Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Before and After

I got home from my dental appointment and found my new monitor wedged behind the screen door.  So, I did what any normal geek would do and proceeded to install the thing, never mind the fact that I was just about 30 minutes removed from coming out of IV sedation.  But it all worked out smashingly, as you can see.

Before:



After:



That sucker is BIG.

I shall now retire to the couch for a couple o' few hours.

12 comments:

  1. At least you know the name of the cat who owns that nice monitor!

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    1. Yup. That's a relic from Former Happy Days. Didja read the fine print?

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  2. Bitchin'.

    I had to put my reading glasses on to really appreciate the whole deal.

    I'm on a 20" (roughly) acer monitor. I swear, I think I need a 40-something...

    You get to a certain age where you just can't quite get all you want from a 20 something.

    Just sayin'...

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    1. I'm amazed at just how much more info is on the new screen... and there's only five inches of difference from the old monitor (in width).

      I think it was about 14 years ago when I figgered out I couldn't EVER get all I wanted from a 20-something.

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  3. That looks like a right nice monitor. Bigger is always better.

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  4. Niccce...

    OT, but I've been meaning to mention that when I looked up Portales on Wiki it had a pic of a really el neato 30s art-deco City Hall. I'm an art-deco/moderne freak, so I jonesed on that. Ever pass by? NM, being a younger state, would natch have more "modern" structures in it's maj cities (to go along with original Spanish derived stuff,) but somehow I never contemplated the possibility of art-deco style buildings in NM, lol.

    (Speaking of young states. a funny story about Ariz from college. One of my best friends and frat brother (who is now a Dr in Park City, UT) had a grandmother who owned a, well, a cross between a small plantation and a large farm, in Cottonport, La just NW of B. R. When I was in summer school summer of 65 we used to go up and ride bareback (just a blanket) through the property, etc. One day at lunch somehow a discussion of the west came up and I mentioned our western trip in '60 and 64 (when Mom and I went to Dinuba, CA to bring back her sister to Ill after her husband died) and I said something about the Flagstaff area and Grand Canyon. "Grannie" piped up and said: "Ariz, oh yeah, 'course the last time I was through there it was still a territory." LOL.

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    1. Speaking of territories... we just celebrated our centennial this year. Back when you were in college there were a LOT of people who could say "the last time I was there it was a territory." ;-)

      The building you speak of is the Roosevelt county courthouse and admin building, which has some fine WPA-commissioned murals inside, as well. One of these days I'll go down there and take some pictures of the murals for ya. In the meantime, here's the courthouse at night, along with a couple o' UFOs I caught on their way to Roswell.

      Our city hall is a 1960s building that looks like some old realtor's office.

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    2. LSU has some nice original WPA art on walls in the halls of some of it's liberal arts classroom bldgs on the main quad, and the main bus/train station in downtown N.O. off Loyola Ave near City Hall and Superdome has a great 120 ft-long WPA-like 30s transportation-theme/Louisiana scenes with local personalities mural across the length of the main joint Train/Greyhound bus station (Union Station) waiting hall painted by local artist Conrad Albrizio. And the Lakefront Airport not only has a fab art-deco main pax bldg (w. orig control tower) but it has great interior murals and marble. Unfortunately a pedestrian 60s "improvement" to the bldg has horribly disfigured the exterior. Fortunately it is only a facade w. original bldg untouched beneath. Louisville's pvt business avaition Bowman field in town also has a great Art Deco pax bldg with 5-star art deco bar/french restaurant inside. Also has great 20/-40s bar (in its heyday) called "Air Devils Inn" across the street with the biggest original ext neon display in town. Many aviation pics on walls inside from days when Bowman was a WW II AF tng base. Large rooms (now empty) adj to bar for 30s big-band swing dancing--a real "slice of history."

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  5. Screw the monitor - love the nameplate.

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  6. Yes, loved the title "Resident Cultural Imperialist". It's a wonderful thing this "zoom" capability.

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