Comments on: Everybody… http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:17:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Violet Socks http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-289 Violet Socks Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:35:50 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-289 Your artwork is stunning. But since you asked, I actually cannot read your blog. The white on black is illegible to me -- I have to copy it to something else to read the text. Your artwork is stunning. But since you asked, I actually cannot read your blog. The white on black is illegible to me — I have to copy it to something else to read the text.

]]> By: Alan Kellogg http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-161 Alan Kellogg Sun, 11 Dec 2005 02:34:56 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-161 Regarding attitude I'd have to say the big difference between entelodonts and pigs is that in 20 million years the suiformes developed a sense of humor. A rotten, nasty, let's giggle at others' misfortune sense of humor; but at least they're more prone to laugh at you than evicerate. Regarding attitude I’d have to say the big difference between entelodonts and pigs is that in 20 million years the suiformes developed a sense of humor. A rotten, nasty, let’s giggle at others’ misfortune sense of humor; but at least they’re more prone to laugh at you than evicerate.

]]> By: Lace-mop http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-134 Lace-mop Thu, 08 Dec 2005 10:56:57 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-134 I find the white text on the black background a refreshing change from the usual white glare that accompanies many pages on the internet. I agree with Cilla that it is your blog and therefore is entirely up to you. I will however say your pictures whilst perhaps not needing the emphasis, certainly benefit from the stark contrast of the black. The background as it is compliments and adds a distinguished look that many blogs lack. Keep the entries and pictures coming, both are astounding. I find the white text on the black background a refreshing change from the usual white glare that accompanies many pages on the internet.

I agree with Cilla that it is your blog and therefore is entirely up to you. I will however say your pictures whilst perhaps not needing the emphasis, certainly benefit from the stark contrast of the black. The background as it is compliments and adds a distinguished look that many blogs lack.

Keep the entries and pictures coming, both are astounding.

]]> By: Lord Runolfr http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-115 Lord Runolfr Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:06:08 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-115 I use white-on-black for my own blog... well, actually I use light grey on black to keep the contrast from being quite so harsh, but you know what I mean. I actually find the dark background to be easier on my eyes. Runolfr I use white-on-black for my own blog… well, actually I use light grey on black to keep the contrast from being quite so harsh, but you know what I mean.

I actually find the dark background to be easier on my eyes.

Runolfr

]]> By: Mark Hadfield http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-114 Mark Hadfield Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:22:19 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-114 Hello Carl Here's what your site looks like to me: ftp://ftp.niwa.co.nz/incoming/m.hadfield/ogeorge.png This is a screen dump of Firefox 1.5 run full screen with 1280x1024 resolution. My default font is Verdana 16 (assuming 96 dpi). I find the above unreadable. The quickets way to make it readable is to suppress your style sheet (menu item "View/Page Style/No style"). Then I get ftp://ftp.niwa.co.nz/incoming/m.hadfield/ogeorge_no_style.png It's not pretty, but I can read it. My thoughts: * I don't like white text on dark backgrounds. Others do. I can live with it. * White text on dark backgrounds works poorly, I think, for small fonts, much more so that the "normal" shading. * The combination of my preferred font and your 62.5% scaling is far too small for me. OK, others might get different results, but what you're saying is "make the text 62.5% of the size the user wants". Why? * However you choose to set up your page styles, I can override it when looking at them. This is what styles are for. So I'll cope with whatever you throw at me. Hello Carl

Here’s what your site looks like to me:

ftp://ftp.niwa.co.nz/incoming/m.hadfield/ogeorge.png

This is a screen dump of Firefox 1.5 run full screen with 1280×1024 resolution. My default font is Verdana 16 (assuming 96 dpi).

I find the above unreadable. The quickets way to make it readable is to suppress your style sheet (menu item “View/Page Style/No style”). Then I get

ftp://ftp.niwa.co.nz/incoming/m.hadfield/ogeorge_no_style.png

It’s not pretty, but I can read it.

My thoughts:

* I don’t like white text on dark backgrounds. Others do. I can live with it.

* White text on dark backgrounds works poorly, I think, for small fonts, much more so that the “normal” shading.

* The combination of my preferred font and your 62.5% scaling is far too small for me. OK, others might get different results, but what you’re saying is “make the text 62.5% of the size the user wants”. Why?

* However you choose to set up your page styles, I can override it when looking at them. This is what styles are for. So I’ll cope with whatever you throw at me.

]]> By: Bill http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-113 Bill Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:57:41 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-113 Hey, I followed the link from Hank's blog to yours. It's very impressive, as are your illustrations. It's great to see blogs on new topics, especially when they: 1) don't contribute to the muddle of from-the-hip political punditry, and 2) do discuss creative things about which the blogger has some expertise. Hope you enjoy the blogging experience. Hey, I followed the link from Hank’s blog to yours. It’s very impressive, as are your illustrations. It’s great to see blogs on new topics, especially when they: 1) don’t contribute to the muddle of from-the-hip political punditry, and 2) do discuss creative things about which the blogger has some expertise. Hope you enjoy the blogging experience.

]]> By: Creek Running North http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-112 Creek Running North Sun, 04 Dec 2005 01:09:53 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-112 <strong>Olduvai George</strong> Tuesday is my friend Carl Dennis Buell's 59th birthday. So how come he's giving us a present? Carl has been illustrating and illuminating the natural world for some decades: I think I first saw his work twenty years ago. He... Olduvai George

Tuesday is my friend Carl Dennis Buell’s 59th birthday. So how come he’s giving us a present? Carl has been illustrating and illuminating the natural world for some decades: I think I first saw his work twenty years ago. He…

]]> By: Jackie Read http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-109 Jackie Read Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:59:40 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-109 Hi Carl, I 'discovered' you over at dKos and am so glad I did! I'll be visiting regularly as you bring our deep past to life. Hi Carl, I ‘discovered’ you over at dKos and am so glad I did! I’ll be visiting regularly as you bring our deep past to life.

]]> By: Shannon http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-108 Shannon Sat, 03 Dec 2005 07:30:17 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-108 I love the Entelodont! It was the first thing I noticed on your blog and I racked my brains for the name. I did a web search and well, one thing led to another and I ended up with a brief re-education of ungulate/Artiodactyl evolution. Speaking of which, I'd love to see you post some images/commentary about early whales. I'm very interested in cetaceans from an artistic viewpoint because they just look so...impossible. I can stare at the bones all day but it's such a challenge trying to reconstruct how they looked when alive. Especially that darn migrating blowhole. I love the Entelodont! It was the first thing I noticed on your blog and I racked my brains for the name. I did a web search and well, one thing led to another and I ended up with a brief re-education of ungulate/Artiodactyl evolution.

Speaking of which, I’d love to see you post some images/commentary about early whales. I’m very interested in cetaceans from an artistic viewpoint because they just look so…impossible. I can stare at the bones all day but it’s such a challenge trying to reconstruct how they looked when alive. Especially that darn migrating blowhole.

]]> By: Mishal http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-107 Mishal Fri, 02 Dec 2005 20:51:23 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2005/12/01/everybody/#comment-107 You have a lovely blog here, (I found you through Paul Riddell's The Esoteric Science Resource Center), and your art is to die for -though I'm sure you've heard that plenty of times already. I look forward to seeing and hearing more for you as well as basking in great mammal art. You have a lovely blog here, (I found you through Paul Riddell’s The Esoteric Science Resource Center), and your art is to die for -though I’m sure you’ve heard that plenty of times already. I look forward to seeing and hearing more for you as well as basking in great mammal art.

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