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Post by Deddy on Dec 2, 2004 6:40:58 GMT -5
I think only one is lovely.
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Post by Ace on Dec 2, 2004 11:06:37 GMT -5
I think both are lovely. The sailing photo is gorgeous and one my favorites and the Fiji painting is indeed lovely, just a pity most of it is muted but I gather that's the keep people from printing out high quality copies and selling them, very understandable.
Ace
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Post by IcyCalm on Dec 15, 2004 19:22:08 GMT -5
Quite by mistake, I discovered a way to VARY THE PIC OF THE DAY. If you change the date on your PC, you will get a different Pic!
I know this because my PC just had a nervous breakdown during a soft boot. I had to cut the power and this evidently deranged my date/time after a subsequently successful cold start. (It was January 4th, 1980 - oh, would that it was!) Could it be that the webmaster out there uses our PC date as an index into their library of Pierce pictures? Knowing nothing about websites, I suspect they are being polite to all 24 timezones rather than just using GMT.
-IcyCalm
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Post by SaltheGal on Dec 16, 2004 14:52:16 GMT -5
Quite by mistake, I discovered a way to VARY THE PIC OF THE DAY. If you change the date on your PC, you will get a different Pic! I know this because my PC just had a nervous breakdown during a soft boot. I had to cut the power and this evidently deranged my date/time after a subsequently successful cold start. (It was January 4th, 1980 - oh, would that it was!) Could it be that the webmaster out there uses our PC date as an index into their library of Pierce pictures? Knowing nothing about websites, I suspect they are being polite to all 24 timezones rather than just using GMT. -IcyCalm Yes IcyCalm that does appear to work!
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Post by Deddy on Dec 21, 2004 1:57:58 GMT -5
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Post by Deddy on Dec 22, 2004 1:48:16 GMT -5
The website has now two new wallpapers in the fanclub section. Very nice.... ;D
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Post by IcyCalm on Dec 29, 2004 4:42:59 GMT -5
Oh, wow. Look at all the nice family photos when you call up his site today! This is a New Year's greeting card like no other.
I had assumed he spent this holiday in Hawaii, and I guess this confirms it. But, I bet he is in considerable pain watching CNN's coverage of the tsunamis striking fellow ocean dwellers. Perhaps even worried about his own property as well.
-IcyCalm
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Post by Viktoria on Dec 29, 2004 8:26:22 GMT -5
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Post by Yuliya on Dec 29, 2004 11:03:11 GMT -5
The guy evidently likes to summer out his winters. The photographs are gorgeous and so is the entire layout. I especially love the two with the guitar.
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Post by Ace on Dec 29, 2004 11:15:08 GMT -5
He lives in Malibu when he doesn't live in Hawaii. He seems to prefer to summer out his year. And yes gorgeous layout and photos. The guy evidently likes to summer out his winters. The photographs are gorgeous and so is the entire layout. I especially love the two with the guitar.
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Post by Yuliya on Dec 29, 2004 11:32:29 GMT -5
Isn't it amazing that some people don't have a single photograph of them and theirs making a snowman, playing snowballs, or just covered in snow up to their collective ears? And somehow, I don't envy them. Not even after shoveling the driveway.
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Post by sparklingblue on Dec 29, 2004 12:58:31 GMT -5
This is simply gorgeous. And yes, I do feel a pang of envy.
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Post by curious george on Dec 29, 2004 15:22:27 GMT -5
Me too! ;D
cg
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Post by Ace on Dec 29, 2004 16:00:29 GMT -5
Place me in the envy camp as well. You can take your cold wind and your snow, ice and dirty slush and shovel it. Besides if they crave a snowball no doubt they can go to some mountainside ski resort. Ace
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Post by sparklingblue on Dec 29, 2004 16:15:55 GMT -5
Do you think that Hawaii holiday home is big enough to house three more people?
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Post by Yuliya on Dec 29, 2004 16:36:03 GMT -5
I'm sure it has a few spacious guest rooms, and if not, you can always camp out on the beach - it's warm enough. If you never have winter, how can you appreciate summer? Besides, I like the change of seasons; I wouldn't want to live in perpetual summer (and every year curse the damned heat. )
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Post by Ace on Dec 29, 2004 16:47:18 GMT -5
I'm sure it has a few spacious guest rooms, and if not, you can always camp out on the beach - it's warm enough. If you never have winter, how can you appreciate summer? Besides, I like the change of seasons; I wouldn't want to live in perpetual summer (and every year curse the damned heat. ) Oh once you've had winter for a couple of decades it's more than enough to appreciate pereptual summer. Though I might miss Fall and Spring, winter is something best compressed into a one to two week period... tops. As for cursing the heat, it's not as if summer in NYC doesn't give me that opportunity. Somehow I can't imagine heat in Hawaii ever being as unpleasant than August in NYC. Ace
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Post by Yuliya on Dec 29, 2004 17:18:58 GMT -5
I don't know about that. According to weather.com, the average temperature in NYC in August is 83-85F (28-29C) and in Hawaii - 88F (31C.) Of course, there's the pollution of the big city and the sea breeze in Hawaii (though I doubt it helps in Honolulu) but I think you're comparing life styles, not locations. I have had relatively perpetual summer for several years. I missed change of seasons. I missed looking out of the window to find out what the weather was like. And it has to snow around this time of the year, and a cypress is *not* a proper Christmas tree even if you don't celebrate Christmas. Neither is a cactus. Sigh. I like it up north.
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Post by Ace on Dec 29, 2004 17:23:43 GMT -5
Oh not a bad average, too bad it doesn't tell the entire tale. Like that two week period where it's an average of 95-100 with 98% humidity and a level of smog that could choke a horse, or the heat pounding of the pavement hot enough to fry an egg. I'm not even getting into the lifestyle of then wedging onself into the subway where body temperatures and oxegyn sucking hordes make for a living hell underground. And it's not just the subways., writers have been penning tomes about the unbearable NYC summers since the 19th century. Hot sticky and gross!
And the man lives in I believe Kuwaii, the garden Island not Honolulu. Kind of like comapring malibu to say inner LA. Just not the same, weather wise as well as lifestyle wise.
Ace (suddenly winter here doesn't seem so bad!)
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Post by Yuliya on Dec 29, 2004 17:31:03 GMT -5
See? And you have to endure that in order to enjoy the change of seasons. NYC subway is a nightmare in summer, but what does it have to do with the weather? If you can't afford living close to where you work, drive to the office, or be driven in an A/C limo, that's lifestyle. I distinctly remember one day in Tel Aviv when it felt like I was inhaling hot syrup, and the following night when I couldn't sleep because the friends I stayed with couldn't afford an apartment with A/C. I doubt NYC was better, and Israel is pretty close to the perpetual summer you dream about. It's not just about weather. Besides, I thought we were complaining about winter, not summer.
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