Dark Pink

For the second time, I have enjoyed seeing and hearing the fantastic ‘Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon – Official Planetarium Show’ at this venue.

I wasn’t able to confirm the model(s) of the two video projectors, but they’re the JVC DLA-NZ9 and/or the newer NZ900 model. Special lenses are used to fill the image across the huge dome ceiling.

The audio quality was just as good as the image, and easily the best I have ever heard Dark Side of the Moon. An album that was released — ulp! — just as I was about to graduate from high schoool.

The sound was effortlessly loud and completely free of harshness in the way that professional grade systems can be. The bass was massively powerful and deep, with no breakup whatsoever. Such an audio/video treat!

Samsuck Tablet

I was thinking of taking my Samsung Galaxy tablet with me to Columbus. So, I set a 4-digit pin for it, which tested fine. At first.

Later, I checked the tablet again, and was informed that the pin I entered was invalid. What the FU*K!

When setting up the tablet I hadn’t integrated it with Samsung. Which seemed, after some digging, to be the cause of the problem.

The pin is stored locally, and Google knows what it is, but if it isn’t registered with Samsung it becomes inaccessible locally. I’m going to be charitable and say Samsung has a bug it needs to fix.

So, I left the Samsung Galaxy tablet at home, and took my old, reliable Amazon Fire tablet with me to Columbus. Today, I tackled bringing the A9+ back to life.

After much effort and frustration, my only option was a remote factory reset with Google Find Hub, using the same 4-digit pin the Samsung tablet refused to accept locally.

Attaching a USB-C cable to my Pixel phone for a data transfusion made restoring the tablet relatively easy. This time, I reluctantly registered my Google account with Samsung. What a frickin’ gawd awful pain in the butt.

Wayno, No Relation to Waymo

In the LINKS section of this site and you will find Dan Piraro’s Bizarro. It’s a comic strip with a sideways and inside-out view of the universe we are all required to inhabit.

https://www.bizarro.com/

Go to Bizarro and you will find Wayno, Dan’s partner in cartooning craziness. Wayno handles Bizarro every day except Sundays. Dan reserves that cartoon for himself.

https://comicskingdom.com/creator/wayno

Wayno is another favorite cartoonist of mine who I was very pleased to meet this weekend. I caught up with him during Saturday’s events at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum & Library.

Wayno has picked up on something that’s amused me for a long time — the effect on the Beatles from adding an “s” to their name.

© Bizarro Studios

Return to Hootin’ Holler!

I refer you to this post from late last year, about one of my very favorite comic strips.

Snuffy Smith, by John Rose, is the definition of a perfect strip in the classic tradition. It presents a humorous, self-contained world, both familiar and unreal, with its own internal logic.

No Love for Pratts?

To our mutual amusement, John and I have chatted about how he settled on “Pratt” for that sequence in the strip.

The answer? John explained it was a perfectly innocent selection. He simply needed a name and that was the one he happened to pick.

He even put the well-worn Hootin’ Holler welcome mat in writing. Whew, that’s a relief!