Up-comming web presence - Page 2

Greg · 07-30-2007, 12:10 AM

Cool! It comes complete with missle-targeting data!

Greg · 07-30-2007, 01:09 AM

Here's my current abode, if you can figure out which blotch among the trees it might be.

The legend got cropped. It's from about 4700 feet up, same altitude as Rose's images.

The big light splotch west of my house on the lake is a humongous house that some rich guy is building right next to the boat ramp.

shorty943 · 07-30-2007, 11:28 AM

Oops. I did it again. I started another self-thread-jacking.

It is like a game we play, on the Australian Land Rover Owners site. Some one posts a g-earth photo, everybody else races to be the first with the correct answer. The only prize, is you then get to post the next mystery destination. Except the photo is edited to omit the lat and long. Makes it a little more difficult.

That g-earth shot of my place, was the peak of the drought. Strange, the satelite doesn't seem to have swung over our way for a while. Right now we have the best pasture crops coming up, I've seen in 15 years. Grass knee high, and still 4 or 5 months of growing season to go.

Any how, I fell through the roof here, after clicking on a link, while testing out my web site, in-house. So far, this little wizard driven application (pwk3.3) is going great guns for me. Getting photo galleries sorted is fun. Ahem.
Add some more stuff, test in Firefox\Seamonkey\and that blue E thing.
Click on the link I added for testing only purposes, and there squats me one.
I am at the door of my friends house. I like it.

Well, gotta go, I only dropped in to say, "it's working, it's working. shorty's getting a web site together."

Miros1 · 07-30-2007, 12:09 PM

Lol, the photo of my house is a little outdated too. The house immediately to the east of mine was torn down earlier this summer.

shorty943 · 07-30-2007, 01:36 PM

Do please try this.

http://one.fsphost.com/shorty943/website/index.htm

As yet I have no guestbook or such set up. Hell I don't even know if such a thing exists on this free webhosting site. I uploaded using the FTP facility in PWK3.3, to my account at fsphost, logged out, and pointed my browser at the start page, then hit the link to here.

Shorty's got his first tentative web presence.

It probably looks a little old fashioned at the moment, but, hey, I'm prototyping.

Zirconia Wolf · 07-30-2007, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by shorty943

Do please try this.

http://one.fsphost.com/shorty943/website/index.htm

Must...click on...pretty...link...

(ZW is instantly compeled to click on the shiney, pretty blue link. She's strange that way.)

Well it seems to work fine for me, anyway! (Looks real nice, btw!)

Since everyone else is posting pics of their abodes, here's my stab at it....

shorty943 · 07-30-2007, 02:26 PM

Thank you, dear girl.

You've got nice trees by the way.

Even when it is green here, the trees are not very big. An old tree, real tall, might reach a whopping 10 metres or 30 feet.
I live on an ancient tropical sea bed. An amazing amount of the local limestone is actually fossil. Ancient massive clam shells fossilised in limestone, crab shell, you name it. Damned stuff wrecks our ploughs.

But no nice big green trees.

Greg · 07-30-2007, 04:59 PM

Love the site, Shorty! So many adventures!

shorty943 · 07-31-2007, 09:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greg

Love the site, Shorty! So many adventures!

Thank's Greg. It gave me some grief today, during an update, but all is well on my hill again now.

And that is just a scratch at the surface. Most of that is around 20 or more years old. That little kid "Kenny", is Kenny Southerland, now around 25, and still one of the best blues harp players going. He was 10 when he played the Flinders University Jazz Festival for the first time.

Greg · 07-31-2007, 06:04 PM

Wow! Kenny Sutherland seems to be infected with some serious talent! Or perhaps great parents!

ZW, your house seems to be in a nice, almost bucolic setting.

shorty943 · 08-01-2007, 09:03 AM

Little Kenny travelled from home in Melbourne, on the train, over 600 miles across state borders, by himself to play that gig in Adelaide. Had minders of course.

Miros1 · 08-01-2007, 01:03 PM

Very different world. No way a 2007 American parent would let a 10 year old do that!

Miros1 · 08-01-2007, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Miros1

Lol, the photo of my house is a little outdated too. The house immediately to the east of mine was torn down earlier this summer.

The photo of my house is very outdated. The empty hospital building down the street has been gone for at least 3 years...

mikedelaney16 · 08-01-2007, 03:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Miros1

Very different world. No way a 2007 American parent would let a 10 year old do that!

Rephrased slightly:
Very different world. No way a 2007 western parent would be allowed let a 10 year old do that!

I'm not sure what that says about our society though.

shorty943 · 08-02-2007, 12:55 PM

Sadly yes.
I have memories of train journeys unaccompanied to my grandparents home.
8 years old, 300 miles, not quite to the state border. Big adventure none the less.
These days, there are adults too afraid to leave their door at night. Half the world seems terrified by everyone else's shadow. And there are some really bad people out there. But, I see the same "problem" we had 40 and more years ago in Vietnam. When everybody dresses alike, just who the hell is the bad guy.
Then there is that "boyz in the hood" problem, fool teenagers here are killing themselves in copy cat fashion.
Or those sad little "emo's", eyes painted black, oh God they depress me.

What ever happened to the good old days, when we used to slap together an old billy cart or soap box racer or what ever you wanted to call them, and go pick on a bloody suicidally big hill.
Remember the dismal effort of the galvanised iron canoe? The sticky tape over the bullet holes, to keep the water out, was never going to work.
What really freaked my poor mother, was the day we decided to try toboganning.
No snow, deep thick grass.
No tobogan, a length of bull nosed corrugated galzvanised iron sheeting. Looking back, no wonder poor mother freaked.

mikedelaney16 · 08-02-2007, 02:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shorty943

What ever happened to the good old days, when we used to slap together an old billy cart or soap box racer or what ever you wanted to call them, and go pick on a bloody suicidally big hill.

Suitable pram wheels and axles (Silvercross preferably) have been unavailable since the mid 1980s. I built or helped build more than a few of those.

We also used to raid the dump at the local Becton Dickinson plant for the 250ml syringes, they made great water pistols. The fact that some of them had needles seemed to worry our parents though.

There was also a tobogan, I think we planned to use the curved suspension from one of the Silvercross prams for that, but the only testing ground we had was a 12 foot mound of jelly cement. That project was aborted, as was the dug out canoe that wouldn't have cleared the bottom of the local river, er... trickle.

shorty943 · 08-02-2007, 02:06 PM

We grew up in the deep folds of the "Adelaide Hills". Plenty of big steep hills.
I remember the joy of overtaking a car, flying down the dirt road on my pushbike.
I also remember the feeling of realizing I wasn't going to get around the corner at the bottom, and the blackberries, and the rocks.
In those days, it was all mostly farm paddocks.
Summer time the creek at the bottom of the hill was more of a trickle.
A bit whiffy as well. The cattle watered there. Many, were the hosing downs we got, before being allowed back in the house.

mikedelaney16 · 08-02-2007, 03:03 PM

Just to provide some perspective:

The google tag for Loughlinstown is in the wrong place, it's actually where the one for Cabinteely should be.

And for a closer view:

shorty943 · 08-03-2007, 08:51 AM

1,2,4, I count 5, 5 golf courses haha, haha.
(shorty, poorly imitates the count from sesame street).

Let me guess, some where in Scotland?

Oh, bugger.

That's the Landlords Mack coming up the hill. I bet he wants help getting drunk again. Damn life is tough some times.
Well, somebody has to do it. Later.

07-30-2007, 12:10 AM	#22
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	Cool! It comes complete with missle-targeting data! __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

07-30-2007, 01:09 AM	#23
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	Here's my current abode, if you can figure out which blotch among the trees it might be. The legend got cropped. It's from about 4700 feet up, same altitude as Rose's images. The big light splotch west of my house on the lake is a humongous house that some rich guy is building right next to the boat ramp. __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

07-30-2007, 11:28 AM	#24
shorty943 Banned Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 805	Oops. I did it again. I started another self-thread-jacking. It is like a game we play, on the Australian Land Rover Owners site. Some one posts a g-earth photo, everybody else races to be the first with the correct answer. The only prize, is you then get to post the next mystery destination. Except the photo is edited to omit the lat and long. Makes it a little more difficult. That g-earth shot of my place, was the peak of the drought. Strange, the satelite doesn't seem to have swung over our way for a while. Right now we have the best pasture crops coming up, I've seen in 15 years. Grass knee high, and still 4 or 5 months of growing season to go. Any how, I fell through the roof here, after clicking on a link, while testing out my web site, in-house. So far, this little wizard driven application (pwk3.3) is going great guns for me. Getting photo galleries sorted is fun. Ahem. Add some more stuff, test in Firefox\Seamonkey\and that blue E thing. Click on the link I added for testing only purposes, and there squats me one. I am at the door of my friends house. I like it. Well, gotta go, I only dropped in to say, "it's working, it's working. shorty's getting a web site together." Last edited by shorty943 : 07-30-2007 at 11:35 AM.

07-30-2007, 04:59 PM	#29
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	Love the site, Shorty! So many adventures! __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

07-31-2007, 06:04 PM	#31
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	Wow! Kenny Sutherland seems to be infected with some serious talent! Or perhaps great parents! ZW, your house seems to be in a nice, almost bucolic setting. __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

07-29-2007, 06:46 PM	#21
Miros1 Goddess for Life Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY State Posts: 3,303

07-30-2007, 12:09 PM	#25
Miros1 Goddess for Life Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY State Posts: 3,303	Lol, the photo of my house is a little outdated too. The house immediately to the east of mine was torn down earlier this summer.

07-30-2007, 01:36 PM	#26
shorty943 Banned Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 805	Do please try this. http://one.fsphost.com/shorty943/website/index.htm As yet I have no guestbook or such set up. Hell I don't even know if such a thing exists on this free webhosting site. I uploaded using the FTP facility in PWK3.3, to my account at fsphost, logged out, and pointed my browser at the start page, then hit the link to here. Shorty's got his first tentative web presence. It probably looks a little old fashioned at the moment, but, hey, I'm prototyping.

07-30-2007, 02:26 PM	#28
shorty943 Banned Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 805	Thank you, dear girl. You've got nice trees by the way. Even when it is green here, the trees are not very big. An old tree, real tall, might reach a whopping 10 metres or 30 feet. I live on an ancient tropical sea bed. An amazing amount of the local limestone is actually fossil. Ancient massive clam shells fossilised in limestone, crab shell, you name it. Damned stuff wrecks our ploughs. But no nice big green trees.

08-01-2007, 09:03 AM	#32
shorty943 Banned Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 805	Little Kenny travelled from home in Melbourne, on the train, over 600 miles across state borders, by himself to play that gig in Adelaide. Had minders of course.

08-01-2007, 01:03 PM	#33
Miros1 Goddess for Life Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY State Posts: 3,303	Very different world. No way a 2007 American parent would let a 10 year old do that!

08-02-2007, 12:55 PM	#36
shorty943 Banned Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 805	Sadly yes. I have memories of train journeys unaccompanied to my grandparents home. 8 years old, 300 miles, not quite to the state border. Big adventure none the less. These days, there are adults too afraid to leave their door at night. Half the world seems terrified by everyone else's shadow. And there are some really bad people out there. But, I see the same "problem" we had 40 and more years ago in Vietnam. When everybody dresses alike, just who the hell is the bad guy. Then there is that "boyz in the hood" problem, fool teenagers here are killing themselves in copy cat fashion. Or those sad little "emo's", eyes painted black, oh God they depress me. What ever happened to the good old days, when we used to slap together an old billy cart or soap box racer or what ever you wanted to call them, and go pick on a bloody suicidally big hill. Remember the dismal effort of the galvanised iron canoe? The sticky tape over the bullet holes, to keep the water out, was never going to work. What really freaked my poor mother, was the day we decided to try toboganning. No snow, deep thick grass. No tobogan, a length of bull nosed corrugated galzvanised iron sheeting. Looking back, no wonder poor mother freaked.

08-02-2007, 02:06 PM	#38
shorty943 Banned Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 805	We grew up in the deep folds of the "Adelaide Hills". Plenty of big steep hills. I remember the joy of overtaking a car, flying down the dirt road on my pushbike. I also remember the feeling of realizing I wasn't going to get around the corner at the bottom, and the blackberries, and the rocks. In those days, it was all mostly farm paddocks. Summer time the creek at the bottom of the hill was more of a trickle. A bit whiffy as well. The cattle watered there. Many, were the hosing downs we got, before being allowed back in the house.

08-02-2007, 03:03 PM	#39
mikedelaney16 Solar Max Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 201	Just to provide some perspective: The google tag for Loughlinstown is in the wrong place, it's actually where the one for Cabinteely should be. And for a closer view:

08-03-2007, 08:51 AM	#40
shorty943 Banned Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 805	1,2,4, I count 5, 5 golf courses haha, haha. (shorty, poorly imitates the count from sesame street). Let me guess, some where in Scotland? Oh, bugger. That's the Landlords Mack coming up the hill. I bet he wants help getting drunk again. Damn life is tough some times. Well, somebody has to do it. Later.