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February 21, 2005

Guess I Should Have Mentioned I'd Be Out Most of the Day

...but it never occurred to me I'd be out all day.

A friend from Spain wanted me to check out an apartment he's thinking about subletting. Trouble is, it's way out in the boonies. Forgot the trains are running on a weekend schedule today. Also didn't count on the guy showing me the apartment to not be around for an hour-- and hour I had to spend wasting time in bodegas, comparing the carb content of cheddar Combos to Spicy Pizza Combos.

All done now... will try to make up for lack of the day's posting by being especially insightful and/or funny and/or juvenile.

Or, more likely, I'll just throw up a lot of crap and hope some people confuse quantity with quality.

Then again, the day's almost wasted anyway, isn't it?

What's on TV tonight?

Say... I'm trying to upload pics for both my friend and for this site from CPAC, but all the pics are way too memory-intensive (over 1.3 MB). Is there some way to reduce the quality and such of the pics? Is there some compression feature I'm supposed to be using?

Nevermind: Figured it out. Thanks to all who offered advice.

posted by Ace at 07:00 PM

Comments

What's on TV??? Do you live in a cave? "American Idol" and "24" are both on tonight.

I'm as happy as a little girl!

Posted by: John from WuzzaDem on February 21, 2005 07:11 PM

Hey,

Your day could have been worse. At least you weren't:

a) pinned down by enemy fire, desparately trying to hold down the flank.

b) having a baby.

c) waiting for the election returns on your bid for the White House.

d) awakened by the sad realization that you are really a liberal.

So....count your blessings.

Posted by: Cheese_tensor on February 21, 2005 07:25 PM

Well, in photoshop and other pic resizing programs, there should be a "save for web" option that reduces it to a manageable jpg.

I typically keep my pics no wider than 500 pixels by 400 pixels high for actual size (not density).

Posted by: Bill from INDC on February 21, 2005 07:33 PM

Cheese, having a baby is a good day.

Ace, a sneaky solution: open a shutterfly account, upload your pictures, and then copy and paste the (largish) thumbnails they create for you to your hard drive. As I recall they're about 60-70k.

There are probably other ways to do this using software, but I don't even know if you have a mac or PC let alone what's on it. This way's pretty simple.

(You can also send them to my other account, not the address above, and I'll shrink 'em for you later tonight. Send them one at a time.)

Posted by: See-Dubya on February 21, 2005 07:33 PM

I vote for juvenile!!!!!

One of the easiest ways to shrink the size of photos is to open them in MS Pain(t) (!) and then go to Edit--->Resize--->and make the percentages equal (Like 50%) Then Save As a JPEG, find the "advanced" tab and pick your compression. No fancy programs needed and every computer runs MS Pain(t)

Posted by: hobgoblin on February 21, 2005 07:48 PM

And where's Dusty!

Ace, What have you done with her!?!

Posted by: hobgoblin on February 21, 2005 07:49 PM

Thanks, I think I've figured it out.

Re: Dusty

Unfortunately, I think that was just a week-long ad. Hopefully they'll buy another couple of weeks.

I miss her too.

Posted by: ace on February 21, 2005 07:58 PM

Applications: Photoshop, Paint or PhotoDraw.
Photoshop:
- Image-image size- 512x384 px (picture size will be 5x7 inches, resolution 72). If you desire smaller try 300x300 px. (jpg)
- Save for web: chose optimized or play with 2-up, 4-up (gif)
Paint: image-attributes- chose size W&D in px or inches, works approx. 500x380 px
PhotoDraw: same approach.
Size relates to speed of picture downloading. By the way you still have email version from your digital camera, which is smaller of course.

Posted by: on February 21, 2005 08:13 PM

See-Dubya,

Not if it a *guy* is having it!

But you are right - I did word it ambiguously, and I regret the confusion. My apologies.

Posted by: Cheese_tensor on February 21, 2005 08:17 PM

irfanview

http://www.irfanview.com/

Posted by: River Rat on February 21, 2005 08:19 PM

NOTHING is on tv, Ace. Hubby has the controller tonight. No Idol ... no 24 (for me.) I could join him and watch The Natural for the bazillionth time. Don't you men ever get sick of that movie.

Posted by: carin on February 21, 2005 08:27 PM

Ace, didn't you get some image editing program after the photoshop thread a while back? Resize and edit the jpeg compression.

Posted by: someone on February 21, 2005 08:51 PM

We could castigate the leftists for their hypocracy re the UN-Congo Child Porn Scandal vis-a-vis the Abu Graib prison scandal.

Or we can comment on how Paula Abdul is finally growing a spine versus Simon.

Posted by: Iblis on February 21, 2005 08:58 PM

Ace:

Photoshop etc. are overkill for what you need. Go to irfanview.com, and download the program. It is free, and is the most useful cross-platform image editing software around. It will resample any image (like from your camera) down to a web-friendly size, and you can do basic things like crop it, too.

Web images use 100 dpi maximum (dots per inch). Monitors are either 72 dpi or 96 dpi, so any resolution above that is not viewable on the screen. It's wasted.

Trust the Irfanview. You'll find yourself using it all the time.

Posted by: George at Snapshot on February 21, 2005 09:23 PM

... in other words, what River Rat said.

Posted by: George at Snapshot on February 21, 2005 09:24 PM

Yeah, whatever. We're still waiting for the clips from your radio appearance.

Posted by: See-Dubya on February 21, 2005 09:30 PM

Sir,

It sounds like the pictures you have might be "bitmap". If this is the case, convert them to jpeg (go to your help section, type keywords: convert bitmap jpeg).

rcl

Posted by: rcl on February 21, 2005 10:35 PM

Hey Ace,

Get the image resizer from microsoft. It's free!!
Get at the MSN download center under powertoys. After you install (fairly easy, but I'm mostly techie so my judgement may be suspect) you can resize by right-clicking. A BIG time-saver if you resize often.

Posted by: RustyMouse on February 21, 2005 11:38 PM

ok, so I'm looking around for the post that compares the carbs in Spicy Pizza Combos and Cheddar combos.

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Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.

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🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER

He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight

It's over

"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION
Incidentally, the only reason this didn't already happen in the US is because of the Very Bad Orange Man (who is right on 85% of all policy calls and extremely, existentially right on 15% of them)

No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.

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Now they've lost 84%.

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If this continues Labour loses 2,148 seats tonight.

That is much worse than the worst case predictions I’ve seen.

Cataclysmic

Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.

Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...

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br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

Reform has surged and projected to pick up between 1700-2100 seats.

Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing.
Remember, when they call other people "cultists" -- they are the ones so imprisoned in their social reinforcement and discipline bubbles that they will choose political death rather than dare upset the Karen Enforcement Officers of their cult.
Update: Now they've lost 83% of the seats they were defending.

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Tonight’s results are calamitous for Labour. Not just for Keir Starmer's leadership, but for the very future of the party

STARMERGEDDON: In early returns, Reform gains 135 seats, Labour loses 90, the Fake Conservatives lose 36 (and I didn't even know they could fall any further), the Lib Dems lose 4, and the Greens gain 6. Note that the only other party gaining seats is the Greens and they're only gaining a handful of seats.
Update: Reform now up 145, Labour down 98.
Labour projected to lose Wales -- where they've ruled for 27 years.
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Brutal: In four out of five council seats where Labour is defending, they've lost. 80%.
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REF +190, LAB -134, CON -56.

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