Ode to Justine

Friday, July 16, 2010

Justine is a pretty woman who has worked at Cafe Barone in Menlo Park for many years. She has recently married, but she is an attractive and pleasent person who perfers dresses having solid colors and looks good in a wide range of colors from white to forest green. I have taken to acknowledging her choices in attire and yesterday suggested that I would find the RGB settings for the hues she uses. She seemed to understand what I was getting at.

I am going to try to set the color (for text) to the purple I saw Justine ware yesterday, and the background to the avacado green I saw her wearing today

I tried to do this in Amaya, but most of the WYSIWYG HTML editors seem to miss the need to set style in the body element, not just in some contained element.

I am using emacs for the editor but it is not clear that the template really includes DOCTYPE, html, head, title, and body elements ( They do ). As I said, I like to set the colors in the body.

Emacs does not put those elements in the HTML file. It depends on the browser to supply the boilerplate. I will add a body element pair and insert the style, as I would normally do and see if that works.

Appearently, the adding of these elements overrides what is supplied as a default when the elements aren't explicitly supplied.

After adding the body element and messing with the syntax of a style specification, I got close to what I wanted, but the purple doesn't seem right, yet, but it is just as possible that the color I close is close to what she wore but that the contrast of the two colors creates a color illusion.

My Eldest Son and Ex Know Her, 08/29/2010

I remember first seeing Justine about ten years ago, when she began working at the cafe, but when my eldest son came to visit me, he too recognized her as someone who was a year or two ahead of him in school, and my Ex knew of her too. I have since found out that Justine is expecting her first child in two months.

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