Introductions and Suggestions

~MarciaH Tue, Oct 12, 1999 (15:57) seed

This conference needs input as to new topic and fields of interest and how to make it more poster-friendly. Please comment!

~MarciaH Tue, Oct 12, 1999 (16:00) #1

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.

~wolf Tue, Oct 12, 1999 (19:23) #2

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

~MarciaH Tue, Oct 12, 1999 (19:32) #3

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???

~wolf Tue, Oct 12, 1999 (19:38) #4

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!!

~MarciaH Tue, Oct 12, 1999 (19:43) #5

...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!)

~patas Thu, Oct 14, 1999 (14:22) #6

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

~wolf Sun, Oct 17, 1999 (17:07) #7

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

~MarciaH Sun, Oct 17, 1999 (17:14) #8

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!!!

~wolf Sun, Oct 17, 1999 (17:17) #9

gotta wait on the laundry anyway, marcia!

~MarciaH Sun, Oct 17, 1999 (17:24) #10

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!

~MarciaH Sun, Oct 17, 1999 (17:26) #11

Changing back by removing my command line...

~wolf Sun, Oct 17, 1999 (17:27) #12

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!!!

~MarciaH Sun, Oct 17, 1999 (17:27) #13

Changing back by removing my command line...

~patas Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (13:13) #14

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

~MarciaH Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (13:26) #15

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.

~sociolingo Thu, Oct 28, 1999 (14:36) #16

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

~MarciaH Thu, Oct 28, 1999 (14:57) #17

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*

~patas Thu, Oct 28, 1999 (15:03) #18

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 :-)

~MarciaH Thu, Oct 28, 1999 (15:31) #19

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!

~MarciaH Thu, Oct 28, 1999 (15:33) #20

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*

~patas Sat, Oct 30, 1999 (03:43) #21

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

~sociolingo Sat, Oct 30, 1999 (09:26) #22

Thank you. I feel very welcome.

~MarciaH Sat, Oct 30, 1999 (13:37) #23

*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*

~patas Wed, Nov 3, 1999 (14:01) #24

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

~MarciaH Wed, Nov 3, 1999 (19:11) #25

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*

~MarciaH Wed, Nov 3, 1999 (19:12) #26

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

~sociolingo Fri, Nov 5, 1999 (14:12) #27

pat pat smile

~MarciaH Fri, Nov 5, 1999 (15:18) #28

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

~wolf Mon, Nov 8, 1999 (20:17) #29

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

~MarciaH Mon, Nov 8, 1999 (21:07) #30

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.

~MarciaH Sat, Dec 11, 1999 (20:38) #31

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...

~wolf Sat, Dec 11, 1999 (20:42) #32

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

~MarciaH Sat, Dec 11, 1999 (20:51) #33

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!

~MarciaH Sat, Dec 11, 1999 (20:59) #34

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...

~wolf Sat, Dec 11, 1999 (21:00) #35

hmmm...do let us know.

~MarciaH Sat, Dec 11, 1999 (21:03) #36

Indeed! You first. *grin*

~MarkG Fri, Dec 17, 1999 (03:16) #37

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

~MarciaH Fri, Dec 17, 1999 (13:17) #38

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.

~wolf Fri, Dec 17, 1999 (16:13) #39

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

~MarciaH Fri, Dec 17, 1999 (16:48) #40

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)

~wolf Sat, Dec 18, 1999 (21:55) #41

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

~MarciaH Sat, Dec 18, 1999 (22:06) #42

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...!

~wolf Sun, Dec 19, 1999 (13:21) #43

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!

~MarciaH Sun, Dec 19, 1999 (13:56) #44

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!

~wolf Sun, Dec 19, 1999 (15:56) #45

*lol*

~MarciaH Fri, Dec 24, 1999 (13:22) #46

MELE KALIKIMAKA

~wolf Fri, Dec 24, 1999 (16:25) #47

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!

~MarciaH Fri, Dec 24, 1999 (17:23) #48

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!

~MarciaH Fri, Dec 24, 1999 (17:26) #49

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!!!

~wolf Fri, Dec 24, 1999 (21:31) #50

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

~MarciaH Fri, Dec 24, 1999 (21:52) #51

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

~wolf Sat, Dec 25, 1999 (12:52) #52

really????? *woohoo*

~MarciaH Sat, Dec 25, 1999 (13:07) #53

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.

~wolf Sat, Dec 25, 1999 (13:36) #54

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

~MarciaH Sat, Dec 25, 1999 (13:45) #55

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 =)

~wolf Sat, Dec 25, 1999 (16:01) #56

don't blame you.

~MarciaH Sat, Dec 25, 1999 (16:04) #57

'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.

~livamago Sat, Jan 15, 2000 (18:36) #58

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?

~MarciaH Sun, Jan 16, 2000 (18:19) #59

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!

~livamago Sun, Jan 16, 2000 (20:37) #60

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!

~MarciaH Mon, Jan 17, 2000 (00:47) #61

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!

~wolf Tue, Jan 25, 2000 (19:00) #62

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!

~MarciaH Tue, Jan 25, 2000 (19:16) #63

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?

~wolf Tue, Jan 25, 2000 (19:52) #64

yeah, that would work!

~wolf Tue, Jan 25, 2000 (19:53) #65

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.

~MarciaH Tue, Jan 25, 2000 (20:04) #66

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!

~MarciaH Sat, Feb 12, 2000 (23:26) #67

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.

~MarciaH Sat, Feb 12, 2000 (23:28) #68

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

~wolf Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (17:33) #69

what do you mean "world builder"?

~MarciaH Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (17:41) #70

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.

~MarciaH Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (17:42) #71

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...

~wolf Mon, Feb 14, 2000 (11:25) #72

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

~MarciaH Mon, Feb 14, 2000 (13:24) #73

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!)

~wolf Mon, Feb 14, 2000 (20:24) #74

no, i can't figure it out :(

~MarciaH Mon, Feb 14, 2000 (20:46) #75

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

~MarciaH Thu, Feb 17, 2000 (13:45) #76

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*

~vibrown Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (11:16) #77

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.

~MarciaH Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (11:34) #78

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.

~MarciaH Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (11:35) #79

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

~MarciaH Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (11:36) #80

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

~vibrown Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (11:48) #81

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!

~MarciaH Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (13:02) #82

Later! (Happy me *grin*)

~patas Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (17:17) #83

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

~MarciaH Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (17:50) #84

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)?

~patas Wed, Feb 23, 2000 (06:29) #85

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

~MarciaH Sat, Feb 26, 2000 (22:27) #86

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.

~wolf Mon, Feb 28, 2000 (15:57) #87

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

~MarciaH Mon, Feb 28, 2000 (16:42) #88

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*

~MarciaH Mon, Feb 28, 2000 (16:43) #89

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!

~MarciaH Sat, Mar 4, 2000 (00:05) #90

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

~wolf Sat, Mar 4, 2000 (12:27) #91

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)

~MarciaH Sat, Mar 4, 2000 (12:35) #92

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)

~wolf Sat, Mar 4, 2000 (12:41) #93

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!

~MarciaH Sat, Mar 4, 2000 (12:46) #94

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*)

~wolf Sat, Mar 4, 2000 (12:50) #95

(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!

~MarciaH Sat, Mar 4, 2000 (14:16) #96

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!

~wolf Sat, Mar 4, 2000 (22:02) #97

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....

~MarciaH Sat, Mar 4, 2000 (22:09) #98

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!!!

~wolf Sat, Mar 4, 2000 (22:17) #99

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!)

~wolf Sat, Mar 4, 2000 (22:18) #100

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!