What Fires You Up?

9/05/2002

 

Thanks jespah! I will let my bro know 2Day! hehehehhe! Well, off to the airport in less than 1 hour - whee! * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 9/05/2002 05:26:00 AM

 

The NY Giants set the record for most consecutive wins.

Jespah 9/05/2002 05:17:00 AM

9/04/2002

 

The all time record is 21, set by the 1935 Cubs. <-- Um, nope. The record is 26, made in 1916 by, um, someone. I was just reading about this. PS Congrats on the new job, your cobaltness! :-D

Jespah 9/04/2002 10:16:00 AM

9/03/2002

 

Different strokes for different - Here's a bit from an email one of my brother's sent today: I am excited about the Oakland A's baseball team. They have won 19 in a row. Tomorrow they play again, at 9:05 pm, so I will be up late trying to get streaming audio off the Oaklnand web site. The all time record is 21, set by the 1935 Cubs, when Dad was 10. Mine? $45.00 = 5 pairs of shoes, 1 skirt, 1 vest, 2 knit tops, 2 camisoles, 1 linen shirt: wowee ka zowie! Thrift shops and consignment stores are very rewarding for those who check them out. The camisoles and 1 Eddie Bauer linen shirt were never worn! The shoes gave me three pair for summertime, which around here I can get away with about 9 months of the year, and nice shoes for the fall. I am no Imelda Marcos, but it is great to have a variety of shoes to go with different outfits. Since I am to be a working woman once more, time is of the essence in preparation. All for now, hope you got a chuckle from this post! * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 9/03/2002 05:48:00 PM

9/01/2002

 

Thomas Eakins: A delightful segment of the CBS Sunday Morning show today featured one of the best artists in American history. Online, there are many links to his painting. The one linked to features the most paintings I could find, and in a webshots community where you can click on one of many albums of his work and when you click on a single painting, the image will nicely enlarge for your screen view. In particular, take a look at the two famous surgery paintings, (the later surgery painting was a commission),the portraits in his later years, and then the sculling and maritime paintings of his youth. In one of the sculling paintings, Max Schmitt in the Single Scull,he is the second man off in the next craft. The Concert Singerfeatures a famed opera star of the day, singing a single word that this artist hand carved in musical notation on the frame! His life is fascinating, and he knew himself to be a good artist "ahead of his time", for he was considered way beyond the realm of respectability in subject matter and technique. He was also one of the first photographers of the day to study "stop-action" filming and experiment in motion studies. Enjoy!

BJ 9/01/2002 03:56:00 PM

 

Victory on a small, humble scale! I finally figured out how to make some changes to the tables that make up the text boxes within this blog and was also able to figure out how to get a lavender color in the background of the blog description. Reading code is exactly what is sounds like: html code is not far off from being able to read physics formulae. I really must recommend the O'Reilly books for helping me along in the Web Design in a Nutshell book by Jennifer Niederst. I heard from dlowan this morning and she is trying to break her way on into this blog, too. I am hoping that she makes it in - and I doo appreciate the efforts of our Fired Up Folks! * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 9/01/2002 11:11:00 AM

 

Sunday, September 1 in the late morning finds cobalt playing around with colors within the template for this blog. I copied the template from a standard one that blogger offers and then started substituting new color numbers in hexidecimal codes. So, at this time, on a suggestions from morganwood, I believe I made it a bit easier to read. Please write to me if you are not seeing an improvement in the contrast between the background of the posts and the text color for the posts. I heard that previously there was a light gray look in the background of the posts and it was hard to read.

BJ 9/01/2002 09:51:00 AM