The Cork Weather Bot This is what my profile looks like, as I write this. Sad, isn't it? I took a decent photo and ruined it by sticking it in front of itself. I post this record of my aesthetic shame, because now that I'm finally back in my account, I can finally fix this.

The Cork Weather Bot Later today, this look will be gone. I do like to hold onto some memory of the things I create, even the ones that make me wonder what I was thinking about at the time I created them. This is my banner, the one I'm going to replace. Not bad on its own, right?

You had me until you said "Bourbon Street." It's going to leave visitors with a false (and often unflattering) image of the city. Definitely not a place I'd want to take the family. It can be fun, but in a very crude sort of way. It wasn't my favorite or even close to it.

Bidding a fond farewell to the old bio "Updates for the Clocks and Timepieces group. The profile and header images on this page are details of a picture in the public domain." Wondering if the new one will be a sign of excessive optimism on my part.

Have I been grossly overestimating the average IQ on Twitter / X? Take a good look at the pathetic attempt to snow his audience that we just saw out of LightningRodScotty and then see the number of followers he has. Is THAT what sells on this site? Confident d o r k i s h n e s s ?

Am I really on the verge of posting about the Physics I've been reading about, on a site filled with people who aren't up to the mental challenge of understanding what Mardis Gras beads are for? That doesn't sound promising, does it?

New banner by Anne McCarthy pexels.com/photo/silhouet…

(Groan) read: "I just changed my display name from the rather generic (and soon to be not quite completely descriptive) 'Clocks' ... " Remember when Elon said we'd be able to edit our tweets? Without saying that only the premium members would be able to do that? I do. Does he?

The Cork Weather Bot I would almost never choose to stick one photo in front of another. It tends to be bad design, almost inescapably a tacky look, but that's the look that was forced on us by a company that didn't care what its users thought. With my hands half-tired tied, I will do my best.

The Cork Weather Bot Starting with "Reading by Candlelight" by Petrus van Schendel (oil on wood, 1870) ... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Petr…

The Cork Weather Bot ... I took out the color ...

The Cork Weather Bot ... and zoomed in.

The Cork Weather Bot As Krusty the Clown would have said, it wasn't just good, it was good enough. No, not really happy with the look I got, but if some admin wants to be a pain, I'm not going to let his choices make me crazy. Am I being paid to work around them or am I just volunteering?

The Cork Weather Bot There's a limit to how much anybody should be asking out of a volunteer, the volunteer, himself, included.

9 o'clock Frankfurt am Main, Germany flickr.com/photos/ch-stra…