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Got back into Twitter more or less - I've a friend who seems to want to log every footstep; I have trouble remembering to say anything, and of course WILL insist on limiting myself to things others will find interesting. But if anybody wants, I'm up as Calicokittycat. Even with a 14 member follower list, I do seem to get some oddities. The SF writer makes sense (adding sf reader followers, also judging by his profile he may be a filker), but I'm still trying to figure out the lawyer. Maybe a LASFan I don't happen to recognize the name and photo of?

Finally got tired of trying to figure out some of the more esoteric features of Dreamweaver and bought "Dreamweaver CS5.5, the missing manual" by David Sawyer McFarland, from O'Riley press's "missing manual"* series. Naturally enough, the one thing I wanted to know first wasn't in the index** but I learned a couple of things I didn't know from the introduction, which is usually promising. Now reading my way through. This may take awhile; I've owned thinner dictionaries.

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* Beats "for Dummies" I suppose. :)

** I checked the net and found it was another one for the What Were They Thinking department - apparently while you could edit your Personal Dictionary (where you put the words the spellchecker flags because it doesn't know what fanac is) in Dreamweaver 4, you can't in 5 and 5.5 even by manually editing a file since they seem to have found a better place to hide them. That's right, one accidental click and forevermore the spelling checker will not recognize one specific typo. Even Word knows better than THAT. Right Guys...***

*** I've sent Adobe feedback. About this and also suggesting an easily found feedback link on their website (I got in via Tech Support..eventually). Yes this gets you spam - it also gets you Useful Ideas from the people USING your product. Sigh...

Apologies folks, but I just had to delete 5 anonymous spams and for the time being, at least, I'm locking future comments to this post. If there's something you have to add send me a private message and I'll add it.

Paper cutout animation of what happens after a whale dies (no explosives involved).

Whale Fall (after life of a whale) from Sharon Shattuck on Vimeo.

Whilst checking references for a post elsewhere, I discovered the most thorough archive on the Steve Jackson Games Massacree In Four Part Harmony (I really do have to write that someday) I've ever seen, courtesy of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. At the time I spent a lot of time scooping up new info from WWIVnet and tossing it onto FIDOnet, via the BBS Nicolai ran at the time, StormGate Aerie. I just checked and I've still got my own archives; the EFF, however, has a lot more of them. I am particularly fond of the Judge's comments to the Secret Service guys as duly reported by Joe Abernathy of the Houston Chronicle. (See the third article down; this is the full trial reportage.)

And I quote:



My, the things our tax dollars get up to sometimes...

It has been said that all knowledge is found in SF fandom if you look far enough; well I don't know who's reading this but maybe the same goes for LJ. Anyway, I've got a problem in carpentry, sorta, that I apparently lack the proper keywords to dig anything out of the Internet in the way of getting it solved. Advice would be welcome.

When we bought the house, along with the regular house stuff was one back room that was actually some sort of prefab enclosure with three exterior walls (the fourth being the side of the house), windows and roof, resting directly on a concrete slab covered with carpet, and reached down what were presumably once the back yard steps (also carpeted) from a french door. This thing is constructed from an aluminum frame (still in good condition), and panels held in place by the frame such that near as I can tell it becomes necessary to disassemble the frame to change them. Therein lies the problem; on the two most exposed sides, some panels have been severely warped by sun and rain and need desperately to be replaced. But unless there's something immensely flexible in both directions available, I can't find a way to replace them myself. And when I go checking Google, none of the key words I can think of are finding me whoever it is builds and repairs this sort of thing. Not really carpentry, I don't WANT to replace the whole thing since most of it is still fine, not "internal modular walls" not... well, anyway see here for pictures of the room itself. I've had zero luck with handymen, and I don't need a home construction contractor. So what in the heck am I looking for? Anybody?