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I recently bought some finer cotton ones that seem to be holding up better than those stupid linsey-woolsey ones. I don't think I'll ever buy another pair of those - the elastic gives way too quickly.

Yeah, I figured out that it was a seal (which looks like it has its head half in the water and we're seeing it and its reflection), but it reminded me of that character. Mostly because it appears to have four eyes surrounded by white fluffy fur.

I think I want to visit there once I have a firm grasp of espaňol. I don't imagine they'll have museums honoring the pirates or anything, but I'd still like to see it. Perhaps check out the Galapagos while I'm that close. A port of good historical pirate significance, methinks.

Give him a computer and let him try to type about what happened on that miserable little 2/3 size keyboard? Silkie, your new avatar reminds me of Muftak the Talz.

Mmmmmm...art deco reaper lamp...

I take it that's your vic... auction friend? I can't really see it in the format that webshots offers you as the standard. (I had a lot of trouble with the photos I posted - I actually had to go back through the first set twice to figure out how to post the larger images.) A thought for Fayma and Poppa - if you're interested, check out Google images! The size restrictions are much easier to take than most other free photo hosting sites and the way to use the photos is far more intuitive. Uploading photos is a little goofy because the best way is to use another program - Picassa - but it's now my favored photo hosting site. Key West...the city of brotherly love. *Ahem*

Actually, that looks almost nothing like my vision of a place called "That One Particular Harbour." I was envisioning something where the harbor is small enough to defend with a few cannon so we can easily control the ingress and egress. Since most of us are pirates, we would want our harbour to be someplace that was a bit hidden, spoken about by word of mouth and not so busy that the pirates couldn't plunder the couple of merchant ships that were allowed in. "A most mysterious calling harbour, so far but yet so near."

Jamaica Rose. I want a feather like that. (I have now lost all my original feathers. *Sigh*) Yikes! (Sorry, Indy.) A very nice shot of Mark and Jennie Gist. And one of Michael and Kate. (Sorry, nothing funny is coming to mind, but these are nice shots.) Oreo, getting his feathers ruffled. (Fortunately he always keeps them numbered...for just such an emergency.) Based on the position of the sun, relative to the meridian and with a quick glance at my hidden wristwatch, I'd say it's 11:00. ("Why? What happens at 11 o'clock?") "Oyez. Oyez. The court will now consider the case of who ruffled Oreo's feathers!" Cannibal Chrispy and his flower, Rusty Nell. (It's the bright yellow that makes her look like a flower to me.)

Awwwww.... (I wonder how many times that dangly thing hit Mae in the face while Brig was doing that?) Bloody Babara...uh...let's just leave it at that. (Man, I want a pair of those glasses.) Great Scott! Look at that butt! (Of the gun! The gun! Shay of the Keys and her gun.) *Sigh* Where was this photo when I was doing this year's Surgeon's Journal? (No, I'm not going back and changing it.) The lovely RJ showing off her new tat from Ireland. (How does she keep her socks up. Damned if I can keep mine up that well.) Carribean Pearl (I think) and...I don't know who. (Isn't the cross meant to ward off guys like that?) Matty Bottles coming in second in the sword marathon... ...behind Captain Sterling. ♫ We are the champions, my friiiiend... ♪

I say we name it "That One Particular Harbour." Hey doc, do you have any photos of them from the past? I just like seeing the stuff. :)

Patrick, I think you may have gotten that somewhere else. I checked out the photo page and it didn't trip my virus checker. Nor did it pop-up the window that is associated with the Internet Security 2010 download. The Callahans use one of those photo sharing sites and if they got such a thing, they'd probably remove it quickly. Usually you pick such things up from dodgy sites like game tip sites, porn sites and Microsoft's site. (Just kidding about that last. I think.) I suggest searching for "remove Internet Security 2010." I have to keep the work computers well-fed, happy and virus-free and I find there are a lot of people out there who will give you advice on how to remove such things. Be careful about downloading other people's unknown programs to remove the virus/malware unless you're pretty sure of the source. (Otherwise you may just compound the error.) Also be careful about editing your registry, which this program seems to require. If you mess up your registry badly enough, you're probably looking at "re-format your hard drive" time. You may also have to try several ways to get it off - not everyone knows everything. One other bit of advice to one and all - recent incarnations of Internet Explorer and all the Firefox version I know of have pop-up blockers as a part of their make-up. Turning these on will avoid some of this sort of stuff. (I don't know about the Mac browsers since I don't use it, but I'd be surprised if they didn't have such as well.) N.B. According to this site, which sounds pretty good to me, if you see this: "HOLD DOWN THE POWER BUTTON FOR 10 SECONDS! [ie. Use the power button to turn off your computer immediately.] Seriously. If they really are infected with a real virus, powering off won’t be any worse. Some of these things are tricky and will try and install themselves no matter which way you click, and they look just like a real Windows error message. Powering off is just the simplest and best option..."

Martin Denny sounds a lot like some of my favorite Ferrante and Teicher tunes. I think I will go and get me some. (When the hell are you going to join Facebook so you can appreciate all my random loopy comments?)

Salvador Molly!

Interesting stuff on eBay today. I doubt if this is period, but I think it's cool. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=170431261130&Category=38067&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26its%3DI%26otn%3D2

Your name (and description) were funnier, but my name was alliterative, you know.

Bunny scissors! These are from an eBay auction. (There are a lot of cool vintage scissors on eBay this week.) The seller's description screams (in pink...natch): "NEVER USED, THIS IS A PAIR OF NOGENT 4" SCISSORS....RUNNING RABBIT FIGURAL HANDLE.....VERY SHARP......COMES IN A VELVETEEN CASE.............REALLY CUTE!" Velveteen...of course.

Well, I think I'll climb down from the treehouse and see what new goods they have over at QJ's Quaint Junk shoppe. I need some Weasel Wax and Extendable Ears. (I hear there's a new surgeon in town and I have to keep up on the governor's plans. He's one of my best sources of income!) Anyone else want to come. Brig? You can bring little Nib, she always likes QJs...

I don't know if they're to your liking, but my pirate webpages are extraordinarily simple in design. They use tables that are pretty simple to manipulate in HTML. Since you can open other people's webpages up in any web page generator I've worked with, all you have to do is download them, change the text and pictures and then save them as files to your web page. I almost always make my webpages the same width (750 pixels.) I nearly always make the photos 300 pixels tall. So I know the max width and the height which allows me to trim the photo widths as I need to fit. (One key to such design: pre-sizing the pics using my thumbnail guidelines so I know what I need to trim. This also saves server space. The other is writing the text so that it will fill the space next to the photo if I'm doing a text photo table.)

I have mine through ACTWD. They've been extraordinarily good to me, even if they're a trifle slow to get back to me at times. They're even in your neck of the woods somewhere. (Well, they're in TX - it's a pretty big place so maybe it's not in your neck of the woods.) [Edit] Oh, if you don't know HTML you won't have much luck with them. Learn HTML! For a basic page it's not really that tough.

I am reading John Atkins' book The Navy Surgeon; or Practical System of Surgery and I came across this. I liked it so well that I turned it into a photo so you could see it in its original form. It's from page 327.

You made her sort of like a deity? That IS funny. (Just the other day she said something about being a god. (As she explained it, "Not your god, but a god.")) http://www.spyvsspyhq.com/spyspyspy.jpg QJ, perhaps you need to start a business...

Hey, Doc. Do you have any photos of your medical set-up? I'd like to see it.

Ya' gotta' admit...it makes you laugh.

Ah, 'son' is in charge of the procurement department, I take it?

What QM linked. Although I was mainly teasing M.A. d'Dogge Pete. Snood. Snood. I love funny words. One key to my kind of humor is using funny words. "Weasel is a funny word. You can improve the humor value of almost any situation by injecting a weasel into it." -Dave Barry