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Mistletoe Angel 
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
 Harpaxophobia By: Noah Eaton 1/9/04 Heighten the alarm from yellow to amber alert Because in God we trust and we’re all heaven-sent But that won’t stop the indomitable ego Won’t stop the rules from being bent Plumbing the murky depths underground, Red-tied pirates with atrophied intelligence I attain to the highest mountain, While they keep squeezing the blood from the turnip I for one won’t be made Part of this harlequinade Withdraw, you megalomaniac All for one, one for all That ain’t no real estate recall We ain’t gonna get robbed again, We’re takin’ back what’s rightfully ours, Just you try and stop us, everyone belongs  Your secrets are safe behind the white walls But it is stuffy in the halls And from the outside I see the dirty, bloody stains Rife with mutiny and gall The corrigenda is unleashed once more, I shudder thinking as history repeats itself You don’t scare me, I'm not afraid of you I only fear for our sanity and health I for one won’t be made Part of this harlequinade Withdraw, you megalomaniac All for one, one for all That ain’t no real estate recall We ain’t gonna get robbed again, We’re takin’ back what’s rightfully ours, Just you try and stop us, everyone belongs  Board up the windows Cause it's difficult to see What they're auctioning Board up the windows Cause it's difficult to see What they're auctioning I for one won’t be made Part of this harlequinade Withdraw, you freakin’ megalomaniac All for one, one for all That ain’t no real estate recall We ain’t gonna get robbed again, We’re takin’ back what’s rightfully ours, Just you try and stop us, everyone belongs... Everyone belongs...   "You'll find something that's enough to keep you But if the bright lights don't receive you You should turn yourself around and come back home" MB20 [This message has been edited by Ron (01-10-2004 06:46 PM).] |
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McLean Member
since 2004-01-05
Posts 484state of marital bliss |
Salutations, Noah. I'm not really sure I got the meaning I was supposed to out of this, but A+ on presentation! I'll have to get out the dictionary and get back to you with a more thorough response! This is really beautiful. Where did these pictures come from? McLean  |
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Mistletoe Angel
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
 (smiles) Awwwww, thank you, dearest friend, for your friendly comment! And thank you for your question. Harpaxophobia is the fear of "being robbed". In my personal and humble opinion, I feel many are being robbed of their liberties throughout this nation and the world, and being very opinionated, I intend to expess my political views throughout this year, hoping for a regime change that aims to the people more than to the lobbyists. It is OUR nation, not THEIRS, and the coparcenary, the coparcenary of liberties and rights, should be shared not between two people but everyone! I found these pictures using a random Google search typed Anti-War + JPG and came across this California anti-war site with so many pictures I found powerful.  God Bless You and thank you, dearest friend! Love, Noah Eaton "You'll find something that's enough to keep you But if the bright lights don't receive you You should turn yourself around and come back home" MB20 |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Dear Noah, thank you for expressing so powerfully and beautifully your opinion. Let's shake hands and hope for a change. Love, Margherita |
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US |
Sigh. People are being robbed of a lot of things, Noah. I suspect in many cases that is going to include the ability to read your poetry. You've been asked several times to restrain your use of images in the forums, and we just don't seem to be getting through to you. You just posted four images with your poem that combined, and counting nothing else on the page, come in at a whopping 937 KB. That's almost a million bytes, Noah, and on a 26K modem connection like mine, that's a whole lot. It took over ten minutes for me to load this page. Many older computers wouldn't be able to load it at all. The widest of your images is 717 pixels. Did you know that about half the people on the Internet only have 800 pixels width for their whole screen? That means when they come into this page, they either have to close a side panel or contend with a horizontal scroll bar, or maybe even both for those still running a 640 by 480 screen. Try it, Noah. Reset the resolution on your desktop to a very standard 800 by 600 and see what this thread looks like. It ain't pretty and it ain't very easy to read. Yet, that's about what half or more of the Members here will see. Let's try a little experiment, Noah, in hopes of helping you understand. I just replaced all four of your images with copies I made, setting the JPG compression to 40 percent. We suddenly dropped from 937 KB down to 144 KB. Just by one simple adjustment that took five minutes. And I really don't think the quality of the images has suffered a great deal, certainly not as much as the usability of the page has improved. Frankly, that is still too large by several factors and, of course, it does nothing to eliminate the side-wise scrolling many will have to face because the images are two wide. Let's try again:     The widest image now is 350 pixels, which is probably about as large as ANY image in the forums should ever be. Combined with some reasonable compression, we just dropped your 937 KB burden down to 64 KB. Noah, if you tried to get on stage without first learning how to play the guitar, you likely wouldn't get the results you wanted. Your guitar is a tool, one you had to learn how to use. Well, my friend, if you want to use images as a tool, you MUST learn how to use them correctly. That's going to mean learning about compression, cropping, and resizing, just for starters. It might also meaning dropping your screen resolution down to what most others use before posting, and remembering most of us don't have a fast broadband connection like you do. A guitar can be a powerful instrument in the right hands, and so too can graphics. Both can also be damn irritating in the wrong hands. You wanna do it, Noah, please do it right. Great poem, by the way. |
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Michelle_loves_Mike
since 2003-12-20
Posts 1189Pennsylvania |
wow,,,,,,from te heart,,,,,and,,,,Mclean? May I borrow that dictionary once you are finished with it? Michelle I wish all could find the true happiness I have found,,in the eyes of Mike |
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