I have Sherman's desk that he left me right by the front window. Outside the front window hangs the hummingbird feeder. Inside the window is a bookcase and of course, a window sill. Scenario is set!
I sat down in the little chair at the little desk for just a moment. In that moment, the calico cat, Icarus, leapt on to the bookcase. At the same moment outside the window, the hummingbird arrived for his afternoon feeding.
Hummingbird and cat spotted each other at the same moment. Hummingbird came closer to the window totease get a better look at the cat. Icarus was plastered with front feet against the window while hummingbird dove and fluttered within inches of those deadly claws! I knew exactly where my camera was. It was on the front seat of the car, ready for action. But I was inside the house and the action was here!
And isn't that rather how life goes? Seems if I have the good shot in my eyesight, the camera is not near. If the camera is near, there is not a good shot! So, what does this say about my life? Could it be that I am missing a lot of good opportunities simply because I was not expecting them to arise and I did not appreciate them when they did? See the word tease up above? See the wordtease here? That is called a strikethrough and it is done with a process called HTML.
A couple of years back ebay had chat rooms and I spent a lot of time in one. There I met a man who was an editor for a newspaper in Chicago or some such place. (And he really was because I googled him and found his bio. See, on the internet, you can be anything you want, until someone googles you and you are reduced to being an everyday nobody.) Maybe Cleveland. Anyway, at the time I was interested in learning the art of HTML. I would ask him "How do I do the copyright sign?" and he would tell me. © See how easy that was? Or something like this:
So I hung out in that chat room until ebay finally did away with our little playroom, but I still have my HTML sheets and I may very well surprise you from time to time with my prowess in this area. Give me an HTML format and I can dazzle you, but do not be confused that this means I am a computer genius by any stretch of the imagination. Just something to do.
Alas, back in May of 2011 I noticed Dan was no longer hanging out. I emailed him. Nothing. I thought that odd and I started asking around the chat rooms. Finally I got an email from someone I did not know, sent outside of the chat rooms. It contained short note that said simply "Because you care." and a link to an obituary. And that was it. I do not know why this came up today, but it just goes to show how thinking about a hummingbird led to thinking about a computing process which in turn led to thinking about something silly that happened many years ago.
I guess this just goes to show that nothing ever really goes away. The more things change, the more they stay the same. And that, my friends, is my words of wisdom for the day!
I sat down in the little chair at the little desk for just a moment. In that moment, the calico cat, Icarus, leapt on to the bookcase. At the same moment outside the window, the hummingbird arrived for his afternoon feeding.
Hummingbird and cat spotted each other at the same moment. Hummingbird came closer to the window to
And isn't that rather how life goes? Seems if I have the good shot in my eyesight, the camera is not near. If the camera is near, there is not a good shot! So, what does this say about my life? Could it be that I am missing a lot of good opportunities simply because I was not expecting them to arise and I did not appreciate them when they did? See the word tease up above? See the word
A couple of years back ebay had chat rooms and I spent a lot of time in one. There I met a man who was an editor for a newspaper in Chicago or some such place. (And he really was because I googled him and found his bio. See, on the internet, you can be anything you want, until someone googles you and you are reduced to being an everyday nobody.) Maybe Cleveland. Anyway, at the time I was interested in learning the art of HTML. I would ask him "How do I do the copyright sign?" and he would tell me. © See how easy that was? Or something like this:
So I hung out in that chat room until ebay finally did away with our little playroom, but I still have my HTML sheets and I may very well surprise you from time to time with my prowess in this area. Give me an HTML format and I can dazzle you, but do not be confused that this means I am a computer genius by any stretch of the imagination. Just something to do.
Alas, back in May of 2011 I noticed Dan was no longer hanging out. I emailed him. Nothing. I thought that odd and I started asking around the chat rooms. Finally I got an email from someone I did not know, sent outside of the chat rooms. It contained short note that said simply "Because you care." and a link to an obituary. And that was it. I do not know why this came up today, but it just goes to show how thinking about a hummingbird led to thinking about a computing process which in turn led to thinking about something silly that happened many years ago.
I guess this just goes to show that nothing ever really goes away. The more things change, the more they stay the same. And that, my friends, is my words of wisdom for the day!
