forty-six

 

Clerkmanifesto is going context free for 100 days!

While I retire from 31 years at the Roseville Library, sell nearly everything I own, fly with my darling wife to Japan for 40 days, and then move together to France to start to build a life there, I present a less explained clerkmanifesto, a clerkmanifesto of snapshots and time travel. Below you may see old posts without introduction from my 4,750 post collection. You may see random photos, brand new or years old. I may write a passage about Japan as if of course you know I'm in Japan, I may make a simple observation or joke, but whatever it is, I won't be explaining it. You'll have to take it as it comes.

For more context you are welcome to read this longer introduction.

And if this is all too confusing I welcome you to investigate our thousands of fully explained historic posts from the past 12 years, though I'll be the first to admit, hours later, you may still come away a little confused.

Here, however it works, is what clerkmanifesto has for you today:

Yesterday I showed you a highly zoomed in picture of a bald eagle that I took recently from inside my apartment. This is a pretty fancy way to do one's wildlife photography. Very... comfortable. It put me in mind of an older picture taken in an obviously different season, also from out the window of my apartment, of an owl. This is very cleaned up with AI, let's say a three on the scale to ten, which means, for those of you scoring at home, that this is definitely the owl as it was, and all the trees are in the right places, but if the owl's sister were to look at the picture she might say "I don't know, it looks like him, but it also sort of doesn't? Something about the ears or forehead?".

Although the owl's sister might say "Who?" not even recognizing her own owl brother! In which case this would be an alteration level of at least five out of ten.

Or it might possibly just reflect on an owl being an owl.