If you think the Red Cross is just a bunch of do-gooders, then you don't know anyone who was ever employed by them. The pay is crappy, and they have practically no retirement policy, not to mention next to zero health insurance. I know because my cousin headed the local headquarters for years. When she retired, it was so long, been good to enslave ya. It figures, since the RC was started by socialites who never had to worry about such things. During WWI & II, you had to be recommended by a member before you were allowed to be a volunteer, and before they would accept you, they checked out your pedigree. Know of what you speak.
I hate to use a keyboard that requires a mouse. All that reaching for the mouse and repositioning on the keys gives me tendonitis, plus CTS. I've used an ALPS keyboard with a Glidepoint touchpad since 1990, and it's still the best I've ever tried. Sadly, they're no longer made. The only new touchpad keyboard I could find was an Adesso contour model, but the touchpad is positioned poorly, and it's clunky: you can't drag and drop groups of things like I can do so easily and adoitly with my old ALPS. I even bought an ADB-to-USB converter plug so I could use it with my new G5.
Yes, I have talked to Ansel Adams, when he visited Cleveland in the 1980s on the occasion of his retrospective. As the art critic for my paper (Akron Beacon Journal), I was privileged to talk to ask him a few questions. Ansel Adams, as you probably know, wrote several books on photography (The Camera, The Negative, The Print, The Zone System, etc.). I believe he would have seen digital photography as an interesting, but for his purposes, fairly beside-the-point "development." He had invested a huge amount of time and money buying up the last of the best high-silver-content paper, had huge stocks of the best black-and-white film (his trademark, if you recall was black-and-white images), and had a priceless collection of cameras and photographic equipment. He was also a classically trained pianist and practiced every day. Given this background and temperament, I don't think he would have used a digital camera professionally. He might have played around with one, but He wouldn't have shown any of the resulting images publicly. They simply could not have measured up to his innate sense of what an image should look like. Place any digital image next to a image printed classically from a negative, and the difference is astounding. All things equal (proper exposure, composition, printing), the image printed from a negative is far and away superior, every time. Digital cameras are for people who don't want to invest the time and skill in learning how to take a proper photograph. It's all rather moot anyway, because with digital cameras, the end result depends not so much on the camera as on the printer and to find one that produces images that even come close to a traditional photographic print costs tens of thousands of dollars. I know, because there's another Adams photographer in Northeast Ohio -- Ian Adams -- who has recently told me he spent many thousands of dollars to get a printer that will equal the prints he gets from his traditional film photographs. Bottom line: The best digital camera now in existance can't produce an image that comes within shouting distance of Ansel's worst picture. If you're looking to get that quality, you're looking at a money pit.
Those who read real books as opposed to computer manuals, may recall that Luther Driggers, John Berendt's frustrated inventor and poison-wielding "eccentric" from "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," tried to invent just such a creature by combining goldfish food with some kind of fluorescent dye. Alas, he succeeded instead in making the fishes' guts glow, much to the disgust of bar patrons of the black-light saturtaed "Purple Tree."
Somewhere in Savannah, a small brown bottle of poison is being considered, to quote Luther, er Berendt: "Sodium fluoroacetate...500 times more lethal than arsenic...the same stuff the Finns dumped down their wells when the Russians invaded in 1939. The water in those wells is still undrinkable."
And if you tire of roller coasters (yeah, right), you can head on down to Kent State University and see the Liquid Crystal Institute; the site of May 4, 1970, shootings during protest of Vietnam War; the (now decayed) Partially Buried Woodshed by Robert Smithson (famous earth artist who also created The Sprial Jetty in the Great Salt Lake). Other things to visit in Northeast Ohio: Polymer Institute in Akron Inventor's Hall of Fame in Akron Soapbox Derby in Akron Goodyear Airdock (where the blimps are hangared in Akron) Akron Art Museum exhibit of Willem de Kooning paintings Football Hall of Fame in Canton Oberlin College (where you'll find plenty of fellow geeks) Cleveland Indians (stadium) Cleveland Browns (stadium) Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management (and most recent Frank Gehry building -- looks like an explosion in an aluminum foil factory) which has the most up-to-date broadband and wireless system of any business school in the country Cleveland Orchestra at its summer home at the Blossom Center in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Cuyahoga Valley National Park (temporarily under repair from recent deluges) -- bike, hike, canoe, Cleveland Orchestra Cleveland Museum of Art (everything is wonderful) Youngstown -- Butler Institute of American Art (Snap the Whip, etc., plus a new media wing where the newest in high-tech art gets debuts The Amish, if you get tired of every thing else
Just so you know, there is no Palmo Way in Palm Beach. There may be one in North Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, South Palm Beach or Lake Worth, but not in Palm Beach itself, which is a 5-mile-long by one-mile-wide island with street names that have been unchanged for the last 50 years or more.
Perhaps the reason so many women are turned off by 3D games is that so many of them are so poorly drawn, designed and conceived. Who wants to play a game where every move seems to take an eternity to execute? and where every time you make a mistake, you have to start from scratch? Borrrrriiiinnnnggg, a useless investment in otherwise irrelevant hardware, and all in all a waste of time. Did you ever wonder why girls don't like these games? They are rigidly structured, unaccepting of alternate outcomes and generally oriented to those who accede to hierarchical social structures. Also, most of the games currently on the market buy into the macho-man, buxom-babe stereotypes that little boys seem to love, but girls quickly dismiss as just plain silly.
My father's side of the family is a particularly long-memoried lot. It was not unusual for us to hear stories of the memories they had going back to when they were infants or toddlers. My own first memory goes back to the time before I learned to walk. I'm wearing diapers sitting in the grass in the side yard at my grandparents' house in North Carolina. My cousin is playing with something, and I want to see what it is. He puts it down, and begins to play with something else. I pick up what he's put down. It's an old bone. Suddenly, he's screaming because he wants the bone back. He's pointing at me and really throwing a fit. I'm not sure if I said "he didn't want it any more," or thought it, but I remember thinking, he's so selfish, doesn't he know how to share? Of course, I was made to give the bone back to him, whereupon, he quickly threw it down. There are snapshots of this event in the family album, but I'm the only one who remembers the details. I began asking my mother at about age 5 if she didn't recall the event, but she never could. I asked my cousin's mother (my father's sister), and she somewhat recalled what happened, but no one besides me recalls the specifics of that first fracas.
...I still think Tolkein was a better storyteller than Lucas. Well Double Duh... Tolkien cornered the hero myth market before Joseph Campbell (much less Lucas) could even spell Osiris, Odysseus, Frodo or Anakin Skywalker.
Anonymous, do you like apples? Well, aren't you just fine. An illiterate half-assed comment to some very good points. I happen to agree with Ian on all counts, and would also much rather have the original version of that book than the saccharine, googoogaga 1999 version that was all hype and techno-belch. It might as well have been all-cartoon instead of just half. Of course then they couldn't have shopped it as an adult movie, instead of the "suitable for immature audiences" version we were served. Howdya like them apples?
The Republican party is not "traditionally" pro-business, it's pro BIG business. And yes, put-the-money-in-my-pocket business. For that very reason during the Great Depression many small business owners went over to the Democrats (the one in 1929-1935, not 2000-02.) That was my grandfather's generation, and he and his friends often spoke of the Depression in terms of when the GOP turned its back on mom-and-pop businesses after their rich big-business buddies had raped the economy. That generation of small business people never trusted the GOP again. Funny that this should come up, for that Depression began with much the same cross-the-board, major institution wrong-doing, one hand washing the other, as is coming out of the Enron debacle. Of course, this is just the sort of thing the GOP hopes people soon forget, or better yet, fail to see the similarity between. Probably, given the short-term memory of most Americans, that's a reasonable hope. I'll be you'd be hard pressed to find 10 people out of 100 who remember what the "Checkers" incident was all about.
There's a real history among academics of finding meaning in grains of sand, etc., going back to Medieval scholasticism. Sounds like your guy fits right in. If you really want to lose your mind, read Robert (I, Claudius) Graves "The White Goddess." Then read his "King Jesus." Talk about endless connnections.
I guess I don't understand how you can get bad code if you're loading html-coded documents onto a site that has a final edit page, where you see the final coded text in WYSIWYG form and have a chance to fix any missing tags or other problems before hit the "post" button. I've been doing that for the past year, and using the final edit page, it's only a matter of moments to find a missing tag or a space where there shouldn't be one or a gif that should be a jpg, or even to reposition and/or resize a table or an image so it looks better on the site. My main problem has been that our site editor only recognizes an older html version, while the various html-formatting, editing programs out there are all way beyond that, meaning I have to redo some of the automatic coding, particularly the images/source code. Html coding is no biggie, actually. It's similar to the coding that was formerly used in newspaper newsrooms to format stories and images before computers. Most journalists over the age of 45 can do it.
Akron, OH, was one of the first places in the country to get cable modem, courtesy Time Warner. It also has one of the lowest cost-of-living rates in the country, thanks to all the rubber companies leaving. You must embrace cold, snowy, overcast winters, however, and lots of rain the rest of the year (in that Northeast Ohio is second only to Seattle). It's also Indians and Browns country, so be prepared.
This is true. When I learned Gregg, at the end of the course they made us turn in our books, so no one could teach the system outside of authorized classes.
I know Gregg shorthand (the silver anniversary version). I could teach it to you, but to really get any benefit out of it, you have to drill, i.e., memorize the symbols, then take down dictation at increasingly faster speeds. It really does no good to know shorthand if you're trying to remember the symbol as someone is talking.
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I smell a creationist in this blather...
If you think the Red Cross is just a bunch of do-gooders, then you don't know anyone who was ever employed by them. The pay is crappy, and they have practically no retirement policy, not to mention next to zero health insurance. I know because my cousin headed the local headquarters for years. When she retired, it was so long, been good to enslave ya. It figures, since the RC was started by socialites who never had to worry about such things. During WWI & II, you had to be recommended by a member before you were allowed to be a volunteer, and before they would accept you, they checked out your pedigree.
Know of what you speak.
Now who's going way out on a limb with a saw? Honey, you don't know half of what you're talking about, and the other half are just lies.
I hate to use a keyboard that requires a mouse. All that reaching for the mouse and repositioning on the keys gives me tendonitis, plus CTS. I've used an ALPS keyboard with a Glidepoint touchpad since 1990, and it's still the best I've ever tried. Sadly, they're no longer made. The only new touchpad keyboard I could find was an Adesso contour model, but the touchpad is positioned poorly, and it's clunky: you can't drag and drop groups of things like I can do so easily and adoitly with my old ALPS. I even bought an ADB-to-USB converter plug so I could use it with my new G5.
As we have seen time and again since 9/11, the only successes against high tech have been low tech, the lower they are, the more successful.
Yes, I have talked to Ansel Adams, when he visited Cleveland in the 1980s on the occasion of his retrospective. As the art critic for my paper (Akron Beacon Journal), I was privileged to talk to ask him a few questions. Ansel Adams, as you probably know, wrote several books on photography (The Camera, The Negative, The Print, The Zone System, etc.). I believe he would have seen digital photography as an interesting, but for his purposes, fairly beside-the-point "development." He had invested a huge amount of time and money buying up the last of the best high-silver-content paper, had huge stocks of the best black-and-white film (his trademark, if you recall was black-and-white images), and had a priceless collection of cameras and photographic equipment. He was also a classically trained pianist and practiced every day. Given this background and temperament, I don't think he would have used a digital camera professionally. He might have played around with one, but He wouldn't have shown any of the resulting images publicly. They simply could not have measured up to his innate sense of what an image should look like. Place any digital image next to a image printed classically from a negative, and the difference is astounding. All things equal (proper exposure, composition, printing), the image printed from a negative is far and away superior, every time.
Digital cameras are for people who don't want to invest the time and skill in learning how to take a proper photograph. It's all rather moot anyway, because with digital cameras, the end result depends not so much on the camera as on the printer and to find one that produces images that even come close to a traditional photographic print costs tens of thousands of dollars. I know, because there's another Adams photographer in Northeast Ohio -- Ian Adams -- who has recently told me he spent many thousands of dollars to get a printer that will equal the prints he gets from his traditional film photographs.
Bottom line: The best digital camera now in existance can't produce an image that comes within shouting distance of Ansel's worst picture. If you're looking to get that quality, you're looking at a money pit.
Those who read real books as opposed to computer manuals, may recall that Luther Driggers, John Berendt's frustrated inventor and poison-wielding "eccentric" from "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," tried to invent just such a creature by combining goldfish food with some kind of fluorescent dye. Alas, he succeeded instead in making the fishes' guts glow, much to the disgust of bar patrons of the black-light saturtaed "Purple Tree."
Somewhere in Savannah, a small brown bottle of poison is being considered, to quote Luther, er Berendt: "Sodium fluoroacetate...500 times more lethal than arsenic...the same stuff the Finns dumped down their wells when the Russians invaded in 1939. The water in those wells is still undrinkable."
And if you tire of roller coasters (yeah, right), you can head on down to Kent State University and see the Liquid Crystal Institute; the site of May 4, 1970, shootings during protest of Vietnam War; the (now decayed) Partially Buried Woodshed by Robert Smithson (famous earth artist who also created The Sprial Jetty in the Great Salt Lake). Other things to visit in Northeast Ohio:
Polymer Institute in Akron
Inventor's Hall of Fame in Akron
Soapbox Derby in Akron
Goodyear Airdock (where the blimps are hangared in Akron)
Akron Art Museum exhibit of Willem de Kooning paintings
Football Hall of Fame in Canton
Oberlin College (where you'll find plenty of fellow geeks)
Cleveland Indians (stadium)
Cleveland Browns (stadium)
Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management (and most recent Frank Gehry building -- looks like an explosion in an aluminum foil factory) which has the most up-to-date broadband and wireless system of any business school in the country
Cleveland Orchestra at its summer home at the Blossom Center in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Cuyahoga Valley National Park (temporarily under repair from recent deluges) -- bike, hike, canoe, Cleveland Orchestra
Cleveland Museum of Art (everything is wonderful)
Youngstown -- Butler Institute of American Art (Snap the Whip, etc., plus a new media wing where the newest in high-tech art gets debuts
The Amish, if you get tired of every thing else
Just so you know, there is no Palmo Way in Palm Beach. There may be one in North Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, South Palm Beach or Lake Worth, but not in Palm Beach itself, which is a 5-mile-long by one-mile-wide island with street names that have been unchanged for the last 50 years or more.
Perhaps the reason so many women are turned off by 3D games is that so many of them are so poorly drawn, designed and conceived. Who wants to play a game where every move seems to take an eternity to execute? and where every time you make a mistake, you have to start from scratch? Borrrrriiiinnnnggg, a useless investment in otherwise irrelevant hardware, and all in all a waste of time. Did you ever wonder why girls don't like these games? They are rigidly structured, unaccepting of alternate outcomes and generally oriented to those who accede to hierarchical social structures. Also, most of the games currently on the market buy into the macho-man, buxom-babe stereotypes that little boys seem to love, but girls quickly dismiss as just plain silly.
My father's side of the family is a particularly long-memoried lot. It was not unusual for us to hear stories of the memories they had going back to when they were infants or toddlers. My own first memory goes back to the time before I learned to walk. I'm wearing diapers sitting in the grass in the side yard at my grandparents' house in North Carolina. My cousin is playing with something, and I want to see what it is. He puts it down, and begins to play with something else. I pick up what he's put down. It's an old bone. Suddenly, he's screaming because he wants the bone back. He's pointing at me and really throwing a fit. I'm not sure if I said "he didn't want it any more," or thought it, but I remember thinking, he's so selfish, doesn't he know how to share? Of course, I was made to give the bone back to him, whereupon, he quickly threw it down. There are snapshots of this event in the family album, but I'm the only one who remembers the details. I began asking my mother at about age 5 if she didn't recall the event, but she never could. I asked my cousin's mother (my father's sister), and she somewhat recalled what happened, but no one besides me recalls the specifics of that first fracas.
...I still think Tolkein was a better storyteller than Lucas.
Well Double Duh...
Tolkien cornered the hero myth market before Joseph Campbell (much less Lucas) could even spell Osiris, Odysseus, Frodo or Anakin Skywalker.
Lucas copied off of Campbell? Gee, I thought he just ripped off Frank Herbert. Oddly enough, I remember reading that Herbert thought so too.
Anonymous, do you like apples?
Well, aren't you just fine. An illiterate half-assed comment to some very good points. I happen to agree with Ian on all counts, and would also much rather have the original version of that book than the saccharine, googoogaga 1999 version that was all hype and techno-belch. It might as well have been all-cartoon instead of just half. Of course then they couldn't have shopped it as an adult movie, instead of the "suitable for immature audiences" version we were served.
Howdya like them apples?
The Republican party is not "traditionally" pro-business, it's pro BIG business. And yes, put-the-money-in-my-pocket business. For that very reason during the Great Depression many small business owners went over to the Democrats (the one in 1929-1935, not 2000-02.) That was my grandfather's generation, and he and his friends often spoke of the Depression in terms of when the GOP turned its back on mom-and-pop businesses after their rich big-business buddies had raped the economy. That generation of small business people never trusted the GOP again. Funny that this should come up, for that Depression began with much the same cross-the-board, major institution wrong-doing, one hand washing the other, as is coming out of the Enron debacle. Of course, this is just the sort of thing the GOP hopes people soon forget, or better yet, fail to see the similarity between. Probably, given the short-term memory of most Americans, that's a reasonable hope. I'll be you'd be hard pressed to find 10 people out of 100 who remember what the "Checkers" incident was all about.
There's a real history among academics of finding meaning in grains of sand, etc., going back to Medieval scholasticism. Sounds like your guy fits right in. If you really want to lose your mind, read Robert (I, Claudius) Graves "The White Goddess." Then read his "King Jesus." Talk about endless connnections.
I guess I don't understand how you can get bad code if you're loading html-coded documents onto a site that has a final edit page, where you see the final coded text in WYSIWYG form and have a chance to fix any missing tags or other problems before hit the "post" button. I've been doing that for the past year, and using the final edit page, it's only a matter of moments to find a missing tag or a space where there shouldn't be one or a gif that should be a jpg, or even to reposition and/or resize a table or an image so it looks better on the site. My main problem has been that our site editor only recognizes an older html version, while the various html-formatting, editing programs out there are all way beyond that, meaning I have to redo some of the automatic coding, particularly the images/source code. Html coding is no biggie, actually. It's similar to the coding that was formerly used in newspaper newsrooms to format stories and images before computers. Most journalists over the age of 45 can do it.
Gullibles Travels
So, okay, did Charleton Heston do the voiceover before or after he went in rehab?
Akron, OH, was one of the first places in the country to get cable modem, courtesy Time Warner. It also has one of the lowest cost-of-living rates in the country, thanks to all the rubber companies leaving. You must embrace cold, snowy, overcast winters, however, and lots of rain the rest of the year (in that Northeast Ohio is second only to Seattle). It's also Indians and Browns country, so be prepared.
This is true. When I learned Gregg, at the end of the course they made us turn in our books, so no one could teach the system outside of authorized classes.
I know Gregg shorthand (the silver anniversary version). I could teach it to you, but to really get any benefit out of it, you have to drill, i.e., memorize the symbols, then take down dictation at increasingly faster speeds. It really does no good to know shorthand if you're trying to remember the symbol as someone is talking.