Extras & Fun Stuff
About San Francisco
Friday Five v2.0
ACME Heartmaker
Citizen Redress
Maukie
Teddy Bears
Caffeinated Geek Girl
Mark Evanier
James Hudnall
Desert Cat's Musings
Bruce Schneier
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Brin-Marie McLaughlin.
Steal my stuff and I'll
squash you like a bug.
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Brin-Marie's Home Page
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of a century.
Merry Meet from San Francisco!
Hello, and welcome to my home page. I live in The City with my husband John, many shelves of books, a Power Macintosh G4 (466Mhz/30GB), a Powerbook G4, a collection of stuffed bunnies, and a enormous amount of candles. I have been a fan of talk radio for a quarter of a century, and depending on my schedule, I often listen to KGO's Ronn Owens, and KSFO's Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan. If I'm up early enough, I tune in to Ian Maurice on 4BC in Brisbane, Australia, via the World Wide Web.No Cascading Style Sheets! No Dancing Baloney! No Shockwave! No Java! No MIDI Files! No Fuzzy Dice!
Many of the websites I am linked to have traded substance for style, choosing to utilize formats that are not yet completely supported by most web browsers. An example of this is Cascading Style Sheets. They are YUCKY. While the tools therein provide easier and more versatile use by the person creating the site, it leaves something to be desired for the end user. But don't take my word for it: I encourage you to go to the Alta Vista search engine and do a search using the words 'Web Browser Agent Statistics' and see for yourself how many people throughout the world are using browsers that do not completely see the CSS format.
Ironically enough, neither Microsoft nor Netscape -- despite having participated in the development of CSS -- have browsers that are compatible with all of the CSS features. To paraphrase Elizabeth Castro, the author of HTML For The World Wide Web, "If you want to reach the widest audience possible, you will have to eschew CSS and DHTML altogether, thereby keeping your web page sharp, fast, and most important of all, universal." I happen to be of the old school that thinks simpler pages are better, because more people can see them without freezes, crashes or plug-ins. As far as my site goes, I promise you will NEVER have to deal with anything other than your basic good ol' HTML, along with a few low-resolution graphics, for as long as there are browsers to support it.
There are no animations or whirlytwirlies of any kind on my site. Hooray!
Check out the primordial ooze from which the World Wide Web was formed. Interesting stuff!
Links
- Eleven Things
- Important stuff you didn't learn in school.
- Ronn Owens
- My fan page dedicated to my favorite KGO talk radio host.
- Photo Gallery
- A few pick a shures of me and my friends.
- STYX At The Fillmore With Lawrence Gowan
- My Concert Review - November 14, 1999.
- Pretty Good Vegetable Beef Stew
- A good recipe, posted by popular demand
Updates
My information will be updated once or twice monthly. Yeah, right...Special Thanks...
...to my patient husband, John, a man with whom I am more than myself, and without whom I am less than one. I don't know how or why you've put up with me for this long, but I'm glad you have. Thanks for not selling me to the gypsies before now....to Nick Chinn who gave us our first HTML book, continues to offer us his old Macintosh equipment every time he upgrades, and answers so many of my dumb questions.
...to Tom Lemos, the charming fellow who originally allowed my bits and bytes to take up space on his hard drive, and who answered so many of my newbie questions when I first discovered the WWW...
...to Brian Clayton, a fellow Gaffa-head / Whovian / Central Valley homey / all-around good guy who introduced me to the joys of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, and with whom I stood out on Ocean Beach and flew a kite on the last day of February, 2002. I had an epiphany that day, namely, that there are few things on the face of the planet better than standing out on the beach and flying a kite with one of your best friends. I went into a terrible depression when my father died, and Brian spent a significant amount of time over the winter and spring defragging my hard drive, as it were. BC, thanks for sticking with me through the worst. "I love you, man!"
...to my father, Dale E. Landerman, who passed from this incarnation to the next on 30 January, 2002. There are two kinds of people in this world -- people who do what they are told, no matter what is right, and people who do what is right, no matter what they are told. Because of you, Dad, I always at least -try- to be that second kind of person.
...to Jamie S. Lord, who removed the scales from my eyes, and has become the nicest 'gay boyfriend' a straight girl like me could ever hope to have...
...to Dave Marron, who has been my friend since 1987, and who has always been there for me.
...and last but certainly never least, all of my online friends, who brighten my life every day. Thank you for making me a part of your Sacred Space, and thank you for your continued love and support of me as I make my way through the series of wacky misadventures that comprise my life. I am honored to call you my friends. May we all continue to rescue one another, as often as we need to. I love you all so very much.
Brin-Marie McLaughlin Brin-Marie Landerman Dust Bunny Chico
Brin Landerman Yuba City High School 1982. Steal my stuff and I'll squash you like a bug.