Ohio gasser
Here's one of my favorite vintage drag racers - Ohio George's famous Ohio Gasser. Photographed in the Henry Ford Museum. Part of my famous Machinery series.
Not feeling well this afternoon. It came on me suddenly, so I'm hoping it leaves just as suddenly. Some coworkers have told me about a bug going around - it's apparently nasty and lasts three very uncomfortable days. I'm hoping that's not it for me. I'm hoping my stomach is just going through a phase.
Otherwise a fairly normal day. Got up, got ready, commuted, etc. Came home on an earlier train than normal due to the aforementioned discomfort.
Tomorrow's work schedule is amazingly not meeting-strewn. I'm looking forward to it. Don't quite know what I'll do with myself, though.
I take that back. I do know. I have an exceptionally long list of fascinating and incomplete tasks. No problem.
Today's Morrowlife controversy: Did Loyal Reader Number One's friend capture a Ghost Miner in the picture attached to this post? My answer: Of course. Well, probably. Possibly, anyway. Maybe. I have no idea. Probably not. If it's not a ghost, though, what is it?
Perfect controversy for two days before Halloween, no?
By the way, can ghosts be photographed? If so, can they choose to make themselves visible to the camera? If so, why would the Ghost Miner have chosen to be in that picture? If they can't choose, wouldn't that make ghosts improbably rare? After all, people take a lot of pictures and Ghost Miners very rarely show up. Either way, the possibilities are staggering. At the very least, they trip a little.
Time to contemplate those Deep Thoughts. See you tomorrow.
Labels: machinery
posted by Michael at 7:40 PM
8 Comments:
I know he said it was another tour member, but it clearly looks like a ghost to me. So obviously, ghosts can be photographed, and in order to explain the dearth of ghosts in photos, it logically follows that they can choose whether to be seen. Super special ghosts can adjust to one of three settings: invisible, photo-only, and naked-eye. They get this special power by effectively haunting in their natural, invisible state. Once they have scared enough people, they are promoted to a level where they can switch between visibility settings. It's kind of complicated, but I'm surprised you didn't know about this system. That's why you never see non-scary ghosts. They can't earn the ability to change visibility settings if they don't want to scare people.
By the way, that first comment is from me, #5. Your new comment setup wouldn't let me just put my name. :(
How did you learn so much about ghosts, LR#5? Just curious.
This is a test posting to see if LRN5's claim is true. If it's posted as "Ferd," she's wrong, wrong, wrong. If it's posted as "Anonymous," she's right, right, right!
Ah hah! LRN5 was partly wrong. You have to include a website if you want to give a name. I included a bogus site, but that's not quite in keeping with the spirit of the thing, if you know what I mean. However, you can still post with just your name (and a website).
This is a test comment to see if it's possible to add comments to old posts. If this shows up under "Edison's chemicals," it's possible and LRN1's complaint on "Bird" is boooooogus. If it shows up under "Ohio Gasser," LRN1 is right, right, right and Blogger has some work to do.
Well, blogger has some work to do. I'll file a complaint right now. In the meantime, I'm disabling the new comment feature and going back to the old way of doing things.
The old-style commenting system is back! My Loyal Readers' comments will now show up under the correct post. The new-style won't be back until Blogger gets its act together.
Plus, URLs are now optional again when posting using the "Name/URL" option, so LRN5 can be herself again.
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