can't do it in porch either...

it's done on my conferences....

here's a banner that's nonintrusive and small: link it to http://www.pedowatch.org

That is great, wolfie...but it is right where my globe graphic is according to my config and I could not bear to do anything to that. Hmmm...lemme think....

we can get the masters of spring to put it up! don't take away your globe!!

I just tried it on ones without active hosts like screwed and the history which I was supposed to cohost (I am the only one active in there and I get no respect) but I was not granted access. Grrrrrrrrrrrr!

well, we'll just make sure terry knows about it and he comes in here once in awhile, right?

Did you read my venting in Grievances yesterday? Our Fearless leader reads but I think we must wait for the other since no one has even linked the ones we need (unless I call Kat and probably be paying $40 for a website I don't need just to be able to telnet so I can do these things....*frown* Amd I getting old and cranky or what?! (Please...be kind...!)

no you're not. i don't know where everyone is either....

I guess it is the time of year or whatever. Some are still trying to access Spring using the IP and email me why it no longer works...Others are lurking. I brought Lance and Ginny in lately, but I am rnning out of people I want to know me this well...or deserve to. (Thanks for saying I'm not *hugs*)

Speaking of our fearless leader, did you see how incredibly handsome he was on the latest video (NO, this is not to feed his ego, nor am I on a fishing expedition. Just stating facts!) ...Or did I ask you this before? I wanna picture of him like he looked in there! Awesome!

i think i missed it...

I tried to save the close-ups of him but even using pause and photographing the desktop did not work. I think there is no way to save it...so we gotta get someone with a snappy or something to do it. Spring has the choicest men attached to it, does it not?! *grin*

no bias there! *laugh*

*grin* I wonder how long I would have to leave for before I got a H1 come back Marcia on the Front Page. (Having been whipped into shape for adulthood promising me little by my 2 older sisters, it might be longer than my life expectancy!) Not bitter...not resentful...just hating being relegated to the bottom of the barrel again after having some really nice PR going. Yes, I know I could start my own webpage and post to blankness just as I do here some times.

{Yeah, I know I need to take a long hike or a run out under my tree with the silky grass underneath and cool breezes....) ((((((Terry, You promised to make a most important visit. Please do so ASAP. It might be more important than you realize!!!)))))

talk to me, marcia.... HUGS

don't know how long i'll be online this afternoon, so email to your heart's content!

I'm ok...I'll email you...*Hugs*

EARTHQUAKE - April 1 8:17 pm Hawaiian Standard time Guestimating it 5.5 magnitude

We had a quiet night, as far as I know. This was one of the strongest Earthquakes of recent times. Its epicenter was near Pu'u O'o on Kilauea's Southeast rift. It felt like some tremendously strong had shoved the entire house very abruptly - an unusual type. Usually they shake back and forth. John reported this morning "I had dozed off and it woke me up. Certainly shook the six-story building I live in."

the earthquake was in hawaii? (well, duh, if it woke john up).... heard that edo erupted again but nothing like it was on friday. unfortunately, that's all i know about that one. didn't even hear about your earthquake, marcia.

I know...if it happens over a weekend, even if the entire island explodes and disappears, you will not get information on it until Monday, and then, probably only from the foreign press...*sigh* I posted most of the information in Geo 26. Information is very slow in coming in even here where it happened. I am listening to the tour pilots as they can tell the changes in the volcano more quickly than the geologists on the ground can.

John tried to imply on his radio show this morning that the earthquake was caused by his falling out of bed. NOT!!!

*lol*

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!) I voted too, but I voted for my Nittany Lion! Thanks Barbara!!!

From the Tallahassee Police Department fraud unit: We want to update you on several issues involving the latest e-mails making their way around, and to follow-up on what we believe is a telephone scam. 1. Computer Virus We received over 50 inquiries within the last week regarding the latest computer virus e-mail floating around. However, what is different with this one is that it may have some merit. The e-mail states that a virus may infect your computer which will completely erase your hard drive, as well as dial 911 from your modem. The e-mail went on to point out that the FBI had issued an advisory about this particular virus. Actually, it was the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) which is an off-shoot of the FBI. You can read about this virus advisory at http://www.fbi.gov/nipc/nipcaaw.htm TPD's Public Information Office does not claim to be computer virus experts, and we have little understanding (and even less desire to know) of how this virus works or how to adequately deal with the virus should your computer become infected. Our purpose only is to respond to your inquiries about these e-mail rumors. For more specific and technical information, please contact your System Administrator. 2. ATM Envelopes/Cyanide E-mail Hoax This is another e-mail rumor that will not seem to go away. The e-mail makes specific reference to a person who died after licking an envelope from a Bank of America ATM machine. As far as we know, this rumor is totally false. We dealt with this particular e-mail rumor over a year ago, but it still keeps coming back. You can read about this latest urban legend at http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/culture/urbanlegends/library/weekly/aa04030 0a.htm If anyone has ANY credible proof that such an event took place, please let us know. Otherwise, delete the e-mail when it is sent to you, and please do not forward it to anyone. 3. TeleNation Update On March 21, 2000, we issued E-Alert # 00-07. This alert, in part, dealt with suspicious calls being received by some of our subscribers from a company called "TeleNation." Our readers stated that someone was calling their homes and asking a number of questions about the number of children in the family, computer habits, etc. We referred this matter to Investigator Gary Steinberg in TPD's Criminal Intelligence Unit for follow-up. Here is the text from his e-mails to us regarding his findings: "We completed a national search and found a corporation of the same name (TeleNation) out of North Miami Beach. There is no listing for phone service, though. I had a Detective from North Miami Beach PD go by the location for TeleNation today. The business was locked up but the Detective was able to contact the building manager. The manager said he has seen the person leasing the office come and go a few times, and that's it. The Detective left a note on the door for that person to call, but we have no expectation he will. Based on what the Detective observed and learned, she suspects a phone scam-type of business. Please instruct people to refuse any cooperation with any phone survey unless the caller is willing to provide the necessary information, name of business and call back number, to verify that the survey is legitimate." As we stated on March 21st, we are not saying that TeleNation is not a legitimate company. They may certainly be legitimate, but we are concerned with their survey methods and would like to know more about them. If anyone from TeleNation calls you and begins asking questions, please follow Inv. Steinberg's advice - don't tell them anything until they identify themselves, their company, and until they provide you with a call-back number. Legitimate survey companies will gladly do this. Also, please instruct your children that if a responsible adult is not present when calls such as these are received - don't relay any information about anyone living in the home. Instead, have your children ask for a call-back number.

I was asked to post this by a USMC retired Col. Many of us remember that during the Vietnam war Jane Fonda opposed the war, as many others, but she went to Vietnam and embarrassed the US Government and the prisoners of war by her actions. Many of these actions are spelled out below. It is appalling that her actions have been forgotten and that she may be honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century." JANE FONDA remembered? Unfortunately many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our "country" but the men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam. There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Jane Fonda's participation in what I believe to be blatant treason, is one of them. Part of my conviction comes from exposure to those who suffered her attentions. The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1978, the Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a former POW in Ho Lo Prison-the "Hanoi Hilton." Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJs, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American "Peace Activist" the "lenient and humane treatment" he'd received. He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward upon the camp Commandant's feet, accidentally pulling the man's shoe off which sent that officer berserk. In '78, the AF Col. still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying days) from the Vietnamese Col.'s frenzied application of wooden baton. From 1983-85, Col. Larry Carrigan was the 47FW/DO (F-4Es). He spent years in the "Hilton"-the first three of which he was "missing in action." His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned/fed/clothe routine in preparation for a "peace delegation" visit. They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his SSN on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors? " Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper. She took them all without missing a beat. At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge... and handed him the little pile. Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Col. Carrigan was almost number four. Another letter received, To whom it may concern: I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held for over 5 years. I spent 27 months in solitary confinement, one year in a cage in Cambodia, and one year in a "black box" in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I was weighing approximately 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.) We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals." When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with Jane Fonda. I said yes, for I would like to tell her about the real treatment we POWs were receiving, which was far different from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by Jane Fonda, as "humane and lenient." Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees with outstretched arms with a piece of steel placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane every time my arms dipped. I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda for a couple of hours after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She did not answer me. Her former husband, Tom Hayden, answered for her. This does not exemplify someone who should be honored as "100 Years of Great Women." Please take the time to read and forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer and she needs to know that "we will never forget. " Lest we forget..."100 years of great women." What do you think? It is worthwhile passing on? Millions of vets who served during the Vietnam War believe it is. Please write your Legislators and voice your concern Whatever you decide, thanks for taking the time to read this.

Btw, the man who sent it to me spent many years as POW there. He is no phoney or rabble-rouser. He feels this deeply!

It puts a whole different spin on Jane Fonda. And she's in denial?

She has been "born again" so it is expunged from her heavenly record and we are supposed to do the same with our memories, I guess. I think it will not be that easy to do. Denial is a good word here!

The Today Show is live from Hawaii today, Volcano National Park? on Kileua (sp?), so if they run this when you wake up Marci you might want to check it out.

Now is 2:54 am in Hawaii and Matt is in front of a volcano. http://today.nbc.com has him answering questions about Hawaii today. Incredible lava shosts.

Check out the http://www.saveseed.com topic in the projects conference. I've overhauled this site and added some actual content instead of just a sign that says "future home of http://www.saveseed.com

We just saw it about 1/2 hour ago. That is one neat volcano, no?! I was hoping someone would see it on Spring. Yay!!! I am surprised there weren't pix of me during the time the subdivision was being covered. We were doing disaster relief work...it was heart-breaking! So, now you've seen the man who is retiring as Civil Defense Chief, Harry Kim. He is the neatest guy on the planet and he has a way to getting everyone to agree with him when it is a life and death situation. We will miss him terribly. He was the voice of calm in chaos!

Columbia, Online News offer Web journalism prizes NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Online News Association and olumbia University's journalism school, home of the Pulitzer Prizes, Monday announced the creation of a new set of international awards for the best in Internet journalism. The Online Journalism Awards will honor outstanding online journalism each year with 11 prizes in six categories, the Graduate School of Journalism and the Online News Association (ONA) said in a statement. Entries must be from English-language Web sites only, but the sites may be based anywhere. The journalism school will administer the awards at the request of the ONA, a professional group of reporters, producers and editors working in new media journalism. ``We believe these awards will be a major step towards one of our most important goals recognizing and encouraging journalistic excellence in this new medium,'' Rich Jaroslovsky, president of ONA and managing editor of the online Wall Street Journal, said in the statement. Journalism school Dean Tom Goldstein said, ``We are excited to administer the new awards as they will help to set the standards in the world of online journalism.'' The school administers the Pulitzer Prizes for newspaper journalism, letters, drama and music; the National Magazine Awards; the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards in Broadcast Journalism; the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes in inter-American Journalism; and other awards. The Online Journalism Awards' six categories are general excellence, online commentary, breaking news, enterprise journalism, service journalism and most creative use of the medium. The inaugural contest will be launched officially on July 3, with details and entry forms available at http://www.onlinejournalismawards.org. Articles published between July 1, 1999, and June 30, 2000, will be eligible. Sreenath Sreenivasan, a professor of new media at the school and a founding member of ONA, has been named administrator of the awards.

i wanna find out why this place is so dead! yesterday, i made a couple of posts and walked away for several hours. checked back in and my posts were still sitting in the "last five responses". WHAT's UP WITH THAT???? marcia and i cannot possible post by ourselves all the time and keep this place interesting! (although we certainly try) so you summer vacationing people, find a cyber cafe and post!! and the rest of you, get your butts back over here!!!!!!!

You tell'um, Wolfie!!! For Geo's 1st birthday it would have been nice if some of the lurkers posted something. They must be as bored seeing Wolf's and my posts as we are! Get your buns in gear and post something. It does not cost anything!!!

Well, Americ is back.......see him starring in Geo! New Topic and all. Yay!!!

another new topic? wow!!

Whoopee!!! Yup! and he actually said soemthing in there unlike another drive by creator who plopped bioregions in Geo and never came back to see it. Oh well. Yes, I am delighted that Mike and Americ created their own and use them.

Talk 2000 Olympics in the sports conference, NBC's Kristen Huntley is looking for chat hosts. What else is going on around Spring oday?/

I am still encouraging men who contact me to look at Geo and they often wander about Spring to check it out. My most promising poster, however, spends his time alotted for the internet talking privately with me. Oh well, He is very special!!! I have had many check in. Last night an astro engineering major from the USAF Academy talked to me and I got him do download Seti@home. I will hear from him again, I am sure. Have not lost one yet - and have had more than one proposal...! I do, however send the terminally young and lusty on their way with a tender suggestion that they need a younger specimen than I. Sometime I get them back, too! Life on the interent is truly interesting and there ares such intellgent and worthy men out there...*sigh* (Some are actually planning to visit the volcano...!!!)

Hope you can get some of them to go public, keep trying!

Got a some to login and two to post. One in Archaeology and one in Paleontology. The former is too busy digging now to post and the latter uses his per minute charges talking to me *smile* Oh, and another in Paleo... Am working on two astronomically-inclined gentleman and a geologist who is not related to me at this time...

Not related to Spring ... I've been shovelling sand from the back car park (nearest point to the back of my terraced house) into the garden. Today the paving slabs get laid in front of the French windows which were put in a six months ago....I have my eldest daughter's engagement party tonight, so I need to get the sand out of my hair for that. Oh well, think of the muscles I'm developing, who needs to go to the gym!!!! Next week we get a skip to put all the rubbish in.....I hate sorting things out, but I hate being in a mess too. Hooray, the four indoor doors that are now propping up my garden shed will go in the skip and disappear.... now what else can I put in there?????? The big worry is that other people will also put stuff in the skip - and we have to pay per ton to have it disposed of!!!

Americ's back in the philosophy conference. Michael Moore's musings on the presidential race in politics. Lot's in geo and today. There must be an army of lurkers, based on our stats.

Hey! Have a look in Education and Culture conferences, please....

Really, some good stuff in there!

Maggie, Geo first!!! Then, "social" schedule permitting, I will hunt for your stuff. You got Terry to read it! You must have some appeal I lack ( I must expend it all of it on IM...) Yeah yeah yeah, I know... I promise to go look!

If only 10% of the people who become aware of Geo actually go look at it, we are getting a bunch more hits than before I took to IM seduction (for enticement to post only , of course.) I know for a fact that at least the Europeans pay for their phone calls to the internet by minute, and prefer to talk to me personally when they do get online. Perhaps when they get bored with me...

Thanks for the positive responses. I will continue to hunt up some good stuff....

May I say hello to everyone sitting on the porch?

Take off your shoes and pull up a chair and join us!!!

What are you drinking??? Mine's good old english tea at the moment ... yesterday it was half bottle of wine, and I wasn't reponsible for the consequesnces!!!! *grin*

We arrived Sunday, July 16. We were both numb from the travel. Hawaii, as we later learned, is the most geographically remote location on Earth. We arrived at the Kona Coast Resort, checked in, and the rest is a blur. We woke Monday feeling great. Absolutely lost, but great. We needed a guidebook! We found a great bookstore (Middle Earth Bookstore, right behind Crazy Shirts) along the Kona coast, about a 10-minute drive north along the Pacific shore. I went looking at other stuff while Carol checked out the guides. Suddenly, she excitedly approached me with this weird-looking book in her hands. The cover seemed to glow. The Secrets & Mysteries of Hawaii. This is Jeffrey Field or fattymoon talking about Hawaii, more excerpts and a link are in today's travel conference.

Briefly, when passed by John Burnett and a former relative, the comments ranged from what was he smoking to if he had a former life as a teacher at Laupahoehoe school (the one he could not remember the name of) he would have known not to pick up any rocks. I must read futhrer into his travels...they are highly amusing for someone who lives here but terribly misleading for those who do not. However, he does appreciate the glories of this island which are so varied that we comprise a mini-continent all by ourselves.

ghost stories! halloween is upon us and we want to hear 'em--paraspring 27 is the place to be!!

Scare yourself and us, too!!! Meet you at Wolfie's Den!

In the politics conference, find out the real news about the Florida recount, the news that lies buried on the 3rd and 4th pages of newspapers, and see if my predictions on this Florida mess come true. This thing may have some twists and turns that you haven't heard of yet!

You are gonna make us hunt for it? Sheesh. I remember posting the URL for the specific post I wanted folks to read. Oh well, I guess learning 3 years on is better than never. Off I go to read your posting if I can find it...

OKOKOK---what happened to http://www.spring.net????? are we being hacked?

Did you find it? Ooops, I blew away the main page for a few hours today! Got it back just now.

I messed up earlier today thinking I was saving and index.html in to a subdirectory but I saved it in to the root web! Good thing I surfed to the main page a little while agao. I hope this main page is up to date enough.

*whew*

thank you, i was freaking out!! *HUGS*

Thanks for restoring order - we were afraid hackers had gotten in..

Sorry to barge in here, but I just wanted to wish the Springuers a Happy Thanksgiving.

Hauoli La H'omaika'i

HAPPY THANKSGIVING fellow Springuers!!

Hauoli La Ho'omaika'i

Happy Holidays to One and All!!!!!!!!

Happy holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2001!

the real Millenium!! *woohoo*

(terry, the spring stats link isn't working on the main menu)

Happy Birthday Kilauea 0930 January 3, 2001 You know how hard it is to remember anniversaries, especially "after all these years." Well, that happened today until a sentimentalist reminded us that today is the 18th anniversary of the ongoing eruption, which was born on January 3, 1983, and is now a healthy adult with no sign of early senescence.

Temptation Island and The Mole, two new shows and two new topics in the tv conference. And two new Survivor spinoffs.

Yup, I know a great deal about the island on which it was filmed, and a few important people thereon http://www.aprivateisland.com/ For the special few (it can handle 12 people each with individual attention)for a mere $1000+ per day per person including your own private butler.

Have you ever visited there? Did you see this show the other night?

I not only watched, I taped but did not recognize either guy I know there (long story best told in email). No, never been there... yet...