Martina, realizing she was dealing with a courageous, though guileless member of the opposite sex, tried another tack - bribery.
"Martina weell geeve Keevie a braand new, geenuine, straw cowboy haat - jeest leeck the one Heeth Leedger vore in zat cowboy movie, if you do zis"
Kevin immediately stopped his whinging and whining and asked, eagerly,
"Just like the one Daniel wears?"
"No I'm not! ... and you can't make me!" he screamed again - this time just like a little boy.
The convertible came to a screaming halt. Martina and her thigh-high leather boots got out.
She lowered her face to the bespectacled, pouting tea-boy, sulking on the back-seat and said quietly and with some degree of sincerity ...
... my sharp intelligence and interest in botany and landscape design ... but how does Tobobo's evil ways fit into this? Unless he was once, like me - a little goody-two-shoes - and has been forced to the dark side by . . .
@ross macintosh said:
$700 million. Maybe you Australians need to elect practical decision makers.
That's the trouble Ross - we have. They can see a payoff here - in more than just cold cash [tourism] and prestige. Opera is an elitist 'sport'.
It's something the politicians can point to and take their bows - rather than investing in the intangible aspects of health, education and policing - ie the quantity and quality training of medical staff, teachers and police. Spending money in these areas is regarded as money down the drain.
What voters can't actually see or measure they don't value.
A cursory encounter with a nurse, teacher or policeman doesn't give a layperson in-depth insight into their standard of competence. To attract highly motivated, intelligent and dedicated recruits to these non-profit public service areas would blow their meager budgets. Unlike 50 years ago these areas are now attracting the lower end of university graduates many of whom would not have been accepted as students by these same universities 50 years ago.
Don't you worry - the $700 million [Australian] will have been well and truly covered. The bean-counters will have done their work. This will make money over time. It's a one off - unlike health, education and security which just grow and grow and are never ending.
Sorry if this is a dumb question but which Photoshop folder do these files go into - 'Plugins' or 'Plug-Ins' or 'Plug-Ins/Filters' or some other folder?
Walking is good, not only for getting the most out of a healthy diet - weight-wise, but it also helps maintain my general health - physical and mental. I also intend to start some light weight training to improve muscle tone.
Having said this I still find it difficult to keep it up over long periods, as something always seems to come up to derail my good intentions. Computers, SketchUp and an obsessive personality don't help!
. . . and still is, despite the influx of moneyed, European, American and Australian tourists who have tried, like the infamous and Mysterious Yellow Man, Tobobo, to subvert this tropical paradise into their particular distorted, criminal and vandalized view of Shangri-La.
Unfortunately for them Kevin, Office Tea Boy Extraordinaire was, at this very moment hard at work fabricating his miraculous global air conditioner based on knowledge gained from his secret research at the lair of his guardian Tobobo, the Mysterious Yellow Man in Birmingham, UK.
To the less perceptive and those of weaker and purely academic intellect, KOTBE, appeared dimwitted and always in a muddle - however his global air conditioner to save the world from global warming was a brilliant concept, based on the completely opposite principals as current, polluting, energy wasting air-conditioners. It used basic organic laws of photosynthesis, convectional air flow and the phenomenal absorption of carbon dioxide by specially designed plants – especially TEA [Camellia sinensis var. magnificum].
As he worked, single mindedly on his invention, KOTBE, was unaware that he was being observed. From his headquarters in Birmingham, UK the yellow hand of Tobobo, TMYM adjusted the image on his surveillance monitor. His large eyes bulged even more at what he saw . . . .
tinanne
Such a dramatic, panoramic and beautiful landscape would overpower anything man-made - as it should. Your 'cabin' is bound to come off second best if it tries to compete. Perhaps a better tactic would be to view the house close-up for details and have the landscape seen as background - through windows as its occupants would.
Another poster has background scenes of the Dalmatian coast as seen from his SU patio - works very well.
Little did Daniel realize that back on the other side of the world . . . Bali in fact . . . Kevin, our plucky hero had cast aside foolish sequined fripperies and all associations with any country whose head of state was not democratically elected . . . so that he could save the planet from the looming disaster of global warming . . .
TBD - Your 'trick' using Alt+Space>M[ove]>direction arrows, works just fine. You have saved me heaps of frustration and wasted [holiday] time. Is this a Windows or a Photoshop 'trick'? Are there any others?
Thank you very, very much.
I'm having a great deal of difficulty trying to get Photoshop's dialogue boxes to appear on screen so I can enter data or adjust sliders.
I think the problem arises because I am on holiday away from my usual dual 17" monitor setup and have to use a single 15" monitor instead.
When I try to - say, change the size of the canvas of the image I'm working on - the dialogue box where I input the dimensions I want appears off screen so I cannot see it. It also locks most of the menus so that the only way to proceed is to close down Photoshop using the Task Manager and start again.
I have made sure the Display Properties>Settings>Advanced [Windows XP Pro] are set to using a single monitor of lower resolution and refresh rate and everything else seems to work fine - except for Photoshop [6.0].
I have tried to find some way of centering the dialogues on the Net without and success.
Any ideas?
I can understand why Alex has persevered - he's an artist! That's what I find it does best - drawing and sketching, especially shading and hatching with varying pressure to create unique marks.
I still get lazy and use paper and pencil and then scan.
What do they say about old dogs?
Boofredlay
I have had a WACOM Intuos for about a year and find that like all such devices - including the mouse - practice makes perfect. You have to force yourself to use it, at first, because you can often do tasks a lot easier using your trusty mouse - these skills you have been improving for years.
I still find it awkward because I don't use it enough.
Setting up the tablet's properties window is critical to suit your own working preferences. I find using a small portion of the table's working surface preferable to using the entire tablet.
Good luck.
Shaun
Why haven't I heard of this little marvel before? Dare I think "conspiracy theory"? - something that has dogged the development of anything that even looks like a competitor to the internal combustion engine.
If all I've read is true it will be a little humdinger! - especially the bit about using its cooled exhaust air to air-condition the interior.
One question I couldn't find an answer to, acknowledging its zero emitting claims, is how much energy does it take to compress the air 'fuel'? I would suspect that even if this is significant it would still be way ahead of our present gas guzzlers.
Eric - I gathered that when I read Jackson's post. I was just explaining why I posted it here.
Jackson - Thanks. Feel free - I thought it was an SU "render", that's why I put it here.
Maggy
Takes one to know one! 
But in knowing, I have moments when, apparently like you, I must deliberately go against type and do something provocatively un-anal [if there is such a word]. Are 'creative' and 'expressive' synonyms?
Alas, editing the pendulum was not one of them.
I suspect we are not alone here! 
Ron - It's a worry. 
Maggy - Just put it down to my laziness.
The image I used to build the clock had the pendulum in this 'neat and tidy' position as did all the others I looked at as possibilities for the model - no doubt signs of anal retentive personalities?