Being on a very fixed income (which hasn't been updated for Cost of Living since 2004) I agree with you Janet, but I'm going to find it somewhere because I've learned so much just in the relatively short time I've been here. It'll be a stretch, but I think i can do it. maybe I'll find someone who wants a new or revised web page - dat'll do it.
~Tom
I have just tried to mass-delete a few old messages. Clicking the "check all below" box puts checkmarks into each of the listed messages on that page, but clicking the Trash Can (and answering the faded-screen pop-up with YES), none of them went away. They still remain. I am reduced to deleting each one of them separately and getting that blacked-out screen every time. A massive PITA.
Is this by design, or a bug?
~Tom
A nice touch would be the ability to go to Billing and see when your current billing period ends.
~Tom
Hi, Sol. I just got another email concerning your "Show versus Tell" class. Every one of them including this one, reports "Not Authorized". If I'm not authorized, why am I getting them?
~Tom
I thought it was just me that thought even the great authors were slacking off. Some of the authors I read (W.E.B. Griffin, Stuart Woods, David Weber, and several others, have put out books, but the page-count is slowly going down. The fonts are slightly larger, and the margins are wider. This tells me either the author is getting tired (or old), or the publisher is trying to make a bigger dime. One author stands out, though, as not producing smaller books and that is Tom Clancy (and, now that he's passed away, Mark Greaney).
Maybe after producing a great amount of books, an author is deserving of a rest. I know that if I'd written 43 books, I'd be tired too.
~Tom
Once again the editing problem hit me. I was filling in a regular review and my keyboard began either missing strokes or giving me multiple strokes as I typed. I immediately went outside my browser and opened a text window to finish my review. No problems typing at all. Then I went back into the text box and tried again - same results: dropping various characters no matter how definitively (read HIT) the keys, they wouldn't register. It is not my keyboard, it is inside an editing box.~Tommmm
(Case in point - this post. My "M" key gave me multiple "m's" and the "Return" key failed.)
The monkey puzzle tree, what a coincidence! I've seen The Enchanted Cottage too, and it is a real tearjerker.
~Tom
on this subject of logos, brand names, etc. I am going to blow up Disneyland in California, but way in the future, in the year 3976 or there about.
I'm thinking of avoiding this problem of writing negatively about Disneyland, by using Wally World (of National Lampoon movie fame), or some other theme park name.
However, I see the action at that theme park and have constructed the plot and characters with constant references to it (novel is 75% complete in revision).
Who knows, maybe the novel will be a bestseller and I wonder about trashing Disneyland in territorial gang wars of the future and legal problems associated with maligning such an institution.
The novel, Aphrodite's Rainbow, I will be offering for free on Amazon, since it has previously been published (in India, on line, in serial installments— what a joke that was), so I'll receive no money for it.
Max:
In Clancy's novel Rainbow Six, he had a terrorist attack at Euro Disney, with plenty of shooting and hostage-taking. I don't know what arrangements (if any) he had with Disney, but shouldn't this set a precedent?
~Tom
Resurrecting this thread, TCM just presented a movie I should have included in my first post: "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (1947). Gad! How could I have forgotten that one? I haven't the foggiest how many times I've seen it. Wonderful movie.
~Tom
Wonderful, JP!
Just goes to show what a little research will do. I wrote my poem about the very first thing that popped into my head.
~Tom
On a regular review, if you inadvertently type a carriage return/ENTER in the subject field, the entire review is posted, empty or not.
This is probably not expected by the user nor intended by the web designer.
That has happened to me too. AND I lost the points because I didn't give enough words.
~Tom
Mikira:
After reading the "Use in fiction" paragraph, I would agree with you. I'll leave the logo on the sketch and if we hear negatively from nynative1 I can scrub it off. I am sure that you mentioning that the shuttles were built by Volkswagen would be a fair use and, as you say, it gives them something to shoot for in the coming centuries.
~Tom
I have a question concerning the use of a logo and a name. Mikira and I were chatting about her novel, and I made a sketch of what her planetary shuttles aboard Aurora might look like. Playfully, I added a "VW" symbol at the front of it. We both now think that it is a cute 'Easter Egg' (if the pictures ever get published), but I am wondering if I would have to get permission to use that symbol. One sees it all the time on Internet memes and such, but that is usually with the car attached to it. As far as I know, Volkswagen AG doesn't make space shuttles. She said she might mention in the story that Volkswagen made the shuttles.
Has anyone else run across this situation? If so, how did you solve it?
~Tom
Thanks, Dirk.
I use Pale Moon, which is a derivative of Firefox, and the add-on called Tab Mix Plus. I've setup the tabs so that if I leave a page, it will log me out. When that happens, I have to log back in to TNBW. True, the review is still there, but it is still a pain and can be avoided.
~Tom
This is really getting out of hand, Sol. In three separate instances today, I was in the middle of an in-line review and blew myself out of the water, sending the browser back to the last page I visited (and worse, on one occasion), by not having the cursor put into the comment block when you highlight text to comment upon.
Having to explicitly click the cursor into the box is really a pain. #2 pain is not being able to float the box to the side so I can see text beyond what I'm commenting on.
~Tom
I have a service-related hearing loss in both ears (Morse code and static crashes for 20 years will do that). So, when I get ready to do some serious writing, I take my hearing aids out and go for it! Music, at that point, does not compute. Sometimes, to put me into the mood, I listen to classical or very old rock (circa 1950's) records on my turntable. Ear buds cannot compete with suitcase-sized speaker enclosures and a recliner between them.
~Tom
There it goes again. My review, when I posted it, told me I'd written 61 words. When I went back to look at the response, my post was listed at 57 words. Why the disparity?
~Tom
Strange as it may seem, I'd like to meet someone who was on 'the other side' of my struggle against the Soviet Union while I was in the navy. Someone who was in the trenches, running the same kind of gear against me and my country. Someone of equal rank with whom I could hold a frank discussion of just how effective we really were - or thought we were. It may seem rather pedestrian, but I'd really like to know that my 20 years was worth it.
~Tom
mmm yes. I'd fold everything except connections content, only peeking in the rest from time to time
Taking that a tiny bit further, once folded, have to title bar change color to indicate new entries.
~Tom
Would getting a small bonus of points for reviewing a non-connection work? Or reviewing a new writer if s/he is within, say, two months of joining?
~Tom
Yup. That's a good point, Sol. I didn't think of it that way.
~Tom
It looks good, Sol. My personal preference would be to have writing from my connections at the top. When I have the time (if ever), I go through the other lists for new authors to read from. Not sure how others feel about the order of the lists.
Thanks.
Dirk
I also prefer to have Connections at the top. Those are the ones I'm most interested in. New entries (not of my connections) could be next.
~Tom
Sol, do you know if there is a keystroke combination that jumps to the bottom of a web page?
Thanks
Dirk
You can also just hit the space bar (in Firefox/Pale Moon) anyway. That zips you down to the bottom.
Control-End and Control-Home work also.
~Tom
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As for English, I am still ignorant, I know more about the splitting of an atom than I do an infinitive and wouldn't know a dangling participle if it bit me on the ass.
Boy, do I identify with that! I'm the same way. I do know what "looks good" and "sounds good" to me, and that's what gets put down. My own personal albatross is writing passively and not actively. I struggle, but I sometimes fail.
~Tom
Me too, Karen. I type at the speed of light (around 120-130wpm) and since I'm a touch-typist I am looking at the screen. Word takes quite a while to catch up to where I am, so I sometimes miss the tiny red underline. But, spell check doesn't help me that much either - I need a reliable checker for 'passive voice'.
The toughest word I always misspelled was "restaurant".
~Tom
