Archive | 2004

Schnauzers and Howling Wolves

NOVA Online | Wild Wolves | What’s in a Howl Listen up! and let the dog(s) listen with you. Interesting: Grace and Charlie respond to the Lonesome Howl and the Wolf Pup howl by chiming in and singing along. However, play the Agressive Male (warning off others), and they look for a second, and lie [...]

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ScriptyGoddess and Pixelog.org

I’ve been fascinated with pixelog.org – such a beautiful, elegant, simple and generally delightful site. I found this link on scriptygoddess . One of the things that drove me to WordPress was the fact that it was PHP based. It leaves the doors wide open for you to do practically any kind of hack you [...]

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Sometimes I’m Oscar the Grouch on Mondays

Sometimes I’m Oscar the Grouch on Mondays

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IVAN – here we sit

Currently there is a tornado warning out there, it’s windy and raining. The glass doors on the fireplace blow open from time to time. We got the Auburn University central computers down last night at about 11 – the library servers were shut down before we left for the day at 5 pm. When this [...]

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Hurricane Watch – again

OK – it’s hurricane week again – First we watched Charley – and got some rain. And, we watched Frances developing while Charley was ravaging Central Florida. Then, we braced for Frances within a week or 10 days. (And we noticed Ivan’s strength building). We got lots of rain, not too terribly much wind… out [...]

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Weather in Auburn

Thought you might like to know what the weather is like here in east Alabama – we’re sitting in the projected path of Frances… this should change thru the weekend. Update: Frances seems to have slowed a bit, so we think we’ll see effects on Monday night and Tuesday now. At least the weather folks [...]

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learning to do drop shadows – css style

learning to do drop shadows – css style

So – I’m wandering around and came across an article on AListApart – cssdropshadows – and I thought I’d try it out. I really find this rather fun and interesting… and it works on different sized images without having to create the shadows in Photoshop or Fireworks.

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Family Reunion – the whole group

The photos are printed, and the group shots actually came out!

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On the Road Again – Family Reunion in Maine

“Pre-Reunion” – a day at Pine Point (Maine)… We had a lovely day at the beach on Saturday before the big Nicol-Vermette Family Reunion. Nice sun, good company, card games, novels, walks and a bit of body-surfting.

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Family Reunion

Family Reunion

The next day was the Official Reunion…. More pictures are coming, but these are the few that Louise (the real power behind the reunion) sent out almost immediately.

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