Ya know those memes? The ones that are like: "...I was (BLANK) years old when I found out..."? Yeah. Well, I was "blank" years old when I found out that the album artwork for the Police's 1981 issue Ghost In the Machine depicted the faces of the three band members; not simply fubarred digital "seven-segment display" numerals (see above photo of album cover). And I was today old when I learned that that was what those numbers are called. You really do learn something new every day!
So, that brings us to this particular dot-matrix: these blogs; and their accompanying visuals. Now, I've been doing this pretty steadily now for about three years or so and if you read them; you know I post a lot of visual material to enhance and hopefully delight. When I make these pages, I use the graphics menu that Weebly supplies. I rely most heavily on the "IMAGE" button, which simply transposes one image per window. And lately, the "GALLERY" button, which allows me to supply a variety of images in a grid style fashion. For example, below, please see a grid of Sting in various states of shirtlessness:
So, that brings us to this particular dot-matrix: these blogs; and their accompanying visuals. Now, I've been doing this pretty steadily now for about three years or so and if you read them; you know I post a lot of visual material to enhance and hopefully delight. When I make these pages, I use the graphics menu that Weebly supplies. I rely most heavily on the "IMAGE" button, which simply transposes one image per window. And lately, the "GALLERY" button, which allows me to supply a variety of images in a grid style fashion. For example, below, please see a grid of Sting in various states of shirtlessness:
Now, here's what will probably happen. At least one or two of these photos from the grid will migrate to other places on the website, like little ghosts, and settle somewhere where they aren't supposed to be. Or are they? Because I've noticed that in some cases, photos are showing up that kind of make reference to the text. Like, something or someone is making editorial decisions (besides me, that is). For example. I posted a picture of a generic L.A. Lady who I thought was exemplary of a certain type of woman who lives in that fair city and indulges in more than a fair amount of "work." She was in a blog about plastic surgery called "Saving Face." This might not be the exact picture, but it will give you an idea:
I went back to that blog, for some reason, and the picture had been replaced. This time with a picture I had posted elsewhere of Nicole Kidman, sporting light blonde hair. So, it looked as though I had posted a picture of Ms. Kidman as an example of this particular type of woman; which I didn't. And she isn't. Here is the Nicole Kidman picture:
The pictures do have certain things in common though. Both are of women with light blonde hair. Is some "algorithm" putting a certain amount of "thought" into placing these pictures. How random is it? And mostly, WHY is it happening? Weebly can't seem to fix the problem. I certainly can't fix the problem. That would require going back over what is now A LOT of material and not only attempting to fix it; but monitor it. I simply can't do that. And, as I have rather "settled in" here on this site; I feel no exigency to pull up roots and go to some other website site. We're all going to just have to live with it. What I can do is this: in the event that an image is referred to specifically in the text, I can describe it. Thus, in the event that HAL 9000 here decides to move things around, you, dear reader, will be able to figure out what the EFF I'm talking about.
That is all for now, I guess. And to update you on what I'm "concentrating" on here; I need to finish a recent blog about the cars in my life (the vehicles, not the band); and, finish up my TV Christmas/HallmarkMoviesque screenplay entitled: CUMMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS. So here's a little song I think is apropos for this. Ciao!
That is all for now, I guess. And to update you on what I'm "concentrating" on here; I need to finish a recent blog about the cars in my life (the vehicles, not the band); and, finish up my TV Christmas/HallmarkMoviesque screenplay entitled: CUMMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS. So here's a little song I think is apropos for this. Ciao!
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