If it hasn’t made this board, Ian Gilham, wood floor contractor, extraordinaire from England has aquired a rare deadly asbestos cancer called mesothelioma. His wife of 7 months sent the floormasters.com board the news and a contact email address if you want to respond. Days or hours are what is left for him. If you have been around this board for awhile, you know how knowledgeable he was and how freely he offered sound advice from a seasoned veteran. The email address is:
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Remember him well, sorry to here.
I think he met his wife on here, or knots.
Edited 10/26/2005 11:28 pm ET by DougU
Am exceedingly sorry to hear this. And yes, I shall respond.
Thank you for the post.
Hi, this is Colleen Miller, Ian's wife, and yes, we did meet on the Knots forum way back in 2000. Last August we began the seven-month fiance visa vetting procedure to import him past Homeland Security's tight defenses against retired British flooring contractors and got hitched last March, probably the most intelligent thing either of us have done in our lives.
Thanks, Floorman, for putting this up on the board. Ian can read still, but no longer can type, so he asked me to thank those who've sent emails of support and encouragement, and to send his regrets about decreasing the number of liberals on the forum and in the world. <G>
IanDG
I am very, very sorry to hear this news, and you both have my best wishes. I hold Ian in high regard, and found him one of the most interesting contributors to the board. Wish you two had more time together.Cabinetmaker/college woodworking instructor. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
a man of elegant floors and spirit
he and his will always be a cherished part of this forum
thanks
Yeah, heck yeah he'll be missed. This is sad news indeed.
I was recently saying to my wife that I've been talking with mostly the same folks here for over 5 years now, and it will be a shock when I find out someone has passed.
But you know what? I'm glad to have the chance to say goodbye, instead of hearing about this later.
So so long, Ian. Hope to see you later - Jim
Is there anything we can do for you??.." Feed the good wolf....."
Floorman is the alias for Greg Warren, floorman in So. Cal.
Greg, thanks for the info, and good to see you here again.Ian, I'll always remember your postings of the palace pix and our discussions. You and your family are in my thoughts. Peace to you and your family.
I have always been impressed with your work, and your willingness to give pleasant, patient, and intelligent responses to usually dumb questions. I used a photo one of your floors to do a similar one for one of my clients, and theyr were thrilled. It's an honor to have corresponded with you.
But I'm still not sure I agree with your position on the use of tar paper under wood flooring.
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
It's unfortunate but don't think Ian ever really liked me. Back when the site here changed systems he once wrote that he thought I was arrogant and he always seemed to be picking a fight or argument with me and I never forgot that so I read his posts but never really dialoged with him. Still I always appreciated and studied all his posts here and learned a lot from them. I thought I noticed a while back that he wasn't posting here anymore and I know he will certainly continue to be missed around here by others too.As for his regrets about "the decreasing the number of liberals on the forum and in the world" I'm not so sure that's necessarily the case and I don't think he should worry. We're here and I think our numbers are growing again. And given all the recent attacks and assaults on our character that we been subjected too some of us have gotten fed up and are taking up "real life" activism.Godspeed Ian, till we meet again.
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Sorry to hear about Ian's illness. It had been a while since I'd seen one of his posts, and I had begun to wonder if he had registered under the new system. I guess now we know the reason for his absence. Although it sounds like he is trying to mess with my 'dream team'. As soon as I hit the lottery, I was going to fly the finest BT craftsmen from all 4 corners of the globe to build the ultimate house. Now who the heck is going to do the floors?!
Tell him, I don't care if God does have some floors he needs done, we aren't through with Ian down here yet! We still have questions and aren't finished being inspired by his work.
I enjoyed reading his posts and was amazed at his magnificent work. I wish him all the best.
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And for those of you who may have missed it, here is his website address:
http://www.iandgilham.net/
jt8
"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. " --Theodore N. Vail
Sorry to hear about Ian. Tell him we'll catch'em in the go-round, and raise a pint...What if Schrodinger's cat has nine lives?
Morning Colleen,
Sorry to hear the news. Its going to be a hard one for you I'm sure.
Ian's post were one of the most appreciated posts I would read here....more than most anyone elses on this board. Especially the pictures and stories of his journeys. Very rare kinda person. One that we need more of on this rock. Quite a brave soul. I would venture to guess that if he married you, you must have some of the same qualities.
His time here on this rock will certainly go remember by me. We all will get our chance to experiance the passing of our own lives here and is not to be feared as it is part of the process. I would think his continuing journeys will be as rewarding as this one has been.
Let him know from this liberal that we do still plan on kickin' azz as long as we breathe this air.
Be well
Namaste'
andyThe secret of Zen in two words is, "Not always so"!
When we meet, we say, Namaste'..it means..
I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides,
I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace.
I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you
and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
Ian,
I am so very, very sorry that you are sick. I've always admired your character and your work, and you will be missed by people whom you don't even know.
Amy
See you on the other side..
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
I am very sorry to hear this. If I still drank, I'd raise a whiskey to you laddie.But, but, it's SUPPOSED to taste like that!
Ian fell into a coma late this morning. He'd made the entire round-trip of the Hospice-approved dying process four times, but never the final leap off the merry-go-round. He'd always rally from his Cheyne-Stokes respiration pattern, eat a quarter-cup of soy ice cream, and carry on for another week. I asked the Hospice nurse yesterday where we appear on the Bell curve of death experiences. She said the Bell curve's rim is not thin enough anywhere for us to fit on it. The mystics opine he has unfinished business. I say that if it weren't for this great lump of mutant flesh strangling his subclavian artery, his mighty heart would have made up for the 19-year difference in our ages for some decades to come; it's just doing it's job too well under the circumstances.A few nights ago, he'd decided he'd had quite enough of stool softeners, oxygen cannulas, and emesis, so he poured out the 4 oz.(2400mg) bottle of liquid morphine, used with a dropper for rescue doses, into a crystal tumbler--he's British, mind you--and decided to take control of the situation. With a Bogart flourish, he drank his $61.75 cocktail, then we lay in each others' arms waiting for The End. After a half-hour i asked how he felt. He responded, "Pretty alert, actually", so we sat up and watched "The Life of Brian" while All Souls Day kicked over. ("Jehovah! Jehovah!" has been an in-joke around here ever since the CT scan.)Thanks oodles for the sentiments here, and emails of support and appreciation of Ian's work. I suspect i lost a couple of those trying to reply personally via Ian's email set-up--what the devil is a pop-server outside of baseball, anyhow???--but consider yourselves soundly thanked, agreed?---Colleen
IanDG
sorry for your loss - and ours
Colleen, Sad news, I'm sorry. I'll miss Ian, too.Formerly Bucksnort Billy "what's in a name?" d'oh!
http://www.iandgilham.net/floor%20sanding_files/sanding.htmlthis link in a post here did so much to prepare me for proper refinishing of the oak floors in 2 houses i, a novice for sure, redid. his expertise is one reason BT is so impressive.
sorry to hear the news of his cancer; condolences to you all.
great link.. thanks .. i bookmarked that.. if i recall, that is Colleen's floor , right ?Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
hey I'm envious of you guys - I can't get enough of splintergroupie's writing
as I said before saludos and vaya con dios Ian
remember his photos - so pictured Jane Austin novels w/ Russian wolfhounds afoot and men sipping in their smoking jackets on his timeless floors
time is late and I'm getting to it after taking a pee on the dogwood I planted last week ( who would have thought? ) ciao
john... i hope you diluted that with some good beer...
slainteMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
cheers!
A week or so ago, when Mister T was asking about floor finishing, I searched for this, thinking it was here in BT archives. Just shows what a lousy memory I had.
Good tribute to a man's work to have the instructions live on after him! Still guiding the innocent into the future of sawdust.
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It used to be in the archives, but when we were switched over from WebX it was all lost. However, that's no reason not to reintroduce the material. I have an html copy, but the pictures don't show when I try to post it here. For somebody who is more prospero savvy than me, the sanding thread can be found again at:
http://www.iandgilham.net/floor%20sanding_files/sanding.html
Edited 11/12/2005 12:41 am by aimless
Colleen - Be it friends, family or faith I wish you all that is needed to find peace and comfort during these trying times. I'll keep you and yours in my thoughts and prayers.
Edited 11/2/2005 10:39 pm by pino
Shalom!
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I was gone for a week, and only just now found this thread.I'm so sorry I didn't get to respond while he could still read it.God bless you, Ian.And you too, Colleen.I wish I had the power to heal. At least I DO have the power to remember. I will remember you Ian.
"Other than telling us how to live, think, marry, pray, vote, invest, educate our children and now, die, I think the Republicans have done a fine job of getting government out of our personal lives" -Craig Carter.
Sorry to hear of his passing.
But ... that was a wonderfully worded posting. I especially liked the "Pretty alert, actually", part. Sounds so British.
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
Ohh, what a lovely colleen you are!All my heartfelt sympathies Alan
Ian died about 11:15 this morning just as i was threatening another round of narcotic suppositories. (He had previously invented the word "enemmoids".) A friend stopping by with vittles got pressed into service washing his body in lavender water while i gave my beloved his final shave with The Body Shop Shave Cream--the world's finest aphrodisiac, i might mention. He's now packed in dry ice on his way to Maryland to a non-profit called Anatomy Gifts Registry which will part him out to inquiring minds, then send me back the leftover cremains. Come Springtime, Ian, the Brit rellies, and i will meet over his dad's grave outside London, play "Return to Sender" as we scatter his ashes against council ordinance, then adjourn to a pub to remark at length on what a magnificent father, brother, lover, and craftsman was Ian David Gilham.He suffered greatly, oftimes needlessly, in the course of this disease and palliation, and i gladly tear my heart out in grief that his agony has finally ceased. Thank-you for honoring his work here. Peace to you all,Colleen
IanDG
Peace to all who knew him...
Thank you Ian for your help and thoughts.
Thank you Colleen for your love.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
Bye Ian, you left an awful lot to remember, thanks.Colleen, I think Ian was lucky to have you with him, you sound like one spunky lady. "what's in a name?" d'oh!
<moment of silence> -
and fondest regards to the living - peace -
"there's enough for everyone"
Apparently Heaven is in need of some beautiful flooring, so only the best would do.
...that's not a mistake, it's rustic
That's a very touching tribute to Ian. Best wishes. Godspeed Colleen.Godspeed Ian.
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Colleen,
I am sorry to be only now coming across this thread. Ian and I had some major differences in our ideological views and oft times disagreed as to whether or not the sky was blue, but I always appreciated his honesty, intelligence and reasonings. That he was a craftsman of the highest standards goes without saying, as does his integrity in general.
He`ll be sorely missed and you will be in our prayers.
God Bless.
Lemme get this straight....
YOU BANNED REZ?!?!
Holy bagels and lox Batman!
Colleen, I'm sorry for your loss.
...and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest...
May you be surronded with the best of memories.Come back again if we can help in the future
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Words fail me. Ian was very helpful to me several times, and I admired his work a great deal.
Your posts were always entertaining,too, and I have been sorry to see so few recently.
I'm floundering, though, and can only think to say that I am truly sorry for your loss.
Jon
Colleen, I am terribly sorry for your loss.
AndyAndy Engel
Senior editor, Fine Woodworking magazine
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value. --Robert M. Pirsig
None of this matters in geological time.
May he feel peace and joy in his new surroundings. Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"I don't think it's funny no more" Nick Lowe.
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Ian was one hell of a man. I've always admired him for both his style and craftsmanship. I'm also sorry for finding this so damn late. My condolences and best wishes to you and his/your families.<!----><!---->
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And may god bless you, he was a very,very fortunate man. may your good memories be plentiful, and your pain be a wisp of smoke in the wind. .." Feed the good wolf....."
Colleen,
I am terribly sorry to hear Ian is gone. He was a generous man with his thoughts and he will be surely missed. It's been years since I've actively been on this board, but I remember you two often contributing on Knots & Breaktime. My best to you.
Tim Sams
We've loss a brother of the highest order and it is with tears that I write this farewell.
Gabe
SG,I am so very very sorry. I hope the warmth and love of your marriage to Ian keeps you warm forever.Theodora"No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. " ~Leo Dworken
Colleen,I have only now learned of this. Please accept my condolences. Ian was indeed a unique voice on this board and, I am sure, in this world.I will be thinking of both of you.Peace.Rich Beckman
Hi Colleen,
I was so happy for both of you when I heard (read) of your marriage and now am equally saddened by your loss.
Thinking of you,
eddie
May the road always rise up to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields, and until you meet again, May God hold You in the hollow of His Hand.
Edited 11/5/2005 2:53 am by eddiefromAustralia
Colleen...Kelly and I were very very sad indeed to hear this news. We considered Ian to be one of the "good guys" in the Tav. People around the World will have his works to remember him by, as we will have the pictures from his site and postings. His work, like yours, is Art.Take care of yourself.Keep the FaithNewf & Kelly
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. Please Give.....http://www.redcross.org/Edited 11/5/2005 8:03 am by Newf
Edited 11/5/2005 8:04 am by Newf
Words cannot express my sorrow for you and your family.
Love, Dave and Family
SG, someone just told me what happened and I couldn't believe it. I managed to sneak in to see and I have cried from the first post.
If you need anything just ask.
Matt, aka Qtrmeg.
Colleen, I just heard -- someone kindly sent me an email, probably remembering that you adopted my drill press awhile back! I'm so, so sorry for your loss. I was ecstatic when you and Ian got married! and very sorry I never got out to meet the two of you. Please take care this winter, and holler if you need anything or just to keep in touch. Ian will be missed greatly by all.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)Another proud member of the "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>)
Times like this I just get plain ole ticked off.Ian's posts...I marveled at his talent. I have quite a few pictures of his work saved in a foilder. One of those folders I open now and then and just stare at and wonder how the hell can he do that.I'll miss him. Heck, I miss him already.Collen, glad to see your always appreciated sense of humor is still intact.Now here's a thought for you...I think a while back you posted a thread about your floors being done up in Montana...You flew Ian over to do them...I chuckled and said to myself "I bet they get married."Ha!I'm so glad the two of you had your time together. And I bet you spent quite a bit of it laughing.My best to you both.
Dearest one, I think he may have meant to say this.. Ihope I didn't break any rules, just channeling.
(Warren Zevon & Jorge Calderon)Shadows are falling and I'm running out of breathKeep me in your heart for awhileIf I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any lessKeep me in your heart for awhileWhen you get up in the morning and you see that crazy sunKeep me in your heart for awhileThere's a train leaving nightly called when all is said and doneKeep me in your heart for awhileSha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-loKeep me in your heart for awhileSha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-loKeep me in your heart for awhileSometimes when you're doing simple thingsaround the houseMaybe you'll think of me and smileYou know I'm tied to you like the buttons onyour blouseKeep me in your heart for awhileHold me in your thoughts, take me to your dreamsTouch me as I fall into viewWhen the winter comes keep the fires litAnd I will be right next to youEngine driver's headed north to Pleasant StreamKeep me in your heart for awhileThese wheels keep turning but they're running outof steamKeep me in your heart for awhileSha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-loKeep me in your heart for awhileSha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-loKeep me in your heart for awhileKeep me in your heart for awhile Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"I don't think it's funny no more" Nick Lowe.
I've been signing in using Ian's computer to come here for my daily therapeutic bawling session. An ordinarily tough cookie, i'm deeply moved by the regard so many -- Gabe, you old softie! -- have shown to my darlin' and your gentleness to me. I would like to save this thread so one day i might read it and hopefully only get the warm fuzzies instead of the wet snotties, using that as a benchmark for the healing process.I couldn't save or print the thread with Ian's browser (Opera), so i re-registered myself to see if i could do better with my Mozilla. I must be having a mental lapse: i try various things, i copy and paste to WORD, but it comes out in an egregiously expanded format. Like Sphere's tagline, I don't think it's funny no more. I couldn't find anything about this in the FAQ's and i'm too pooped to ponder further. If anyone would care to send me a link about how this is done, walk me through it, or just do me the honors and email the file to [email protected], i would send you all the food that my neighbors have brought to our house over the last four days.Colleen
Edited 11/6/2005 8:42 pm ET by splintergroupie
Colleen,This is not going to be quick.With Mozilla...Open the thread from the beginning.You'll have to do one page at a time. (20 posts at a time.)Once the page is loaded up, Click "File" at the top.Choose "save page as", select a location, and before you hit the save button, make sure that it says "Web Page, Complete".When you have finished, you'll find an html file, along with a folder with exactly the same. The folder name will also have the word "files".If you open the html file, while offline or on, the entire page will open up again. With all graphics, etc, included.Now open the next 20, and do the same thing. Except change the name a bit before saving.Create a new folder to hold all this, then name each save, something that makes it easier to remember. Keep the html file and it's attendant folder in the same location.Save this entire new folder to a cd and you'll be able to open the pages anytime.
"And, in my humble view, neither Democratic nor Republican party politics has anything to do with lib or con anymore. It's now just pandering to the visceral hatred that's been bred amongst those who refuse to waste their time and energy performing one of the singular most difficult tasks known to man: thinking." -SHG
I have sent you one version of this, but in the event it is also unreadable, I will copy text and send it also
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Thanks, Jeff and Paul. I've saved the web pages to a folder on the desktop, though the left frame unfortunately gets saved that way, too.Paul, the links you sent didn't work, but i appreciate that you saved and sent the text for me; that's essentially what i needed for forwarding to Ian's little brother Peter in England, who came here for a month to help with his care. <deep bow>
Colleen,Right click on the thread link in the left frame.Choose, "open in a new tab".Now you'll have the thread opened in a new tab, or window. Without the left frame.Follow the original instructions from that point on.When you want to go to the next 20, or the previous 20, use the link at the bottom of the page, instead of going back to that left frame. It'll stay in the current frame you have.
"And, in my humble view, neither Democratic nor Republican party politics has anything to do with lib or con anymore. It's now just pandering to the visceral hatred that's been bred amongst those who refuse to waste their time and energy performing one of the singular most difficult tasks known to man: thinking." -SHG
well, splinty... i'll tell you one thing.... only ian and you could get a lot of these old faces to come around and lift a glass..
this has been one of the best wakes i've been to in years...
may the wind be always at his back...Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Well Sweetpea, hopefully the old buzzard is watching.
Heres mud in your eye mate. To a good friend.
Happy travels.
Whatever it was.................I didnt do it.
Many people will never find the one that makes their heart sing.
I am glad you did.The heck, you say?
Colleen,
I know that you appreciate the fact that I say what I mean and I mean what I say.
There was something in Ian that I appreciated as there was always something special in my admiration of you.
The loss of Ian struck a chord with me and I felt the loss.
Gabe
" I say what I mean and I mean what I say."There was that about Ian too.
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God bless
bobl Volo, non valeo
Baloney detecter
after ypu've done what Luka said and have the htm file and the folder, you can open the htm file with word so it doesn't use the stuff in the folde,
bobl Volo, non valeo
Baloney detecter
Files won't attach from my signature, so we'll see if they attach with from Ian's computer...IanDG
Edited 11/7/2005 11:04 pm by IanDG
Yes, it HAS been quite a wake, all the better for being unexpected. Thanks for all the help re saving this thread and my equilibrium. Today was a better day. A friend came (from Canada!) today to pitch in to clean house for the first time in three months, which both pleases my nearest neighbors and was cathartic for me. I'm posting a picture of Ian and me on our best day, and another of Ian's memorial tree, a ginkgo i planted the day he died, fertilized with our urine. Ian got to reading about organic fertilizers last summer and put us on a program of daily urine collection, diluted and poured on the trees. My god, they did take off! Anyway, we always cared for lots of critters and whenever one would die, we'd plant them in the yard under an appropriate tree, e.g. "Bob" the Manx got a Bobbing-for-apple tree. Well, ginkgo extract is an herbal used to enhance memory. The gnomes are just there to irritate him.
Splinter, your posts always gave me a laugh.
Yeah, I laughed too.
And thanks for the pictures Colleen.Cabinetmaker/college woodworking instructor. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Dogwood...thanks for that, John. Dogwood trees won't grow in Montana, but my Chester, a Welsh Springer spaniel, is the next likely candidate for that great food bowl in the sky and a Red Osier Dogwood [shrub] will suit that sweet old boy right down to the ground. Re the link to Ian's website: interested parties might wish to save that thread to your hard drives bec by the time i thought to ask Ian about his website term/hosting/payment, he was no longer able to remember those details, so i don't know how long his site will be extant. If others should want to make it available on their own sites, feel free, with our blessings. I would add to that knowledge base that we experienced an unpleasant mess when we tried to use the leftover Parkes finish two years later for final coats: it had lost its leveling ability in that time. We ended up sanding off a layer of lumpy stuff and buying fresh finish. I also discovered while doing the final coats that i preferred using a 9" foam pad over Ian's woolly roller...a bit slower, but no fur in the finish. For the mirthfully minded, i have a image of my experiment with a 10" car buffer -- $20 brand new at Big Lots -- i used to flatten drywall seams. It worked extremely well and provides that all-too-rare moment of satisfaction when patience is not a virtue. Sure, you can pay more at some place like Tool Crib and get the vacuum attachment...Unfortunately, error #(ID: 004-312-65048) prevents me from doing so.
Colleen,Ian's domain name is registered through " http://dotregistrar.com/indexn.html "If you contact them by phone and tell them the situation, they can probably walk you through getting the domain registered in your name instead.His website is hosted by " http://lowesthosting.com/ "Again, if you contact them by phone and explain, they will probably work with you to get it into your name.It looks like the domain name expires in feb of 2006. And the website hosting is possibly yearly. I have no idea when that would expire.In both cases, if they understand that he is no longer going to be paying any bills, and that you want to take over payment, they are likely to work with you.....On his website...The following pages have a space for a large image, but the image is missing...http://www.iandgilham.net/Photos/Vietnam/Landscapes/chamstemple.htmlhttp://www.iandgilham.net/Photos/Vietnam/Landscapes/chamstemple.htmlhttp://www.iandgilham.net/Photos/Vietnam/Landscapes/chamstempleview.htmlhttp://www.iandgilham.net/Photos/Vietnam/Landscapes/chamstemplegable.htmlhttp://www.iandgilham.net/Photos/Vietnam/Landscapes/carvedboat.htmlhttp://www.iandgilham.net/Photos/Vietnam/Landscapes/baodaitemple.htmlhttp://www.iandgilham.net/Photos/Vietnam/Landscapes/forbiddencity.htmlhttp://www.iandgilham.net/Photos/Vietnam/Landscapes/housingonlake.htmlhttp://www.iandgilham.net/Photos/Vietnam/Landscapes/japanesebridge.htmlhttp://www.iandgilham.net/Photos/Vietnam/Imperial%20Palace/wallgrille.html....The following page is a thumbnails page.http://www.iandgilham.net/Photos/Australia/Kakadu/ozkakadu.htmlThere are no links in the source for the page. Therefore, when you click on a thumnail, nothing happens.
"And, in my humble view, neither Democratic nor Republican party politics has anything to do with lib or con anymore. It's now just pandering to the visceral hatred that's been bred amongst those who refuse to waste their time and energy performing one of the singular most difficult tasks known to man: thinking." -SHG
Thanks for that, but i didn't mean to indicate i wished to continue his site in his place. It's funny you mentioned the Vietnam stuff now...i just ran across a CD with those images in another box of stuff. I suspect he meant to put them up when he ran across it again, but he never got a chance to get properly unpacked, really.
Ah.I misunderstood. I'm sorry.I saved the entire website, in case you wanted/needed it.Well, except for that missing stuff.If you want to email me all the missing pics, I can try to assemble the entire thing on a cd so that it would be a stand-alone setup.The missing pics would include the large images from the pages I indicated, plus all those that the thumbnails do not work for, on the last page I listed.
"And, in my humble view, neither Democratic nor Republican party politics has anything to do with lib or con anymore. It's now just pandering to the visceral hatred that's been bred amongst those who refuse to waste their time and energy performing one of the singular most difficult tasks known to man: thinking." -SHG
Jeff.. silence is sometimes better than nothing at all. Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
" you? YOU!? Are actually listening to that CRAP????
How about? going to werk, how about"...I can't do it, it aint fair..but
HOW ABOUT THAT REZ GUY? UH HUH? ...He ain't Silesien I bet....wimp
I've been mulling your offer overnight, how to respond. I understand your desire to be helpful, but if i may...I asked Ian if the tables were reversed, if i were the one doing the dying, what he would do afterward. Would he continue peeing on our American trees here, go back to England, find someone who could change a water pump AND cook...what? He replied instantly, "Travel". Then he smiled and asked me where i would go first... It's easier to travel well carrying less. Ian and i dropped a lot of our cherished psycho-crap from the past over four years of becoming committed to one another. In that vein, while i'm saving a small collection of potent reminders of him -- his cutthroat razor and shaving brush, his fountain pen and a few letters of his gorgeous handwriting, this gawdawful hammer he used bought with his first paycheck ever -- most of a person's life occurs in a context which his absence renders null. Ian's website needs Ian to be viable. Last night i steeled myself to say goodbye to a box of literally thousands of meticulously ordered slides, photos, negatives and enlargements of Ian's world-wide travels. He still had a Riyadh street map, every address book he'd ever filled, his Army discharge that describes him as "efficient and cheerful", and yards of embroidered cloth given him by his Filipino workmen. What's left is the distillation of a life, what he thought important enough to carry over several continents and decades even though the sum total of his possessions by the time he moved to Montana fit on a single shipping pallet. Even so, he would be disappointed in me if i became a repository for HIS life instead of celebrating my own. Now, if you really want a job, how about figuring out why i can't post images? (See my note in an earlier post about the error message i get.) Thanks in advance... <G>
I had a feeling that was the case.Well before Sphere's post.It's totally in keeping with my understanding of you and Ian. There's a word I am searching for, but can't find. Admiration comes closest.I pushed it because I figured there are probably others who would appreciate a full copy of the website.=0)As for the images...First, do you have a popup blocker running ? If so, you'll need to turn it off for this site. taunton.com and prospero.com , both.If that isn't the problem, could you describe to me exactly what happens ? Starting with pushing the attachment button.If yer using Mozilla, when was the last time you upgraded ?
"And, in my humble view, neither Democratic nor Republican party politics has anything to do with lib or con anymore. It's now just pandering to the visceral hatred that's been bred amongst those who refuse to waste their time and energy performing one of the singular most difficult tasks known to man: thinking." -SHG
I have Mozilla 1.7.8.Pop-ups enabled.The error message i just got when i tried making an attachment was "ID: 005-317-05286"My procedure:Click "Attach Files"
(pop-up appears)
Click "Browse"
(file upload window appears)
Locate file in new window
Click "open"
Click "upload"Then i get the error mesage. The error number changes each time. The second time i tried attaching, it was "ID: 004-317-05635". I don't know whether that is significant.
WhewI would like to say that that is one I have never seen before.Unfortunately, (or fortunately), I have.On my own machine.The way I handled it...I went to edit: >preferences >>privacy and security >>>cookiesThere I allowed all cookies, and accepted cookies normally. Then made sure that forums.taunton.com was "allowed" under popups.Then I made the one upload of an image file, then reset everything to the way I prefer it. (Leaving the popup permission.)This set a cookie that had not previously been set. (Could have been more than one. It's been a while.)Like the paranoid geek I am, I immediately went and checked out the cookies to make sure some other cookie hadn't slipped in. I tagged the new cookie/s as good one/s, deleted anything I didn't like, and have been able to upload images ever since.
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It just soaked in this morning what exactly what was going on. I had seen the thread, but didn't realize that Ian was in fact Ian from BT. Sorry I didn't catch on sooner. Heck, I had missed the whole deal about you and Ian getting hitched. That surely must be the first marriage of 2 regulars from BT, isn't it?So I'm curious - Would you feel up to telling us the whole story? Like how/why you started corresponding with each other, when you met, etc. ? I'd be interested in hearing the story if/when you're up for re-living it. .On a sort of related note - This isn't the first time someone has passed away that I knew solely through a message board. There's one about Ferguson tractors that I also hang out on. And there was an older gentleman from New Mexico that I became friends with. I had a cab for a Ferguson tractor that he wanted, and we had made arrangements to meet at an antique tractor show so he could pick it up. About a week before the show, he died suddenly. It was quite a shock, as this was also. I had never met the guy - Just like I had never met Ian. But I still felt it quite a bit.
If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. [Thomas Paine]
I didn't realize Ian had passed, but I did know he was very ill. A few years ago I tried to get together with him, but none of our plans would mesh. If I could get that picture of Ian and Collen I could place it on our website link that will always be around. Has been there for three years now. It does need some updating with some sort of eulogy.My condolences. Ian sounded like an extremely interesting person and I'm envious of what he accomplished, where's he's been, and his lively ouitlook on life--even to the end.Regards,Ken Fisherhttp://www.hardwoodinstaller.com/hardwoodinstaller/diy_refinishing_hardwood_floors.htm
I know what you mean about online friends being "real" as anyone. Ian wanted his 220V hand power planer, mitre saw, etc. shipped over to AJ in New Zealand (a country just now getting electricity!), who we consider is the best friend we've never met.Not many life stories are that entertaining to others, but i will try to make this tale as painless as possible while enjoying the telling. Ian and i met first on Knots, corresponding first about woodwork and my floor sanding projects. He loved writing as i do, so we got to where we would send formal debates back and forth on any topic from animal rights to welfare reform. This lasted about a year until i offered to ship him over here for a working vacation since i still hadn't any confidence i could do a decent sanding job and was too stubborn to hire it done. He was newly retired and hadn't yet seen America before, so he readily accepted.Unfortunately, i'd make the largish mistake marrying the wrong person a couple of weeks before Ian got here, coincidentally just days before the WTC bombing. The combination of a jealous husband, the stick, with Ian's informed opinions about the Middle East at the birthing of my political awareness, the carrot, made for an awkward change in course, but eventually it got sorted. In the meantime, bec of the charged climate re Homeland Security, the visa situation changed dramatically and it became rather difficult to gain extended entry into the US. Ian used his Australian and British passports alternately to enter the US in a complicated scheme that would probaly not have boded well for our fiance visa application if he'd ever gotten caught at it! It wasn't illegal, it's just that Border Patrol sits at the right hand of Lucifer and they were in an especially bad mood for a couple of years.He saw his way to an animal rights perspective, dovetailed his lathe work into my art fair business, helped me maintain rentals, sell houses, move, divorce, have surgery, and rebuid our present home, all sandwiched between his having to make a round-trip back to England every 3 months to satisfy the feds. It was tumultuous much of the time, a lot like going to classes every day, but Ian's the first man who never tried to put a rope on me, so i couldn't get away; without being trapped, there was little sense in my chewing another paw off. I think, projecting his end of the deal, he decided to hang with me bec i have a big shop, bought a Vanagon, and let him play bridge with his friends unmolested.After the biopsies, we knew he would die soon. That engendered a profound increase in the depth of our love and acceptance of one another's foibles; nothing that used to wrankle, did, and we wished like children for a "do-over", to put to use what we now knew about what really matters. Ian stopped eating Oct. 7 and was barely verbal and frequently on anti-psychotic drugs the last month of our time, but at times he'd astonish me. On Oc. 24 (i wrote it down) we were just looking at one another and he said, "I feel like i have these love pepper pills all through me and every so often one of them bursts."Thank-you, Ron, i enjoyed that.
you aren't the only one
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That's a damn good story, thanks...think I'll go grind a little love pepper<G> What in the gosh darn golly have you done to Rez?
Hello Colleen,
I just came across this thread and I am floored. (OK bad pun I know but thought you'd still chuckle...right?)
Honestly, I know I look slow and stupid but taking so long to discover this just proves that I actually AM. Dang.
With nothing truly witty nor wise to say - I'll just have to default to the sincerest sentiment I can think of to express my feelings right now.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
ClaraDUM SPIRO SPERO: "While I breathe I hope"
Well, let me make you feel better. Something good has finally happened. I figured, since i have these new skills communicating with the deranged, why not use 'em? I phoned a woman i knew slightly from the local art scene, married 10 years to a man who began exhibiting signs of Alzheimers after just 2 years. He's maybe 55. He was in ordnance disposal in the military, a boxer, playwright, stockcar and drag racer, a stunt man in the movies, performer in Wild West shows, saddlemaker, gunsmith...and the log home he was building when he became disabled is just fabulous, even unfinished. His wife had to stop working a few months ago when he began sun-downing and needing her constantly present. Ian showed these symptoms for only a few weeks; Leanna will most likely face them for years.Today i was ready to meet Frank to see if we could get along and afford his wife some time to decompress every so often. So there i was, PETA's representative in a house plastered with buffalo hides, brain-tanned deerskin, tomahawks, and racing trophies, drinking tea and watching old Westerns on TV with Frank while Leanna exploded verbally as though her life depended on getting as many words out as possible in the time allowed, a feeling i knew well. Everyone ended up happy, so i guess i landed the job. Next week we kick her loose to go get a life!
The electrickery couldnt have come soon enuff neither. The donkey was getting slower and slower at turnin' the water wheel when the creek went dry........
Only recent like did we get the telegraph changed to this newfangled in-ter-net thingumy and give ol Ethyl on the exchange a rest.
Might hafta look at one of those enfernal combustchun engines I hear bout too. Sposed ta be a whoooooole lot faster than a quick horse. Then ya cant belive everthang ya hear from those city fellas.
Whatever it was.................I didnt do it.
Although we've never met SG, I'm somehow not the least bit surprised that despite your own sorrows, you're already reaching out to help others.
That is a wonderful thing you're doing to help Leann with Frank.
(Even though you're consorting with "PETA enemies" in the process!)
:-)
DUM SPIRO SPERO: "While I breathe I hope"
Thanks for the story. I'm glad that you enjoyed posting it.
When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is not to let the bees know you're coming. [Winnie the Pooh]
Sorry for that delete..it got too poignant to post.
Let's just say, you aren't alone. Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
HOW ABOUT THAT REZ GUY? UH HUH? ...He ain't Silesien I bet....wimp
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Oh, Colleen and Ian. So sad to hear this news. From all of your many fine posts over on Knots I feel as if I know you both. Take good care, Jimmy.
I do remember Ian, and his knowledge, especially formulas for wood dough filler. He and she did a great thread here on how to redo a floor.
I had no idea the disease was that fast working
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