Video test #2

So, in the fine tradition of experimentation, I recorded a couple of Snapchat videos with my phone held horizontally, for the sole purpose of saving them on my phone. The best of them is below.

Will the image be distorted?

Hmmm. I had expected the image orientation to drive the way it is displayed here, but that would seem to be not the case. The driver would appear to be the phone's orientation, and if the image, with the phone oriented properly (so that the screen and the capturing frame is in portrait mode) fails to fill a landscape frame, LJ "expands" the image until it does fit a landscape frame.

In other words, holding the phone as one would normally, all the corners of any recorded video ends up in the respective corners of the video frame displayed here, and whatever is between them gets rearranged to fit.

Oh, well... ad astra etc.

Cheers...

Does the chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

I'll never tell, because I'll maintain that I dispose of my chewing gum in an environmentally responsible manner, thank you.

That said, today has been a slightly weird day.

Galina and I drove through the neighborhood where our rent house stands, and my initial reaction to the display, at several houses, of what appeared to be a U.S. flag with the red striped tinted blue (giving the flag a somewhat monochrome appearance) and one of the white stripes tinged a slightly different shade of blue was one of concern—I mean, WTF? So many such people?—until I turned to Google, which informed me that these are "Thin Blue Line" flags, intended to express support for the law enforcement community.

On the one hand, okay... on the other—this would appear to be YASGDBE (Yet Another Symbolic Gesture Driven By Ego™).

Which is not to denigrate cops, but displaying this flag in one's neighborhood is akin—in my mind—to being photographed holding a sign on which some inane Twitter hashtag has been scrawled—it may make the person engaged in such activity feel like they're "doing something" and may lead others to approve of such people and believe something is "being done," but in the end, that's about all it does.

Pardon my cynicism.

The translation "bag" for the day could have been better. On the other hand it could have been worse, too.

Tomorrow will be a better day. Count on it!

Cheers...