(08-16-2022, 01:49 PM)Alliecat Wrote: ...with a lava monster in the background?
Reminds me of the remains of the International Marketplace, where I bought one of these to support one of the vendors who was just so darn nice.
>sigh<
Pele! Goddess (es) of the volcano!
One of these hula dolls came from the Aloha Stadium Swap Meet. The second one was sent to me by a relative after I moved to Utah, "in case you were missing Hawaii."
16 August - A Doll A Day 2022:
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16 August - New Book on an Old Subject
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Years ago, maybe decades ago, when "internet stuff" was really taking off, I decided I wanted to learn web site design and stuff, so I purchased a big stack of books about HTML and CSS and JAVASCRIPT and related subjects. Back then, most of the books were published by a company called O'Reilly, and they were pretty ex-pensive, like thirty or forty bucks apiece. I spent a couple hundred bucks or more on those books, and I lugged them around for years -- while barely cracking open a single cover. I kept those books until they were obsolete. I think I finally donated them to the local library book sale in Waialua.
Here I am, forever and an age later, and a week or ten days ago I had a sudden urge once again to learn to set up a web page on my own. I literally took a break from what I was doing -- some kind of fix-it project outside -- and fired up the computer and searched Amazon for a current, entry-level HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) book.
HTML code is the "language" used to program web pages. As is to be ex-pected, HTML gets updated periodically. I think the current version is HTML 5. Supposedly this new book I purchased is current, although, gah! Amazon reviews! Some reviews say the book is all up to date. Other reviews say it is outdated. So whatever -- it's probably adequate, especially since I'm unlikely to ever open the book.
I mean, seriously, why do I want to create a web page? Individual web pages, and blogs, and, if recent activity levels here at DM are an accurate indicator, forums are yesterday's news. I shoulda bought a book on how to use TikTok or... what seems kind of weird to me, apparently Discord is making a comeback of sorts with The Younger Generation. I was talking to some college-age relatives a while back, and asking them what online hangouts they use, and they told me that they are mostly on Discord.
If Discord is making a comeback, then Dolly Market seems kinda hep, huh? I mean, there's still a Dolly Market live chat "server" on Discord:
https://discord.com/channels/30437136881...8810774529
Discord does my head in. I have no idea how the navigation works. But Dolly Market has a Discord channel, and I've recently been stepping back in -- teeny tiny bit -- to try to figure out the new AI text-based image generating app that's all the rage, MidJourney, that is hosted on Discord.
Anyway, for some reason, I wanted to learn to make a simple web page, so I bought a book. The books are still ex-pensive, and O'Reilly is still around, although this is not an O'Reilly book.
The spiral binding is a fun and functional touch. The spiral bound version cost more than the regular spine version, but if I'm gonna have a book that I'm never going to use, I may as well have the more fun and functional version.
They're not dolls, they're action figures!