Picture Of My Old Boat
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Update 0013 12 June: Remodel is done for now; please let me know in the comments if the blog doesn't come out right for you now. (For me, it looks fine on Firefox, but a little squirrelly on Internet Explorer -- I had to go down to the "smaller" text size to make it line up right on the top).Update 2234 12 June: Based on the feedback, I changed the header back to the default until my html "skillz" get a little better; I did leave the "description" part in the more readable color and font, and changed the title from all lowercase to mixed (I found how to do that by accident -- it turns out that if you change "lowercase" to "uowercase" in the template, it comes out with normal capitalization -- who'da thunk it?)
Update 2304 12 June: I think I will change my profile pic, though:
This is me standing DOOW on USS Topeka back in 1992...
posted by Bubblehead at 11:35 PM
13 Comments:
Best of luck in your remodel! Great layout idea by the way.
6/12/2006 12:02 AM
It's coming in at the bottom left corner here. Makes the whole top look a little wonky. Too big, maybe.
6/12/2006 6:10 AM
It's coming in nicely now in the upper left corner.
This is in Firefox 1.0.6, milage may vary in other browsers.
Nice looking pic of the sub.
6/12/2006 6:30 AM
Ugh! Why change your old banner?
TSSBP looks a little akward, the picture looks good, but a little too biggish maybe try making it smaller just a tad, and if you do that you might want to change your
font as well. The captioning is a
teeny bit bold as well. But this isn't a critique of your work, its just messin'around, right?
6/12/2006 4:00 PM
I'm going to give some constructive critisicism here and say it sucks. The title of the blog should be on 1 line, not 2, and the picture is what causes this not to happen. So when you remodel, take this into account.
Your most loyal reader(yeah right),
Deepdiver
6/12/2006 9:28 PM
I like the idea you have going, but I'm going to have to side with Deepdiver and anon here a little bit.
A font change can always do wonders for any web publishing you do. Take a look around www.dafont.com for some really neat ones.
I don't know how comfortable you are with playing in the code, but you might have better luck setting your table widths to a percentage rather than a fixed amount (744px currently).
6/12/2006 10:08 PM
You're looking like a very bad mormon in that picture.
A fantastic Irishman though.
6/12/2006 11:18 PM
You can tell that pic is authentic because the BQS15 is secured and shrink-wrapped. The new version of that equipment is super high-speed and actually useful...
6/14/2006 12:18 AM
Anon-
As the pic is on the Topeka, that would be the BSY-1 HF system, not the beloved BQS-15. And yes, BSY-1 HF was basically useless. As for the BQS-15, the pre-EC-17 system was not all that, either. However, EC-17 was better, and EC-18 was the dog's bollocks.
As for "new versions," well, the EC-19 PUMA (precision underwater mapping algorithm) upgrade for the BQS-15 is pretty dern cool. However, if you are talking about the new HF systems pu on BSY-1 boats, i.e. A-RCI Phase IV High Freq., well, that is a different story. But I digress ;-)
6/14/2006 1:30 PM
I call any large, expensive and heavy piece of sonar equipment a BQS-15 when its sole function is to hold the Messenger's coffee mug.
6/14/2006 10:57 PM
What does a STSCS(SS) have to do with this? ;-)
ANd next time you go through a minefield, let me know how many messenger's mugs are on that equipment. Freakin' nubs should be qualifying, anyway ;-)
6/15/2006 6:11 AM
Hi,
It is good to hear that some of you like the BQS-15 (EC-17 & EC-18). I’m the scientist at ARL:UT who developed the display software for EC-17 and EC-18. I also designed the quad Transputer cards that do most of the signal processing. I would like to know how often you used the 3-D capability, as I put a lot of time into its development. I am retiring soon and therefore not working of EC-19.
George
11/20/2008 4:13 PM
Yeah, but it's not fair being a former nuke having to work on the BQS-15 sonar (actually, just the cover)which i had to do for the sail of my old boat. ...just try getting parts for for the sail of a scrapped 688!
7/16/2012 8:54 AM
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