# Home Page categories **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 20, 1999, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-page-categories/11411 "1999-11-20T13:44:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 1999, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-page-categories/11411/21 "1999-11-21T04:11:00Z")
My page is a gallery of my paintings I was inspired to create by people and experiences I have had in my year online. I had dedications for each painting but I found it much easier to maintain the site with just a the painting’s title. Those ppl who I created the paintings for, know who they are. I would call it a hobby but since art is my chosen profession it is not really that, nor is it professional as the paintings were created solely for personal reasons. Not sure what category it would fit into… Your call. [http://www.concentric.net/~marvam](http://www.concentric.net/~marvam) * * * “Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good things.” --Edgar Degas ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 1999, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-page-categories/11411/22 "1999-11-21T09:32:00Z")
Mine’s a ‘show off my artwork’ page. But it appears to be minimally popular, which I’m happy about. However, laziness has struck, and updates are already in the ‘infrequent’ range. Any more of that, and it’ll get stale. Somebody kick me back into gear, okay? * * * -PIGEONMAN- Hero For A New Millennium! [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - updates every Wed & Sat ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 1999, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-page-categories/11411/23 "1999-11-21T12:41:00Z")
Otis: I like the Simon Leis Interview, briefly quoted here: > [@](#): > > DS: Do you think the framers of the constitution – > > SL: Why, they’d be turning over in their graves if they saw what is defended under the First Amendment. > > DS: I read that only one of the original 13 colonies had an obscenity law. > > SL: I don’t have an answer to that. Was there any obscenity in those days? I don’t know. > > DS: Ben Franklin once wrote a book, sort of a sex manual, it was called ‘Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress.’ That book could be prosecuted today under current obscenity laws. ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 1999, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-page-categories/11411/24 "1999-11-21T12:42:00Z")
By the way, why “Otis”? ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 1999, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-page-categories/11411/25 "1999-11-21T13:25:00Z")
Well, my main homepage is a gratuitous page about myself and my interests. My other pages are about my conlanging hobby and are full of linguistic stuff, as well as some of my constructed cultures (one an attempt to show what pre-spanish Philippines was kinda sorta like (I took some liberties). The other is a page culture I made up for my own edification. There isn’t any interesting pictures or back grounds, and it’s not too exciting. More like a repository of what i have done available on the web. I do want to scan in the art work I am doing for my art class and put it up on my main site (a tree I painted in ink wowed my professor and class, and I want it up there). I’m not sure why my hobby pages go under though (Linguages and culture?) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 1999, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-page-categories/11411/26 "1999-11-21T17:27:00Z")
Doobieous, that’s why I made the ‘academia’ cat. I have a Watership Down page which is constantly drawing comments from teachers saying that they’ve used it in making lesson plans for the novel in their English/Lit. classes, and my page on angels has been called one of the best sources of actual “factual” information about angels on the web (as opposed to poems, Victorian artworks and the like). I’m not patting myself on the back by saying this, but just pointing out that they’ve set themselves above being just a “hobby”, but I don’t have degress or anything to back up why my pages should be better than anyone elses. * * * “I guess it is possible for one person to make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.” ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 1999, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-page-categories/11411/27 "1999-11-22T06:15:00Z")
Mine is the name of the city Im in. Such a lucky guy to get it. First year about 20,000 hits [96] these days about 850,000 hits. Its not an official site either, but do I love giving my opinion about mean people & city council members & city employees. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 1999, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-page-categories/11411/28 "1999-11-22T06:35:00Z")
Ha, ha! Sure, [www.pacificgrove.com,](http://www.pacificgrove.com,) we believe you **handy** , except, _it’s true!_ Have you gotten any offers to buy the name? ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 1999, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-page-categories/11411/29 "1999-11-21T23:22:00Z")
I guess [mines](http://members.aol.com/lou826/) would be a personal page. I really need to work on that someday… ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 1999, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-page-categories/11411/30 "1999-11-22T23:22:00Z")
Doctored up home pages: Mahir. ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-page-categories/11411/31 "1999-11-23T00:53:00Z")
Mine’s a personal use page. Family is scattered from coast to coast, north to south, Between my kids, his kids, our siblings & cousins, the idea is to make it a family place. I’m into genealogy so another goal will be to make it findable by anyone doing research on the same family lines. It needs some updating. Frustrating how work always manages to get in the way of my hobbies. If any of you visit, I’d appreciate your suggestions for improvement. [www.thefoxworthys.com](http://www.thefoxworthys.com) ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-page-categories/11411/32 "1999-11-23T01:52:00Z")
Louie, hahaha, I had looked at that once. We know you could match OpalCat (I wouldn’t go for that style, though) if you wanted! ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-page-categories/11411/33 "1999-11-23T02:09:00Z")
Thanks, sunbear. Just for that, I’ll work on it this week. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-page-categories/11411.md?page=1)