Now a saltbox out my window

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Although, I can't think of a good name for it!

That was a delight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Texas88]

Tell him to look at Yahoo's SiteBuilder... it is sooo easy to use. You have to use Yahoo hosting with it, which is about $11 or $12 a month.. but the program is dynamite... makes the higher hosting cost a drop in the bucket.

Humm, not to throw water on this, but my business is website hosting, design, and administration for over 65 websites on my own leased server, and 90% of this is for Ranches, Farms, hunting and recreational property for Brokers. Been doing this for the last 10 years. No sitebuilders, Frontpage, dreamweaver or WYSIWYG here, all HTML/PHP with database.
I can tie this altogether with them in a heart beat. Depends on the clients dollars? I have a total of 1 million hits a week on my sites total.
If my neighbor decides to do it alone, and his wife is my bookkeeper, like how lucky can you get??

[Rev.Vassago]

HTML is fun. :wink: Sitebuilders are cheating.

[Texas88]

HTML is fun. :wink: Sitebuilders are cheating.

I call them wannabe webmasters.

I have kids coming to me to learn, but as soon as they find out they can get a course in WebPage design, USING Frontpage or Dreamweaver, there gone to the point and click programs. Jezzzz....

If I can learn it at 69, you would think a younger person would want to learn?

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Tell him to look at Yahoo's SiteBuilder... it is sooo easy to use. You have to use Yahoo hosting with it, which is about $11 or $12 a month.. but the program is dynamite... makes the higher hosting cost a drop in the bucket.

Humm, not to throw water on this, but my business is website hosting, design, and administration for over 65 websites on my own leased server, and 90% of this is for Ranches, Farms, hunting and recreational property for Brokers. Been doing this for the last 10 years. No sitebuilders, Frontpage, dreamweaver or WYSIWYG here, all HTML/PHP with database.
I can tie this altogether with them in a heart beat. Depends on the clients dollars? I have a total of 1 million hits a week on my sites total.
If my neighbor decides to do it alone, and his wife is my bookkeeper, like how lucky can you get??

Well, you get a lot more hits than I do.

I get around 160 to 200 a day.

I have the php... but I don't use it.

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HTML is fun. :wink: Sitebuilders are cheating.

Well, here's the thing. I have this stupid brain damage.

For instance, I got a neat little oil filled radiator that would turn on and off by itself in relation to settings... but I could not set it.

I can't follow directions anymore when they aren't absolutely linear. If someone tells me to do one thing and then another, I'm fine. I can do it. But when I had to coordinate directions from three different boxes... it was hopeless.

I think this problem of mine is why when the one builder guy kept telling me, day after day, that the boards would all do down really quickly, I believed him... though none were actually going down. On the third day, after I paid him $476 for laying 7 boards... I began to see the bigger picture.

I used to think really quickly, and completely.

Okay, so I tried the html programs... and I belonged to some webmaster forums. But I can't do it. I could, I suppose, if I wanted to devote several months to it... but there are other things I'd rather do with that time.

My point is that anyone can use SiteBuilder, and for some people it would be the difference between being able to do a site, and not.

While I was sick I couldn't have afforded to have anyone do a site for me. I wasn't paying my mortgage, and I was living on $11 a week, not counting my web hosting.

[Rev.Vassago]

Some people just pick up on it easier than others. I think it takes an analytical mind to really "get" coding. I taught myself by reverse-engineering other websites.

But, then again, I taught myself how to use and program in Excel in about 2 hours, without a manual. :wink: That led to me getting a job at a large bank, handling all the transactions of all their branches. That stuff has always come fairly easy for me.

But I must be getting old, because some of the new technology coming out scares me. I still have no idea what Bluetooth is.

[Consider]

Some people just pick up on it easier than others. I think it takes an analytical mind to really "get" coding. I taught myself by reverse-engineering other websites.

But, then again, I taught myself how to use and program in Excel in about 2 hours, without a manual. :wink: That led to me getting a job at a large bank, handling all the transactions of all their branches. That stuff has always come fairly easy for me.

But I must be getting old, because some of the new technology coming out scares me. I still have no idea what Bluetooth is.

Wow, I am very impressed. VERY.

When I got my first job out of university, at the Telephone Company in Green Bay, they gave us a vocabulary test, and I got a higher amount right than anyone ever had before.

When I ended up hating how I had to govern the operators, but could take two hour lunches myself, on the company, they happened to ask me one day if I liked my job, and I said, no, I hated it. Well, they fired me and gave me a month's severance pay, on which I moved here to Santa Fe.

After that, I heard from friends who remained, they never hired anyone again who did that well on the test.

My mind was my most favorite part of me. I just loved it.

So when I hear you say that things take you a little longer, I want to tell you to PLEASE get Methylcobalamin if you have ridges on your fingernails, no moons, or any other of the low B12 symptoms. It is just SO important for nerve health. (and our brains)

But the other thing is to learn new things. Studies have shown that people who learn new things have more healthy, active, flexible minds than people who stick with the same things, even if those things are very complicated and take a lot of intelligence to start.

[Consider]

I still have no idea what Bluetooth is.

I think Bluetooth is what lets me take my laptop outside. (if my battery weren't sort of worn out.)

[Texas88]

Some people just pick up on it easier than others. I think it takes an analytical mind to really "get" coding. I taught myself by reverse-engineering other websites.

But, then again, I taught myself how to use and program in Excel in about 2 hours, without a manual. :wink: That led to me getting a job at a large bank, handling all the transactions of all their branches. That stuff has always come fairly easy for me.

But I must be getting old, because some of the new technology coming out scares me. I still have no idea what Bluetooth is.

Thats a good way to learn HTML, take someone elses page and see how it's done, but make sure it's not done with a sitebulder, then your in a world of hurt Make changes, and what each thing does. Can do that with most any cgi, php, etc. first started made a lot of hair pulling, but stuck with it......
Still have php issues sometimes, put a comma in the wrong place and crash..

But the other thing is to learn new things. Studies have shown that people who learn new things have more healthy, active, flexible minds than people who stick with the same things, even if those things are very complicated and take a lot of intelligence to start.

Your right on there, always learning something new everyday.... But has downside to, all my retired friends say I speak a different language now and hard to carry on a conversion with me???? 8)

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But the other thing is to learn new things. Studies have shown that people who learn new things have more healthy, active, flexible minds than people who stick with the same things, even if those things are very complicated and take a lot of intelligence to start.

Your right on there, always learning something new everyday.... But has downside to, all my retired friends say I speak a different language now and hard to carry on a conversion with me???? 8)

I love the emoticon you used, it's perfect!!!!!!

[Roadhog]

And Roadhog, not sure if this would work as an Ice Shanty??
Be neat though, with pontons maybe as a safety net.....

On Lake Leelanau, we get over 18-24" of ice...so some guy's will take their vehicles right out there. Most guy's like me though, choose to go out on snowmobiles. Of course first ice and last ice is dangerous. I prefer to walk out then. Fell through once... :P ....felt like the TinMan going home.
My cloths froze stiff... :shock: say...(o-i-l... c-a-n)... in a quiet squeeky voice.




Today, thanks to you reminding me of my shanty...I went out to retrieve it, and haul it over to the shop. I need to do some repairs and build a new door for it. It's a wood frame with an aluminum skin. That little hole is where I run the woodstove stack. I haven't used it for awhile. I mainly set it up for spear fishing for Pike. ...and I run tip ups...for Browns, Lakers or Walleye. For Whitefish...I have to go out on Grand Traverse Bay. I usually go with a buddy who has a nice portable coup. Nobody sets up permanent out there.

My real passion for Ice Fishing is Spearing. Pike are very smart, and crafty. It's the ultimate fresh water big game fish. He is a predator fish, and to spear him is like bagging a Buck with bow and arrow. They also camoflauge to the bottom, and lots of times they are right there and you don't realize it until you make a slight movement, and zip...off he goes to never return rest of that shift. You have to really pay attendtion and be very quiet and still. You may only see their dorsal fins waving...or just the tip of their head right at the edge of the hole...wary and not coming any closer to your decoy.

Your spear is in the water ready to NAIL him...but he could wait right at the edge for hours...testing your metal and last nerve. You must wait for him to pass under the spear, and his eyes not directed anywhere near your spear, or he'll jump your attempt. If he is facing away and moving slowly...you may push your range and go for it.

Next big trick is once you have speared him...and you let him fight the weight the spear and tire out...you must bring the beast up. Lots of times I have got them to the hole to have them break into a titanic battle threatening to bust your shanty into kindling...and need to send them back to the bottom to wear out some more. Getting them finally out of the hole...now you must get them out onto the ice Pronto...as the HAVE TEETH and will thrash the crap out of you once out of the water...and you also have to worry about them working off the spear, and slipping away.

I have thrown many a Pike out onto the ice, and billy-clubbed them senseless...then let them freeze solid...to get them home and thaw them out in my sink to clean them, to have them come back to life again...in my kitchen!! God Bless them Pike!!! 8)

The wall panels are pushed out on my shanty and need to be renailed. Also, I need to build a new door.....and now you know why.

[yoopr]

Never work as a Ice shack up here-too heavy even if you put runners underneath.

Hmmmm...how about if you put it on pontoons.

Who cares if it breaks thru and freezes in place.

Maybe even build a motor mount (5 horse outboard?) and motor to shore in the spring.

On second thought...maybe living down south in the heat causes hallucinations...http://oldstersview.wordpress.com/fi..._houseboat.jpg

It would never break through cuz we get 3-4' of Ice-It would just be kinda of a pain to move. I suppose if you didn't want to move around it would be ok.

[Consider]

And Roadhog, not sure if this would work as an Ice Shanty??
Be neat though, with pontons maybe as a safety net.....

On Lake Leelanau, we get over 18-24" of ice...so some guy's will take their vehicles right out there. Most guy's like me though, choose to go out on snowmobiles. Of course first ice and last ice is dangerous. I prefer to walk out then. Fell through once... :P ....felt like the TinMan going home.
My cloths froze stiff... :shock: say...(o-i-l... c-a-n)... in a quiet squeeky voice.




Today, thanks to you reminding me of my shanty...I went out to retrieve it, and haul it over to the shop. I need to do some repairs and build a new door for it. It's a wood frame with an aluminum skin. That little hole is where I run the woodstove stack. I haven't used it for awhile. I mainly set it up for spear fishing for Pike. ...and I run tip ups...for Browns, Lakers or Walleye. For Whitefish...I have to go out on Grand Traverse Bay. I usually go with a buddy who has a nice portable coup. Nobody sets up permanent out there.

My real passion for Ice Fishing is Spearing. Pike are very smart, and crafty. It's the ultimate fresh water big game fish. He is a predator fish, and to spear him is like bagging a Buck with bow and arrow. They also camoflauge to the bottom, and lots of times they are right there and you don't realize it until you make a slight movement, and zip...off he goes to never return rest of that shift. You have to really pay attendtion and be very quiet and still. You may only see their dorsal fins waving...or just the tip of their head right at the edge of the hole...wary and not coming any closer to your decoy.

Your spear is in the water ready to NAIL him...but he could wait right at the edge for hours...testing your metal and last nerve. You must wait for him to pass under the spear, and his eyes not directed anywhere near your spear, or he'll jump your attempt. If he is facing away and moving slowly...you may push your range and go for it.

Next big trick is once you have speared him...and you let him fight the weight the spear and tire out...you must bring the beast up. Lots of times I have got them to the hole to have them break into a titanic battle threatening to bust your shanty into kindling...and need to send them back to the bottom to wear out some more. Getting them finally out of the hole...now you must get them out onto the ice Pronto...as the HAVE TEETH and will thrash the crap out of you once out of the water...and you also have to worry about them working off the spear, and slipping away.

I have thrown many a Pike out onto the ice, and billy-clubbed them senseless...then let them freeze solid...to get them home and thaw them out in my sink to clean them, to have them come back to life again...in my kitchen!! God Bless them Pike!!! 8)

The wall panels are pushed out on my shanty and need to be renailed. Also, I need to build a new door.....and now you know why.

WOW!!!!!!

Wow... what a story!!!!!!


Is it a classic fish story... or... is it true that one has ever come back to life in your kitchen????

[yoopr]

Road Dog the Drama Queen :P

[Roadhog]

Shuddap... :evil:

...how's that for a quick witted comeback?... :P
I just don't wanna say anything too dramatic ..... :evil: walking away muttering to himself

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Shuddap... :evil:

...how's that for a quick witted comeback?... :P
I just don't wanna say anything too dramatic ..... :evil: walking away muttering to himself

So did you make that up?

Did you?

Grandpa used to catch pike when we went Up North to their cottage. But he didn't like them much, because of the bones. The bones didn't come out nicely like those of bass and croppies.

[Roadhog]

...sometimes I don't know if I'm joking or not. :?
The story about TinMan is true.
The Fish stories are true.
You need to know how to fillet Pike.
They have an extra set of "Y" bones.
Pike meat is one of my most favorite.

:P ..yoopr...he is jealous....and grumpy...because he's freezing his nads off
...and he can only fish for Splake or Walleye... unless he journeys south into Troll Country :P :?

[Consider]

...sometimes I don't know if I'm joking or not. :?
The story about TinMan is true.
The Fish stories are true.
You need to know how to fillet Pike.
They have an extra set of "Y" bones.
Pike meat is one of my most favorite.

:P ..yoopr...he is jealous....and grumpy...because he's freezing his nads off
...and he can only fish for Splake or Walleye... unless he journeys south into Troll Country :P :?

I thought it was "walleye pike" .... No?

I remember platters of sun fish for breakfast up at my grandparents cottage... There in the middle of the table would be this platter of sun fish all nicely fried... mmmmmm. I liked those!