Introductions in the Ark

*woohoo*

How appropriate that our very own prime specimen should be the first to howl her approval in her new home! Congratulations all around!

We made it!! Yippppeeee!!!

Yeah! ...and I missed the beginning! Wooohooo!!! ( No time today too much work!)

Go, creatures of the Spring!

How do you like the final title of the conference? I, as you, did not like the connotation of Zoo...

Hey mammialian dingbats... introduce yerselves... in case we get some new animal lovers here... I am Princess Animainia... queen of the springerific jungle... *teehee* (or some people call me Stacey) I love kitties (we have two now) but I'm horrible trainer for any type of animal... too much of a softie...

I have been made a co-host of this conference, so if I can be of any help. let me know...He just came in to do it now...!

Since my concerns are of the Earth and what affects it, animals are my favorite things. I even like 2-legged ones...*grin* but I refuse to keep any as pets. I am an unreconstructed cat-lover who also is a birder and a hunter (with binoculars and camera) of bigger game in the wild. I answer to almost anything, but people usually call me Marcia for lack of a better idea (though I have been called the Marcianess of Stonehenge). Oh, yes, I am also a cuddler much more than a trainer, also. Aloha!

I am owned by two cats - should make it three, the baby-intruder-kitten from neighbourhood is getting bigger and more strenuous each day - thanks to the excellent cat-food I feed them!

Is this the one who was feasting on your toe when you awoke one morning?! Intruder Kitty?

ouch!!! Looks like ALL the spring gals are hosting this conference! We should call ourselves the Femmes Fantastique! (Or whatevva - I don't do that French thang.)

Hey, I LOVE cats! Lived with a bunch of them. Once I lived with five dogs, too! But my appreciation for the canine species (present company excepted) has been eroded by the neighbour's big, non-stop-barking monster-dog.

That happens! I'm a big animal lover too; even used to date them....

If we squeezed Alexander into a dress we could still be the Femmes Fantastique! *hee hee*

Animal dating, we're discovering new things about ree all the time!

Stacey, hon, pass me that eye shade, please...

Wow, Alexander, this pink lipstick matches perfect with your new summerdress!

...but with that mustache?!

You don't like that combination? I thought it very dashing. :=/

No, no it's VERY dashing - compared to Terry's big beard anyway! Come closer, so I can comb your faces...

oohhh and that aubergine shadow is simply divine!!!

On their eyelids anyway ...

Ooch! Riette, "face" is the forward side!!!

�blush� Sorry!! I just felt a bulge, and assumed it was your nose!

*LOL*

Does his nose grow, when he lies?

Most often when I lie down, not lie to others...

Not that anybody wanted these details...

Only twice a day.... WOLFIE!!! Pingus!! Lots 'n Lots of Pingus! An' little itty bitty feet pitter-pattering across the screen. AWE! TOO COOL!

ah-Hem...the things one learns here...*giggle* Love the little footie-prints, Wolfie! Is that the patter of tiny feet?! Too cute!

yup!

Looks just like when the guinea pigs accidently step in my paint, then walk through the house!

My dog Patas (=Paws)has a bed and a collar with the same pattern :-)

...only his have 4 toes.

ok everybody, i'd like to do something neat. would like to create a page on my website (which is part of spring) with pictures of your pets. if you have pics, drawings, etc. please forward them to me at Wolfie. you will get all the credit for your pics and i will honor any privacy requests (i.e., first name only, age, etc.) the only thing that i ask is that you allow me to resize pics in interest of space. i will not, repeat, will not, add to or take from your stuff. when i go through some of my magazines, i love to see kids' drawings of their pets and pics of pets in action. thought others might enjoy this and be willing to share. let me know! thanks!! (terry, maybe you can link this in with the front page for more exposure, thanks)

Critter is on his way to your mailbox =)

This is such a good idea! Wolfie, you're the best!!! *hugs*

*blush* thanks marcia!

Now, gotta go tell Patas' mommy and how about Bert's mommy and the other little furrykids in your family?!

bert's already web famous (well, his picture's posted anyway) the other two are forthcoming!

Excellent news about the other two. I emailed Mother-of-Patas to see which option for sending you his portrait she liked best. Since it is the middle of the night for her now, guess we gotta wait a few more hours to find out!

i've still got someone's cat photo's, i think it was pata's mom.....

email it to me...see it I can remember

Do you remember if you posted it in this conference? I have all of the topics saved to file *grin*

yes, in cats.....

Betcha it's Isabel's cat. Is is a soft light overall grey rather than tones of gray? On a sofa or chair? Betcha! (gonna go look in cats)

yes! and one is a perfect pic of a cat either outside or on a piano (wow, what a memory i have, where's that ginkoba?)

Or Charlotte's - just emailed their comments on the cats. Gi has no cats unless you think her silkie looks like one!!!

It's a yorkie, Marcia, and I'll look for some almost perfect pics for you, Wolf. Thanks :-)

cool beans! and depending on how many pics i get, as i work on this project, i may have to have the pics of the month or something to keep from swallowing all the available space on spring's servers!

Ray's was a Silkie - I know Patas is a Yorkie...Auwe! Wolfie, would you like me to make a smaller version of Critter for you to save spring space?

let me see if i can resize it first without taking away the quality of the pic. will have to do some work before any photo's go up (like relearning how to get my stuff onto /bayou so you can see it)

Hey! Critter's 58K portrait which I sent to you is on my spring drive. We can use one or the other. I'll try to downsize it with my photo programs, as well so we end up with only one of him on all of Spring's hard drive!

good idea (didn't know (s)he's stored over here already!)

OK, when get him pared down to smaller size I'll send you the url location for him (or do you need to have the image on your personal space?)

good question. but i can save him from the url location (think i will need it)... terry, thanks so much for the great pic and link to springark on the front page! i went there to explore the look and found it.

OK, when get him pared down to smaller size I'll send you the url location for him (or do you need to have the image on your personal space?)

Got him down to 20KB http://www.spring.net/marcia/public/Portraits/Smcrittr.jpg

that may still be a bit big...lemme see what i can do......

Can make it a lot smaller! Easy!!! (where is that picture you were thanking Terry for?)

How about 8KB http://www.spring.net/marcia/public/Portraits/weecritr.jpg

it's on the page you get when you go to spring.net (a leopard or jaguar) that smaller picture is great and we can still see his wonderful eyes!

Oh man...I'm in big trouble with this computer if you are seeing anything but plate tectonics globe. Better close out my Netscape and reboot. You do mean http://www.spring.net/ Is Critter small enough, do you think? It is such a tight shot that I think it's like the Cheshire Cat's smile - the eyes would be the last things to go.

yeah, critter is great! the jaguar is all the way to the right (in the black area). you may have to scroll to the right a bit and then down....

This is far too weird for me to figure out, but when I dumped the cache and closed out Netscape, then reloaded it and went to spring.net I could see across the bottom that it was loading the leopard file but it still had my globe there. If I close out the entire computer I may just see it tomorrow. Anything of mine still existing on the title page?

OK - I know where to look now, there were three blank "where pictures should be" squares...above Maggie's comments, the middle one was about SpringArk with a hyperlink, and the bottom one is Geo hyperlink....but those are still blank for me and like I just wrote. Waaaa! I cannot see the big pussycat!!!

yeah, it's all there, the cat is above your globe all the way to the right (not the globe in the middle of the page)....

and below maggie's comment....

You mean I got another globe there? *frown* I wanna see the stuff!!!

are you telnetting?

do you see it NOW?

Not telnetting - there is no account available for me as it stands with the provider now. I can see your Jaguar now! Here! but, aggravatingly, not there! It reminds me of the time I got stuck with the music conf wallpaper all over all of the other conferences. Instead of defautl leaves, I got eyeballs and notes in purple on a white background. In fact, when Geo was just a thought and a blank space will default wallpaper I was asked what I saw and I replied... purple eyeballs and notes. I eventually had to delete my entire hot list then reset them. I have not had any problems since July until now...! Sheesh!

i had those eyeballs and stuff all over the place too.

That is some potent wallpaper. I told him it was my conscience staring back at me. *lol* He thought that was funny - especially on my pristine new Geo. I have spent considerable time looking for better wallpaper for that conference, but every time we have tried something different, Alexander complains - so back it goes. I told him it was great for little kids Jammies, but...! I am much relieved to know I was not the only one seeing it everywhere!

Ok, Wolfie...today the front page is all black and gorgeous with non-color-changing squares beside the conference names on the left. On the right I still have no images but other people have ivory background and images on the black table at the left. I have washed and sterilized the cache and I still am getting this ... what do you see?

it's all black now for me as well and the leopard pic is still all the way to the right. you see maggie's comment right? and you see where it says "marcia talks about ty rex"? well, the leopard pic is still over there between the marcia says and maggie's comment.

Yup! That's where I figured it would be. 'Tis not there, however, on my PC. If you overline the black center, my ***aloha*** comments are still there! It does look choice, however. Tres cool, in fact..!

Hi all your fur and feather lovers! I'm making my howl heard... Name is Gena, I live in Massachusetts but I used to live in Austin. I usually hang out in the sports conference, making rare appearances in motorcycling... and about to dip my toes into Geo (thanks Marcia). I share my abode with the twin sister skitzy kitties from hell, known as Nike and Reebok. Also the Diva of Dogdom, Princess of Pawville.... Pearlized Jazz (I call her Pearl), retired racing greyhound extraordinaire. I got Pearl on her 2nd birthday... she'll be 11 this summer. The cats are about the same age. Wolf, I would gladly send you a photo of Pearl. My cats refuse to be photographed. Something about talking to their agent... Let me know what your website it so I can peek. I do an annual "Doggie Playgrooup Holiday Photo Shoot" here in my neighborhood in September, so my neighbors can have a pet motif for their holiday cards. Therefore I have many pics of "The Pearl".

welcome to my zoo!! got those pics, gena, thanks!!

what's your URL, wolfie?

http://www.midnightwolf.net She does not have anything up yet, but... Aloha, Gena *grin*

Thanks Marcia! You are, like, everywhere! And love this 'Aloha' thingy. It means both hello and goodby, yes? I'm putting it in there with Howdy as a favorite salutation. Aloha to you!

Yup...aloha can also mean "I love you" and "Drop Dead" depending on the inflection and look in your eye. I see your above post answered stuff I asked in the email I just sent you...sorry! Do wheelie your way over to Geo and park wherever you'd like. *Happy thoughts*

It just occurred to me that I am not only, like, everywhere! on Spring...I am also co-host of this conference! Don't have a real life or something...*grin*

You're living life to it's fullest, Marci.

Thanks to you, Terry. You have made possible a most unique experience which I plan to have last a lifetime. *hugs* What is better than great experiences shared with good friends?!

I love the buttons in this conference! How can I get them to appear in Babes and Business?

Easy, just click on the "host" button when you enter business, which you are now a host of and copy the code. You may have to play around with the html a bit to reference it to where the gifs are stored.

But I'm not host in here so I can't get to the rc file...

can get it for you - I am co host - hang on

posting it in Inner, Mike - Q&A

*gush* someone wants to use my custom buttons *BEAMZ*

Wolfie's custom buttons now grace Geo - lava come back to me, I think...

Great, Marci posted it in inner, keep us posted of your progress Mike, I'll help however I can. I did set up that ftp area for you and set you up as a host in business. Go Mike!

I'm goin'...short of time at the moment. Having to work US time in work (saves yet *another* trip on a plane) so I don't get home till late, and for some reason I can't get in at work (must look at that - probably something simple).

What kind of work are you doing these day, Mike?

Wolfie, we gotta get back to work on posting in here. I have some images I will post when I get into windows. Otherwise it is just me here testing telTELNET and wondering why I cannot get into certain conferences. At least I can finally post! *;)

you're right, we do gotta do some work in here!

Hey Wolfie, I had forgotten how much fun we had in here. I'll be posting a lot now that I have Geo afloat again. Happy New Year

Oooh, I found where I put the original Holly so I could copy it to my hard drive again. Seems I did the unforgivable and overwrote my original file. Wonder where MikeG is. I miss him!

great username!! geocritter!!!

It only took me a few years to figure out.. I rather like it too!

and i think folks will know it's you!

Kinda hard to lose me on Spring, no matter what disguise I use, Huh!

that and the name "marciah" is right after your userid!

Yup, I should change that userid. It has been there for years and I don't even think about it. Of course, so was it on the title page for Geo until recently! In h1-sized letters!!! How long does it take to heal a broken leg? *sigh*

depends (isn't that the answer to everything?) i think it depends on the type of break it is. if you change that, won't it change your login name too (when you first sign on to the spring)?

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