Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:44:07 -0800, HawaiianEye
> > wrote:
>
>> Red, Orange or very dark Yellow for the South
>> Very Light Yellow or Beige for Northeast and Southwest.
>> White or Gray for West and Northwest
>> Blue or Black for North
>> Brown or Green for East and Southeast
>>
>> See how easy it is?!?
>
> How 'bout if you want your room all one color? LOL!
>
> We're moving into a house where the living room, dining room, and
> bathroom all have gold walls on the North and West sides, and the
> South and East walls are white.
>
> We're screwed, aren't we?


Well......... yeah...

But only if you adhere to LoPan or Nine Pillars schools of Fung Shui.
There is a work-around though. Somebody wise came up with the Black Hat
school of Feng Shui that bases eveything on the location of your front
door instead of actual compass directions, and even disregards colors
for directions. Instead, it uses colors as inspirations, i.e. gold
inspiring wealth, green promoting spring-like attributes of growth and
freshness, white for purity, and so on, so I figure you guys will be
really, really rich and will be so pure your feet won't touch the
ground! Unfortunately, being so pure, you will no longer be allowed to
be the Head Trollop. TINC.

In article >,
Omelet > wrote:

> In article
> >,
> Dan Abel > wrote:
>
> > In article >,
> > sf > wrote:

> > > IE is my fall back. Some sites are not designed to work with anything
> > > else.
> >
> > Well, then I guess I don't see those sites. MS no longer supports IE on
> > the Mac.
>
> Try firefox.
>
> Works for me!

Works for me, too. I had one site that had problems recently, so I used
Safari, and it worked fine. But, if there truly are sites that only
work under IE, then I'm out of luck, I guess.

[actually, my son has a PC, usually here at my house, so I could use
that]

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

sf wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:44:07 -0800, HawaiianEye
> > wrote:
>
>> Absotivly!
>>
>> Red, Orange or very dark Yellow for the South
>> Very Light Yellow or Beige for Northeast and Southwest.
>> White or Gray for West and Northwest
>> Blue or Black for North
>> Brown or Green for East and Southeast
>>
>> See how easy it is?!?
>
> Do you have a book on this stuff?

Dozens of them for each of the various schools of Feng Shui! If I don't
like what one of them suggests, I just choose a different school.
Sometimes I can't decide. Indecision is the key to flexibility.

For ease of use, read Lillian Too. She not only writes a new book every
other week, she's got her own TV program, and stores in all the larger
shopping malls in Asia! Better bookstores in the US carry the magazine
"Modern Feng Shui" and "Feng Shui Lifestyles." Interesting reading.
(Keep away from "Feng Shui for Dummies." Not worth the time or money.)

sf wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:53:30 -0800, HawaiianEye
> > wrote:
>
>> Actually, 6 billion is the figure estimated for world population. China
>> only gets about 1.5 billion these days according to Professor Ronald
>> Knapp of the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz. Professor
>> Knapp is a geographer who specializes on China. Personally, I never
>> stopped to count them myself. I was too busy buying good luck charms. I
>> guess they must have worked or that Nigerian lady would never have
>> contacted me. I think she also contacted Buffy L, but we've been out of
>> touch for some time now... )
>
> I think I like you pineapple breath,

Thanks. We always did get along well! )

but you're getting just a leetle
> bit weird. Back away from the computer (slowly), go to the beach and
> relaaaax.

Actually, I'm improving greatly. At least that's what my friends who
live in deep inside the earth tell me

> <Doesn't that feel nice?> Have a Mai Tai. Put it on my tab. If you
> see Buffy, buy her one on me.

Can I make that Bombay Sapphire gin? Goes better with the sun sets. But
I'm afraid that I haven't heard from Buffy for as long as you. I'd still
give a lot to know just who she was. I want her recipe for grilled
Velveta sandwiches.

In article
>,
Dan Abel > wrote:

> In article >,
> Omelet > wrote:
>
> > In article
> > >,
> > Dan Abel > wrote:
> >
> > > In article >,
> > > sf > wrote:
>
> > > > IE is my fall back. Some sites are not designed to work with anything
> > > > else.
> > >
> > > Well, then I guess I don't see those sites. MS no longer supports IE on
> > > the Mac.
> >
> > Try firefox.
> >
> > Works for me!
>
> Works for me, too. I had one site that had problems recently, so I used
> Safari, and it worked fine. But, if there truly are sites that only
> work under IE, then I'm out of luck, I guess.
>
> [actually, my son has a PC, usually here at my house, so I could use
> that]

I have Safari as an alternate, (as well as IE) but only rarely have to
use them.
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

koko wrote:

> The roof leaked in the kitchen during our last rain and I really had
> water flowing in the kitchen, does that count? :-)

This depends upon the speed of the water flow. Good Feng Shui requires a
moderate water movement. Too slow and the chi stagnates. Too fast the
the chi doesn't have time to work it's charm.

Just to be on the safe side, I'd probably fix the leak instead. After
all, broken things are a no-no for all the different Feng Shui schools,
and rather than throw out your roof it would probably be wiser just to
patch it. But what do I know, right? I'm not an ancient Chinese guy.

On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:40:10 -0600, Omelet >
wrote:
>
>I have Safari as an alternate, (as well as IE) but only rarely have to
>use them.

You're right. FF has improved a lot!


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that
interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

On Jan 2, 9:53*am, blake murphy > wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 23:01:09 -0600, Sqwertz wrote:
> > Sheldon > wrote:
>
> >> I don't think they're safe... the blades are fully exposed and so it's
> >> far too easy to have a lapse and reach for a blade...
>
> > That sounds like the Crystal Palace vodka talking. *They're not
> > unsafe for a normal person. *And they stick well. *Mine, you could
> > throw a knife at it from 5 feet away and if you hit the bar, it'll
> > stick.
>
> > -sw
>
> the only 'unsafety' i can think of is if you're clumsy and knock a knife
> off the bar and it falls to the floor and possibly your foot. *(grabbing
> the blade seems a little far-fetched, but if anyone's up to the task, it's
> sheldon.)

That happens to me occasionally. I jump backward, and let the knife
hit
the floor. I'd rather the knife were damaged than me.

I hang the steel on the end of the rack. The handle perches a little
bit
on the top of the rack, and there's enough magnetism to keep it in
place.

I don't worry about magnetizing the blades; after I steel a blade I
wipe it
off anyway.

Cindy Hamilton

On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:30:25 -0600, Omelet wrote:

> In article
> >,
> Dan Abel > wrote:
>
>> In article >,
>> sf > wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:13:33 -0500, "Jean B." > wrote:
>>>
>>> >sf wrote:
>>
>>> >> I had to switch over to IE
>>> >Thanks. I didn't even THINK of trying IE. :-) Just a moment...
>>> > That did the trick.
>>
>>> IE is my fall back. Some sites are not designed to work with anything
>>> else.
>>
>> Well, then I guess I don't see those sites. MS no longer supports IE on
>> the Mac.
>
> Try firefox.
>
> Works for me!

i like firefox, but occasionally some pages don't display properly. (off
the top of my head, quotation marks crowding the letters of the words
quoted sometimes, sidebar pictures intruding on texr, stuff like that.)
but i've never liked i.e. i guess these are sites written to i.e. specs,
not html standards.

your pal,
blake

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 17:21:15 -0800 (PST), val189
> wrote:

>Saw one of these from Ikea in house I visited - host loves it - all
>knives easy to identify and at fingertip touch. They had it mounted
>on the wall right by the stove.
>
>Altho sort of ugly, I thought it beat a knife block and the resulting
>guessing game. No?
>
>Right now, my knives are lying in a drawer - yes, I know, a bad way to
>treat knives.

I've had one for 20 years - I don't find it ugly (but then I'm very
Bauhaus - Form Follows Function ;-)) and I love having my knives
accessible and not losing their cut.

Nathalie in Switzerland