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Web crusader for the BIG picture
06.30.09 - 5:36 pm (CT)
I'm on a crusade to get Web people to save the original images they use on their websites, which means the untouched, un-optimized, uncut original full-version, full-sized image… that would be BEFORE anyone has done anything to it. You might ask why bother when all you need is a little 72 dpi image that is cropped and optimized down to next to nothing for your site, and so I will answer that very question so as to widen your thought processes beyond the Web… to print.

Print is different than Web in that for quality results, professional results, visually pleasing results, the more dpi and larger physical size of the image the clearer and crisper the image will be. So, as a Webmaster you should ALWAYS save the original untouched image in a separate folder and only alter a copy of the original, which you should keep in another folder. Then should the need arise for any of the images to be used in print for advertising, flyers, or whatever, your clients will be forever grateful that you can supply them with the high quality original image that is more than suitable for use in print.

BTW, I've been using Easy Thumbnails to downsize images, both in physical size and dpi since 2002, it's a great image optimization program that is easy to use for anyone, even my brother Phil could manage it, if he'd try… hint, hint, hint.

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92…
06.17.09 - 3:09 pm (CT)
Would have been 92 and counting…

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Almost hairless in Manhattan… charmed, I'm sure
06.15.09 - 8:06 am (CT)
It's getting pretty thin, almost just a fringe to hang out from under a baseball hat, a cute feminine-looking baseball hat that, if I do say so myself (and I quite frequently do, say so myself that is), I look cute in a charming kind of way. Gee, charming, I don't think I've ever been referred to as charming, now charmed, well, no not that either, although I have been charmed by a number of whatevers in my life, mostly my kids, but they might even balk at being called charming.

To be honest, my kids are GREAT, and are who and what are getting me through this latest of life's ordeals. Jon especially has been outstanding with his oh so generous spirit — his rainbow spirit of being one bright colorful light in almost everything he touches — and his lady friend has been wonderful keeping me on my meds and making sure I'm where I'm supposed to be and doing what I'm supposed to be doing. The care, love, and comfort I am receiving, not to mention the food, is almost beyond what a mother could hope for after having spent over three decades raising three boys to be men, good men, godly men. TYG!

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Pool's open, but no tan line
06.08.09 - 7:00 am (CT)
It took a little longer this year, but the pool is finally open and ready for daytime occupants while I occupy it only at nighttime, as I'm supposed to stay out of the sun this year… no tan for me this year. So far the only plus I see in that is I don't have to be concerned with weird tan lines showing anywhere on my person. Maybe this is finally the year to get the nerve up to skinny dip in the moonlight… gee, the last time I did that was when I was a kid at Wonder Lake.

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Getting all mushy-headed on TV and movies
06.06.09 - 3:13 pm (CT)
I'd been seeing commercials with a well known actor where he's supposed to be some kind of alien encouraging us to kind of zombie out on watching television — all mushy-headed, as it were — and then he mentions Hulu. Every time I've seen the stupid commercial I wondered, "What the heck is Hulu?", so yesterday I decided to look it up, online of course. Well, it's FREE TV and movies that you can watch, with or without commercial interruption, right on your computer, and to top that off you don't have to join anything to watch… no downloads either. Well, well, well, that makes that commercial not so stupid after all, because it got me to go find out more, which makes it brilliant advertising.

So, I was nosing around at Hulu, just to see what there was to see and decided to lookup a program that is no longer on TV, one that I have toyed with buying all six seasons on DVD, "Highlander", and, lo and behold, they have all 118 episodes plus clips for me to sit for hours and watch for FREE. So what to do, what to do, but watch Episode One - "Highlander: The Gathering". And to totally top off this tremendous freebie, they will also let you embed it on your site for FREE:

NOTE: I changed the width and height to fit the layout at MindBlog, but I do believe you can still see the screen just fine and in an undistorted fashion… gee, just take a look at Adrian Paul, there's nothing distorted about his looks… hot, hot, sizzling! There can be only one!

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Hair today, gone tomorrow
06.05.09 - 3:41 pm (CT)
My hair started coming out slowly, but surely the other day and I thought for sure that when I got up this morning it would all be laying on my pillow, but it wasn't. The rate of loss has significantly jumped now to maybe 50 or more hairs at a time, so when I washed my hair very gently with baby shampoo today, I was prepared to scream when I looked in the mirror after patting it dry, but there was still plenty there. However, when I went to brush it, each stroke resulted in a brush full, and then when I went to blow-dry it on low, I could see hairs just flying off my head, so I decided rather quickly to let it just air-dry.

Anyway, the doctor had said between chemo #2 & 3 is when I'd lose it, but it's more like between weeks #2 & 3 after the first chemo that it may just be history… hair today, gone tomorrow.

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Cue ball in the side pocket?
06.01.09 - 5:15 pm (CT)
It's a little early for it to happen, but I think my hair started to fall out today — I was driving home and had a loose hair tickling my face and went to grab it and had 10 - 20 hairs come with the sucker, so I lightly tugged again, only on the other side, and the same thing happened. I very smartly surmised that I should stop or I might be bald before I got home… I wasn't, bald that is, but since someone else I knew had her hair blow off in the car, it could have.

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