jmc

unknown (OK, just learned something. The new board S/W does not seem to like posts less than 10 characters in length. We are probably going to have to get creative in these word game threads.)

Well, the board looks different and feels different. But a lot of our interesting members have found it and resumed posting, so the old back-and-forth is here. I hope the rest of our membership finds their way here. We can get accustomed to the new look-and-feel. I daresay we will all appreciate less downtime, better accessibility and more involved administration. I am not faulting Jeff but I do get the impression that other, more serious endeavors have distracted him from this board. Maybe it was time for a change. I am holding out hope that this board will find itself re-invigorated as a result of this move. And that's really all that matters here.

We like how they feel and they are so much more interesting!

Cool! -- the board's back!! I was starting to go into withdrawal It looks good too, and let's all hope things run a little better here. It might be a good idea to post a link at the old board site to point users here until they get their bookmarks updated.

charlemaine -- You may be experiencing a difference in fit also. Each shoe has a fit all its own -- even different styles in the same size from the same manufacturer can fit differently. With flat, boring, clompy, standard-issue men's shoes this difference in fit is not usually noticed. But when you elevate the heel proper fitting becomes all that much more critical. Getting a pair that really fits well seems to be a bit of a "crap shoot" even if you do have the opportunity to try them on -- sometimes poor fit does not show up until after some wearing time. Just another of the charms and challenges of high heels!

Sscotty -- Do your heels slide up and out of the shoe as you walk? It looks like there is not much of the shoe left to hug the heel with all that space taken up by the insert.

. . . How do you get that little picture under your name whar you post?. . .

That little picture is an "avatar". It is an image file that resides on a server somewhere accessible on the Internet. A lot of members here use Photobucket to host images, some of our ISP's include Web-space in their Internet deals. Whatever you use for image hosting, just enter the URL of your avatar image in your "profile" page. Please keep avatars small--no larger than 163 pixels wide by 110 pixels high to prevent your avatar from messing up the composition of forum pages on everybody's screen. There are a number of software packages that can be used to re-size an image.

This mechanism is similar to that which is used to post pictures here on the board -- the image is hosted on another server somewhere and your post contains a link to that image.

If there was an option for "I wear heels around the house a lot, and outside occasionally" I'd vote for that one.

I'll second that. The other options don't really fit me well.

Hell's Angels (a motorcycle club from this side of the puddle)

ElaN

I ride a motorcycle sometimes -- a Goldwing 1200. And here in Michigan we have a helmet law -- and an activist group trying to get it repealed. But to me a helmet is natural on a motorcycle. Even without the law I would probably still wear it. Maybe I'm just a square (well, no maybe about it). It is probably true that at any speed above that of a brisk run, the helmet is probably wearing me for protection but going without it is just not right.

Oddly enough, though I haven't made the jump to wearing a helmet on a bicycle. But it probably does make sense.

I find SuperGlue annoying. It has this nasty little habit of instantly bonding that which you do not want glued to something to which you do not want it glued. Yet you can hold the items you want bonded together for what seems to be an eternity, only to watch them fall apart -- and immediately glue themselves to the surface upon which thhey land. I prefer epoxy for non-flexible joints and rubber cement (like Pliobond or DAP Weldwood Contact Cement) for flexible bonds. Silicone rubber (the real stuff that smells like vinegar) can make a dandy flexible bond too.

Excessive use of "really" is, like really, really, really, really annoying. Really. Know what I mean? (oops, that's another one.)

The closest I've gotten to a purse is a laptop computer tote or a briefcase. Not very close-lots bigger in fact.

These conspiracy theorists are often good for a chuckle. Some of them get awfully close to the "tin-foil hat brigade" with their convoluted and inter-woven "logic".

ExpensE

needle

steed

Actually, you can help the moderators "take out the trash". Under "Hellos, Goodbyes and General Announcements", there is a thread titled "Report Spam Here". It's sticky so it is always right at the top of the "Hellos. . ." forum. Call up the last page of that thread and post any spam you find as a reply to that thread. (If I do say so myself) a fairly decent instruction for getting the URL of a post appears here: http://www.hhplace.org/hhboard/viewtopic.php?p=114894#114894.

Once you have the URL of the spam post, you can paste it into your report. The mods do a great job, they are really on top of this stuff. Spam does not stay here for long!

"Think outside the box." I know it is supposed to mean "Let's get creative" but it is a stupid way of saying that.

harem

Oh. Actually the Spice Girls did make a bit of a splash here -- among the female portion of the "two generations younger than me" set. That is part of the reason she is unknown to me. My aforementioned disconnect is the rest of the reason.

This is likely an illustration of just how disconnected I am from the celebrity-driven popular culture (mostly by choice) but I cannot recall having ever heard of her.

pessimist

Technically, nothing at all. Most of my music is in compressed digital format now (Ogg Vorbis -- it is like MP3) so I do not play CD's all that often. In the spirit of the thread, Artie Shaw is currently playing on my Ogg Vorbis jukebox system.