Posted on 08/18/2019 4:25:35 PM PDT by poconopundit
Edited on 08/18/2019 5:00:24 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sorry the text of this vanity is large. The preview looked OK.
Read the text on this link:
http://freeper.org/fr/mark_twain/master_pilots.htm
Or should can adjust the font size of your browser window with Ctrl -, Ctrl +, and Ctrl 0
Hope you like this piece.
Entertaining piece, but very difficult to read, as one column is Trump, the other Twain. A reduction in font size or separating the two articles would help, but that kinda defeats the purpose of the comparison.
Face it, you can’t please everyone, so thanks for the info, I learned a couple of things
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_from_the_Earth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Prayer
The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
Thanks.
Thanks.
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Terrific work. Thank you very much. BUMP!
Or should can adjust the font size of your browser window with Ctrl -, Ctrl +, and Ctrl 0
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Well, a couple of days ago I pressed something like ctrl or alt Down arrow
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My screen was upside down!
It was fresh in my memory, so I reversed and got thing back to ‘normal.’
Lesson is — Be Careful using the Computer Dialect.
I read Life on the Mississippi as a kid.
The part about learning the river as the streets of New York, and changing them monthly.
I recall that to this day, although I have not read that book in over 50 years.
Thank you, Kiryandil. I will find and read your suggestions. Great.
Forgive me, Scrambler. The moderator fixed the initial font problem and now it looks much better. The link where the story is on a separate URL shows the story in its most readable form:
http://freeper.org/fr/mark_twain/master_pilots.htm
The part about learning the river as the streets of New York, and changing them monthly.
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I suppose the nearest to a pilot’s knowledge we can find is in the medical profession, where a doctor has a vast amount of material to absorb and keep up with.
And now, with the Internet, there are not many situations where we can’t quickly pick things up.
Nice to hear from another Twain fan.
Don, read the version posted on my separate URL. It should be easier to read and jumping back and forth from Trump to Twain shouldn’t be too bad.
Maybe I should have put the Trump material in a different color. What do you think. I can still change that on my own URL.
Cheers
The HTML was tricky since FR uses pure HTML and allows no CSS styling. So you can't simply <float> an image to the left or right of some text. What I did was create a two column <table> then stuck the text on the left column <td>, and image in the right <td>.
The whole story is organized as one one long <table> with each section being a row or <tr> with two cells or <td>'s, one for each column in the section.
Look at the source code of the webpage to see how this was done.
To make writing and editing easier, I made changes in the free Notepad+++ text reader, then ran the HTML in a separate window. So my computer screen had the webpage on the left and the code to modify on the right.
Another tip: I highlighted each section with comment tags such as: <!--- American Entrepreneur -> to make it easier to navigate the long text.
You have done a great piece of work here! So far I’ve scanned, but also saved for in-depth reading. I recently mailed a letter to the White House to tell President Trump about the great similarity in character between him and the main character of the book “The Navigator” by the late Morris West, one of my favorite authors. I have it in an original hard version and sent my letter with a color copy of the dust cover. The book is all about perseverance and leadership amid a maddening group of troublesome fellow shipwreck mates. Sound familiar? I hope you send your fabulous Mark Twain study to the President, too.
Thanks, Bravada. That’s a good idea. Maybe I’ll do the same.
Good stuff. You have a real talent!
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