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Share Your World — 07/22/2024

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Share Your World

It’s Monday, and Di, at Pensitivity101, is our host for Share Your World. Here are her questions for this week.

1. When you retire (or when you retired) do you have a picture of a small cottage with a white picket fence outside in a quiet village or something similar?

No, when I retired I was living in San Francisco three blocks from Golden Gate Park and had no plans on moving. Four years later, my son and his wife got pregnant and my wife and I decided to move closer to where they lived so we could help out with their new baby. So we moved 35 miles east to the house we live in now. Our plan is to live here as long as we are able to manage independent living. Or unless Trump is elected in November, in which case we might try to find a small cottage with a white picket fence outside in a quiet village in a country other than the United States.

2. What do you associate with school dinners (apart from school of course)?

Here in the States, we call our school meals “lunches.” My school lunch associations: “Lunch Ladies” (the women behind the counters who doled out the food), bland soggy vegetables, mystery meat, milk cartons, cookies, and food trays.

3. Can you play a musical instrument?

Do kazoos count as musical instruments?

4. What made you smile today?

That Democrats are embracing Kamala Harris as the probable new standard bearer for the Party to face off against Donald Trump in November and that she has a good chance of defeating him. 😁

But will Trump and his MAGA maniacs gracefully accept that defeat? I doubt it. Can you imagine a misogynistic, racist, xenophobic Donald Trump accept losing to a black, Asian-American woman?

Weekend Writing Prompt — Recipe

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He had an image to maintain, so when he learned that a gossip magazine was doing a close-up on his life, he knew it would be a recipe for disaster, not a tempest in a teapot.

(Exactly 36 words)

Written for Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt, where the word is “recipe.”

Also for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (image), Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge (close-up), and Ragtag Daily Prompt (teapot).

FOWC with Fandango — Image

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FOWC

It’s February 19, 2022. Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).

Today’s word is “image.”

Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.

Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.

And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. You will marvel at their creativity.

Fandango’s Provocative Question #84

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FPQWelcome once again to Fandango’s Provocative Question. Each week I will pose what I think is a provocative question for your consideration.

By provocative, I don’t mean a question that will cause annoyance or anger. Nor do I mean a question intended to arouse sexual desire or interest.

What I do mean is a question that is likely to get you to think, to be creative, and to provoke a response. Hopefully a positive response.

Today’s provocative question was actually triggered by a comment that Di, over at Pensitivity101, made in one of my posts. She wrote, “I know I’ve said it umpteen times, but casting Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher lost all credibility for me.”

To which comment I responded, “Yeah, that does happen at times when you have read a book and created an image in your mind’s eye of the character. But it’s very off-putting when you see the movie version of the book and the actor who plays the part conflicts with that you envisioned from the book.”

So, my provocative question this week is this:

What movie adaptation of a book you have read before you saw the movie has done the best job when it comes to casting the actor (or actors) in the movie to match your image you had of that character (or those characters) in the book. Conversely, what movie adaptation has done the worst job of matching the casting of the characters to those you envisioned in your head.

If you choose to participate, write a post with your response to the question. Once you are done, tag your post with #FPQ and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Or you can simply include a link to your post in the comments. But remember to check to confirm that your pingback or your link shows up in the comments.

Does This Only Happen to Me?

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I’ve written lately about some wonky things happening on the WordPress iOS app. Here, for example. And here, too.

As some of you know, I blog exclusively from my iPhone and I’ve noticed something a bit weird. On the WordPress app for the iPhone, when I’m looking through my Reader, I will see a post notification with a small, cropped image at the top, followed by the post’s title, and then the first few lines of the post. As in the illustration below:18264bf5-be5d-42bc-85d0-39ff3f48287bThere are two ways to view a post in my Reader. One is to tap the post’s title, which displays the post in Reader mode. The other is to tap the “Visit” icon at the bottom left, which will bring up the mobile-enabled view of the post. This shows the Reader view when I tap the post’s title:4e10783f-9a7b-432e-9157-154380e34f37Note the full image at the top of the post. But if, instead, I tap the “Visit” icon, here’s what I see:6a241377-88f2-4f5a-bb13-22a72eb0644dNo image at all! Nowhere in the post! Where did the image go?

Maybe it’s the fact that I’m using an iPhone instead of a laptop. But why, I wonder, does the image show up in the Reader version and not in the mobile version of the post?

I’m sorry if I’m coming across like a bit of a whiner, but I’m curious if the images you see in your Reader don’t always show when you go visit the actual post. Or does this only happen to me?