[lace-chat] Arthritis/capsicum
Noelene wrote: Jean, with all the pain you must be suffering, It's not as bad as I obviously made it sound. Apart from the times when pain just arrives (I tend to go to sleep then and it only happens half a dozen times in a year), most of my pain is self-inflicted. I know I need to use a bobbin winder and the conseqiences of not doing so, but still do wind some by hand. I dare not then complain to DH about painful,swollen fingers fingers. Each week I go into Poole and walk the length of the market and back (200 yards), then go round the supermarket to get the week's shopping - I dare not complain to DH about the pain in my feet, knees and hips, who just says Serves you right. Good excuse to just make lace the next day. I don't use a stick or any other walking aid because I'm better balanced without, and when you don't wear a bandage, people can't see there's anything wrong with you. Neither can I, so I can still pretend and suffer the consequences afterwards - which are always worth it. Most of my life has been organised so that what I do doesn't result in pain, but there are still some things that I'm going to do anyway (like Havant this year and NEC last year), especially as my brain thinks I'm 26 - my body knows it's 61, but brain and body haven't told each other how old they think they are. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: I'm all chuffed!
At 09:48 PM 7/21/04 -0700, Linda wrote: Now all I have to do is graduate to Front Page or something (any suggestions - instructions?) and make a real site. With pages that interact more and thumbnails that super-size and everything! By far the easiest way to maintain a Web page is by hand -- with a web-writing program, you have to go around robin hood's barn trying to trick it into doing what you want, or something at least acceptable, well, I'll just change my mind as to what I can accept. And automatic programs write such sloppy, badly-formatted code that nothing human can read it, so you can't go in and hand-correct the capitalization in a broken link. (And the capitalization is wrong because the HTML-writing program corrected the capitals in the filespec you typed into it's make link field.) Everything you need to know can be written on one letter-sized sheet of paper. _HTML for the World Wide Web_ has a good introduction; I think the author is Elizabeth Castro. Thumbnails, by the way, are easy: you just store two image files: Load the file you want to use into a graphics-editor such as L-View and resize it. It's probably a good idea to select a standard width and let the height be what it will -- but then I put my thumbnails one under the other; if you line them up side by side, it would be better to choose a standard height and let the width be what it will. Or you could crop them to a standard shape before resizing. Write down the new size, so you can include it in the link. Pages load a *lot* faster if the browser knows how much space to allow for the illos before it loads them. Now you write a link to your big picture. It will look something like this: a href=FLY.HTM img SRC=RUFFGIF/F.GIF ALT=F height=30 width=15ly-Stitch Alphabet/a: nbsp; A quick way to write on textiles with a needle The stuff between the first pair of angle brackets tells the browser what file to load when the link is clicked, in this case a file named FLY.HTM. The stuff between this and the /a is the link that you click on. The a in the first set of angle brackets says that you are starting a link, the /a says that you are finished. (Most codes make more sense than a for start link.) The next pair of angle brackets tell the browser to put an image on the page. Since it is between a and /a, it will be marked as a link. img SRC= is short for Image Source is. This code says I want an image here, and here is where you get it. RUFFGIF is the name of the subdirectory where the image is. F.GIF is the name I gave to my thumbnail. (I cropped an image from FLY.HTM down to the letter F, then reduced it to thumbnail size.) ALT=F tells the browser that if for some reason it can't load the image, it is to put the text F in the empty frame. It is extremely rude to use an image without providing alternate text, even if the image is purely ornamental and doesn't convey information -- without the alt text, the reader who can't get the image doesn't *know* that the image doesn't change the meaning of the words he can see. Here, the alt text is very important, because I've used the image as the first letter in the first word of my description of what you'll get if you click the link. height=30 width=15 tells the browser how much space to reserve for the image, which allows it to display the text after the image while the image is still loading. ly-Stitch Alphabet -- words which will also be part of the link. (Either the words or the image could be omitted and still make a valid link. Eliminate both, and there is nothing to click.) When combined with the image, this says Fly-Stitch Alphabet -- the name of the page you'll get when you click on the link. : nbsp; A quick way to write on textiles with a needle -- the text continues. In this case, it's a description of the file you'll get if you click the link. nbsp; codes a non-breaking space. To allow you to format your source code for easy reading, browsers put only one space between words, no matter how many spaces and line breaks you may type. To force it to put two spaces after the colon, I inserted a non-breaking space, which, as far as the browser is concerned, a letter. The intended use of nbsp; is to prevent a phrase from being divided at the end of a line, but it's used mostly for making browsers notice white space. How can I remember all this? I don't! When I want to insert a link, I find a similar link that's already working, copy it, paste it into the new location, and edit it. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/LINKS/KITTEN.HTM west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we aren't supposed to get any more thunderstorms for a while. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Arthritis/capsicum
Jean Nathan wrote: especially as my brain thinks I'm 26 - my body knows it's 61 This reminded me of my mum. One year when they had spent a long vacation with me and we had toured around the east coast of the U.S. she asked me what I was going to do the next year. I said we hadn't decided, but it might be a trip home to UK or a trip to the Grand Canyon. Mum looked at me and said, Are you serious about the Grand Canyon. That's one of the places in the whole world that I've always wanted to go to. When I asked her why she didn't go, and to the other places that were on her list, she said: Oh, the mind is quite willing, but the it seems to forget that the body isn't able. (She was in her mid-late 70's at the time.) She and my dad were back here in Canada the next year for their grand- daughter's wedding, and we took a trip to Arizona and the Grand Canyon, and we all loved it. Malvary in Ottawa where it is a dark, cool, windy morning To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] SP Thanks
To my secret pal somewhere in the USA, I had a wonderful suprise today when my parcel arrived, it is such a gloomy day outside that I was starting to feel gloomy myself. The basket is wonderful. I haven't seen one like it before so it has to be used and on display at the same time! I already have a plan for one of the threads you sent and it looks like you husband has been pyrographing again! The earrings are georgeous. They were a suprise hidden away in the pretty box. Thanks for all the gifts. I have to mention though...I finally have a spider and web covered cloth for my lace! (Now I feel like I belong to arachne), I got so excited when I saw it in my parcel. Thanks again Janette (in gloomy cold and hopefully wet Canberra) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Fwd: modal
On returning home, I was greeted by the following message from my son, sent a couple of days earlier (while I was in internet-limbo): From: Danek Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 19, 2004 0:32:44 EDT To: Tamara Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: modal I was out buying some clothes the other day (yes, this is your son), and I ran into something that was 70% modal, 30% something else (cotton or silk, I think). What on earth is modal? I tried looking it up online, but couldn't get any good information. The nearest I could tell, it's a brand of rayon. You know anything about it? I've only heard the term (used this way) once before - in Prague, in reference to lacemaking thread - and artificial fiber was as close as I could figure out what it was. Lace-chat to the rescue, please? --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Fwd: modal
Quick Google revealed: Modal Fabric Modal is currently called the new wonder fabric. Made from beech wood chips, this fabric combines the benefits of natural fiber and the fantastically soft feel of modern microforms. It is a new kind of natural fabric developed by Austrian Lenzing Company. With the hygroscopicity of cotton and the luster of silk, it remains soft and lustrous after several washes. Jersey and other fabrics made of modal, modal/cotton, modal/spandex, modal/lycra are our mature and regular products. You may either order our recommended modal fabrics or we may manufacture as per your samples and specifications See http://www.texresource.com/prod_modal.htm Sue Babbs To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Fwd: modal
On Jul 23, 2004, at 23:54, Sue Babbs wrote: Quick Google revealed: Modal Fabric Modal is currently called the new wonder fabric. Made from beech wood chips, this fabric combines the benefits of natural fiber and the fantastically soft feel of modern microforms. Etc. Many thanks, Sue; I knew *someone* on this list would know something about it, or else know how to find the info... :) I've forwarded your message to my son, with an acerbic comment; you'd have thought that a techno-geek would know how to use Google... He was right, though, in one respect: it does sound like a version of rayon, except that it's made from a *specific* tree (for all I know, beech might have been used in rayon sometimes, also). And, since my body refuses to react to rayon (and, I'm guessing, to modal) the same way it does to wool, linen, cotton and silk (ie without any ill effects), then, to me, it's still synthetic, not natural at all... :) --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
