8/Nov/20 what are you talking about Whillis

 

Good morning world.

Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Yesterday, I was talking about pictures.  Well, one other thing that cell phones can do, is take videos.

Now, I'm not talking about those Tick Tok stuff.  Actual movies.

So, lets roll the way back machine 50 years.

You had to get a movie camera.  Plus one of these ultra bright lights.  That light, had to be plugged in.  So you were limited as to how far you could go.  If you were outside, you would normally make sure that the sun was behind you to illuminate the subjects.

You would take your movie.  Which would last about 5 minutes.  Oh, yea, and it's Black and White.

BUT, this time your worried about the light.  You would go into a dark room, no lights and you would load the movie film into the camera.  Essentially, you would be taking thousands of still pictures, but when run at 24 frames a second, would look like a movie.

Once again, your finished taking the movie. You would remove the movie film from the camera in a dark room.  Package it up and it would be sent off.  A week later, you would get it.

You would come home.  Now, you needed a movie projector and a screen to show it on.  Yea, you could have it showing on a blank wall.  But having a movie screen was so much better.

One other thing to worry about.  The bulbs in the movie projector were super hot.  If the movie film got paused, even for a second, it would burn the movie.  Wonderful stuff.

Oh yea, and there wasn't any sound

Yup, kids today, they will never know about stuff like that.

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Max our Bernese Mountain Dog and his snow bank

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7/Nov/20 we are going to talk about that camera flash

 

Good morning world.

Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

I would have to wonder what a person from 100 years ago, nae, what a person from 50 years ago would think about cell phones.

For instance, the Big Guy walks around the house, early in the morning and finds me to take my picture.  That is unless he has taken my photo from the day before.  

50 years ago, you wouldn't take that may pictures.

First off, you had to get a camera.

Then, you had to get film, which you would load into the camera.  Typically, there was a cartridge.  But you had to decide on 12, 24, or even outrageous, 36 pictures.

Then, you had to get flash bulbs.  These bulbs were one time use only.

You would take you pictures and then remove the cartridge.  50 years ago, they didn't have 1 hour photo.

You would take your cartridge and drop it off at the store.  A week later, you could come back and get your pictures.

50 years ago, they were starting to have color photos.  So, if we were to rewind the clock another 5 years.  Pictures were Black and White.

But when you would pay for your pictures, and you didn't even know if they "turned out" yet.  You could have crap pictures and you just paid for them.  There was no exchange cause you messed up taking the pictures.

You would get the pictures home and then, after a bit, you would "mount" them in a Photo Album.

People today, they wouldn't remember stuff like that.

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Max our Bernese Mountain Dog isn't too sure about the baby

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6/Nov/20 I protect the front door when people knock, can I get a treat for that

 

Good morning world.

Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

There seems to be this thing that they are calling, an election, in the United States.

It really does seem to have all of United States dived in half.  Each side really seems to hate the other side.

Now, in Canada, we've got about 5 parties that all want to be in power.  So that seem to divide the country even more.

The Big Guy has never been a politician.  Although he would probably do well for some stuff, when it would come time for the truth, he would upset a lot of people.

He is the type of guy, that will tell the truth.  If you don't want to know the truth, don't ask the Big Guy.

He would be the type of guy that would tell you how you look in those jeans, or in that dress.  For the love of God, never ask him if what your wearing, makes you look fat.  As an old fat guy, he doesn't care if your feelings are hurt.  He will tell you, the outfit doesn't make you look fat, your ARE fat.

If you want sympathy, that's what your girlfriends are for.  I know, some ladies just want to TALK about what's bothering them.  They really don't want it fixed.  Yea, the Big Guy, he's all about fixin stuff.  As are most guys.  That's what they do...  they fix stuff.

One person that the Big Guy knows, is going through a rough patch.  Her fella messed around with someone else.  That's not nice.  But she is slowly getting over it.  She posted this picture on Facebook of a very attractive lady that was kinda pissed off that fellas are asking her if she can cook.  So, her kick back is, can you build a house?  For the most part, this is a good burn on fellas and would empower any lady.  But, she is also friends with a lot of guys that were in the Canadian Forces.  They are all kicking back.  Yup, I've built a house and I can cook, so piss off.  

Not exactly the reply she was looking for.

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Max our Bernese Mountain Dog being loved up by Bonnie

Bye bye fur now

5/Nov/20 we're playing hide-'n-seek and I'm winning so far

 

Good morning world.

Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

It's getting a little colder outside each day.

Like, right now, it's +2 with a feel like temp of -5.  It's been colder, but that's about the right temperature for the start of November.

Having said that, it's also cold in the house.  Not super cold or anything like that.  Last year, the Big Guy bought a new thermostat.  It's programable.  So it brings the temperature up in the house to 21 in the morning.  It starts that around 5 in the morning.  Then at 9, it is programmed to go back to 19.  Then at 6, it brings the temp back up to 21 till about 9.  Then it will allow the temp to roll back to about 16.

So, it's all good.

Now, I've got a HUGE tail.  It moves a lot of air when I'm happy and swishing my tail.

Yesterday, the Big Guy lined me up so that I'm facing away from Tonya.  Then he starts scratching me and hugging me.  My tail is just zooming, back and forth.

I'm moving a lot of the cold air.

Tonya started yelling as my tail was "aimed" at her, and the Big Guy knew it.

Tonya was getting cold due to the amount of wind I was creating.  She was not happy.

Having worked Tonya up, the Big Guy went back to work upstairs, where he turned on the little space heater.

He can be a prick at times.

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Max our Bernese Mountain Dog doing the tail flick

Bye bye fur now