Thursday, February 17, 2005

I'm done with blogger for the time being. You can find the Smith's weblog at www.rustyhinges.com. Click here to go there!

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

I'm hoping that our new blog will be "fully functional" fairly soon. You can find it here.

Saturday, February 12, 2005

Lord of the Rings Spoof

This is good for a laugh.

Friday, February 11, 2005

Mac Printing

The Macintosh seems to have printing figured out. I'm printing a few web pages this evening, doing some research and reading. You know what I see? Printing a web page from the Safari browser turns out a nice product. It doesn't have those pointless headers with all sorts of weird characters that my IE browser churned out so often.

Long story short: another reason to be pleased.

Understanding the Mac


This is for Jeff's reference. This article discusses how the mac works. Its Macintosh for the newbie.

Thursday, February 10, 2005


Madie in Alaska... not yet 2 years. Posted by Hello


I think this was the 2003 annual meeting. Shows you a typical Sunday type set-up. Projection screen is on the right. Three completed stained glass windows. Posted by Hello


Clover Pass Church, Ketchikan's multi purpose room (partially set up for Wednesday Bible study). This room had several configurations throughout the week: empty for school, Bible study, Sunday a.m. and p.m. Posted by Hello


Clover Pass multi-purpose room facing towards foyer. Posted by Hello


Clover Pass Foyer. Posted by Hello


Foyer at Clover Pass Community Church. I was a part of youth group there for a lot of years. Posted by Hello

Francis Schaeffer on the Life of the Church

The local church or Christian group should be right, but it should also be beautiful. The local group should be the example of the supernatural, of the substantially healed relationship in this present life between men and men. . . . How many orthodox local churches are dead at this point, with so little sign of love and communication: orthodox, but dead and ugly! If there is no reality on the local level, we deny what we say we believe.

Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Resource

Answers looks like a good resource. It has recently been made free so there's bound to be some good information in there.


New and old. Posted by Hello


Processor box Posted by Hello


Adding ram to the iMac. Posted by Hello


From road at front. Posted by Hello


Front (scraggly lawn) Posted by Hello


Back porch and back yard. Posted by Hello

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

The New iMac

Got the iMac up and running finally. This is like learning a whole new language. It's taken me a little bit to just know how to find my way around some very simple things. In Windows XP everything is limited to one pane or "window" that you are looking at. OS X deals in smaller "windows" with the active window's preferences all in a menu bar at the top of the screen. that was a simple, but tough one for me to figure out at first. I'm thinking, "Where the Sam Hill is the stupid preferences!?" All the while they are hiding in plain view at the top of the screen. Uhhg! I'll learn, just give me time.

My first impression out of the box is that this machine is very well built. In fact, it makes every other machine I've worked on seem like a cheap imitation. I installed a 512mb stick of ram and was floored by the simplicity and beauty of the machine without ever turning it on. These machines just look great. Very impressive.

Set up was fairly intuitive. I didn't know the finer points of my internet settings and fiddled with that for a while. Turns out all I needed to do was ignore the questions and proceed. It worked without a hitch. Seamless. Overall, I'm pleased. I feel that I have way too much to learn before I get to the point where I've got a handle on how these things really work. It's been fun searching around this evening.

You can expect some posts regarding my experience as a "switcher" in the coming days.


You love this... iMac G5 ram is here, all 512mb to add to 256mb when I get home. More to come. Posted by Hello


More playing around. Today's desktop. Posted by Hello


Just playing here: Our 112 mile route from Neighborhood Alliance Church to Jantzen Beach for District Youth Conference. "Alt>PrtScn" and a little cropping. Posted by Hello

Monday, February 07, 2005


Happy daddy. Posted by Hello


Owen sleeping just before dinner. Posted by Hello


Sister and brother. Posted by Hello


Papa Poet and Owen. Posted by Hello


Owen last weekend. Posted by Hello


Heidi and Madeline over the weekend. Posted by Hello

Audion

This is for my reference as we'll be switching to the Mac platform oh so soon.


Rafael (exchange student from Spain) and yours truly. Photo taken in December 2004. Posted by Hello

Saturday, February 05, 2005


Madie and the horsey. Posted by Hello


Madeline with "Jersey" the horse. Posted by Hello


Madeline Posted by Hello