Bagrichthys hypselopterus

Post by **Silurus** » 14 Jan 2003, 14:33

Testing, testing.
Just checking to see how my new sig is showing up. This catfish rocks!
Jools, would it be better off as my avatar?

clothahump · Post by **clothahump** » 14 Jan 2003, 16:38

Jeez HH that is massive.

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 14 Jan 2003, 17:43

clothahump wrote:Jeez HH that is massive.

The lancer of the .jpg?

Well, it is really to big for a sig. line, but I could fiddle around with it, maybe create a silhouette or something. Mayve put that in your avatar and a small shoal of glass cats in your sig. line?

Jools

Post by **Silurus** » 14 Jan 2003, 19:53

Thanks for editing the image, Jools and Chill. Would have liked to use it as my avatar, but I think it looks less impressive that way.

Heok Hee

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 14 Jan 2003, 20:17

Pretty cool, I took the liberty of fiddling around with your sig. a little to make it take up less horizontal space. I can revert if you like. Also, any change it can swim to the right?

Jools (who is thinking what nonsense he could come up with for his sig. line!)

Post by **Silurus** » 14 Jan 2003, 20:28

Jools,

I can make it swim to the right, if you really insist. It's just that in taking pictures of fish specimens for publication, the usual standard is to have the fish face the left.
I'll also try to get in touch with the owner of the photo to see if it can be included in the Cat-eLog.

Post by **Dinyar** » 14 Jan 2003, 23:00

Silurus wrote:... the usual standard is to have the fish face the left.

You shouldn't have told us this, Heok Hee! All the fish in the CattyLog swim to the right! Poor Jools is going to have his work cut out for him! ;)

BTW, Heok Hee, why not animate your fish so that it actually swims to the left or right in your sig?

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 14 Jan 2003, 23:16

We need a :hic: emoticon to denote the fact that the poster is a few pints of stella tortoise past the point of sobriety. I write this from a hotel room in Inverness only made OK by the modem port and late-opening bar. So.........

Very early on I took a design decision about the fish swimming direction thing. From a design point of view fish in books look better swimming away from the binding spine. I.E. fish "swim" left or right depending on odd or even page number. This I am told by someone with a masters in publishing (my good wife). (a) I'm not arguing and (b) I actually do agree (c) it's a good tale and I'm sticking to it.

So when it came to Planet Catfish I felt that the "book" was what we now call the cat-elog and the "spine" was the vertical scroll bar going down the page dividing the lists on the left and data and picture pages on the right. All the images appear on the right and thus swim to the right. Logical.

That and I am a total stickler for standards like these.

Jools

Post by **Silurus** » 14 Jan 2003, 23:50

But the weird thing in scientific publication (if you look at a good many papers) is that the fish are always facing left, irrespective of page number.
Maybe we scientists are just philistines when it comes to the aesthetic side of publishing.

Chill · Post by **Chill** » 14 Jan 2003, 23:51

lol, always wondered why you messed with the images I sent you

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 15 Jan 2003, 00:11

Silurus wrote: Maybe we scientists are just philistines when it comes to the aesthetic side of publishing.

Bingo.

Mind you, there are different forces at work in scientific papers. I think in the case of scientific papers, who gives a flying fox what direction the fish face. Sorry for the alliteration. In the case of Planet Catfish I have an opportunity to standardise that is rarely afforded to a conventional publisher.

There are (honestly) some images in the cat-elog that I have agonsied over when the fish in question is swimming, more or less, up or down. If it's just a little way or the other I will flip the image to suit.

Like I said, I'm particular about stuff like that.

Jools

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 15 Jan 2003, 00:15

Chill wrote:lol, always wondered why you messed with the images I sent you

Yeah, yours always had you name on it and were a real b****r to flip.

I'm not sure I should be admitting all this.

Jools

Post by **Silurus** » 15 Jan 2003, 00:40

Jools,

OK, OK, I finally get the hint to flip my sig around (no wonder you flipped my first avatar around).
I'll be good now, I promise...please don't ban me from the forum.

Chill · Post by **Chill** » 15 Jan 2003, 02:19

OK, OK, I finally get the hint to flip my sig around (no wonder you flipped my first avatar around).

Come to think of it, he has actually flipped my avatar around aswell

clothahump · Post by **clothahump** » 15 Jan 2003, 11:04

Post by **Silurus** » 15 Jan 2003, 11:09

Way to go, Tim!
Now, if there was only some way of indicating the effects of all that alcohol on the emoticon (i.e. shouldn't it start getting soused?)

clothahump · Post by **clothahump** » 15 Jan 2003, 11:15

I will see if I can find one, with my name being Beer I just had to have that one on my boards.

clothahump · Post by **clothahump** » 15 Jan 2003, 11:29

Here you go HH.

Post by **Silurus** » 15 Jan 2003, 11:32

LOL.....that has to be my favorite emoticon.

Sid Guppy · Post by **Sid Guppy** » 15 Jan 2003, 17:10

ROFL!!! Clothahump, I'm getting thirsty, this is not a good thing, as I've got loads of kids tomorrow first lesson.....

Post by **Dinyar** » 16 Jan 2003, 03:25

I wonder if Planet Catfish is banned in China for its rightist tendencies? Those Scots are known Monarchists. Jools, I'm told, lives in the shadow of a castle. (No, not one of those castles some people put in their fish tanks.)

Dinyar