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Tuesday Too # 18
1.) When was the last time your pet gave you a scare? What happened? If you’re not a “pet person”, how come?
Last night, I couldn’t find Elliott anywhere. We have a rule about closing the inner door before opening the outer door, because last week wild boy Elliott managed to get out of the house. He is not an out door cat. I say to myself, as I’m trying to go to sleep, “he’s hiding somewhere”. NOT, I get up and look all over the house again, and he’s nowhere. Even though I know he can’t be outside, I go out and start calling him. There he is outside again, but how? On the second floor of the house is the one and only air conditioner, the kind with little plastic slats on each side that slide up to the edge of the window frame. He broke right through one side, and somehow jumped or climbed down the ivy two floors without hurting himself. He’s used up two of his nine lives in the last two weeks, which I told him was totally unacceptable!
2.) How do you think the things that you think, in other words what do you think consciousness is?
That’s a pretty damn big question girl for a Tuesday! How should I know what it is, or where it resides? I think maybe you’ve had one hot flash too many! Ahaha, maybe therein lies a clue, it is certainly all consuming when one lives in it. For me that’s the key issue, living in it, rather than what it is. Trying to figure out what it is, is a little like trying to turn around quick enough to see yourself.
3.) Taking off from last Tuesday’s question # 3, check this out: Women’s Treaty, and do something about it. If you don’t live in the United States, check out the position of your country on the treaty. Thanks to Elaine for her post on the treaty.
Oaths Online Revisited
Huh?
If you’re new here see this, if not, you know what I’m talking about.
What’s the status?
I only managed to fulfill one third of my promise; in other words 4 paintings by the twenty third. However, I’m not disheartened by the slim number. In fact I’m starting a new one today.
But how come you only finished 4?
As my mother would say, “too much going on at the depot.” On monday I turned in my final 4 copies of the thesis for my readers to sign off on. Hmmm, again the number 4, now if I were a gambling girl I’d play that one. Maybe it’s 423, or 234, or whatever. Speaking of numerology, the car broke on Friday the 21st = summer solstice.
The car broke?
Specifically the adjustable bracket that holds the alternator in place broke. It’s still broke, because finding parts for a seventeen year old car takes time. How much time you might ask, they tell me they’ll have the part tomorrow. I sure hope so, because it’s hard for my friend Abbott to walk to PJ’s for happy hour. Abbott is the guy I told you about a while back with the heart problems. I know that heart pills and happy hour don’t mix, but try telling a guy who’s been drinking for 60 years that you shouldn’t drink anymore. NOT listening is what you get.
How did we get from oaths to happy hour?
I’ve made some of my best oaths at happy hour; that’s also where I try to come up with the Tuesday Too questions on Monday night. Yesterday Abbott gave me a good scare. Since the car is broken, Abbott started off to PJ’s on foot about 10 minutes ahead of me, because he walks so slowly. I followed the same route he normally takes, which BTW goes past Memorial Hospital. I did not see him on the way. When I arrived at PJ’s he wasn’t there. Everyone asks “where’s Abbott?” and I say, “I thought he be here already”. I order my drink, and after another 10 minutes goes by, I start to worry. I decide I’d better call his daughter who lives nearby. I’m thinking he’s either at the hospital, or he went to Rocky Run instead of PJ’s. I won’t go with him to Rocky Run, because Meg the bartender is what they call a “slim pourer”, meaning if you drink vodka, you might as well be paying 3 dollars for a glass of water! Ten more minutes go by, and Abbott’s daughter is driving around looking for him when he finally shows up. He says he was walking over here all that time. hmmm, I say, “are you sure you didn’t go to Rocky Run?” “Nope, just walking over here.” I say, “let me see that twenty dollar bill then.” He says, “how do you know I didn’t have two of them?” We laugh, and I’m relieved he’s okay, get his daughter on the phone and call off the alert. So how did you spend your Saturday evening?
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Mozilla Rocks
It’s light, it’s fast and it doesn’t crash!
Yeah, but what’s wrong with it?
You’re right it’s not perfect. Here I am editing my blog, and what I don’t have available are the HTML tags you can click on at the top of the editing “machine”. Otherwise it picks up all the things good ole Netscape 4.7 doesn’t, such as numbers on the comments and the archive listiing on the main page.
Where’s one of your new paintings?
Right here.
“There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.”
–Charles Baudelaire
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Tuesday Too # 17
1.) What’s your favorite browser? Why do you hate “the other one”?
These days I mostly use IE 5. I used to swear by Netscape that IE sucked, but after blogging for a while I’ve found that most blogs look better in IE. You might ask why, and you may have noticed that some of blogger.com’s pages won’t even come up in Netscape 4.7. In fact, this is not the fault of Netscape. It’s because the pages were not designed in such a way as to be browser compatible. The same thing holds true for blogs which look different/better in one than in the other. BTW, if you don’t care how it looks across browsers (Opera, AOL, Mozilla, etc.) you’re likely to lose some of your audience. One of the hardest things about designing web sites is making the site look the same in all/most browsers. The Testzone does a fairly good job of it, with two exceptions: (a) there is a thin red line that extends across the top in Netscape, but not IE, and (b) the archives are listed on the main blog page in IE, but I had to make a separate listing of archives page for Netscape 4.7 which I manually update via ftp every week. Netscape is more sluggish to load than IE, although both are way too fat. As of June 5th Mozilla build 1 is available for download. It’s light and getting good reviews; I’m going to check it out, and I’ll post on what I think of it.
2.) Are you fascinated by technology and the internet, or is it just a handy tool for you? How did you get involved in blogging?
In a word, yes. Yes meaning I’m fascinated, and have been since 98′. I’ve known about blogging for about 2 years; I stumbled across it while surfing for design/web development information. I bookmarked (Netscape holdover), forgot about it, and didn’t start blogging until late November of last year. No, getting into blogging had nothing to do with 9/11, but rather to do with taking a closer look at myself and others.
3.) What do you think about the alliance of conservative U.S. Christian organizations with Islamic governments (Iran, Libya, Iraq) “to halt the expansion of sexual political protections and rights of gays, women and children at United Nations conferences” (Washington Post article by Colum Lynch, June 17, 2002)?
I’m appalled by this for several reasons, but will hold my tongue and see what others have to say about it.
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I think I finished another painting; so it’s on to number 4. The one I just finished is two fairly large cowrie shells (same ones I used in the red pepper painting) on a gold reflective surface. I need to put it in the sun to dry, and look at it tomorrow with fresh eyes to see if I’m really finished. I’ll post one of the two latest on the web on Monday.
Hmmm… sounds like you’re behind schedule.
Yeah, quite a bit behind actually, but I’ve got some other things going on at the same time. I’ve heard from one of my two other readers on the thesis = “well done” and slight change to references format. One more reader to hear from, and then it’s really over! I can’t count the number of times I’ve thought it’s almost over, but this is really it, unless of course I’ve made some horrendous analyltical mistake that is chewed over at the last moment. Seem like the boat trip up north is slipping away = more and more I’m hearing, “well let’s just play it by ear”; however, will make it to Boston somehow this summer.
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Tuesday Too # 16
1.) The New York Times recently had an article by David Gallagher on the war bloggers (after 9/11 and mostly right-wingers) vs. techie bloggers or so called veteran bloggers. Do you think the very nature of blogging is revolutionary? NOTE: you need to create a user name and password to access the NYTs.
2.) Are labels (i.e. feminist, left or right) really important? What if the meanings change over time? Is there some particular label you’re proud to wear and why?
3.) Would you be willing to give up, or reassess something you strongly believe in because hard evidence suggests that you are totally wrong?
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.”
–Mark Twain