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MillRatUSMC
03-15-04, 12:20 PM
One came , when working as a Fitter/Weldor.
We made everything to specs and made it true and square.
It was great in the shop, but out in the mills, everything had settled and was no longer true and square.
So it did not fit, they had to adapt to what was there.
It was than that something my father-in-law, Eusbio Guttierez try to tell me.
When repairing houses, we had to try to fit as is, because everything was no longer true and square.
My father-in-law had very limited education, but he was street smart.

The next lesson came, with my building web pages using Hyper Text Markup Lanuage (HTML).
I learn that too many pictures or graphics took too long to load.
Same could be said for audio, they are nice, but most won't wait around for those to load.
The way to go now is Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), will need to do some studying.
What might you say is all this about.
Well, it's nothing to do about nothing.
But we must use something we learned back in boot camp.
"Adapt and Overcome".
Nothing is absolute, only death is absolute.
It's in our future, so live this day to the fullest and enjoy those you live with.
Thinking about;
"Which of two will you leave a mark or stain, to mark that you were once here on earth".
It's up to each individual manor woman which they will leave...

MillRatUSMC
03-15-04, 01:06 PM
I went out to get something to eat.
It was while walking that I started thinking about web pages that I had on a web site that offered free housing.
All you had to do was pick and paste to build a web page.
I used to work hard to get those web pages to look good on my monitor.
Once while I was at the library, I placed the URL to a page.
What I saw made me sick, it wasn't what was on my monitor.
It was than that I learned, pages might look good on one monitor.
It might be a complete different story on another computer.
Using a different browser, system and different size monitor.
Nothing is absolute except death...

Semper Fidelis
Ricardo

PS
I now pay to house my web pages, but HTML is so outdated, and those pages are not to adapting to different systems and browsers...

kentmitchell
03-15-04, 06:22 PM
Hey, MilRat
You left out the first part of that saying, "A man is measured by the imprint
he leaves behind".
It goes like this: Stick your arm, up to mid-forearm, into a bucket of water. Then take it out. A man is measured by the imprint
he leaves behind".

MillRatUSMC
03-16-04, 08:41 PM
kentmitchell, thanks on the information...I don't remember where I saw "A man is measured by the imprint he leaves behind".
So, I was not aware that there was something before that.
I might amend it to say;
"A man or woman is measured by the footprint, he or she leaves behind".
It could apply to which of the two will mark your presence here on earth, a mark or a stain.
As some make a mark on history, while other leave a stain on history.
Men and Women are just frail creatures prone to making mistakes.
It the ones that minimize the mistakes that we remember for their good deeds or heroic deeds.
Some leave a big footprint, and we feel the void they leave.
So again thanks for the information

"A man or woman is measured by the footprint
he or she leaves behind".

"They were the best you had, America,
and you turned your back on them".
~ Joe Galloway ~ Speaking about Vietnam Veterans

TO THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
THAT OTHERS MAY SAY PROUDLY
I AM A MARINE

Semper Fidelis/Semper Fi

Ricardo

Stimer
03-16-04, 10:16 PM
Richardo - One of your life experiences was learning to love and enjoy was eating moon pies at the Beaver Falls CPX. You can just about qualify for wiinger status.

How's it been going out in Kansas?

MillRatUSMC
03-16-04, 11:54 PM
Stimmie! what a pleasant surprise...we are west of your pos, but not thst far west.
We are in Hoosier Land or the land of the Wizard of Oz.
That be Chesterton, Indiana.
We live in a city, that is the same as the city, Raymond Mike Clausen Jr. was born in Hammond.
Mine is Hammond, Indiana and he was born in Hammond, Louisania.
Moon pies bring back a memory of MGunz.
he too left a big void and a big footprint to mark his presence here on earth.

"A man or woman is measured by the footprint
he or she leaves behind".

"They were the best you had, America,
and you turned your back on them".
~ Joe Galloway ~ Speaking about Vietnam Veterans

TO THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
THAT OTHERS MAY SAY PROUDLY
I AM A MARINE

Semper Fidelis/Semper Fi

Ricardo

MillRatUSMC
03-16-04, 11:55 PM
Kansas, you say...isn't that the place that Dorothy was from.

"A man or woman is measured by the footprint
he or she leaves behind".

"They were the best you had, America,
and you turned your back on them".
~ Joe Galloway ~ Speaking about Vietnam Veterans

TO THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
THAT OTHERS MAY SAY PROUDLY
I AM A MARINE

Semper Fidelis/Semper Fi

Ricardo