Introductions and Suggestions

This Conference is full of goodies for all sorts of interests. Why is it not attracting more posters? There are plenty of graphics and great maps which update automatically, and photographs for each category when I can find them. I need your suggestions concerning how to make this place more attractive.

i like this conference! and the marble background is marbleous!

Thank you SO much! I love the background...it sneaked up on me in the dawn of the creation of this Conference - from the hand of the god of the cfadm. I had asked if there were a nice granite...but while he hunted he slipped this one in. I was delighted and told him to rest. He had found a far better background than I could have imagined. And, as a final blesssing, he put the clever title on the conference and the cutest graphic...! Sometimes I just leave it on as my wallpaper and smile remembering t e 10 hours it took me to get this up and running - with the most patient and benevolent help of the god of the cfadm. I worked on goodies for this all morning - 2 new topics and lots of graphics posted. I hope they are well received. Perhaps I should gave away samples???

dunno what kind of samples you could hand out! if you do too much, folks will avoid you and this isn't a safe conference to throw pieces of granite at passersby!! i noted the new graphics and they're great!!

...I was thinking of coprolites, actually *lol*... Thanks for enjoying the graphics. It is really neat to find just the ones I have been searching for...and by people I actually know (and with whom David worked!)

Coprolites! LOL! You are in a foul mood!;-)

i'm here but i can't look at the rc file. instead i'm reading the source (from view source)

Right - I can send you a photo of rc but do not know how to get you in there in reality...! You have lots to do - it can wait...! Truly!!!

gotta wait on the laundry anyway, marcia!

Diddit - but it is the same - like something was blocking acccess to access. I note that he does not have the url for the geoback listed but it works when I take my define gifs off. Curious!

Changing back by removing my command line...

i ran into the same problem when changing the background in collections. i couldn't mix image sources when i defined the gifs. very weird! TERRY!! HELP!!!

Changing back by removing my command line...

Marcia, don't forget your Forget button...

Wolfie has to make one when she gets time. Soon, she says. How could I forget? It is like losing a tooth in the front of the mouth when I look at the button bar and see that missing...I shall not forget my forget button.

I'm having fun finding my way around the conference. Looks like I can spend some time here browising. Well done!

Thank you, My Dear. Enjoy and return often. We are a good bunch, and you will certainly recognize more than a few Droolians from time to time. *smile*

Well, I guess you might recognize me then, Maggie, but I wish I could say the same... Pleased to meet you for the first time then :-)

Maggie is playing Hookey from school - she is supposedly on her computer finishing her thesis for an advanced degree at University...but I find her in the most unusual places - like in Travel where she has regaled us with her adventures in Gambia...so far. It makes for exciting reading!

I guess I misspoke when I mentioned Maggie having come from Drool - she came in through PHinisheD conference. She is a great addition, wherever she arose as is the distinguished Medica from Lisboa. *smile*

Hey, you don't need to flatter me! ;-) I read Maggie's posts around Geo and am pleased to meet her :-)

Thank you. I feel very welcome.

*sigh* I do not flatter you, my dear Gi...I brag about you a bit because you have been an extraordinarily good friend, and I appreciate that more than mere flattery can ever hope to express...*hugs* Ok, Back to rocky stuff...Dave sent specimen photos which are knockouts. Have to find a good place to put them...*smile*

I see your Forget button is up. Good for you! :-)Not that I intend to use it ;-)

I have mo idea what happens when one uses it, and I have enough short term memory loss to dare to push it...but does it not look lovely with the complete set up there?! *beaming*

Even more amazing is the fact that I managed to get it up there all by myself! Bit by bit I am learning...!

pat pat smile

Purrrrrrr...Purrrrrrrrrr *smile* With a head full of rocks, I need all the help I can muster.

so where are those rock specimens? do any look like the one i posted? *grin*

um...they are sitting in files in my computer waiting to be made smaller and ftp's to Spring. That is a fun thing I can do this evening...but his favorite specimen shot is labelled "iforgetite"...! Some geologist! Though I am the mineralogist in the family (identity of the stuff) and he is the physical geologist...we make a great pair! None look like the ones you posted. Not even your "mysteryite" boot.

Ok, gang of followers of things Geological and Earthly, I managed to make the frames around my Geo Buttons from Wolfie mostly invisible...but not really like Cfadm managed to do for the Help button. I have spent several hours working at this with zero input, so hurl your invectives if you'd like...I am too tired to fend them off...

are you able to select a transparent color using the photo suite program?

No...just just something which matches the background of the program (which also matches here unless you look very closely. That is, if I have that choice, I have not yet found it. Still looking and poking and checking the convoluted Help files. When / if I do find the transparency option, you will the the first to know!

When you do not choose a color and just do cut, you get a black frame which I thought at first meant no frame...until I ftp'd it here and looked at the black frame sitting amidst the white ones... Oddest of all is when I click on the Help button I saved from here (done by Cfadm) with the zero frames, it looks like it has blue frames on my MGI Photo Suite program. So, I tried that, thinking it might be a color-blind deal with the software. Wrong! I ended up with royal blue frames. Oh well, I guess it ooks ok the way it is until I have some magic help or learn the secret...

hmmm...do let us know.

Indeed! You first. *grin*

Unless my eyes deceive me, half of the buttons are now perfect, and the other half 99.9% perfect?

In the top row of this page they are 50% correct; second row none of the red ones are correct. On the public pages most are correct. Thanks for noticing, Mark! I would have been happy with the background-matching frames, but when look at my lovely little conference, I know I have to make it the best I can as soon as this flu I caught clears out.

marcia! take some soup and go to bed. don't worry about the conf buttons until you are well!!

I think I shall. I proofed what I posted to you on 41 concerning your time off and still a mistype got through. Brain on mush and watery eyes is not my best thing... but, before I hit the horiontal again, don't your buttons look great? They are just perfect for here!!! (I'da said cool, but lava that color ain't cool)

i think they're pretty hot myself *grin* hope you're feeling better sweetie!

I am because I am listening to Penn State Lady Lions play Stanford for the NCAA Volleyball Chhampionship from Honolulu. I am listening to the station in State College, Pa, WMAJ which has been there since my Dad was at Penn State! We are up 2 games to none....! Actually, I feel very dizzy so I think it is settling into my ears sinuses and chest - gonna make me pay for those 3 years of no colds/flu...!

eat something spicy and avoid milk. milk actually causes the sinuses to swell and you know what happens when you eat spicy stuff when you don't have a cold so have a huge box of tissue handy!

Thank you for the suggestions. I will try that spicy stuff, but if my nose runs any more than it is at the moment, I will just stuff something absorbant up each side and give up!

*lol*

MELE KALIKIMAKA

do you realize that only one my 100th viewing of christmas vacation, i finally figured out that that's what they were singing during the pool dream? hahaha! thanks marcia and the tree is just lovely. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

Wolfie, as I was whisking through the channels on TV I went past one of those TV shopping channels and rhey had your ring with 9 (I think) interchangeable spheres (in that red box you scanned for us) in SS for knock-down price of $18.99. Then it was gone. At least I know now where to look for one!

Thanks for appreciating the tree. I made sure all the lights worked before I posted it *grin* As to that song containing Mele Kalikimaka...I have heard it ad nauseum this year and every year since I got here. Very popular!!!

i'll bet! and i'm glad you got to see that ring in person (well, better pics than what's here)....

Next timem O'O said, Buy it!!! So I will =)

really????? *woohoo*

Yeah...He knows my credit card is healthy! I hop they have it in gold so it does not tarnish quite so easily from the volcano fumes...but I'll take whatever I can get.

just don't go into sticker shock with the gold (which is what i'd prefer), silver for $19 is amazing!

That was the close-out price in the middle of the night (for the rest of you) on one of those home-tv-shopping channels. I am sure after the new year they will be much more expensive. I'll go for Silver and save for that Alexandrite like you are =)

don't blame you.

'course, most of the silver rings they sell now are rhodium plated so food and hand cream do not discolor or tarnish the silver quiet so easily.

Marcia, I would love to see a photo tour of different archeological sites on the archeology topic, and a little information on them. What say you?

Excellent thought, and if you have some send them to me and as soon as I can ftp them to the hard drive at spring I will post them. Otherwise I can post them from their web pages. Might you suggest some or shall you post them yourself? I love that you are interested in Archaeology and are just what I needed to spur me on to post more in there!

As you know, my brother has an anthropology degree, and I have always been interested in ancient civilizations, especially Egyptian and Greek, not to mention the Maya and Inca. I will move to the Arch. topic and discuss the possibilities there!

Lidya, you and I need to get lost in the British Museum for an indefinite time. What a luxury to be in there with another willing and interested soul!

i was watching a national geographic discovery program the other night about landslides and thought that would be an appropriate topic for this conference. i don't know if it belongs in an existing topic or what!

Landslides...Yeah! We have them all the time over here. Landslips they are called in the UK and remnants of Empire, and if they are big enough they are called mass wasting by geoloists. Do you think it would fit in Gaia which covers geological ecology? We did wildfires in there but we need a topic like orogony and disatrophism but on a much smaller scale. Name suggestions? How about Natural Disasters?

yeah, that would work!

on that show, they mentioned a volcano in hawaii where half of it was missing. amazing how they knew that! i would have thought it blew itself out or something.

Yup...cinder cones fracture along the line of the fault zone which caused the cone in the first place. A whole lotta shaking going on will make coastal ones plunge into the sea entirely or just the seaward half. Leaves behind a most interesting cross-section of how the cone was built of layers of cinder and spatter which held the cinders together. Some do blow themselves apart. Not much left to see of those. They are usually Phreatic ones which experience steam explosions and it just leaves the jagged rim of the base of the cone there. Unfortunately, Volcano is a big structure often used interchangeably with volcanic cone. One is a mountain and one is a small-to-large hill. Of course, when a new volcano is building, it begins small...so that is also a possibility!

OK, if I cannot be designated (don't know how) World Builder where host link is, I shall make do with this...if I can stand it! Not that big on bragging on my own bahalf, actually.

Better go to bed. My typing is worse than usual.

what do you mean "world builder"?

You did not notice? When the programmer helped me create Geo, instead of host (that hyperlink which gets you into cfconfig and rc), it read You are world builder in this conference.

It still says that in my rc file but apparently what is in there is not available yet, eventhough I have changed the address for some of it to where it is on my new space. Wish I understood more of what I know about this stuff...

oh! in paraspring, i'm the (g)host isn't that clever?

Indeed. Are you still? And, if you are, did you do it? If so, please tell me how to restore mine. (Mine is still the way it is supposed to be, I think!)

no, i can't figure it out :(

Didja notice that I got my big graphic on the title page of Geo again?! But, where it says I am world builder (where you are the clever (g)host - love that!) it is in the block which is now over-ridden by the default settings and I do not think we can change it. I tried, but it comes up the way you see it now anyway. =( ... me too

That little thingy called a "tab" is back between the conference title and the Main Menu on the bottom left of the topic. Merlin is back at it, and everything is getting to be so beautiful again. Happy me! Thank you...*hugs*

I guess it's about time I actually introduce myself... I am a software engineer in the Boston area, and I found this conference when Marcia emailed the conference pointer. I met Marcia and David a few years back when I was visiting a friend who was living in Hawaii (and dating David) at the time. David and Marcia gave me a wonderful tour of the big island and the volcanos. (I took about 24 rolls of pictures on that trip.) Anything I've learned about geology is from them! My interests include astronomy/cosmology, archealogy, mythology (especially Greek myths and Arthurian legends), photography and music, as you can probably tell by my other posts around here. I'm still finding my way around Spring, so I'll probably venture into other conferences, as time permits.

See? This lady was a Gods-end to me. How could we possibly have so many interests in common? We irritated more than a few people while she was here, but we loved it! ...and I should have emailed you sooner. Arthurian discussion is http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/books/23/new We need you there. it has been quiet, of late.

Oh, E komo mai, Ginny! Where are my manners?!

Eeeeek! She was a God-send ....*sigh* Better go eat some breakfast to neutralize all this coffee...!

Quite all right...I contribute my share of typo's, as well. Yes, I think we managed to irritate both Polly and David...but I certainly loved our discussions! :-) I will check out the Arthurian topic, soon. I must finish my lunch (while you have your breakfast) and get back to work (sigh). Catch you later!

Later! (Happy me *grin*)

Marcia, how lovely, an Arthurian topic! Will I ever find the time to go there?

Not with the company you are expecting (she told me she would be seeing you almost immediatley!)...and I am so jealous. I found some interesting Portuguese Petroglyphs. Would you be interested in seeing them in Archaeology(Geo 17)?

Will visit presently. Wonder if they are the Foz Coa glyphs :-)

Aloha Mike! Please feel free to create a topic when the spirit moves you. I would be delighted to have someone other than me doing so.

oh wow, i feel positively inferior in this conference but i love it anyway, esp. geomagnetism!

YOU feel inferior??? Move over and make room for me! You go places to learn and to trade information and to share what you know...and ask questions which keeps the converstions going. If no one does that...I am back to posting to myself from books and the internet...Don't feel like that...You are VERY important to Geo's survival! *hugs*

We gotta get some more on ley lines and stone alignments and the otherworld interface going. It fascinates me, as well *grin* I was hoping you wold enjoy it!

If you are reading this tonight...just know I miss you... and many other things.

oh, marcia *hugs* sorry i left out of here so abruptly....we got another krewe parade to watch and have been making gumbo all morning. (we all miss you very much)

Let's see...You get all the okra you can find and a mess of shrimp and...or is that another sort of Lousianna edible?! Sounds incredible, though. Keep your T-shirt down because I'm gonna be watching! I'll trade you some mardi gras beads for shell leis! Feeling better this morning...I just tried and tried to communicate with our friend and could not (that I know of). Sometimes it is very difficult. So I left him online and went to bed feeling very sad. (Yup! We all do - Very Much)

i don't think he put okra in it this time, but chicken and sausage....no t-shirts being lifted for me, too cold, plus i decorated a shirt for the occasion though it didn't work last week. we'll be towards the end of their route this time so hopefully they'll be more generous and want to download their wears! (all this for cheap beads *laugh*) if we were gonna trade, i'd go out and get nicer beads than what they throw!

Hey, we have all sorts of free shell leis here, and like your "glass" (plastic?!) beads, some are lots nicer than others. I'm game if you are!!! How do you thicken gumbo without okra? (Bummer - no double exposures for Wolfie this year...*grin*)

(trust me, any double exposure from me would make them canx the parade!) plastic beads. this year they were throwing huge (mm) beads and my son got two. tried to get one from him but he was not game! shipping leis from your part of the country would be awfully expensive, wouldn't it, marcia? i've got to see what we get today and let you know!

My part of the world is serverd by the United States Postal Service just as yours is. Same rate. I can put them in a proprity envelope and ship the entire mess for under $4 which is a small price for me to pay to get you a little Hawaii. What I need (via email) is your snail-mail address!

marcia, i got six beads (three of which i gave to the little boy standing next to me). a couple of teenie boppers were wearing tight t-shirts and had their stuff out and the one kept fluffing her hair. they weren't even in mardi gras wear, which is what the floaters usually look for, spirit. perhaps not tonight. i will find some good beads and then we'll talk (i'll send you my snail mail but i'll need yours too!) in a word, BORING! we go out there for the kids and the bigger kids push them out of the way and can jump higher. oh, and i'm standing there minding my own business and some girl runs headlong into me at full speed. hit me on the left side and i had just turned sideways so i know i hurt her more than she me....

So much for party time. Sounds a little too scary for me. It is getting to be like that for the Christmas Parade. Why, when my kid was little...*grin* Take care out there and I will send you the shells anyway - give the stuff to the kiddies!!!

oh it's nothing compared to new orleans. it's butt to butt there (but they throw better stuff)....a couple of years ago, two kids got in trouble because they mooned the floats. that's the worse i've heard. drunk and disorderly is about as bad as it gets, thank goodness. the kids have a good time and that's the reason we do it year after year (even when we vow not to do it again!)

it was really cold today though and i was covered in blankets while waiting. kids weren't cold at all and were so mad at us for making them wear their jackets! what happens when we get older? suddenly it's too cold for anything, or too hot. kids just go out there and do it!

Yup! That's what happens, I hear *grin* How else can you wear a t-shirt 5 sizes too small and attract enough beads to weight down a burial at sea?! Not by wearing a jacket - for sure! Enjoy and let the good times rollez

yeah, well that was me, keeping warm, and the teens (with mom right behind them) without coats but getting all the beads. they'd go right up to floats despite the "float guards" who, for safety, tried to keep people back.

What fun is it to be a float guard if you don't have all those shrunken t-shirt rubbing up against you?! (Now, go to bed, Wolfie!)

yes ma'am *smart salute* actually, i gotta go to sleep.....see ya tomorrow!

G'night Wolfie!! It was fun...sleep well and talk to you tomorrow!

(Marcia) How do you thicken gumbo without okra? Fil� powder, which is from sassafras. Gumbos use okra or fil�; never both.

we always use file'.....but i've had gumbo with okra and it's good too. cooked okra isn't really slimy at all....

See, I learned something. Thank you, ladies!

Can you taste the sassafrass in the fil�?

couldn't tell you, never had sassafrass by itself but you can definitely tell when the file' is added!

You mean you never walked through the woods in the spring and your Dad cut you a shoot of sassafrass to chew on. Gets really slippery and tastes really neat. Sort of like rootbeer without the sweetness.

I have a fun botanical fact, okra is a member of the hibiscus family. I must have had improperly cooked okra, as it was slimy, worse yet it was slimy and furry. Not a great textural sensation.

It is downright nasty cooked improperly. My mom managed to do that each time she put it in the home-made veggie soup. Indeed, it is a hibiscus...just as Spanish moss is a bromeliad and a relative of the pineapple!

Thats right, the pineapple is an edible bromeliad. It is also an immigrant to Hawaii, being native to either the Caribbean or Central America. The pineapple was introduced to Hawaii by Europeans.

Indeed and now it is grown in Southeast Asia and the Philippines at much lower prices...*sigh* We priced ourselves out of the sugar market and soon will do so for pineapple. Very sad!

It's your real estate. It's worth too much to be used for farming said items.

Well you still have the Kona coffee. The last time I had it was in a blend; it was blended with Columbian coffee. In Florida Big Sugar are dirty words to many people.

Karen, the sad truth is that even in Paradise the people need a way to earn a living. Granted that tourism is our main strength along with the military, but in the past 10 years base closures and depressed economic situations have made it very difficult to keep our state supported University campuses afloat. We need other sources of income if they are going to price themselves out of the market! Sugar workers chose to go on welfare rather than take a cut in pay - they were the highest paid agricultural workers in the world when they made this choice. Who is supposed to pay for this welfare if we all take that way out?!

we have pineapple growing in my house (until real spring hits)! i've got a couple of okra seedlings growing, first time this year, they seem viney....

It's not just tourism but real estate development. Remember, the San Fernando Valley used to be full of citrus trees.

Yes, I know, but they commute to their jobs in Los Angeles by car. Where are the people going to go to get jobs to commute? That is part of the problem. The Kona side is pricey and touristy. This side is the working part of the Island and it is not as healthy financially as is the other side.

Wolfie, is that pineapple doing ok? I remember discussing what to do with it last fall - then I forgot all about it. Say Aloha to it =)

Was there once cattle ranching on the island of Hawaii? And do Maui onions really come from Maui?

Oh yes, Okra that I've seen grows on tough prickly vines. Sounds right!!!

Still is cattle ranching though the Parker Ranch is no longer larger than the King Ranch of Texas. We have great range-fed beef here. Maui onions really come from Maui and they can be pretty hot if the weather is too dry and hot over there.

So if you're in the mood, you can enjoy a nice steak with some grilled onions.

Oh yes ma'am! And the best Prime Rib you can sink your teeth into on earth! Washed down with Menehune Beer (local micro-brewery) and a side of Manoa Lettuce salad...*sigh* getting hungry!

there's room to farm cattle? *grin* the pineapple is doing well in the house. not a shoot yet though. perhaps this summer when i'm away *frown*

Our island is about the size of Connecticut. 200 square miles, I think - but to verify that I just fired off an email to John to check. It takes 18 months from cutting to cutting. You harvested that top only a few months ago...is that right??!

i harvested it last year before summer. so, maybe december i'll have a shoot or something! it had to be summer because i started it outside and it wasn't cold at all.

The crown should grow to about 2 feet in diameter then in the center it will take on a deep rosy color. Then a tiny bunch of little thingies will be down in the deep well made by the leaves...then the stalk under it will grow...then the pineapple will swell and increase in size. Happy thoughts of harvesting come into your mind but remember, pineapples do not ripen off the plant. Make sure it is perfect when you harvest it. When you put it outside in good soil, water it well and feed it. It will respond!

Just heard from John: The BIG island is officially 4,038 sq. mi. and increasing all the time where the lava meets the ocean in Puna. It is the largest island under the U.S. flag.

kinda like a bromeliad, then, marcia, only no water in the well! it's fairly large compared to when i planted the pineapple top. no reddish tinge though. do you think if i put an apple on the soil, it'll force the fruit? (this is what you do to get a bromeliad to bloom if it hasn't in awhile)

The Pineapple IS a bromelaid. Funny thing about the thought of no water in the well. They grow in open fields here and it rains a lot! Needless to say, they get a lot of water in the well and just about all of the time! It does evaporate quickly, so if you are gonna plant them where they will get wet but not dry out again, you might just kill it with crown rot. If you get water in the well, no biggie, but be sure it dries out again. I have not heard of the apple forcing a plant to flower. I know it ripen already formed fruit. Not sure, either, that Pineapples are forceable. I think their 18 months routine is cast in concrete! But, experiment! We all may learn something *gtin*

see, i was afraid to give it crown rot by watering from the top, but in the summer, the water evaporates fairly quickly and does go down the well!

It'll be just fine! I know we are damper over here than you are even deep in the bayous.

Wolf did you and the junvenile members of your pack (i.e., your offspring) have a good time on Fat Tuesday. Now here it is the beginning of Lent. If you look at it philosophically without Lent, Carnival has no meaning. I know the pups (cubs?) were well looked after. Wolves are exempliary parents. Are young wolves called pups or cubs? Of course, your young ones, Wolf, are properly called children, but they probably hate that, especially if any of them are teenagers.

my pups are still young enough to love their mama! offices in new orleans and some select places in town close shop for tuesday and wednesday (fat tuesday and ash wednesday)....my first day of lent was alright as i was so busy i didn't miss the hershey kisses or the caffiene from sodas. (yup two things this year cuz i skipped last year). i'm not catholic, but we practiced lent in my homw growing up. had the AM doing it too (and he is catholic!) the pups were busy raking leaves in the front yard yesterday (they got paid, too)...yard looks great and the kids learned a lesson on teamwork (that's what i tell myself anyway)!!

Excellent practice for wolfhood in the big bad world. I got paid for raking leavesm, mowing the lawn and shovelling snow - but only if my father did not have to remind me. Then, I HAD to do it and got nothing for it. I remembered!

this is good. we do that too. boy do the kids get ticked when they're asked why they didn't do their chores. my son actually came out and told his father that the reason he didn't do his chores all week was because he didn't want to. no allowance. (of course, i'm home with him evenings and he tries to pull stunts)

Oh yeah! I guess they would not be normal kids if they did not try their boundaries...butcha have to live long enough to see THEIR kids doing the same things to their parents...Then you can say, "See!" It reaches them responsibility and mine learned that way, as well. I was a sorta push-over Mom, though. Way softer than necessary, but he turned out to be Very Responsible. I guess he was listening all those times!

well, i'm the fit thrower (ok, well, that's how i feel) but those ying-yangs would rather be with me than their father (!!) kids, gotta luv em....

Got that right!!!

Wolf, your pups will still love their mama when they're grown. Speaking of giving up things for Lent, my mom gave up smoking for Lent when year. That's how she stopped smoking, it worked for her. I did have a Catholic upbringing, (I'm what is known as "lapsed" now). Anyway -- I remember when I was little telling my mother that I wanted to give up broccoli for Lent. She said I had to give up something I liked, to which I replied, "I do like broccoli." In fact, I very much did and still do.

i like broccoli too! my son is trying to give up nintendo but just today he asked to play!! i told him he had to try to avoid it the best he could. cheryl, thanks for that, i do hope they are close to me as we get older....

It would be easy for me to give up broccoli if I did not have dips and salads in which to put it, and my mother to boil it till it ws gray...Yuck! Wolfie, mine is close to me - so close that when I send him what I consider a funny story about a mother he writes all worried asking about hidden meanings and what was I really trying to say...! The acorns doe not fall far from the tree. Take my word for it - love will bond you like nothing else. On levels you never imagined!

good. (obviously something was missing in my childhood relationships *frown*)

Yup! Mine too. Think that's why we are so affectionate and cuddly.

well, then good things do come out of bad at times.....*HUGS*

Indeed!!! Hugs, Wolfie. Was your weather terrible last night? Wish Austin would check in but I know at least one is online. That is good new, indeed!

we had lots of lightening and it's rather cool today. supposed to have a light frost tonight. better go put backs on all those goodies i planted!

Cover'um with burlap and leaves if you have any - they'll be ok! Bummer!

yup!

In case this did not get to the eyes for which it was intended in Today's quotes, I repost it here: For the creator of Geo: "Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night." -- Anon.

I have no idea who that might be referring to... ;-)

The creator of Geo will see it and know =)

Because it is important to read this following information I post it here as well as in News... Because everything you read on the internet is true . . . I was on my way to the post office to pick up my case of free M&M's, (sent to me because I forwarded their e-mail to five other people, celebrating the fact that the year 2000 is "MM" in Roman numerals), when I ran into a friend whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken - which is predictable, since as everyone knows, there's no actual chicken in Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is why the government made them change their name to KFC. Anyway, one day this guy went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over and when he got out of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEYS HAD BEEN STOLEN. He saw a note on his mirror that said "Call 911!" but he was afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on his computer that would destroy his hard drive if he opened e-mail entitled "Join the crew!" He knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a computer programmer who was working on software to prevent a global disaster in which all the computers get together and distribute the $250.00 Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates. (It's true - I read it all last week in a mass e-mail from BILL GATES HIMSELF, who was also promising me a free Disney World vacation and $5,000 if I would forward the e-mail to everyone I know.) The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing kidneys, but a voice on the line first asked him to press #90, which unwittingly gave the bandit full access to the phone line at the guy's expense. Then reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped around a note that said, "Welcome to the world of AIDS." Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital - the one where that little boy who is dying of cancer is, the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an e-mail and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail he receives. I sent him two e-mails and one of them was a bunch of X's and O's in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to more than 10 people, you will have good luck but for 10 people you will only have OK luck and if you send it to fewer than 10 people you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS). So anyway, the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving without its lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation. Send THIS to all the friends who send you their junk mail and you will receive 4 green M&Ms, but if you don't, the owner of Proctor and Gamble will report you to his Satanist friends and you will have more bad luck: you will get cancer from the Sodium Laureth Sulfate in your shampoo, your wife will develop breast cancer from using the anti-perspirant which clogs the pores under your arms, and the government will put a tax on your e-mails forever. I know this is all true 'cause I read it on the Internet.

Sorry this is off conference but I have to put it somewhere: http://promotions.go.com/espn/mascots/challenge.html the Nittany Lion won the mascot battle! It was so close.. 50.0 to 49.9. Could anything be closer? But, it's great that your mascot won and I'm very happy for Penn State! 56,763 people actually voted on this important issue (including me, but we won't tell anyone!) Thanks, Barbara!

Spent most of the day sruffing envelopes for the scholarship fund drive at UHHilo. I am too tired to write any more with no one to talk to. More tomorrow. Good night...*hugs* U

Marcia, you must have been tired. You typed that you were "sruffing" envelopes.

LOL *S I G H* I guess I was more tired than I knew. Actually, after stuffing the envelopes, much to everyone's horror, we were told to put them in zipcode order. So, with as much dignity as I had left, I plopped onto the floor and spread the states out around me and did them all while the rest of the gang gossiped.

I am on the W 3.1 laptop onto which I downloaded *gasp* IE. I can see the pictures on Main - finally. Looks like the Magicians are busy at work on it even at this hour. Let's see if this can be posted. Lots of people have said that IE does not post very well. If you can see this, I succeeded.

It's there! I guess it does work. Now I can post the real reason I came in to Spring tonight (tomorrow for everyone else!) More about that on Geo 17.

Hello to one and all. As you can note my name is Saskia Burch. I don't have any Dutch lineage despite my first name. My mother has a degree in art history and she really admires the work of Rembrandt. That's the story of how I got my name. A bit about me, in brief. I was born in Hong Kong. My father is of English/Chinese descent and my mother is American of German and American Indian (Crow) ancestry. I don't remember much about Hong Kong. We moved when I was four. We went to live in England, at Cambridge, where Dad was working toward his doctorate in mathematics. After that, I lived in Montreal and New York City. I'm 22 and am currently studying theater arts. No, I do not want to be an actress. I want to direct plays, opera, theater!

Let us know when you need some encouragement in those noble pursuits. We are good for that as well as other stuff. I am SO delighted to have you posting here!

Have you had a chance to direct anything yet? What a fascinating lineage, Saskia. And you've lived in the worlds cultural meccas, very interesting. I look forward to talking to you more.

I do, as well *smile*

How do I get the buttons back onto Geo - please check my rc file, Magician of the Spring!

Looks like cfadm put them back.

One or the other of us did - we were both working at the same time on it. I am sure he was the one who did as he is much better at it than I will ever be. I wish I knew how it happened so I could prevent its reoccurrance. Thanks and plaudits to the magician who restored my conference! *hugs* too.

If you ever need answers to real specific Yapp questions you can post on the bulletin board at http://www.armidalesoftware.com

Thanks for that! I am installing new marble which is so lovely...I hope cfadm does not mind. I think it would be much better for dancing and does not resemble the pastry marble that he thought it other did...*grin* Now, to get the last of the frames transparent.... Comments (other than it is slow loading the first time) on the new wallpaper???

As you can see, I changed it back almost exactly as Cfadm and I created it almost a year ago! It is now much easier to read. The other marble was lovely, but not a good background on which to read, and it clashed with my buttons. I could not find any bars which looked right but these at least do not clutter the place. Opinions, please? I have these same bars in a charcoal and a light green as well...

it's ok, but at first, i thought i was looking at chewed up straws! *GRIN* looks good!!

I think it is supposed to be wrought iron. I can try the darker version

*grin*

The light green might be interesting, as it is a naturally occuring color in marble. Yes, I know charcoal gray also occurs naturally in marble. Consider how gray to you want your page to be. The background is pale gray, with black body copy, the light green might offer a certain visual interest. The darker gray would work as well, it would be very tasteful. Sort of an antique book look, if you will.

Don't like the coprolite bar? actually, look at the title page and imagine the clutter with colorful bars. I tried rust, other gold ones but I think these have the necessary dimentional qualities without being too obtrusive - and they ARE stone!

It works!

Mahalo! I think I shall leave well enough alone!

Comments, Please! New look???

These bars I also have in the same quality of pale blue with dark just like the green ones on now......which just might look better with the front page of Geo's clipart globe. Thoughts?

personally I lke the old grey ones! But that's just me ...

Have plenty of options. One I tried laast nght was a very dark green and bold square-ended one which dominated the entire place. I'll be playing with it so check back.

it's taking ages to load!

Yes...I was working on it when you were trying to load. Back to the minimalist. I think they work best and the other are in storage for some other time. Downloaded an awesome one which I have no idea where to use.....but it was too stunning to resist.

I like the green hyper-links. Sorry I missed seeing the green bars, but if they were taking forever to load..It's just as well you brought back an oldie, but a goodie.

The green ones were splendid with the dark green links, but miserable with the front page of Geo with the bright red Visto Banner and buttons. It was just wrong in every way... I tried a dark green long bar without texturing but was far to dominant. I think this one works best...there is enough going on in here as it is, I think.

Red and green, must've looked like Christmas. Red and green, I remember them from color theory class. Mixed together they give you brown, but used to together, for anything other than Christmas, the effect isn't pleasing.

I know.....here are the others: Overwhelming bar boring bar The one I like best but clashes with the cover page Awesome bar:

Hmmmm: retrying the first two Overwhelming Green bar Boring in Brown

The awesome bar has a really nice graphic quality. The one you like best has a very nice classical aesthetic, but not with the title page. The boring brown bar does have a attractive pattern. As for your current choice, I think it was Mies van der Rohe who said, "Less is more." I know for certain he said, "God dwells in the details."

Those two quotes puzzle me...hmmm. They seem to the flip side of each other. If I wish God to be with the conference I must have lots of detail? I though the devil was in the detail?! Guess it is all in how you look at it. I decided it was best for all concerned if I kept it as classic and uncluttered as possible. I thought the pink marble and gold bars was exquisit, but better for a Victoria's Secret webpage. I did not want to alienate the men in here by making it look like a boudoir. The brown boring and my fav green are two of four identical bars with different coloring. I also have it in blue and charcoal. I seriously considered the blue but liked the green links....! That awesome one I saw on shown on a dark grey back ground of such color that the horizontal lines seemed to disappear and it seemed to hover on the page. Amazing!

I'm still a minimalist at heart!

I agree and this shall be the look for Geo... Any more elaborate bars clutter the main page with all of the graphics at the top! I agree, Maggie!

For all the men who check to see what I am doing in here and occasionally post, this is for you: *Hugs*

Happy Fathers' Day, indeed, to all you guys.

HAPPY SOLSTICE DAY

Happy Solstice!

Ok, next time I download it......was a beautiful image...

HAUOLI NA HANAU, UILAMA, The creator of Geo white ginger, the most exquisite lei ever made. Me Ke Aloha

when I goof, I do it as large as possible!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEO

Thank you, Maggie!! When you use the big stuff, you remember to close the tags. I had forgotten where I had posted the other Birthday wishes...Mahalo again

Just arrived! Thanks for the invite, Marcia.

No one you can imagine how delighted I am to have you here. We cover all sorts of stuff here - I know you'd find something interesting. Are you into Ley lines?

Hauoli Na Hanau, Lance!

Anouncing the betrothal of the hostess of this conference to a scholar and gentleman - and a gentle man. More to come...

I hasten to add that my husband-to-be is a man who understands long term friendships, and he insists that I continue to do just what I have been doing since I and William created it long ago. He would not hear of my abandoning Geo. If anything, we have gotten someone who will aid and abet my posting here immeasurably. More to come... My special friends remain just that to me - special cherished and part of my life.

(and that should have read "created by William and I". Without him, Geo would not exist, my eternal gratidue to one of the kindest men I have ever known.)

Congratulations, Marcia! What happy news.

Desperately trying to decentralise (which doesn't always work for some reason). Sorry...

Thanks, Mark... I thought I'd slip it in unobtrusively...where no one would ever find it. *smiling happily* You did it the first time...it ijust quirk of Yapp software. To check that you did it right just hit the reload button and it will affirm your correction wad done properly. Btw, that book... It is now residing next to Bulwer-Lytton's "Last Days of Pompeii" ... somehow, seems appropriate!

Best Wishes, Marcia and the Gentle Man.

...who at the moment has been missing for two days. Stay tuned. There may be a homicide in my future and I am not gonna be the victim...! (Can you tell I am alternating between despair and anger and anxiety?) Thanks dear! I need all the hugs I can manage tonight!

hi marcia!!

oops - was teaching Neil how to post image

didn't mean to leave you out, hi neil!! (thanks for the card!!!)

your welcome, wolfie!

marcia, log onto msn!!

Wolfie check that I am on your list. I can see you when you are online...