Pop-ups

Blocked pop-up. (Screenshot by the mighty MAC.)

My “Fox-Fire” has a pop-up blocker.
It doesn’t actually keep pop-ups from opening; just displays the browser-window in front of the pop-ups, so that the pop-up ain’t visible.
Close the machine, and the pop-up displays for an instant as the browser shuts off.
Tunnel Inn in Gallitzin throws up a screensaver pop-up. I only see it if I minimize the Tunnel Inn browser-window.
Lots of sites throw up pop-ups. I only see ‘em for an instant when I shut off, or minimize the browser-window.
Pop-ups for desktop wallpaper, and hot young single girls displaying acres of cleavage. (“Sure was a shame she couldn’t finish her dress!”) —Proposed desktop pictures of glorious mountain sunsets and misty waterfalls.

GG1 #4896 at Wilmington Shops. (Photo years ago by the so-called “old guy” with the Pentax Spotmatic.)

Sorry, but I’ll take good old GG1 #4896 (pictured above). Been that for years.
At the Mezz it was -a) An onrushing Amtrak AEM7 at Newark; the picture where I used a highway overpass as a frame (utterly stupid and reprehensible to a NASCAR-dad); and -b) before that, a BNSF double-stack cresting Cajon (“ka-HONE,” not “cajun”) Pass in Californy; and -c) before that, the Mighty Kow.
Last night I noticed a new fillip (pictured at top).
The pop-up was bigger than the browser-window, which I don’t set at full screen-width — but nearly.
So in other words, the pop-up was full screen width, and blocked my GG1 picture. (“Wallpaper” for youz Windoze® users.)
The browser-window is usually surrounded by a little bit of GG1 #4896. But in this case, it was surrounded by the pop-up.
What is this? A new trick?
I bet “Fox-Fire” hits me with an upgrade shortly.

A “pop-up” is usually an ad that gets thrown up in addition to a web-site.

RE: “Mighty MAC......” —All my siblings use Windows PCs (Personal Computer), but I use an Apple MacIntosh, so am therefore reprehensible and stupid.

“Fox-Fire” is the Internet browser FireFox, which I use. All my siblings use Microsoft Internet-Explorer (“IE”), which they loudly claim is superior. I was recommended FireFox by this blog-site, since IE won’t even work. Since my use of FireFox reflects my stupidity and reprehensibleness, they call it “Fox-Fire” as a put-down.

“Tunnel Inn” is the bed-and-breakfast we stay at when visiting Horseshoe Curve. (Horseshoe Curve, west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, is by far the BEST railfan spot I have ever been to. Horseshoe Curve is a national historic site. It was a trick used by the Pennsylvania Railroad to get over the Allegheny mountains without steep grades. Horseshoe Curve was opened in 1854, and is still in use. [I am a railfan, and have been since I was a child.])

“Sure was a shame she couldn’t finish her dress!” is a Ma-and-Pa Kettle joke.

“GG1 #4896” is the only Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 electric locomotive I’ve ever been through, and the picture is the only one I ever got. Constant readers of this blog know that I consider the GG1 the greatest railroad locomotive that ever was.

RE: “‘Old guy’ with the SpotMatic.......” —My macho, blowhard brother-from-Boston, who is 13 years younger than me, calls me “the old guy” as a put-down (I also am the oldest). The “Spotmatic” is my old Pentax Spotmatic 35mm film camera I used about 40 years, since replaced by a Nikon D100 digital camera.

The “Mezz” is the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper, from where I retired over three years ago. Best job I ever had.

“Utterly stupid and reprehensible to a NASCAR-dad.....” refers to my blowhard brother-from-Boston, who noisily claimed my Newark (DE) Amtrak picture suffered from poor composition, namely the highway overpass I used as an image-frame. (The “AEM7” is the railroad locomotive Amtrak used for years on its electrified Washington D.C. to New York City line [the Northeast Corridor]. —“Amtrak” is a government corporation promulgated in 1970 to take over rail passenger service. It mainly runs passenger trains over the independent railroads with its own equipment, but it it also owns and operates its own railroads; e.g. the old Pennsy electrified line from New York City to Washington D.C., the so-called “Northeast Corridor;” although the Corridor has been extended to Boston over the old New York, New Haven & Hartford line.)

“BNSF” is the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad — a merger of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe. (BN is an earlier merger of Burlington Route with Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and Spokane, Portland & Seattle.) —BNSF (Santa Fe) serves the Los Angeles area, via a mountain pass called “Cajon” from the higher elevation of the Mojave Desert, down to the L.A. basin. I’ve been there three times; Cajon Pass is a major railfan spot.

“Double-stack” is two trailer containers stacked two high without wheels in so-called “wellcars.” —It’s much more efficient than single containers (or trailers) on flatcars, since it’s two containers per car. It’s the same shipping containers shipped overseas; where they may be stacked three or four high, or even higher if a support deck is under a stack. But “double-stacks” require very high clearance; over 20 feet. Bridges had to be raised, and tunnels made larger.

“The Mighty Kow” is the 1996 Kawasaki ZX6R motorcycle (600 cubic centimeters engine displacement) I once had.

“Windoze” is what Apple Macintosh users call Microsoft Windows as a put-down. It’s supposedly slower.