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Interesting time capsule...I keep expecting going to the mall to look like this even though my experiences lately have been much different.
1989: America's Malls

The two main malls around here - Mall of Georgia and Whatever-It-Is-Since-Discover's-Naming-Rights-Contract-Expired Mills - still look like that.

The "mall" in Gainesville never did.

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Hadn't seen one of those in years - until i saw a re-named one in WIISDNRCE Mills a year or so ago. There was also a pretty elaborate slot-racing parlour, fer Ghu's sake!

The SR2 is a virtual reality ride originally designed/developed by special effects wizard Douglas Trumbull (though the manufacturer's web page doesn't mention him) that seats about eight people in a motion-controlled simulator; there is a rear-projection screen at the front which originally had a 16-mm projector setup. Film of, say, a ride in the front row on the Beast roller coaster at King's Island or a high-speed drive through the streets of Paris was projected, with multi-channel audio and synchronised to the hydraulic simulator rig.

Kinda fun - especially the Beast ride; i've ridden the real one, and the SR2 wasn't that bad a simulation, within the limits of the technology.

Just because there hasn't been enough of this lately.

*Trigger Warning*
Skeery spiders...

And from the same site, tis the season to cat-proof your Christmas tree...

*Trigger Warning*
There be cats...

Jabberwonky wrote:Interesting time capsule...I keep expecting going to the mall to look like this even though my experiences lately have been much different.
1989: America's Malls

The first time I ever went to a mall would have been around 1991 or 1992, in Texas. I can't say that I've seen much difference between those photos and the most of the malls I've visited since then, aside from superficial changes in hair and clothing style and hair and products being sold and hair. And the hair.

Ah, yes - the "any part that'll fit" school of auto body rpair.
 
I'm assuming that the new-looking Viet Nam campaign sticker is from the current owner, instead of the USAF.
 
Also note the fishing rod stowage arrangements.



Kinda wonder what happened to it - looks as if whatever it was struck from above.

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Technically, the ribbon is not truly regulation unless you have little bronze stars on it indicating how many designated "campaigns" you were in-country.

Out of curiosity, i just looked it up and discovered that i would be entitled to four little bronze stars in a row. If i'd stayed a few more months, i think, i'd have been entitled to a little silver star in lieu of five bronze ones. (I was in-country August 1969 to August 1970.)

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On a different but closely-related front, this is a re-creation of a bumper sticker i saw about fifteen years ago that still irritates me.

Not for myself, particularly, since i was a Navy REMF at COMMSTA Cam Ranh Bay, but for all the grunts who did get shot at - or shot - because this sticker is trying to cash in on the regard that people have come to have for VN vets without actually having been at risk.

In case someone wants their own supernatural experience...
Craigslist offers Cursed Sword
(or just want to get rid of that annoying knitting circle)

Jabberwonky wrote:In case someone wants their own supernatural experience...
Craigslist offers Cursed Sword
(or just want to get rid of that annoying knitting circle)

That is the best photo I've seen all week.

So - did anyone watch Peter Pan last night?

I didn't; but even if i'd been wanting to see it, finding out in advance that it was three hours long would have cured me of that.

Only way i'd watch a three-hour "Pan" would be if Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard in their prime came back...

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I heard a review on NPR this afternoon - the reviewer said that someoine tweeted after it was at long last over "Next year they should just give Meryl Streep a bottle of vodka and the script from Oklahoma!."

Yeah, re: the new, live Pan. I saw a little of the 'making of' prior to but back in the 2000's I helped herd some local kids my dad had on the neighborhood 'Clean Team' to a live showing on stage.

It didn't take three hours, but it felt like it did...

(Just watched Lawrence of Arabia last night.) <-- again...


PS- I liked it btw... (again...)

Christmas gifts from Granmike and Ganga:

SO i've finished building the tablets for the girls' Christmas gifts - they're identical, except for the wallpaper. I've loaded several games (including Grablox, which some here may recall), some videos, some books and a couple of apps that may come in handy.

Seen below, in all their glory, are the new tablets and my battered old one (the horizontal one in the middle):

You are a good Grampa...

Jabberwonky wrote:You are a good Grampa...

Indeed! Preparing the girls for life in The Future, in a fun practical way. Also probably making them the envy of all their friends.

Jabberwonky wrote:You are a good Grampa...

A good, practical teacher, too. I believe that's a school production about the life and times of Thomas a Bucket we see there!

Chlorine gas sickens 19 at furries convention

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Chlorine gas sickens 19 at furries convention

But when those who were sickened went to the hospital were they treated by doctors or a veterinarians?

Ba-dum-tish.

shadowinthelight wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Chlorine gas sickens 19 at furries convention

But when those who were sickened went to the hospital were they treated by doctors or a veterinarians?

...oy. Anyhow, I'm glad to see almost all of those affected were released from the hospital quickly, without lasting effects.

The furries evacuated (the ones not taken to the hospital) were sent across the street to a convention center...

... which was hosting a dog show.

I hope they arranged (with the consent of the dog-show people) to have some fun with that.