Sunday, December 15, 2024

Retro and Oddities


How about some retro photos?

Who can guess what the above photo is?

It's me, when at the fairgrounds, where a med school student gave me my first Covid vaccine.  I was lined up with hundreds of other people.


And this is me again in above photo.  Well, its my face.  My first face swap use of AI.  Here's the original:

I like the mentality expressed so much that I swapped out the original face for mine.   I was going to print the swap out photo to include in my Christmas cards this year but my printer quit.  Ah, its fate I assume.

And there was the photo below I took one harried day two or three years ago when I finally realized I was wearing two different shoes.  A new fashion?   


And this photo, when I finally found my lost TV remote, after weeks of search efforts.


What about this proud moment, when I ran over a tire in the fast lane of the freeway on the way to Salem early morning with cats.  It left my rear bumper attached by one clip and dragging.  I was lucky to live through that one.   This photo shows off my detached rear bumper!!!  In its glory.

And how about the Leathers gas station parrot, complete with his own heater.   Take your pet to work day!  

Lastly, I leave you with the saxaphone man.  I encountered him playing to a crowd of none in an abandoned quarry I drove through when I was  after, you guessed it, cats!  




 

20 comments:

  1. You were wrong - at least briefly saxaphone man had an audience of one (and the cats).
    I have not experimented at all with AI.

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    1. I keep saying I won't experiment, but I may be unable to not. Can you tell I'm making an attempt finally to organize my photos and delete repeats and can't remembers?

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  2. Really interesting photos. Thanks for the tour.

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    1. You're touring my disorganized photo files as I attempt to organize and minimize them.

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    2. Oh, that's something I need to do. I started a couple of years ago, but never got very far.

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  3. Nice work with AI. I remember the shoes and the bumper bar, but not the remote. A disused quarry is the best place to play a saxophone.

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    1. Many would make same arguement.

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  4. I've been tossing things to reduce clutter. It's not always easy. :) That last image is rather creepy, like someone from a horror movie. lol Be well, my dear.

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    1. It was a little creepy but it was just outside Sweet HOme, what would one expect but something like that. I'm trying to toss photos that I can't even remember taking.

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  5. I bet the saxophonist was enjoying the acoustics. Quite the collection of images.

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    1. He may have even told me that was why he played there. But, he also lived there, well just down from there under a tree in a tiny little camp trailer with his dog.

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  6. Well, for what African Grays cost, I'd make sure he was warm enough as well. It's good to look down and see the different shoes and LAUGH!

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    1. Is that the kind of parrot? I have no idea what a parrot costs. It was hysterical, Bill, to see my shoe mistake.

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  7. I bet the quarry had great acoustics.

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    1. You are probably right about that.

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  8. Oh wow.. glad you are okay, that must have been scary. The different shoes lol.. you are starting a new trend.

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    1. It was terrifying. There was no time to think except to know I couldn't run over it with a tire or it would flip my car and the cats and I would be goners. Well, you know, why not---different shoe on each foot.

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  9. I was in Corvallis and some guy was playing a key board and trying to get more you tube likes. I don't remember where is channel is.

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  10. I can just picture you walking around for weeks in shoes that don't match and with a remote in one of them.

    I trust that you tipped the saxophonist with a cat.

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    1. The saxaphonist already had two cats. And a dog. if the remote was lodged inside my left shoe, it might just even me out, since I'm quite a bit shorter on the left. Might work out well.

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