I use the MovableType blogging system, and the site design is pretty much hand-coded templates & PHP inserts. It's nothing particularly cutting edge. I regret to say, there are no magic wands. I'm an artist, not a programmer.
Back when I started Watermelon Punch, in 1999, it was more or less an on-line journal... not very different, but I wasn't using a blogging tool (content management system) back then, it was straight HTML, edited via a Unix shell connection, & later plain HTML in a txt editor w/ FTP.
I never bothered to insert the old archives into the new system, and they've long since been deleted off the site. Though I have them archived on a CD somewhere, and may someday get around to adding at least some of them, somehow. But that'll likely be sometime after I'm caught up to date with the Photo Album, comment spam is erradicated, and Hell freezes over. So don't hold your bated breath.
Because the IE browser is so buggy, I am unable to use it on my computer, so my site is designed in & for Firefox or Mozilla, and I really don't have much of a viable means of checking the site in IE. Sorry if this inconveniences anyone.
If you use Safari or Opera, feel free to contact me and let me know what's wrong with the site in those browsers.
On the other hand, if you use IE, I think you should be using Firefox anyway. heh.
But suit yourself.
Stuff I say... or like to say... or have said... or written...
May fortune favour the silly.
Even the appearance of impropriety can be damning.
Or, Even the appearance of impropriety can damn you.
The internet is not exactly a hot bed of mental health.
The only thing that's good out of a microwave is microwave popcorn.
If the person is wearing a rubber nose, orange wig, big shoes, & a ruffle, I think we can be fairly sure the person is, in fact, a clown.
On the internet, you can't break my bones with sticks and stones, so you can imagine how I feel about being called names.
I refuse to live life in 'The Arena' because I'm not a slave, so I shouldn't have to be a gladiator.
I don't need to hang onto resentments from my past dealings with him, because he has a seemingly endless supply of comments & behaviour to keep anyone pissed in the contemporary.
If a guy who wanted to marry me could afford a diamond, I'd rather he buy me a gift that's actually practical, or at least nice - I think diamonds are neither.
He's a few pups short of a dog sled.
Don't darken my door again; If I want the shade, I'll install an awning.
Photos of Chloe...
Photos of Chloe & baby cousin Madison...
Some of my favourite quotes from other people...
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? Mr. Bennett in Jane Austen's "Pride & Prejudice"
There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick. Douglas Adams
Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed the passage with you? Walt Whitman
Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Nietzsche
The internet... It's basically the mob, digitized. I don't mean the Mafia mob, I mean mobs of people with flaming torches, yelling out crazy stuff. Craig Ferguson
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands. Dirk Gently in Douglas Adams' "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul"
It's difficult to see the picture when you're inside the frame. Unknown
It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler
No person of real intelligence hesitates to say, "I don't know." Emily Post
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. Mahatma Gandhi
The greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth, persistant, persuasive, and unrealistic. John F. Kennedy
Don't wallow in the mud with pigs, you'll get dirty and the pigs will like it. Lorrie Ardoin
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference. Unknown
Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Harold Whitman
It is scarcely necessary to say that one whose tactless remarks ride rough-shod over the feelings of others is not welcomed by many. Emily Post
We have sometimes been so schooled in being polite that we sacrafice ourselves on the alter of courtesy. Anne Katherine
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship. Rainer Maria Rilke
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. Joseph Heller
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
He's planting seeds... A farmer planting the seeds of doubt. That's not cool. That's why I like the song "Home on the Range" - "where seldom is heard, a discouraging word..." Matt T.
There are few people whom I really love, and even fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more I am disatisfied with it. Lizzy Bennett in Jane Austen's "Pride & Prejudice"
March is NOT the beginning of Spring. March is a sort of transitional month, it's kind of a halfway house. It's a month God designed to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like. Garrison Keillor on "A Prairie Home Companion"
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. Douglas Adams
Paranoia is just having all the facts. William S. Burroughs
You can lead a horse to water, but that doesn't make him a duck. Unknown
Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed. Proverbs 12:19, the Bible
The man who conceived of 'Big Brother' never knew what was coming down the line. Thought his filthy creation was going to be watching us, but it is us who watch it. There's one in every living room. And the monstrous injustice of it is, we stare at it of our own free will. Richard E. Grant in "How to Get Ahead in Advertising"
I am responsible for everything except my responsibility. Jean-Paul Sartre
There's something so unwholesome about flying a kite at night. Marge on "The Simpsons"
I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy. Marie Curie
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. John Milton
I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research. Albert Einstein
I occasionally think, how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. Ronald Reagan
The point to remember, then, is that written words have permanency, and thoughts carelessly put on paper can, when not destroyed by accident, exist for hundreds of years. Emily Post
The telephone is designed to carry your voice at its natural pitch. It is not necessary to shout. In fact, raising your voice, especially during a long-distance call, will only distort it. Elizabeth L. Post
It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering. Judith Herman
The chronic calamity writers seem to wait until the skies are darkest and then, rushing to their desks, luxuriate in pouring out all their troubles and most especially their fears of trouble-to-come on paper to their friends. Emily Post
Never write a letter to anyone - no matter whom - that would embarrass you were you to see it in a newspaper above your signature. Emily Post
Anger in a letter carries with it the effect of solidified fury. The words spoken in reproof melt with the breath of the speaker once the cause is forgiven; the written words on the page fix them everlasting. Emily Post
Like the body is made up of different limbs and organs, all mortal creatures exist depending upon one another. Hindu Proverb
Oh-oh, I'm too late for the annual porketta fest at the Jessup Legion. Ed Foff
Plus the apparent fact that kinky sex in real life tends more often than not to be more Three Stooges than threesome. Bruce Arthurs
I'd like to feel sorry for you, but I wouldn't want to crowd the field. Unknown
He's trying to hold his world together with the cheeks of his ass. Jason (who credits someone he once knew)
'Watermelon Punch', a place for productive discussions about eye drops and nipples. Anonymous
Showing up here at the Total Eclipse on the day you were finally old enough to buy a legal beer was another rite of passage for young males in Eclipse Bay. By the same token, if you were still buying a lot of your beers here at age twenty-five or beyond, it was understood that you were never going to amount to much and that you were probably doomed to live out your life at the bottom of the town's social ladder. Jayne Ann Krentz
If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. Zaphod in Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. The Book in Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons. The Book in Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexeplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. The Book in Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Ford grabbed him by the lapels of his dressing gown and spoke to him as slowly and distinctly and patiently as if he were somebody from a telephone company accounts department. Douglas Adams "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box. Italian Proverb
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Winston Churchill
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. Unknown
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. Ann Landers
If you choose not to decide - you still have made a choice! Neil Peart
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Unknown
If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane. Unknown
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. E. F. Schumacher
Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement. Rita Mae Brown
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. Unknown
'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt. Samuel Johnson
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. Adlai Stevenson
This thread is getting nasty. It is like a buzzing hornet's nest with someone poking a stick in every once in a while. ubuntu
A bore is someone who not only deprives you of company, but robs you of solitude. Unknown
People can call you whatever they want, and there's nothing you can do about it. But you don't have to answer. Garrison Keillor
Why the word "boobs"? Well, I Googled "boobies", and what I came up with was NOT the history of the word.
John D.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Feinstein
She was mentally ill in a way that made you want to be mentally ill as well. Garrisson Keillor on "A Prairie Home Companion"
I am not available because I am playing a life that takes up the whole reality. John Dawe's AIM away message
And still more...
So, you were hoping for some kind of personal details, is that it? I bet you're hoping for something along the lines of what, according to etiquette, you're not supposed to discuss at the dinner table: sex, religion, & politics.
I realize not specifying these things, some people will ass-u-me all nature of wild stereotypes, but one thing I can assure everyone of, is that in all my years, I've never found a label that fit me like an Isotoner glove, so you'd be hard-pressed to find one.
But I'll say this much...
Politics?
I support the idea of equal rights under the law, and in society, for everyone, regardless of age, economic status, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc. etc.
Religion?
I'm not an atheist, but I'm also not religious.
If pressed, I identify myself as a Pantheist.... because of this story my pal Jason has told me several times over the years...
When Jason was leaving for the Vietnam War, he went into an office of a woman who was typing up his dog tags, hammering away on this typewriter designed to type on metal. She wore those type of spectacles on the end of her nose that had dark top rims & pointed out like cat eyes. She barked out her questions, such as "Name?", like a disgruntled waitress in a busy diner, taking an order. When she got to the part where she asked him, snapping her gum, "Religion?!", he replied, "Pantheist". To that she responded, "NO. You can only be Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or No Preference.". He re-stated that he was a Pantheist, so she just started hammering on the metal typewriter, saying, "No Preference".
Sex?
I'm not married, nor is there any specific person I'm not married to.
(Anything further is definitely none of your damn business you pervy busy-body!)
superficiality >>If the facade is what's important to you, all you wind up with is an illusion. Disillusionment is the gift of substance.
-- Chloe<<
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