10/9/97 - Brunching with a Squid.

     Strict beef/pork/poultry man meets real-life
     squid?  In a restaurant?  Hark, can this be
     the end of our sullen adventurer, Victor
     Turner?

     Hardly.  Bill Osborg of wosb.org was in
     town in the middle of his Osborg Country
     Tour '97 gig to meet as many fellow web
     designers as possible.  He's one of them
     military boys so he gets to play with
     multi-million dollar toys like aircraft
     carriers.

     (I think the most expensive toy I've
     found yet is Anna...but that's a private
     matter, eh sweetheart? ;) )

     As is my brunch today with Bill.  I tend
     not to drag other people down into the
     depths of obscurity with me, so I don't
     talk about them much. ;)  Partly for
     their comfort, as well.

     But it was great meeting Bill.  He has
     a profoundly different personality than
     me, but at our cores, we get along well.
     I just felt out of place a bit -- I mean,
     aren't web designers supposed to talk
     snobbishly about how bad other sites
     are while downing a latte?  Heh, I'll
     save that for San Francisco or something.

     DHTML is cool.  Been experimenting a bit
     with it on my first few opening pages.
     Allows you to do things like make text
     scroll out from under a header and change
     text color by clicking on it.  Combination
     of Javascript and stylesheets.

     You know, Javascript is a breeze...I
     have only a beginner's knowledge of
     programming and Java and I was coding my
     own functions and all...fun stuff.

     <boyish enthusiasm and curiosity>

     Looking forward to talking to you
     tomorrow, my dear Anna.  But I guess you
     will have already heard that not long
     before reading this... :)

       "There is nothing new except
        what is forgotten."

        -attributed to Mademoiselle
         Bertin

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