Larry M. Edwards - New-Media Consultant, Journalist, Editor, author, Webtop Publisher, Professional Communicator, Instructor, and Itinerant Internet N'er-Do-Well

<BODY BACKGROUND="images/newback.jpg" BGCOLOR="#ced6e7" text="#000000" link="#GGGGDD" vlink="#FF00FF" ALINK="#FF0000"> <P ALIGN=center> <A NAME="just"> <FONT SIZE=5 COLOR="MAROON">More Fascinating Facts <BR> About This <BR> <I>Larry Edwards</I> Character</FONT></H2> <P ALIGN=CENTER> <IMG ALIGN=middle SRC=images/rulewt.gif> <BR> <P ALIGN=CENTER> <A NAME="index"> <IMG ALIGN=middle SRC=images/rulewt.gif> <P ALIGN=center> | <A HREF="articles.html">Articles</A> | <A HREF="resume.html">Résumé</A> | <A HREF="#just">Just Me</A> | <A HREF="cool.html#cool">Cool Stuff</A> | <A HREF="cool.html#hands">Hands Off!</A> | <A HREF="cool.html#sound">Sound Off</A> |<BR> | <A HREF="cool.html#pet">Pet Peeves</A> | <A HREF="cool.html#ponder">Ponderables</A> | <A HREF="cool.html#favor">Favorites</A> | <A HREF="cool.html#web">Web Links</A> | <A HREF="nkdlady1.html">Naked Ladies</A> | <A HREF="nakedcomments.html">Naked Comments</A> | <A HREF="cool.html#mail">Send Mail</A> | <P ALIGN=CENTER> <IMG ALIGN=middle SRC=images/rulewt.gif> <BR> <A NAME="cool"> <P ALIGN=CENTER> <IMG ALIGN=middle SRC=images/rulewt.gif> <BR> <P> <H2><IMG SRC="images/eicbult.gif" ALT="O" ALIGN=left HSPACE=15 BORDER=0><FONT COLOR="#008080">Cool Stuff I Like to Do</FONT></H2> <TABLE ALIGN=right WIDTH=157 BORDER=5> <TR><TD> <A HREF="athelm.html"><IMG SRC="images/le-ss01s.jpg" ALT="At the helm" ALIGN=right BORDER=1></A> </TD></TR> <TR><TD ALIGN=center> <I>I'm at the helm of</I> Stars & Stripes. <I>That's Paul Cayard on the left. <BR> (Click on it to see the big picture.)</I> </TD></TR> </TABLE> <UL> <LI><B>Sailing</B> (especially on the ocean   <I>click on the photo</I>) <LI><B>Play the fiddle, string bass and guitar </B>(old-time and bluegrass music, and traditional jazz, especially at the NOTFC, Weiser, Idaho, third full week in June) <LI><B>Wine tasting</B> (reds mostly, but a cool Gundlach Bundschu gewürtztraminer on a hot summer day is mighty fine, too) <LI><B>Fart around with HTML</B> (like make it do things it's not supposed to be able to do   I confess, I've become an HTML junkie) <LI><B>Read</B> (I lean toward mysteries these days   Sue Grafton, Dick Francis, Sara Paretsky, Jonathon Gash   but I've enjoyed many a good Louis L'Amour Western, as well as stuff by Mark Twain, John Irving, P.J. O'Rourke, Kurt Vonnegut and W. Shakespeare) </UL> <A NAME="hands"> <P ALIGN=CENTER> <IMG ALIGN=middle SRC=images/rulewt.gif> <BR> <H2><IMG SRC="images/eicbult.gif" ALT="O" ALIGN=left HSPACE=15 BORDER=0><FONT COLOR="#008080">Hands Off!</FONT></H2> <BLOCKQUOTE> <TABLE ALIGN=left WIDTH=123 BORDER=5> <TR><TD> <A HREF="ac-ball.html"><IMG SRC="images/ac-balls.jpg" ALT="Janis and Larry 4ever" ALIGN=left BORDER=1></A> </TD></TR> <TR><TD ALIGN=center> <I>This is Janis and me at the 1995 America's Cup Ball at the chi-chi Hotel del Coronado - compliments of Moët & Chandon, of course. <BR> (Click on it for the big picture.)</I> </TD></TR> </TABLE> <FONT SIZE=5><B>F</B></FONT>or you <B>NetChicks</B> surfing for <B>NetStuds</B> like me, <B>HANDS OFF!</B> The store's closed. I'm quite happily married to the cute babe (and Net Newbie) Janis Cadwallader, educator extraordinaire and a down-right good pal o' mine. (She'll fight to keep me. At least I hope she will.) <P> Janis is into collecting paperweights (glass, not granite), birdwatching (I spotted her a life bird once) and amassing vast quantities of Swatch watches (I wish I was kidding). In fact, she's so into paperweights, she's the president of the <A HREF="http://w3.thegroup.net/~janisc/pca/" TARGET="_parent">San Diego Chapter of the Paperweight Collectors' Association</A>. </BLOCKQUOTE> <A NAME="sound"> <P ALIGN=CENTER> <IMG ALIGN=middle SRC=images/rulewt.gif> <BR> <H2><IMG SRC="images/eicbult.gif" ALT="O" ALIGN=left HSPACE=15 BORDER=0><FONT COLOR="#008080">Sounding Off</FONT></H2> <UL> <LI>If you want to know what's wrong with America today, just watch day-time TV talks shows. <LI>Professional sports has gotten too big for its britches. </UL> <A NAME="pet"> <P ALIGN=CENTER> <IMG ALIGN=middle SRC=images/rulewt.gif> <BR> <H2><IMG SRC="images/eicbult.gif" ALT="O" ALIGN=left HSPACE=15 BORDER=0><FONT COLOR="#008080">Pet Peeve(s)</FONT></H2> <UL> <LI>Brainless, illiterate TV and radio news readers who massacre the English language. <LI>TV newscasts that insist on providing subtitles, then misspelling the words. <LI>Air travel: I don't like air ports and I don't like air planes. <LI>Handsets on fax machines, obviously designed by a direct descendant of a torturer from the Spanish Inquisition. </UL> <A NAME="ponder"> <P ALIGN=CENTER> <IMG ALIGN=middle SRC=images/rulewt.gif> <BR> <H2><IMG SRC="images/eicbult.gif" ALT="O" ALIGN=left HSPACE=15 BORDER=0><FONT COLOR="#008080">Ponderables</FONT></H2> <BLOCKQUOTE>Why is it that when you're dog tired and ready to pound the pillow, that after brushing your teeth you're suddenly wide awake? (I lose a lot of sleep over this one. <FONT SIZE=4>;-}</FONT>)</BLOCKQUOTE> <A NAME="favor"> <P ALIGN=CENTER> <IMG ALIGN=middle SRC=images/rulewt.gif> <BR> <H2><IMG SRC="images/eicbult.gif" ALT="O" ALIGN=left HSPACE=15 BORDER=0><FONT COLOR="#008080">A Few of My Favorite Things</FONT></H2> <UL> <LI><B>Quote</B>   Lay on, MacDuff! And be damned he who first cries, Hold, enough. <LI><B>Wine</B>   Cabernet Sauvignon, with enough oak that you can feel the wood grain, and so dry it leaves dust in your mouth. A dry, spicy Zinfandel is also high on my list. (Chardonay I leave for the white-carpet crowd.) <LI><B>Breakfast</B>   Tomato and cheese omelette (fresh, ripe tomatoes only, please   not the fried green variety, especially in book form   yechk!   talk about a waste of good, green trees ...) <LI><B>Outdoors</B>   A fresh breeze over the stern quarter and a leisurely following sea (on a course for Mexico, Hawaii, or, better yet, Rangiroa). <LI><B>TV Show(s)</B>   Lovejoy and Inspector Morse&#148 (the Brits do know how to produce quality, prime-time stuff); and Murder, She Wrote (I know, I know, it was never that great of a show. But understand that the very foundation of my and Janis' courtship revolved around Jessica Fletcher. I didn't have a TV at the time, Janis did, and every Sunday I'd go to her house for dinner (popcorn) and TV. Well, sometimes it involved more than just dinner and TV, but now you're getting personal!) That tradition continued after we got married. We went into mourning over CBS' decision to drop Murder, She Wrote. At least we had a chance to visit the <A HREF="images/jesshous.jpg" TARGET="home_body"><B>Jessica Fletcher House</B></A> in Mendocino. <LI>Playing electronic hearts (lowest score so far = 1 point; still striving for that elusive 0   Anna, Lynda and Terri, eat your hearts out :-). <LI><A HREF="nkdlady1.html"><B>Naked Ladies</B></A> (Photos: in <FONT COLOR="PURPLE">Living Color</FONT>!!) </UL> <A NAME="thisone"><A NAME="web"> <P ALIGN=CENTER> <IMG ALIGN=middle SRC=images/rulewt.gif> <BR> <H2><IMG SRC="images/eicbult.gif" ALT="O" ALIGN=left HSPACE=15 BORDER=0><FONT COLOR="#008080">Cool Web Sites (beyond the obvious)</FONT></H2> <UL> <LI><A HREF="#thisone">This one</A>, for starters <LI><A HREF="http://www.best.com/~dsiegel/high_five/high_five.html">The High Five Award Page</A> <LI><A HREF="http://cdc715_0.cdc.polimi.it/~pez0096/index.html">Ciro Puglisi World Wide Web Home Page </A> <LI><A HREF="http://beacon-www.asa.utk.edu/archives/iwriter/intro.html">Internet Writer Home Page</A> <LI><A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/~pcmag/dw/dw0616.htm">Willmott's Web Weekender</A> </UL> <P ALIGN=CENTER> <A NAME="mail"> <IMG ALIGN=middle SRC=images/rulewt.gif> <BR> <H2><IMG SRC="images/eicbult.gif" ALT="O" ALIGN=left HSPACE=15 BORDER=0><FONT COLOR="#008080">Mail</FONT></H2> <BLOCKQUOTE> <B>Send your comments, complaints or unfounded catcalls to <A HREF="mailto:larry@larry-edwards.com">larry@larry-edwards.com</A></B> <P> Read <A HREF="nakedcomments.html" TARGET="home_body">other peoples' comments</A> (mostly remarks about the internationally renowned Naked Ladies pages; some comments are not so nice, so proceed at your own risk). <P> <B>Thanks for stopping by. <P> <I>Seeee ya.</I></B> <P> Return to <A HREF="index.html" TARGET="_parent"><B>Home Page</B></A> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P ALIGN=CENTER> <IMG ALIGN=middle SRC=images/rulewt.gif> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P><FONT size=2><B>Copyright © 1996-<script type="text/javascript"> var d = new Date() document.write(d.getFullYear())</script>, Larry M Edwards</B></FONT> </B> </CENTER> </BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> </PRE> </BODY> </HTML>