What's In A Name?

[Buenchico]

I've posted this link on another thread but I thought it worthy of wider exposure, so I'll repost it here:
https://www.momjunction.com/articles/ugly-and-dumb-baby-names_00393862/

Those names are, apparently, all real one that parents have decided to call their kids!

Could you? Would you?

[Smowball]

I think Elon Musk surely wins the prize for the most bizarre/ugly child’s name??

X Æ A-12 I mean, why??

[albaqwerty]

Strewth!! No.30

Wonder if Orgasm's parents have shortened it to Orgy ?

[Mamyalynne]

Most are off the chart loopy, but a few shouldn't be on the list.

I went to school with an Olga, she was pretty and intelligent - Arthur is a great name too.

[Buenchico]

Also, Smow, why would anyone think that a beautiful baby is in need of any type of facial adornment?

[Buenchico]

I'm imagining an ad in a lonely hearts' column at a later date, Alba:
"Orgasm seeks suitable partner. Men named Willy or Dick need not apply".

;-)

[Buenchico]

The name 'Olga', Mamya, does tend to make me think of Soviet Russian steroid-packed weightlifters but I agree that it's actually quite a nice name really.

Up until recently, I'd have regarded 'Arthur' as far too old-fashioned a name but older names now seem to be coming back into fashion.

(Going off at a tangent for a moment, Mamya, I loved it when you wrote that you really liked the redesign of Woodelf's website. The task of doing it was meant to be quite simple but Woodelf and I actually spent many weeks getting my first draft of it to be just as he wanted).

[Smowball]

Chris, and Elon’s girlfriend is called Grimes!!

[Mamyalynne]

I meant it, a very nice redesign, no wonder he's happy to show it off.

[Smowball]

What’s on this website then?? X

[Mamyalynne]

Woodelf's Art.

[Mamyalynne]

http://theartsight.000webhostapp.com/

[Buenchico]

Thanks, Mamya.

For Smow:
http://theartsight.000webhostapp.com/index.htm

[Buenchico]

For the umpteenth time, Mamya . . . Snap!

;-)

[Smowball]

Oh that website is lovely! I really didn’t realise about the totally blind situation…… gosh.

[albaqwerty]

have spent a brief moment on Woodelf's site, wow!
Clean and clear layout, have book-marked it to spend more time on it tomorrow.

A very talented and lovely man

[Smowball]

I’m going to come across wrong no matter how I word it, but how does he paint/ use this site/ everything in general if he is completely blind? Genuinely want to know x

[Buenchico]

Smow:
See Art > Technique, on Woodelf's website, for an explanation of how he paints. (It's written on the basis of providing guidance to others with sight problems but it shows how he works). His partner provides assistance with things like mixing paints but otherwise all of Woodelf's works are entirely his own.

Woodelf uses screen reader technology, called JAWS, to find his way around websites and to use email. It's expensive (at around £1000) and not easy to get grips with but it makes the internet accessible to him:

[Buenchico]

(Continued):
If you check out the Music > Guitar Chords section of Woodelf's site, you'll see that he doesn't simply sit back and accept it when something isn't right for him. He couldn't find any websites that would help blind people, using screen readers, to learn guitar chords; so he set about finding someone to work with him to create such a site. Here's the 'About' page, from the resultant website, which explains his input:
http://www.guitar4blind.com/about.html

[jno]

maybe it's just a late-night thing but I can't get to that website.

[Buenchico]

Woodelf's website is loading OK for me, Jno.

It's just a possibility, I suppose, that your ISP (or your security software) might be blocking access to the free web-hosting service where that site sits but there's no real reason why it should.