QUfAkBh76dMr2SaulyS7QggPK0JCfviCR_9svrTzDRzOCQQMbYUclvxn3zEfc9LH1ecEu3nEhn1ikA1fg6NVI6Og3rC__KbiHmfha4yWeTCb8Q7FE2UMK3bapKO_bNzigLhxYl0A/w199-h200/Multiple%20coffees%2001a.png" width="199" /></a></div><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Results can be bizarre…</span></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Jason:</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Ask for a picture of someone drinking coffee and there are three cups on the table.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Joseph:</span></span></b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"> And someone looking at a mobile phone gripped by a disembodied hand in midair.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNNQld7JPaS4hYwsHCKdv8jZjwbiHTninl96ngumlwG49Wh5LizxQNy5eeHrsPOLCNjJ4qfz7dSGG0k6qdA3rNLfuFNh027Kf3Md8ipbpiXS5GceIZmhjL089jVIrmYC1oaTzWtBZvXfJvtV06BZPrO5MpF9VKkm29GAzQbE05QrXZml-tkqNvPzm7ong/s552/Disembodied%20Hand%2001a.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="548" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNNQld7JPaS4hYwsHCKdv8jZjwbiHTninl96ngumlwG49Wh5LizxQNy5eeHrsPOLCNjJ4qfz7dSGG0k6qdA3rNLfuFNh027Kf3Md8ipbpiXS5GceIZmhjL089jVIrmYC1oaTzWtBZvXfJvtV06BZPrO5MpF9VKkm29GAzQbE05QrXZml-tkqNvPzm7ong/w199-h200/Disembodied%20Hand%2001a.png" width="199" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Jason:</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> And text. It usually turns out as nonsense. Why does it mess up text?</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">Joseph:</span></b><span style="background-color: white;"> Text generation isn’t built into the image generator. People scoffed at Google, then Wikipedia. Now they’re everyday tools. </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">It’s being worked on. Prepare to be surprised.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">________<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Microsoft can erase unwanted elements from an image, Stable Diffusion already claims their Version 3 will print the text properly in an image. Toddlers learn by falling.<br /><br /></span></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-56267528849907865632024-02-21T17:30:00.001+09:002024-02-25T17:40:54.637+09:00Time taken over a tech problem<p><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Next day…</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2cN1MPGImlzM1SPoonxJ6BjQthSlK56mergVNMXlOhFBq9hOwGl_ggQzIKMZSC4n3wT2MhanB2D-0ljf4vfJjNc301hffJky4r-YuchAcv-c0VDmK3rG3mifkmJxO2e_CU7ah5-GVrA2vOOuDQgWoc4ZYracWhxw6RxwDnH6PDUMSAwAGVF6pjv6rEUM/s552/Downnload%20frustration%2001aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="548" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2cN1MPGImlzM1SPoonxJ6BjQthSlK56mergVNMXlOhFBq9hOwGl_ggQzIKMZSC4n3wT2MhanB2D-0ljf4vfJjNc301hffJky4r-YuchAcv-c0VDmK3rG3mifkmJxO2e_CU7ah5-GVrA2vOOuDQgWoc4ZYracWhxw6RxwDnH6PDUMSAwAGVF6pjv6rEUM/w199-h200/Downnload%20frustration%2001aa.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="199" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Oh no! What next!</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Jason</b>: You didn’t pick up last night. Thought you’d fallen in the bathroom and broken a leg. Nearly called an ambulance.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b>Sybil</b>: I thought of texting you. I was busy. Downloading an app and recalibrating the headphones took longer than I expected.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: medium;"><b>Jason</b>: Yeah. At this stage of life, I often can’t be bothered with some tech problem that I can solve but I’ll never need to do it again.</span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b>Sybil</b>: Waste of what little time I have left.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Jason</b>: Rather play with the cat?</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Sybil</b>: And what’s wrong with that?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">________<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Understandably frustrating wrestling with tech. Wait until the next day. Search online. Ask someone, lay or professional if you have better things to do with your time. Or even troubleshoot it and use it as a learning opportunity. </span></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-4146662979748309282024-02-18T19:36:00.001+09:002024-02-24T19:43:16.131+09:00Destination Divulging Disorder (DDD)<p><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wondering where a secretive colleague is…</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfmYIKvrrmw8Q-S-GL7ZHaYKEYOdPA10fj4LXV01ZbhC1rCi2g4alnUjCOydRqaw-KKERS2xcrjMWUL-cGjn4WAzFG3g3LV1Emn_n3a4sclON2_v6P4V9RFpchD4mrfciupo4MrNItYAFKrsG1M7k24st4Si1kzUIYT4OEhQ86AT6qhAu-AYC36KtLwYA/s1276/Antonio%20and%20Fred%2001aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1266" data-original-width="1276" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfmYIKvrrmw8Q-S-GL7ZHaYKEYOdPA10fj4LXV01ZbhC1rCi2g4alnUjCOydRqaw-KKERS2xcrjMWUL-cGjn4WAzFG3g3LV1Emn_n3a4sclON2_v6P4V9RFpchD4mrfciupo4MrNItYAFKrsG1M7k24st4Si1kzUIYT4OEhQ86AT6qhAu-AYC36KtLwYA/w200-h198/Antonio%20and%20Fred%2001aa.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Where in the world...</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Antonio</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Have you heard from the English lately?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Fred</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Nope, not a peep. He goes off the radar for weeks at a time. It's like trying to catch smoke; you never know where he's gone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Antonio</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Like the Cheshire Cat. One moment he's here, the next he's vanished.<br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Fred</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Or the Scarlet Pimpernell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Antonio</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: They seek him here, they seek him there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Fred</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: He has a meeting March 20th. He could work remotely until then.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Antonio</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: My guess is he’s doing spell research at Hogwarts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Fred</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: He never lets on where he’s been when he gets back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">____________<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Reasons for an individual’s DDD may be connected with a wish for privacy, to keep a boundary between their life and others, a fear of judgement by others, security concerns, among others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-79144572985201531542024-02-12T21:11:00.001+09:002024-02-20T21:16:00.228+09:00Winter Weight Gain<p><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7H2QGgoZYYsES_LDOU4Ngh81deODiUyIpsBGGSdnIAenl8A4_UydFCksLtwXcn-Hb0vKjuD_Yh-nrHulc_xZL35O3OH3TtLH334Zc9ne4uQJmlFAzBnJRFY2l7-zxZuuzK2ukgpXISxIaTFg0S-aP-9DKdCwoKtlSRTBJolz7EeiEZ3_JG9qlLkqeOng/s836/2%20cats%20and%20tea%2001aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="836" data-original-width="598" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7H2QGgoZYYsES_LDOU4Ngh81deODiUyIpsBGGSdnIAenl8A4_UydFCksLtwXcn-Hb0vKjuD_Yh-nrHulc_xZL35O3OH3TtLH334Zc9ne4uQJmlFAzBnJRFY2l7-zxZuuzK2ukgpXISxIaTFg0S-aP-9DKdCwoKtlSRTBJolz7EeiEZ3_JG9qlLkqeOng/w143-h200/2%20cats%20and%20tea%2001aa.jpg" width="143" /></a></i></div><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stubborn winter weight loss…</span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Samantha</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: How’s the weather treating you?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Victoria</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: So up and so down. One day hot, one day cold. And I can’t control my comfort foods.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Samantha</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Binging?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Victoria</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Not binging but I’m putting on weight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Samantha</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: You've got nothing to worry about. You always look fabulous!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Victoria</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Seriously. Six kilos up in six months.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Samantha</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Mmm. Hard to stay active when it's freezing outside. And in cold weather, our bodies crave more calories, even if we're not using them all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Victoria</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: I’ve tried indoor exercises.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Samantha</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: It’s got to be sustained. And vigorous. Have you tried dance?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">___________<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dance, aerobics, tai chi, they all help. It’s harder than when we were younger.</span></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-44170950594024972112024-02-04T12:26:00.001+09:002024-02-04T12:26:48.563+09:00Progress of a cold<p><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cough, cough…</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Umeko</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: How long have you had it?</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hachiko</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: A week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Umeko</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Not Covid?</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hachiko</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Nope. I tested.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Umeko</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Began with a sore throat?</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Hachiko</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">: Then a runny nose which progressed down into the lungs. Now this cough.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjS1xanY4_00fEvatkbpk0v_GHm1IR1xAe6ElLb8xPw9LT35nDSYirtV2-oBSgDGi5xIucnligwgBt5R4wCaWhQus4elemAPNVrCTOoIMFmkB00liSKP62UqqUtJFlGPv4jhP8fd798BMWQumoX9QobHTPXjTTejPrcTg2OhJSPQYpXl0Hu5lkqDDh90Y/s320/Lulu%20Attack%2001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="320" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjS1xanY4_00fEvatkbpk0v_GHm1IR1xAe6ElLb8xPw9LT35nDSYirtV2-oBSgDGi5xIucnligwgBt5R4wCaWhQus4elemAPNVrCTOoIMFmkB00liSKP62UqqUtJFlGPv4jhP8fd798BMWQumoX9QobHTPXjTTejPrcTg2OhJSPQYpXl0Hu5lkqDDh90Y/w200-h200/Lulu%20Attack%2001.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: medium;"><i>Lulu! Attack!</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">_________<br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pickled plums, honey, radish, ginger, lemon, okayu together with Kakkonto for the beginning of a cold. If that doesn’t work, then you need Pabron, Lulu, Bufferin, Eve, Stona or any of the many pharmaceutical symptom-specific options. Stay hydrated.</span></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-14152775514643338382024-02-01T16:28:00.001+09:002024-02-01T16:30:30.326+09:00Didactic White Rabbit Redux<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqWhMxUi8R3O3u2XWcGIQP_KnTMYsB5I2aiX7jG5hhOiKWKWwWfkhNTb6FYO72RzA3EllC0-0cs5Z_FaIvPskiN34_Ovg8E6F8gK9FwpwGrs-BYS4e9BMU7JGNVejILm239CQbd9grFowSHbwSdAvVxRMwgQN70YOYDV-0KUJeW7ZvALxmwHgFJ1jcS8/s1088/Digital%20Teacher%2001aa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1058" data-original-width="1088" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqWhMxUi8R3O3u2XWcGIQP_KnTMYsB5I2aiX7jG5hhOiKWKWwWfkhNTb6FYO72RzA3EllC0-0cs5Z_FaIvPskiN34_Ovg8E6F8gK9FwpwGrs-BYS4e9BMU7JGNVejILm239CQbd9grFowSHbwSdAvVxRMwgQN70YOYDV-0KUJeW7ZvALxmwHgFJ1jcS8/w400-h389/Digital%20Teacher%2001aa.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Back t</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">eaching future media to a mix of Generation Zees and US Marines at an American university… the elderly didactic rabbit is enjoying it, albeit daily surprised that he can still stand up at all. The To Do list ballooned so he has severely edited the list back to essentials. Eat, Sleep, Take a train. There’s gotta be a beach at the end of the tunnel.</span></div></span><p></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-76346402848756185722024-01-27T12:32:00.001+09:002024-02-02T12:35:44.771+09:00Stay or Leave?<p><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A catastrophic earthquake is predicted for Japan’s Pacific coast...</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Izumi</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Did you see Professor Kakuda explaining the data coming from the Nankai Trough.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Kenji</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: I saw that. He says predictions are for 2035 plus or minus five years either way.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Izumi</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: So the danger starts to increase from 2030.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPYqs3A4tdhq4KH8BoQ35jphyNwfgL8jlXMha9TZEoarY88Jm4TQzNc8Kf1ETJt3fjDVcC-rLtruUvMxZVvUxAQHa-6-KgUjyBmzODt5ae-v3T3ygJrMupZ_YYerBbHPn4K2Y302pvha-HuEfz9qB-lZya8tjvwwpi1YQna0mJ71lKe6MyBKsuFURAw8s/s1293/Fate%20or%20Destiny%2001aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1293" data-original-width="850" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPYqs3A4tdhq4KH8BoQ35jphyNwfgL8jlXMha9TZEoarY88Jm4TQzNc8Kf1ETJt3fjDVcC-rLtruUvMxZVvUxAQHa-6-KgUjyBmzODt5ae-v3T3ygJrMupZ_YYerBbHPn4K2Y302pvha-HuEfz9qB-lZya8tjvwwpi1YQna0mJ71lKe6MyBKsuFURAw8s/w131-h200/Fate%20or%20Destiny%2001aa.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Kenji</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Might be a good time to think of an alternative place to live.<br /></span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Izumi</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: If you can get away. I mean, a Magnitude 9 will take out a lot of infrastructure like roads, airports. Not to mention buildings. And the economy? Will the Japanese yen collapse?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Kenji</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: It’s a gamble, it’s fate, it’s destiny. You move: you avoid a short-term catastrophe. You stay: you avoid a longer-term disruption to your career, housing, community.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">_________<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it." </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jean de la Fontaine.</span></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-65077790450911454922024-01-26T20:04:00.001+09:002024-01-30T20:08:06.010+09:00To retire, or not to retire...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnWkYuhQSAG1VPx8gkDI5liPq4QxB9Y5pYsPJB4G8VG4aCJMyLOozr6w4tnmuBRhlN34DSF2EmBJ4S5lvcz8dm8ZhyOh1gX_geqXRn1E_W0QoVfHCtJlTfUZiMB7DhTLG3YFSCg5debwqD0D7-74JXK3vTlBCvDD3QkNEUAp9U-qGLFTP_xMKhkjgIyug/s1058/bee%20on%20clover%2001a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="1058" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnWkYuhQSAG1VPx8gkDI5liPq4QxB9Y5pYsPJB4G8VG4aCJMyLOozr6w4tnmuBRhlN34DSF2EmBJ4S5lvcz8dm8ZhyOh1gX_geqXRn1E_W0QoVfHCtJlTfUZiMB7DhTLG3YFSCg5debwqD0D7-74JXK3vTlBCvDD3QkNEUAp9U-qGLFTP_xMKhkjgIyug/w200-h159/bee%20on%20clover%2001a.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sound of bees…</span></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Charles</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Your garden looks even more vibrant than I ever remember. What’s that song the bees are singing?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Richard</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;">: Ha! Yes, too slow for the flight of the bumblebee, that’s for sure. Soothing, it is. But, did I hear you’ve taken a JOB?</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Charles</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Yes. I must confess, after a few years of retirement, I found myself longing for the intellectual stimulation of teaching. So, I took up a part-time lecturing position.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Richard</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;">: Teaching again, Charles? After all those years of counting down the days until retirement?</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Charles</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: I know, I know. But there's something about passing on knowledge and engaging with eager minds that I missed. It's not a full-time gig, just enough to keep me intellectually active.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Richard</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;">: You did say once that you missed being able to say you were associated with an institution.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Charles</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">: Ah yes. The affiliation. I must admit that also drew me in.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">________<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some seek peace in retirement, others are drawn back to the stimulating buzz of the hive.</span><br /></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-41319628406232418072024-01-22T13:33:00.001+09:002024-01-28T13:38:40.748+09:00Shadows cast by media scholars<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCxD3Jz5oMwsz5MBF0b_JLzVl3MDnA1SmrL8VSDVZP4adVksd_86wxwuR9bV6V4aI3RRLCyUahfGW291h71YwbNeEshSGRXtNsV-_U0ci9sJ_vOUjiV_RdyvI00P1hzO2YuX7uVfkFfmwXWGzN2qUyTmEYNetfuwpbTxbE7-hdEKdHkPNwzROdkS1WSxY/s2372/Who%20do%20you%20know%2001aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2372" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCxD3Jz5oMwsz5MBF0b_JLzVl3MDnA1SmrL8VSDVZP4adVksd_86wxwuR9bV6V4aI3RRLCyUahfGW291h71YwbNeEshSGRXtNsV-_U0ci9sJ_vOUjiV_RdyvI00P1hzO2YuX7uVfkFfmwXWGzN2qUyTmEYNetfuwpbTxbE7-hdEKdHkPNwzROdkS1WSxY/w200-h115/Who%20do%20you%20know%2001aa.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Selecting a scholar for a presentation…</span></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Mei</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: What’s the homework for the media class?</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ariana</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Prof told us to select one media scholar and present a key concept and quotation on a single PowerPoint slide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Mei</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Who do we have to choose from?</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ariana</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Postman, Baudrillard, Chomsky, Debord, McLuhan and others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Mei</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Ones who are pretty critical of media then?</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Ariana</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">: Critical? That’s what scholars do, criticize, isn’t it?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">__________<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Concepts like news are packaged like entertainment, distinguishing between real and unreal is difficult, media company owners influence content, mass media is about spectacle, and the message being influenced by the medium. Notions with a darker side.<br /></span></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-3588060269633902592024-01-15T18:32:00.001+09:002024-01-23T18:38:16.076+09:00Bow fender<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeiMG6T1lJHaHBo7bnnxAh05X7lNn6TOIVKddWql3EBcemRvI6muyfjpfXtHMl11PErm2DIeIhWa4U70CfmyXvYOtEISJDPNMJZ3DC7IKcy3pFdOmlzIvWE6K7rDTS4qQJn-ypxL5RBKP0xkuhFJalRkwtZiFldYV2kj1nk0hOb3bSiZnmXWjbXTikO2U/s1600/Bow%20pudding%2001a.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeiMG6T1lJHaHBo7bnnxAh05X7lNn6TOIVKddWql3EBcemRvI6muyfjpfXtHMl11PErm2DIeIhWa4U70CfmyXvYOtEISJDPNMJZ3DC7IKcy3pFdOmlzIvWE6K7rDTS4qQJn-ypxL5RBKP0xkuhFJalRkwtZiFldYV2kj1nk0hOb3bSiZnmXWjbXTikO2U/w200-h150/Bow%20pudding%2001a.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At the boat club…</span></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Haddock:</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"> You’ve been busy.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Tommy:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> It’s a pudding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Haddock:</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"> In my day it was called a bow fender.<br /></span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Tommy:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> AKA bow pudding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Haddock:</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"> It’s a lot of knots. Could this proliferation have its origins in something like if you can’t tie good knots then tie plenty of them?</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Tommy:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Grr.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Haddock:</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> Or when you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on?</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Tommy:</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"> Or I push you in the water.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">__________<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some describe the bow fender as a beard. Knotting puddings could be seen to be an art, but perhaps an endangered one?</span></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-39246949713988569512024-01-02T13:16:00.000+09:002024-01-02T13:16:24.044+09:00On not making new year resolutions<p><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The second day…</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Veronica</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: So how did you spend new year’s day?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Virgil</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Started off good. Drone caught a brilliant sunrise over the estuary.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Veronica</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: And the rest of the day in a hammock looking out over the water?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Virgil</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Not as laid back as that. Son got Covid so there was a bit of delivering of antivirals.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Veronica</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Oh no, tough start to the year. Is he okay?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Virgil</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Some fever, I hear. I don’t go in the apartment though.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Veronica</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Make any resolutions?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Virgil</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: I got guidance from an article titled, <i>Twenty-second New Year resolutions</i>.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Veronica</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Example?<br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Virgil</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Don’t make any.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">_______<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNZ8LrDNSSgVCvCi6SnxcAjYh_MMTHuDIR7Ar_FjE46mUeP4P_cf4xdLkg3n8nQhRXBrLZVnU-lUomTycsD84UHFvIfjFKYnEAFffLBN148HQjuk1GhwSZhB9rhk7jerSLLtDOahHxjss_43ipk3-mQL4NP0LJ3Q-n8zJO65f_MBXD7bWbhbrhW6BnHlQ/s1464/NY%20rezzies%2001a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="796" data-original-width="1464" height="109" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNZ8LrDNSSgVCvCi6SnxcAjYh_MMTHuDIR7Ar_FjE46mUeP4P_cf4xdLkg3n8nQhRXBrLZVnU-lUomTycsD84UHFvIfjFKYnEAFffLBN148HQjuk1GhwSZhB9rhk7jerSLLtDOahHxjss_43ipk3-mQL4NP0LJ3Q-n8zJO65f_MBXD7bWbhbrhW6BnHlQ/w200-h109/NY%20rezzies%2001a.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Not making any new year resolutions has advantages:<o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Reduced Pressure and Stress: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Avoid anxiety and failure.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Flexibility: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Rigid goals can be a burden.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Focus on the Present: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Enjoy the journey.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ongoing Self-reflection: More continuous evaluation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Encourages Realistic Goal Setting: New Year resolutions </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">can be unrealistic and not so achievable.</span></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-76322643515107370742024-01-01T19:17:00.000+09:002024-01-01T19:17:59.927+09:002023 White Rabbit to 2024 Wood Dragon handover<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgopViFLBvDLz2EFuBGp9K5KJDxttI-w22KK8mCMmtWBd8S8Zw-dKEO8UZHWWzeKaGVws3YYVqlR2GP2z7rTPszJ6irdJs39bR3MDIVu4YkLbmjA1ezpPoV2XcJQURaWGR8BgxBOeZrrxyiAHs1Xjl11O98W32AMVSEHB8yrlbs39xwG7ftZcROimfrgUM/s1017/WR%20morphs%20into%20WD%2001a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="990" data-original-width="1017" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgopViFLBvDLz2EFuBGp9K5KJDxttI-w22KK8mCMmtWBd8S8Zw-dKEO8UZHWWzeKaGVws3YYVqlR2GP2z7rTPszJ6irdJs39bR3MDIVu4YkLbmjA1ezpPoV2XcJQURaWGR8BgxBOeZrrxyiAHs1Xjl11O98W32AMVSEHB8yrlbs39xwG7ftZcROimfrgUM/w320-h312/WR%20morphs%20into%20WD%2001a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #202124; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><p>2023 Year of the White Rabbit was supposed to be a calmer year after all the drama of the tiger year before and even earlier. Like a lot of predictions, it didn’t work out to be calmer for many. We hope that 2024, the Year of the Wood Dragon, will offer a bit more luck and solutions to problems.</p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And a dose of WHITE RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT might nudge things along.</span></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-91968833703943394462023-12-27T20:29:00.001+09:002023-12-29T20:32:16.290+09:00Gaslighting<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXLHbTm0Rkqjhfnjag0MnpLIAZE2Go1nMNPDrvUq8z0NGoWjNxwDRk0mifPBziaVIGl93vrUA9Ll1hTZcVrqog_JBgWp5jgGVLj2Uo4EmsFArORqK25MA40qnmDeroTZplNcC-cJCtUJ0c7fD4n6t_wDGdqjb6AqPilZSLyrM1KpcuEPkqROky9dIDcO8/s665/Gaslight%201944.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="665" data-original-width="440" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXLHbTm0Rkqjhfnjag0MnpLIAZE2Go1nMNPDrvUq8z0NGoWjNxwDRk0mifPBziaVIGl93vrUA9Ll1hTZcVrqog_JBgWp5jgGVLj2Uo4EmsFArORqK25MA40qnmDeroTZplNcC-cJCtUJ0c7fD4n6t_wDGdqjb6AqPilZSLyrM1KpcuEPkqROky9dIDcO8/w133-h200/Gaslight%201944.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The lights dim…</span></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Joseph</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: He spins stories.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Angela</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Consummate politician?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Joseph</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Worse than that. He manipulates. He puts fear in her mind. He tells her she is…</span><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Angela</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: In danger?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Joseph</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: He says that he worries her anxieties are a precursor to her having a nervous breakdown.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Angela</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: So she should seek help?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Joseph</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: No, he says. She should only listen to him. Don’t talk to friends or they will laugh at her. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">_______<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gaslighting is psychological manipulation in which a person sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual, making them question their own memory, perception, or sanity. The term "gaslighting" originated from the Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play "Gas Light". It became a film "Gaslight" in 1940. The story is about a husband who manipulates his wife into doubting her sanity by dimming the gas lights in their home and then denying that the lights are flickering She becomes unstable. Variations include denying things that happened, blaming others, undermining confidence, forgetting things, and, as here, isolating the victim.</span></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-81264808264930574562023-12-21T05:06:00.001+09:002023-12-29T05:08:53.946+09:00When 77 = 14<p><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Another Birthday...</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOOfS-NuiwDxfi9FDC3bVO__aKKoa14uXTFACoLmm7pZM0JBPPVlp2KcAOzIiW3gyCEc6zqD7j2lqF2R3vkR3HM0Mp5sg8LaB7oHJljMfBtEl5NIt296XuKDku4LO5cPlM8gTueTf3yhN9FUgp9SO5rhblL9TtPs64kvcDWCuI5_TPttqAKFbsGykXEGo/s1792/14th.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1792" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOOfS-NuiwDxfi9FDC3bVO__aKKoa14uXTFACoLmm7pZM0JBPPVlp2KcAOzIiW3gyCEc6zqD7j2lqF2R3vkR3HM0Mp5sg8LaB7oHJljMfBtEl5NIt296XuKDku4LO5cPlM8gTueTf3yhN9FUgp9SO5rhblL9TtPs64kvcDWCuI5_TPttqAKFbsGykXEGo/w200-h112/14th.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Ingrid</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">: Happy Birthday. How old?<br /></span></span><b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Ross</span></span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Fourteen.</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Ingrid</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">: Huh?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Ross</span></span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Well, do the math. 7 + 7 = 14.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #990000;">Ingrid</span></span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #990000;">: I like that. So next birthday I’ll be six years old. 4 + 2 = 6.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">_______<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Die Manipulation von Zahlen. Anything to reduce the age count as the numbers get higher.</span><br /></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-68994735264658216522023-12-18T19:20:00.001+09:002023-12-28T19:24:05.814+09:00Metrosideros excelsa<p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwv36kfYEM-EDpJgYlRpkzlgVK3KdbtVieZqUXewSjyqlgeJ44y-q0dc6TXyI_r0bCGBb5sQdiVL6LJbKFRUVnfUxzJr7fCScbk5btiMLHqnRGlssD1AI9AEpHSlBhXTybMcsXYCCk0JMkAOMpVvbcgijjyynwjMTxQmICQced_ZKdgF8yQWLWVQSbDtU/s1417/Metrosideros%2001aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1063" data-original-width="1417" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwv36kfYEM-EDpJgYlRpkzlgVK3KdbtVieZqUXewSjyqlgeJ44y-q0dc6TXyI_r0bCGBb5sQdiVL6LJbKFRUVnfUxzJr7fCScbk5btiMLHqnRGlssD1AI9AEpHSlBhXTybMcsXYCCk0JMkAOMpVvbcgijjyynwjMTxQmICQced_ZKdgF8yQWLWVQSbDtU/w200-h150/Metrosideros%2001aa.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Along the beach…<o:p></o:p></span></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Mary</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: What a stunning display.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Christian</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Sometimes called the New Zealand Christmas tree. It flowers for two or three weeks in December.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Mary</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Doesn’t need any lights that one.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Christian</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Glows in the daylight, you could say. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">_________<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Voice-over<br /></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Metrosideros excelsa is a New Zealand coastal evergreen tree in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It produces a brilliant display of red flowers, each consisting of a mass of stamens.</span></span></p><p> </p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-32562978458629932782023-12-12T05:49:00.001+09:002023-12-28T05:52:47.646+09:00Driving into the Future<p><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Taking on a new course about TV and the future…</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Stephen</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Television is a difficult subject to teach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5aI9k2EeO1JyNwaqacReUGyr1d2_ziUkFXmB6eFj-ERwBdTLShyphenhyphen_Y31Wl1rC7ykxfrY_ir9QHKdLwkenSvLVQHQ_qtOl8J2Cqyt3HnQYhs_jGxbO8mrTMLccvrmyn74uMiXPq1d2abTUo-U17c0cyeW8BmAvs8PalRyf5hoeg8LSoEJ4Kmxtyrt884kM/s457/McLuhan%2001aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="457" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5aI9k2EeO1JyNwaqacReUGyr1d2_ziUkFXmB6eFj-ERwBdTLShyphenhyphen_Y31Wl1rC7ykxfrY_ir9QHKdLwkenSvLVQHQ_qtOl8J2Cqyt3HnQYhs_jGxbO8mrTMLccvrmyn74uMiXPq1d2abTUo-U17c0cyeW8BmAvs8PalRyf5hoeg8LSoEJ4Kmxtyrt884kM/w200-h147/McLuhan%2001aa.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Marshall</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Oh, I agree. It means something different to everyone.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Stephen</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: So, I’ve been asked to teach a course on the future of television.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Marshall</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: That’s a challenge</span><span style="color: #990000;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Stephen</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: I’ve talked to the professor who taught the course before. He treated it like a history of the medium and tried to foretell how it would develop.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Marshall</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Like driving into the future using only the rearview mirror?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">_______<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voiceover<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What makes it difficult to teach this subject is that technology is disrupting the medium faster than history is incrementally changing its nature.</span><br /></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-3114300587197275812023-12-08T20:51:00.007+09:002023-12-27T20:55:14.452+09:00Catsitting<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Visiting a house with cats...</span></i></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwymE8Aqmx2xZ_mvnRUVbGGP1Fw7nbGIfxEtGw5pUb7BaCNiIE5VZuQSSv-TzKv5-wFdwARw-rzSEMbEKn63OR9Sl7EIF9OXnxhhWg11g8xZZOmlfnVgd1bkgl7VX6JFUsFxC1H1IHRYHcdGpPVm30UjVA9L6MQH6gYT8Rc9TqNBbsfeLz9rntCs2YFAU/s1417/Catsitting%2001aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1063" data-original-width="1417" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwymE8Aqmx2xZ_mvnRUVbGGP1Fw7nbGIfxEtGw5pUb7BaCNiIE5VZuQSSv-TzKv5-wFdwARw-rzSEMbEKn63OR9Sl7EIF9OXnxhhWg11g8xZZOmlfnVgd1bkgl7VX6JFUsFxC1H1IHRYHcdGpPVm30UjVA9L6MQH6gYT8Rc9TqNBbsfeLz9rntCs2YFAU/w200-h150/Catsitting%2001aa.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #990000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Eleanor</b>: We have two cats.<br /></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Rachel</b>: I thought you only had one?</span><br /></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #990000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Eleanor</b>: We’re catsitting one more while the owners move house.<br /></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Rachel</b>: They get along?</span><br /></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #990000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Eleanor</b>: Took a couple of days. Now they sit together on top of the bookcase. See?<br /></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Rachel</b>: Catsitting you, right?</span><br /></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">________<br /></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Voice-over</i><br /></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Wise to have a friends catsit a feline, house-moving is a time of upheaval.</span></span><p></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-22675488074455221092023-12-01T14:06:00.001+09:002023-12-01T14:08:31.274+09:00Lepus albus binoculari<p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: large;">White rabbit is celebrating the operation that changed her panoramic vision to binocular vision*. She says there was some discomfort in pulling the eyes round to the front of her head but it got rid of the blind spot between the eyes.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPNdLHk8Xtvbw6LSTS4ziBaLFWJi7BE9EW2JaC3sXpxJ-NKWo3nb1MkGEczT6eLLWcyG9mxKEwT1xCN6fEb2wOSeklj0-MPqSn11iDAg-4A0MhvT7bcLR51hXI-PH_cZ2iNV1cnEk-iETA0Wtf6FGA36EvFl62CCbQDU7CJQxV6YA08yjPf0kfBU26pRs/s1662/WR%20binocular%2002aa.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1662" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPNdLHk8Xtvbw6LSTS4ziBaLFWJi7BE9EW2JaC3sXpxJ-NKWo3nb1MkGEczT6eLLWcyG9mxKEwT1xCN6fEb2wOSeklj0-MPqSn11iDAg-4A0MhvT7bcLR51hXI-PH_cZ2iNV1cnEk-iETA0Wtf6FGA36EvFl62CCbQDU7CJQxV6YA08yjPf0kfBU26pRs/w400-h190/WR%20binocular%2002aa.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;">WHITE RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT!</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US"> *</span><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rabbits have panoramic vision to protect them from predators but humans have binocular vision for depth perception.</span></span></i></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399826852790921568.post-29104303217582212702023-11-26T22:27:00.000+09:002023-11-26T22:27:30.392+09:00Glass Book: Toyama Library and Glass Museum<p><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On returning from the station…</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbjy8hb99HonN7UPHou5W02DRLk_RUYl8V8nKozJN0pK1jflZYK8j2m8uVa25GJmd5CY15MYPGI6LyhiSc3YnNcGQT9w1mQY0yugqnciLgakGPh2jfRmaoQ16VUlBjf6twRwp-lSmeXrrIp15QvXwAJifGkUMRJ9UHuJu0isVjZna5RN7_jUZboP8WRE8/s1890/Glass%20Book%20from%20street%2001aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="1417" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbjy8hb99HonN7UPHou5W02DRLk_RUYl8V8nKozJN0pK1jflZYK8j2m8uVa25GJmd5CY15MYPGI6LyhiSc3YnNcGQT9w1mQY0yugqnciLgakGPh2jfRmaoQ16VUlBjf6twRwp-lSmeXrrIp15QvXwAJifGkUMRJ9UHuJu0isVjZna5RN7_jUZboP8WRE8/w150-h200/Glass%20Book%20from%20street%2001aa.jpg" width="150" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Glass Book</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Marion</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Oh, it was incredible! I visited the Toyama library and glass museum. The architecture is mind-blowing, especially the way the use</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> of</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> wood and glass. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Kazuki</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Kengo Kuma's work is always impressive. What stood out the most?</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Marion</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Maybe the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">sense of space</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> and the soaring wood pillars soaring up six floors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">K</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">azuki</span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">: Like being in a forest?<br /></span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">M</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">arion</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: Yes, like</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">in a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> forest. But, you know</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, it’s a museum, a museum of glass sculptures. B</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">eautiful, delicate works of art.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span lang="EN-US">So I thought, maybe t</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">he library itself is like a glass book, each section a different chapter filled with knowledge and stories.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">K</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">azuki</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A glass book? </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">nteresting metaphor.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span lang="EN-US">Yes, that street face of blocks and shards could be seen as representing glass book</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">___________<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Voice-over<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Toyama City Library: more than just a library, it’s an experience.</span></span></p>Barry Natuschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243735710237789311noreply@blogger.com0