Author Topic: The Library (Read 2088360 times)

mabel1015j · « **Reply #4760 on:** April 19, 2011, 10:44:52 AM »

The Library

Our library cafe is open 24/7, the welcome mat is always out.
Do come in from daily chores and spend some time with us.

We look forward to hearing from you, about you and the books you are enjoying (or not).

Let the book talk begin here!

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I see the big white box at tbe bottom, and a smaller white box at the top......jean

Gumtree · « **Reply #4761 on:** April 19, 2011, 11:30:21 AM »

I have nothing at top or bottom - maybe because I'm in the antipodes.

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #4762 on:** April 19, 2011, 11:41:43 AM »

Amazon yellow box, with small white box below it.

CallieOK · « **Reply #4763 on:** April 19, 2011, 12:22:39 PM »

Ginny, I'm seeing what you see.

MaryPage · « **Reply #4764 on:** April 19, 2011, 01:07:23 PM »

Ginny, I do not have that stuff either at the top or the bottom. Just the little Amazon gold brick thingy. Let's see now, I am kind of sort of dumb about what I have. I am using Windows and Internet Explorer. Does that do it?

jeriron · « **Reply #4765 on:** April 19, 2011, 01:12:00 PM »

I see it now.

Frybabe · « **Reply #4766 on:** April 19, 2011, 01:26:09 PM »

Hah, I saw them just on the log-on page. When I log on, they disappear.

ginny · « **Reply #4767 on:** April 19, 2011, 07:23:42 PM »

First off, thank you all SO much for your help. We do so appreciate it, and I also appreciate your delicacy in the "white box" issue. You are the BEST!

In getting answers here something has come up which may be a clue (we feel like Agatha Christie here)

Would those of you who do NOT see what's on the bottom of your screen as shown here: (and by this I'm referring to the yellow Amazon block, the wide Amazon Kindle box and the wide white box)

check and see if the words +Quick Reply show instead?

Is there anybody with + Quick Reply AND the amazon and white boxes showing?

ginny · « **Reply #4768 on:** April 19, 2011, 07:41:47 PM »

Frybabe, I am sorry to hear you are discouraged, but with all you have been through I can't imagine how you do anything, much less what you have done.

When you add that to the courses you are taking, themselves, well! I'd have an F and a Please Withdraw! I'm not kidding either. I could never have done what you have or gotten this far.

I can think of classes I'd have killed to get a B or a C in.

Mostly math, like you are doing somehow.

You've had a rough time and certainly you had to miss for your mom. Sounds like the entire city is missing things for the water mains, and he's missing too. I hope you all don't flood out. You've come so far, what's a B or a C? You're gotten SO far in such a difficult hostile field (it would be to me) , how much is left to the end? What do you lack?

A bad instructor is always a curse. I mean you can love the subject and have a bad instructor who can turn one off it for good. Man I've had my share. Perhaps he IS having eye problems, that's too bad, perhaps it's something else, have you talked to him? Whatever his problem is, if it causes YOU to doubt yourself and be discouraged perhaps you should go talk to him? I'd do it in a heartbeat. He needs to know he's essentially failing you and he needs to know why and that you are concerned and trying despite all these overwhelming odds. You've had him before, he knows what kind of a student you are. Is he at all approachable?

I apologize for all this unsolicited advice! None of that you asked for, but I hate to see you discouraged after coming so far. We're all so proud of your change of career here and these ungodly sounding courses you're taking, I hope you can hang in there somehow. Think of Odysseus! (ahhaa I never thought I'd say that). At least nobody is eating your friends for lunch or turning them into pigs. (One hopes!)

nlhome · « **Reply #4769 on:** April 19, 2011, 07:58:27 PM »

I see the small amazon.com box at both the top and bottom of the page, plus the following at the bottom of my page:

SeniorLearn.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

When I click on the yellow box, then it connects to my account at Amazon, and when I return to my SeniorLearn page, I then see the longer white box with Amazon stuff in it.

I'm sorry, I forget to click through, but then, I haven't ordered anything recently.

N

CallieOK · « **Reply #4770 on:** April 19, 2011, 08:19:27 PM »

Ginny, at the bottom of my page I see the Quick Reply (in which I'm typing now), all three boxes, the SeniorLearn info and a line that looks like coding.

Frybabe · « **Reply #4771 on:** April 19, 2011, 08:32:14 PM »

Ginny, I still don't see anything unless I log off. If I am at the main Discussions listing and am not logged on, I can see the icons and I can get to the sites. When I log on, they disappear. What I do have at the bottom of the page is the "jump to" box when I am logged on.

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I apologize for all this unsolicited advice!

Not necessary, Ginny. I wouldn't have posted it if I didn't want some encouragement. While I have talked to him about his cataracts, I haven't pressed the poor teaching issue. He is planning to get them taken care of this summer. I noticed he highlights his notes in yellow. When you have cataracts, you lose the yellows. Those who have had cataract surgery can attest to the big difference. I know I couldn't believe the difference, and I couldn't believe all the shades of green there are. And here, I just thought it made your eyesight fuzzy/cloudy.

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Think of Odysseus! (ahhaa I never thought I'd say that). At least nobody is eating your friends for lunch or turning them into pigs. (One hopes!)

jeriron · « **Reply #4772 on:** April 19, 2011, 09:26:19 PM »

OK it's on both top and bottom of my screen.

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #4773 on:** April 19, 2011, 10:20:13 PM »

Notta on my screen but yes - I did have Quick Reply although I am noticing while I am writing this reply the top stays the same with the Amazon Icon showing in the News: however on the bottom it ends with the last post from this series by Gumtree and below are the very faint - Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.13 | SMF © 2006-2008, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS! - when I slide my curser over the 'Powered by' and 'Valid' what have you's half of each of the 4 icons turns yellow.

maryz · « **Reply #4774 on:** April 19, 2011, 11:15:26 PM »

I have the amazon stuff and box on the bottom of my page like you show in your example. But I do not have anything that says " + Quick Reply " .

CallieOK · « **Reply #4775 on:** April 19, 2011, 11:30:59 PM »

There's a minus sign next to the words Quick Reply in a blue bar below the "Jump To" line.
If I click the minus sign, the Quick Reply box disappears and a + sign appears.
Click it - and there's the Quick Reply box again.

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #4776 on:** April 20, 2011, 12:00:24 AM »

hmmm interesting I tried for the first time to create a post using Quick Reply and have no clue now where it is located - I thought here but no...where ever it is it was on page 99 the first post on page 99 of something...

Gumtree · « **Reply #4777 on:** April 20, 2011, 04:28:04 AM »

I've no yellow or white boxes top or bottom - only the Amazon flag in the 'news' box -
and don't have + Quick Reply either.

Gumtree · « **Reply #4778 on:** April 20, 2011, 04:50:47 AM »

Ginny:
I usually just go straight from my favourites list to the Discussion Index -

just now I went in through Google to the Home Page and got the stuff at the bottom of the page - then into the Discussions but again nothing top or bottom.

salan · « **Reply #4779 on:** April 20, 2011, 05:07:39 AM »

Ginny, I see the same thing on my computer that you see.
Sally

Steph · « **Reply #4780 on:** April 20, 2011, 06:34:12 AM »

Nothing on top.. box on bottem.. I use Internet Explorer

ginny · « **Reply #4781 on:** April 20, 2011, 06:45:45 AM »

My goodness how interesting, the different things we see, thank you all so much.

So far I'm not seeing anybody with both Quick Reply AND the boxes on the bottom, right?

Larry I finished Old Filth last night and the end certainly does not disappoint. I don't know if you would like it or not but I think you, at the end, would not be disappointed.

It's the kind of book you kind of wish you had somebody to bounce it off of over a cuppa. Maybe when enough of us have read it here we might talk about a couple of points which would be spoilers now which I wonder about. What a life he had. Or was it? That's the problem with the flashbacks.

I read a review of it last night which called the characters Dickensian, that they are.

Margie how interesting on the greens and cataracts. I have long thought that I was going or becoming color blind, I can see green but sometimes I can't tell green from blue, I bet you anything that it's cataracts and something about the yellow! You go, Girl!! Don't let his cataracts stop you!

Nlhome, I wondered who else saw this:
SeniorLearn.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

It's just a sentence, I mean it's not interactive or anything, so theoretically it should appear to all. We do appreciate everybody's input here. I didn't mean to derail the books conversation, what are you reading? I'm bereft without Filth. (Don't take that the wrong way) hahahaa

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #4782 on:** April 20, 2011, 07:09:11 AM »

I am just coming to the end of Alexander McCall Smith's latest Isobel Dalhousie novel - The Charming Quirks of Others. I know he's not everyone's cup of tea, but I love him. As usual, though, in Sunday Philosophers' Club series, I do find myself wanting something to go wrong for Isobel - perfect lover, perfect child, perfect house,perfect housekeeper, friend of all the good and great in Edinburgh - and £12 million in the bank. I wonder if we are all reading these novels whilst secretly hoping that some disaster will overtake her? Or maybe it's just me

Rosemary

maryz · « **Reply #4783 on:** April 20, 2011, 07:55:52 AM »

Ginny, I get the statement you mentioned in post #4781. Still no yellow flowers or +quick reply.

I come straight to my "replies to previous discussions" page from my favorites list.

ginny · « **Reply #4784 on:** April 20, 2011, 08:01:59 AM »

Mary, thank you. The yellow flowers are not on the website, they are my browser? I use Firefox and it allows you to customize the browser and see what you like when you like it. In the winter I had snow scenes and then Christmas decorations. Since this is spring I have daffodils. It's an aspect of Firefox I really like.

Jane put me on to Firefox when IE was so slow on this website I felt I could not manage.

RosemaryKaye: . I wonder if we are all reading these novels whilst secretly hoping that some disaster will overtake her? Or maybe it's just me

hahaha, I bet you're not alone. I love Alexander McCall Smith. I love his positive take on human nature or how it can be good. But I've never read an Isobel Dalhousie novel, I'll look one up.

Frybabe · « **Reply #4785 on:** April 20, 2011, 08:09:07 AM »

Are you talking about the Personas, Ginny? Right now I have variously colored marshmallow peeps on mine. After this weekend I'll change it to something else.

ginny · « **Reply #4786 on:** April 20, 2011, 08:34:48 AM »

Yes. I'm a daffodil.

CallieOK · « **Reply #4787 on:** April 20, 2011, 09:23:16 AM »

Ginny, I have the boxes AND the Quick Reply box AND the infor about SeniorLearn AND a line that reads Powered by SMF 1.1.13 | SMF © 2006-2008, Simple Machines LLC. It's a clickable link that takes me to the Simple Machines Forum web page.

Rosemary, I just finished "Quirks..." and feel a bit like you do about Isabel. The Isabel Dalhousie books are probably my least favorite of all the Alexander McCall Smith's series - but I always want to see what she's going to do next.
Are there really "professional" philosophers?

Babi · « **Reply #4788 on:** April 20, 2011, 09:37:09 AM »

I do now have the yellow Amazon box at the top left of my page. I can click on it and get
Amazon.com/subjects, and presumably go on from there. Congratulations on getting all this
worked out, to all of you who have worked so hard on it.

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #4789 on:** April 20, 2011, 11:26:27 AM »

YOU DID IT - HURRAY FOR THE TEAM - AMAZON IN ALL ITS GLORY TOP AND BOTTOM - WOW - TRA LA LA LA LAH - HIP HIP HURRAY - MAZEL TOV - BONNES NOUVELLES JOYEUSES - FRÖHLICHE GUTE NACHRICHTEN - BUENAS NOTICIAS FELICES - JOYOUS GOOD NEWS - WAVING THE RED WHITE AND BLUE FOR THE TEAM -

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #4790 on:** April 20, 2011, 11:37:21 AM »

All Three Amazon boxes at the bottom, accompanied by the +Quick Reply, and down below that is the SeniorLearn blurb. All present and accounted for, I take it?

jane · « **Reply #4791 on:** April 20, 2011, 11:40:32 AM »

Welll....I think maybe we're onto what the problem is. NOW to find out who else still can't see the ads and fix them.

I'm not much of a scientist, but I think...well...it seems to have something to do with membergroups and when people registered, I think. [she said tentatively, but with hope

]

jane · « **Reply #4792 on:** April 20, 2011, 11:43:22 AM »

Hang on...I'm going to see if I can work magic for those of you who can't see the top and bottom Amazon thingy and white box areas.

jane · « **Reply #4793 on:** April 20, 2011, 11:58:07 AM »

OK...now...[holding breath].....

Frybabe, jeriron, rosemarykaye, Gumtree, MaryPage, Steph...do you NOW see amazon box and a white box {with info in it but we can't say the words} at the very tippy top and the very bottom ...above the SMF info?

madscientist jane

Gumtree · « **Reply #4794 on:** April 20, 2011, 12:03:55 PM »

Hey madscientist - I just got it - top and bottom - even here at the end of the earth....

but haven't got +quick reply - should I have that?

jane · « **Reply #4795 on:** April 20, 2011, 12:10:31 PM »

HURRAH.... I think...maybe...we're on to a patch for the problem.

NOW...who else still can't see the ads???

Quick Reply is an option....go to PROFILE/Look and Layout Preferences and the next to the last item, I think it is ...is:

Use quick reply on topic display: {make sure on shows here}

Frybabe · « **Reply #4796 on:** April 20, 2011, 01:00:10 PM »

I can see everything now.

Ginny, I usually save my Daffodils for the beginning of March for St. David's Day if I don't find a Welsh flag that fits.

I'm back early again. Once again they cancelled the second class because of the water main problem. The teacher found out just as they were getting ready to send emails, so I was able to get out of the parking lot without having to wait an hour for the mad rush to diminish. Monday, I sat and read more Odysseus rather than crawl along on in the lot and the street. Worked out well. At least I got to do my accounting test this morning. Speaking of the accounting, in HS I was a A+ student. Not only that, the grades are not as strict as they used to be. a 93-100 used to be an A. Now it is 90-100. So my lowest grade of 74 (

) is now a C instead of a D. Good for me right now, but I still remember when students were held to higher standards.

maryz · « **Reply #4797 on:** April 20, 2011, 01:43:35 PM »

I've got the ads, top and bottom, but no +Quick Reply.

ginny · « **Reply #4798 on:** April 20, 2011, 02:06:59 PM »

Frybabe, all our daffodils are over now in this part of the country.

Canceled AGAIN! You need a refund from that class.

I hate accounting. I have never understood the Balance Sheet. It has never made any sense to me that a persons assets and debts have to be equal. Everybody knows for some people they are not. Doesn't make any sense. no wonder the country is in financial trouble!~

Math is my Achilles heel. hahaha Illogical, except for geometry.

Mary, thank you. The + Quick Reply has been disabled, so you don't want to see it. You CAN have it if you want it but normally you'd not see it. I don't see it and don't want it.

Hooray for Super Jane, I believe she has DONE it!

hats · « **Reply #4799 on:** April 20, 2011, 03:07:22 PM »

Hi Ginny and all my old friends,

As one of you use to say "I'm out of pocket." Age is catching up with me. It takes about 5 hours to read what I use to read in an hour. Not complaining, accepting. I've tried different reading venues: blogs, Facebook, Twitter. I am always the turtle behind the hare. If you will have me, I would luv to read along with all of you again. I definitely miss poetry. I can't believe you've chosen Clare And Mr. Tiffany. Any book by Susan Vreeland is fantastic. I've always wanted a Tiffany lamp. Never could afford one. Spent lots of time ogling them. I'm in on that read if you'll have me. Don't have the book yet. Just started The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I wanted to read Notes from an Old Acquaintance by Bill Walker. Had a copy, but it's not in my "W's." Well, I'll stop writing. Really, I want to just be welcomed here as a quiet visitor who has lost her way. Please. I mentioned Poetry. I miss all the venues. I remember....Anyway, in the mood for good mysteries too. Fantasy, SciFi, just plain good Fiction and Nonfiction??? Still am not good at capitalization. Oh boy.