Pets Of Grex Home Page

May 3 16:53 UTC 1996

Pets of Grex:  Would you like you or your host to introduce yourself to
other pets and owners in the Grex Pets conference?  Then the "Pets Of Grex
Home Page" is the place for you. 

  Caffey Corners (just Caffey, or "Caf", to her friends) is pleased (I
think) to act as host to the semi-official P.O.G.H.P. 

  Caffey is a B&W bi-color, 2 year old cat who, if you browse the
P.O.G.H.P., you can see and/or read about.  Caffey invites all the Pets Of
Grex to join her on the page. 

   Here is how I will manage this page: 

    Please read through the responses to this item to find any changes or 
additions to the following, which is posted on May 3, 1996:

  I nominate me, mwarner@cyberspace.org, to organize and maintain this 
page for the indefinite future. 

 >> To be included respond in this item that you will be joining the Pets
of Grex Home Page.  Because this is P.O.G. and an extension of the Grex
Pets conference, (and because I don't have infinite file space online)
only submissions by grex logins can appear on this page. 

 >> Send me a snapshot of your pet (w/SASE for return) with some
information which you would like to include.  I may edit for length and
otherwise make things fit into an emerging page style, or not. 
Anthropromorphic, cute, loving, memorial, no-nonsense, and any other tone
of submissions will be welcome (but will appear shoulder to jowl with all
other categories of submissions).  This will be a catch all page. 

      Mike Warner
      1552 Plymouth Rd. #21
      Ann Arbor, Mi 48105

   Or send a .gif or jpeg file with an e-mail submission to:  
kocahab@izzy.net 

   >>A small warning:  Don't send a one of kind/ can't replace photo. 
I'll do my best to get everyones pictures back that wants one back, but I
can't guarantee against every possible loss (like in the U.S. Mail #1)

   However, I can take 35mm slides or negatives.  I have a scanner that 
will do scan those, as well as a flatbet.

   **Suggested content:  (This may change)

     1) A photograph, slide or negative.  (Well! This is a graphic-able
page) I'll try to keep all the images roughly the same size, although some
animals may take a bit more space to show clearly, or some photos may just
be a mug shot that displays very nicely in a smaller size.  Size is not so
important to animals as humans.  Caffey seems to indicate that she may
consider the cars in the street below to be mice or squirrels.  The point
being: Size is a matter of how close you squish your face to the screen
and not in how many times you have to click the scroll bar to see the
entire left eye. 

     2) Text as an alternative to the photo. This for Lynx users, like
anyone who would connect to this page from Grex.  Describe what you would
be seeing if you could see the photo or if you don't have a photo to send. 
I'll use HTML magic, (an ALT tag) to make this text appear in place of a
photo for non-gui browsers. 

     3)  Include a "Pet's Favorite Link" in http//(address) form and I 
will stick it in there.  These can range from the whimsical to such 
items as a pet rescue page (is there such a thing?) or other informative 
sites.  The links don't have to be strictly "pet related".  If at all 
possible one link only.  Additional links will be considered, especially 
if they are informational in nature.

     4) Other important facts or trivia or comments.  Please be brief.  
Start with Name, Age, basic circumstances and improvise from there.  Feel 
free to be imaginative if you so choose.

   ****

   I'll put the html on my account at grex and use pointers to my account 
at izzy.net for the graphic stuff.   I'll enter an address when I have a 
page ready to browse.  Caffey is off licking all her fur straight for the 
photo session.

   ****

response 2 of 13:

May 4 05:56 UTC 1996

I have a page at:

HTTP://www.cyberspace.org/~mwarner/pets.html

The page is a very basic start.  Unfortunately, the internet link to Grex 
is acting strangely this evening so I couldn't check the page with 
Netscape from Off Grex.  However, it seems to run well enough using lynx 
from Grex.  The text describing Caffey is an alternate to an image which 
is invisible to lynx, and which will appear on a graphic browser.

response 6 of 13:

May 8 06:06 UTC 1996

That is exactly what I am suggesting.  Small pictures elsewhere ala 
grexwalk page.  I have an account at izzy.net and am pointing to files 
there.  Actually I would be willing to move the whole page there, but I 
don't think it will be a high traffic site, particularly and want to keep 
a cyberspace address.  

See http://www.cyberspace/~mwarner/pets.html for an example.  For lynx
users I've put in alternate text instead of pictures.  The graphic files
are on izzy.net.  The example includes a somewhat larger file than I plan
on using (it is my cat anyhow :) ), as I've been playing with different
kinds of files, this one being a transparent gif.  I'd switch to using
smaller jpeg, probably about 10k each.   If it causes problems I'd 
withdraw any links to larger photos.   I'm not clear on the mechanics as 
to how images called from off grex affect the overall load being placed 
on grex.  I don't think it is a problem, only if based on the fact that 
tons and tons of similar references already reside here, but no actual 
images.

  

response 8 of 13:

May 9 05:47 UTC 1996

That's the impression I had.  Thanks for the explanation.  I've seen a 
couple of pages built around peoples pets, one which even got quite a bit 
of press coverage.  I thought that since we all like to talk about our 
pets, why not make a place where some of us could compare snapshots.  In 
the process of having a little fun with that, we could include some very 
useful links related to pets and animal care/issues.  Because grex itself 
is a text only system, I'd emphasize using "word picture" to fill in what 
would only display (photo) from here on grex.  Graphic-able accounts 
elsewhere haven't made grex less useful, but can compliment it in many cases.


  Do real live pets fit in a wired world?  Mine certainly does.

response 10 of 13:

Nov 27 01:16 UTC 1996

My account off-grex where I stored photos in the demonstration page is now
defunct.  I've moved (physically and cyber-ally).  If there is every any
interest in such a page with links to off-grex photos, I'd still entertain
hosting it here and on my account(s) elsewhere.

response 12 of 13:

Jul 23 04:56 UTC 2001

I dunno but I am gettin a new buncing baby boy kitty soon
he would love to be on a homepage, his name is Dante'