Name: Bob Wishart
Occupation: Retired
Hobbies: My Harley, 14 Speed Bike, Street Rods,
Computers, and now learning to play the Drums. One of my Star Alley pages is for Drums.
I bought my computer in November, 2001 and have been enjoying all of the
different things that you can do with it. I suppose this is just another step
of exploration. I was always afraid of change or new things, until I purchased
my pc. By the way did I mention that it is a Dell. I also have an old Gateway
that I got off a friend and fixed up as a backup. Picture is at the bottom of
the page of my pc desk.
It is a Dell Dimension 8200, Pentium 4 Processor, 2.4GHZ, 200GB Main Drive
(2) partitions, a 160 gig second hard drive with (3) partitions, with a
GEFORCE 6600 256MB AGP (VGA DVI S-Video HDTV) Graphics Card. It came
installed with Windows ME and I'm now running "XP PRO". I'm also running the
stock "Power Supply". I have an all-in-one Lexmark printer/copier/fax
machine. I upgraded to the 6600 graphics card to run dual monitors and
have just added an external Memorex Dual Layer DVD Burner.
WEB PAGE: Having a web page probably goes all the way back to 1978, when I
appeared on the "Tomorrow Show" starring Tom Snyder. I guess I was always a
ham. I always wanted to be on The Johnny Carson Show, but had no talent. So,
when the Tomorrow Show first debuted in 1973, I started growing a beard. I
sent letters and pictures of the progress of the beard telling the associate
producer (Debbie Vickers), now the associate producer of "Jay Leno", that I
was going to grow it as long as the show was on the air. After about 3 years,
I started bugging them to fly me out and have it shaved off on the show. I
eventuality got the phone number to the NBC studios and started to bug them.
Finally, in January of 1978, after calling and threatening to shave it off,
they flew me out to California, sprayed something on the beard making it hard
and all stuck together, and shaved it off. They then held it up to the camera
in 1 piece. What an experience. While on the show, Tom Snyder announced to the
tv audience that when the producer called the room, to see if I had gotten in
the night before, that I answered the phone saying, hello, Hollywood Bob. Now
you know where the name came from for the web page. By the way, the beard was
5 years worth of growing.
Then, twenty four years later I was surfing on my computer when
low and behold I discovered the web cam. With this neat little invention, I soon
discovered another television show, called "The Screen Savers" which was on Tech
TV, live out of San Francisco. I found that if you had the right kind of
question you could get on the show, via web cam, and ask your question to
either Leo Laporte or Patric Norton, hosts of the show. It is truly amazing to
get on a TV program, in California, from the confines of my computer room in
Ohio. I was on 2 times that year. I guess that is why I have the web page, like
I said earlier , I am a ham. Modern technology, isn't it great!
ARCHIE CHIPPS: I'll bet you don't know who this is, but you are about to
find out. I came across his website, while looking for a different skin for
the "MusicMatch JukeBox" player. The MusicMatch web site directed me to his
site. I was blown away by the artistry of the skins that he draws for different
music players for pc's and all his other art. I contacted him via the E-Mail
address on his web page. I new that I wanted a web page that wasn't your regular
type box style. I wanted an opening page that looked like a music skin.
He lives in North Carolina, so being from Ohio we did all of our
communicating by E-Mail. I threw out the basic idea of the kind of web site
that I wanted. Within a week he sent me a drawing of the first draft that
would become my web site. It was amazing. We kept exchanging ideas. I finally
got his phone number and started to exchange ideas by phone on occasion. I
will tell you now that most of the artistry is his, I have changed some of the
pages with my themes and art. Most of the html scripting was also done by
Archie. I told him that I didn't know that much about html and for me to be
able to put whatever I wanted on to the site I would have to at least learn
some of the html language. He lined me up with a little $25 html program that
enabled me to learn how to change and transfer not only the text that I wanted
on the web site, but also he set up the site so that it was very easy for me
to insert any image that I wanted to include. My thanks goes out to Archie
and I am truly grateful for all the help he gave me to get this site up and
running. If you want to see some of the greatest artwork that I have seen done
on the internet, I urge you to visit Archies' site. You can click on his
banner on my links page or in the upper left hand corner of the Movie Theater
page. Archie now does web pages for people or any other type of art work you
would need. He makes a ton of
skins for any music player you have on your computer.With Archie's help I
can now set up my own site with art work and all the HTML I have learned.
I have even started getting pretty good in Photoshop and Illustrator which lets
me do my own art work.
I hope to learn the basic frame work of Flash and add some of it to the
site. A lot of the animation, which is on the site now is done in Image Ready.
My thanks go out to "ARCHIE". With out his artistry and knowledge of HTML I
would not have a site that is so amazing to see and easy to use. Also, I would
not know anything about HTML or Photoshop.
