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Thanks Nancy!
See? I did it. I'm not in love with it, because I couldn't figure out how to make the picture stretch all the way across, thus the repeat. But I totally burned through the baby's nap tinkering with it. Did you come and visit while I was in progress? Because for a while the whole site looked seriously fucked up. I also had to learn how to use Gimp - the Mac equivalent of Photoshop. It's really pretty handy, but occasionally shuts down for no reason. But I have Nancy to thank for getting the ball rolling. You must be a kick-ass librarian!
This all vaguely reminded me of taking Fortran for Engineers in college. I had no previous programming experience and I truly sucked the doughnut in that class. I remember crying in the computer lab at 3 in the morning because I couldn't make the program count the number of e's in my Professors name. I don't know when I've ever felt more inadequate, of course, aside from too many moments to count of being a mom. I remember trying to sleep and trying to think of the proper Fortran nomenclature for rolling over (when I wasn't picturing Tetris tiles falling into place - that game still haunts me). Eventually I cajoled my brain through it and passed, but the sound of the word Fortran still makes me tuck my tail and shudder.
This all vaguely reminded me of taking Fortran for Engineers in college. I had no previous programming experience and I truly sucked the doughnut in that class. I remember crying in the computer lab at 3 in the morning because I couldn't make the program count the number of e's in my Professors name. I don't know when I've ever felt more inadequate, of course, aside from too many moments to count of being a mom. I remember trying to sleep and trying to think of the proper Fortran nomenclature for rolling over (when I wasn't picturing Tetris tiles falling into place - that game still haunts me). Eventually I cajoled my brain through it and passed, but the sound of the word Fortran still makes me tuck my tail and shudder.
posted by Mignon at 9:36 AM
*Golfer's Clap* I popped in while you were working on it. I sort of wondered what kind of drugs you were on and if you'd share... But I had faith you'd work your issues out. ;) Looks good! Great job!
Allright. We'll beat this tech thing yet.
My biggest nemesis was my grad level statistics/research methods class. Regression analysis brought me to tears on more than one occasion.
Looks good! I am glad I could help. I don't know why, but I've always liked the HTML and web design stuff. Maybe that will be my next career, when I'm done with this computer policy stuff I'm doing now. ;-)
Kind of wishing I'd popped in while it was all fucked up...I could use a free buzz.
I like it!
I get very overwhelmed when I am trying to do something on the computer and can't do it...I get frustrated quickly and I feel embarrased when my hubs walks over and clicks the mouse once and everything is magically fixed.
Hoorray for you! i like it.
Fortran, my hubby had to take that in college. I heard nothing but cussing about that class.
My Fortran prof at GA Tech had (from birth, I believe) only 6 digits (index, middle and thumb) on both hands. I was so amazed at his lightening fast typing I forgot to hate the Fortran.