Friday, January 21, 2005
Smattered Splatterings
So MUCH to blog about, so little time...my cousin Danny is getting married tomorrow. I found out late this afternoon.
I'm happy for Danny, actually. His last wife was one of the most poisonous women I ever met. He came to Florida because he'd pretty much exhausted the possibilities in Oklahoma and needed a fresh start. Of course, he didn't realize he'd brought his biggest problem with him, but once they split up and she went home, things immediately started getting better.
He started his own company, doing new construction and house repair. He was already busy when the hurricanes hit. Now it's just unreal. If he left his phone on during the wedding, he'd land 5 more jobs.
Danny met a nurse; a very decent young divorcee with a daughter. Danny has a son by his last marriage. They bonded into a family immediately. This is his third marriage. Makes me reconsider my commitment to stay marriage free. Two demons then an angel. Only I married the angel first, she just lost her way for a while. So...we'll see.
I know what else is wrong with my blog! No pictures! BigHominid, besides his blazing and amazing sense of perversion, is very graphics-oriented on his site. A lot of other blogs I've seen have at least snapshots of what the writer's talking about. So, i gotta add some color, images, strange but cool things to make this site more dynamic! Just don't know how. The supposed "friendly" program that'll add graphics for me any old time is some of the most useless software I ever encountered. I don't know why blogspot.com endorses that crap. They should pitch it out and find a real graphics transfer program.
Cuz I got PICTURES! I have a shot of the beach in Indonesia with about 100 bodies floating in a giant mass of debris. I have pics of my pets, of people I discuss in the blog. I don't have nekkid pics, like I said before, I tossed 'em, but I have good sexy pics left over. Besides, there's titties and clitties and bare butts all over the internet. I don't need to add to it, it's already overwhelming.
Great. Now I have another task I don't have time for. Maybe I'll cheat, consult some other bloggers.
Debonair Suaveroot, looking for better material.
I just wrote a post about Photobucket, an image hosting service that will solve all your graphics woes.
Photobucket's instructions were easy to follow; I was set up in about 5 minutes. You don't need your own FTP program: Photobucket is the FTP program.
The other thing you might need, if you don't have it already, is a program like Photoshop Elements. I don't know your stance on Photoshop: some people are diehard Corel loyalists, but my own experience with Corel has been terrible. The software simply isn't intuitive. The sign of a well-designed program is that a fuckhead like me can learn to use it through rudimentary, seat-of-the-pants flying.
Photoshop is like this. Photoshop Elements, the scaled-down version of the full Adobe Photoshop suite, is perfect for my needs. I'm not aiming for pro-quality work; I just want the ability to crop pics, scale them, slap together composites, do funny things like stick one person's head on another person's body, etc. Nothing major. PS Elements fits the bill and saves you from paying thru the nose.
Whoops-- I just checked prices. Elements version 2.0 is on sale for cheap at Amazon (about $25), but the new 3.0 is up there, about $130-140. It's my understanding that there are good, free, downloadable graphics manipulation programs out there if you're willing to hunt around a bit (i.e., spend 10 minutes on a Google search, then an hour sifting thru links), so there's no reason to empty the wallet.
Anyway, for pic-posting, I think Photobucket's the way to go, though I'm sure you'll pool advice from other folks in your circle, as well you should.
(But it's hard to beat a 5-minute learning curve.)
Good luck.
Kevin
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