Tim's Very Best Christmas Cards of 2022

[@RadarLakeKosh]

11:46 I've heard shoes such as these were worn by moonshiners in America. The treads underneath were meant to resemble cow tracks, allowing the moonshiners to walk to and from their stills without their location being discovered by later searches of the fields or woods.

[@IsaacMyers1]

So they are like the spy beach shoes. Those had a sole that left backwards facing bare foot footprints to mislead political enemies.

[@Jarlen01]

It would have been for deer, not cows though. Not a lot of cows in the woods.

[@RadarLakeKosh]

@@Jarlen01 Every article and photo I can find attributes them as "cow shoes," so either it's one of those odd cases where they're all incorrectly quoting each other, or they really were based on cow tracks.

[@quentinmcmullen2792]

I love the longer formats highlighting a lot of something. I hope we see many more in 2023

[@joshuasnell7942]

The magic square is on transparent plastic so that you don't need a mirror; you just flip the card around

[@dickJohnsonpeter]

YES! I was hanging off those same handlebars while naught naughty face shave on, well Tuesday right? Shave, stankel, head in outinen! I totally understand where you're coming from oyster.

[@mantasr]

Tim is 80 years old? What an amazing man.

[@bob_._.]

The shoes look like they would make deer tracks, with front and rear footfalls close enough together they can both be made by one shoe. So two human footsteps = four deer prints.

[@IsaacMyers1]

This either is a hunter thing, because animals might be afraid of tracks, but I’m not sure that’s true. The other explanation i can conceive is that it’s a spy thing. You are creating false tracks, like the actual spy shoes that had soles that made backwards facing bare feet prints in the sand.

[@MDogg84Fire]

Closeish they were used by bootleggers during the US probation to conceal their footprint.

[@Laurabeck329]

Sure but why would you want to do that?

[@jackbennett6902]

@@Laurabeck329If one was up to activities that might make the cops want to follow them.

[@The_Legend47]

The magic square card is META!

[@choppyaussemsadventuressta3363]

These are classics. Very enjoyable 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@RealHogweed]

12:29 cattle thieves used those to hide footprints

[@Trygman81]

Or for bootleggers during prohibition.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@Trygman81 and poachers killing deer

[@Just.A.T-Rex]

Multiple peoples throughout time understood the advantage of camouflage footwear, yes.

[@okancanarslan3730]

final pop up ship card was magnificent

[@kentslocum]

Was it a Lovepop card? They make some very impressive pop-up cards just like that.

[@anthonyvaranai6121]

Was able to go cross eyed. Saw the fairy on the tree. Very cool.

[@RPRV]

Amazing as always🥰🥰🥰

[@danforbes3573]

A wonderful set of cards,Tim!!

[@Jiggy...]

8:02 - Press for "woo!"

[@williamrobinson7435]

The pixel pics are ACE! Shakespeare revealed in miniature. I am relieved to learn that the reindeer get to have a good time after all that hard work Blind spot tricks also are a hoot. Hoping 2023 coming up to snuff. 🌟👍

[@GloFreak]

I have joked around about putting my paintings on display for "distant viewing". You may only view them from 10feet away. They look better that way. 😂

[@Dreg_s]

That magic square is wild

[@historicalcucumber]

The hoove shoes were for moonshiners (people making alcohol during prohibition in the u.s.) to get to and from their stills in the woods without the cops or others seeing footprints and finding them.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Those are superb cards!

[@whylekat]

Merry Christmas forverr! 🎄🎅🤶🎄

[@TheOwlman]

The block picture effect is one of high frequency filtering and my favourite in this area is not a block picture at all, rather, a picture of Einstein that switches to a picture of Marilyn Monroe depending on viewing distance, all down to the visible frequency components. Edit: The shoes reminded me of a colour plate in the ancient encyclopeida we had 60+ years ago - try searching for "ancient platform shoes" and you will see similar example to those in the picture.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

the blocks are called pixels…it’s actually how digital pictures are created, “megapixels” that you hear cameras rave about are 1 million pixels all coming together in various colors to form a coherent image, the more pixels the more details visible

[@TheOwlman]

@@bostonrailfan2427 Well duh 🙄

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@TheOwlman well pardon me for your ignorance 🙄

[@TheOwlman]

@@bostonrailfan2427 Blocks for a picture is a perfectly fine way to imply a very large, coarse pixe, these days, everyone imagines pixels as tiny things. My point was the high frequency components. Your boorishness is excused.

[@lemolea9571]

@@bostonrailfan2427 Tbf 'blocks' are how they're described in the video, so they were just being consistent with that to make sense, plus 'block' is a perfectly valid term for what is being described. In fact if you really want to 'umm actually', most definitions of pixel only apply to digital imaging so the things making up the images in the video probably can't be called pixels at all. Also in the modern age, everybody under like 70 knows what pixels are so your condescending explanation really wasn't required.

[@williamrobinson7435]

PS The maremorph at the end is SUBLIME! 👍

[@bleepblarp275]

TIMMMMM!

[@h7opolo]

12:26 obviously the shoes trick any viewer of the footprints into thinking a hooved animal made its way over a track of land to suppress suspicion that a human has infiltrated the presmises.

[@tcoffman1866]

Love your videos🤘

[@RFC-3514]

12:33 - Assuming it's meant to have a "Christmassy" connection, maybe those are reindeer hooves.

[@ann-margretparke9525]

Holy ship!

[@Snotlingfondler]

Why did Tim ditch the second to last card? lol. The ship is amazing though.

[@kentslocum]

I feel sorry for all the people who sent Tim Christmas cards that he won't keep because they weren't interesting enough.

[@h3nn1]

So Tim is friends with Mark Setteducati, who is also friends with Jimmy Diresta. Does Tim know him? That would be a crazy KZbin crossover.

[@DavidB-rx3km]

You got 120 times more cards than me Tim! 😢

[@TheMightyDozen]

2:52 You say it's unique, but obviously there are ways to swap the numbers around that maintain these properties, for instance all symmetries of the square (Dihedral group of order 4 for the nerds in the crowd). Fairly sure that some other permutations of the columns or rows work too. If I had to guess, the correct statement would be that it's unique up to these symmetries.

[@billgriffiths1685]

Just sit back and enjoy Tim and his videos and try not to pick holes, you'll love life a little more.

[@IsaacMyers1]

Unique as in the the only set of numbers

[@Shadowstitch]

Elf jobs are highly aerobic But stressful - they constantly go quick One had an attack Caused by Santa's red sack Turns out he's just Claustrophobic

[@BrettKuehner]

Good work! I had fun trying to come up with something not too hard but not too easy, with some of them being easier anagrams to act as clues.

[@BrettKuehner]

Here's the puzzle from the front of the card, if you want to try solving that one too: The Anti-Claus has an evil plot to to replace Santa! He's trapped Santa in a tower of his castle with nothing except his bag of toys. Luckily, Santa's elves have figured out a way for him to escape, and sent him a message disguised as a list of countries he needs to visit: Tonga, Hungary, Singapore, Nicaragua, Lesotho, Spain Santa knows this must be a secret message, because he always uses the official two-letter country codes. Below the countries is one additional note "Move the fourth letter to the end, then reverse everything". Answer: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

[@phonotical]

There are 16 squares... Makes it sound like the other cards weren't appreciated I got one this year and it was the best, no gimmicks or anything

[@Trund27]

8:02 🎉

[@Brekner]

Mathematical magic :o

[@zauberzombie7840]

Fantastic video as always, but there is a little something I wonder: Instead of using a mirror for the first card, couldn't he just have turned it around vertically, since its transparent? :D

[@phonotical]

Shoes like that used to be used so feet didn't touch wet bathhouse floors in Turkey, I think the joke here is that it's a camel

[@twoskies3226]

Those are cattle rustling shoes.

[@Shiraz543]

Im so early and i love this guy

[@Bod8998]

120 cards I didn't even get one

[@The_Legend47]

I'm early, also....FIFTH COMMENT!

[@ender691]

not the ai generated images :(

[@itz_adamzkie20]

First!

[@tOSdude]

The Waffle House has found its new host

[@neilgodfrey2669]

Rip Tim. You will be missed

[@twofeathersat6707]

Get a life

[@ghoulbuster1]

How dare you, he is immortal!

[@Always_Right00]

The shoe things were used to make sound effects in the radio days.