February 19, 2013

Photobucket: The new one. I asked about the upload SIZE feature

I found the place on how to ask them a question, and sent it off, asking: "where is it, I used to always click on the size I needed to have in my upload, and I cannot find it"

For anyone else who wondered here is the answer I got. And I don't like it a lot. Why do they release something with such an important feature missing, and no notice is given about it? I spent a lot of time trying to find something that I could not have imagined not being there any more.


Jim (Photobucket Support)
Feb 19 10:15 am (MST)

Hi there!

Some features are not yet available on the new site, and choosing an upload size is one of them. It is something our engineers are looking into, but I do not have a time frame for when/if that option will be available on the new site. What's going on is that your originals file size is being stored for you to download. Your view of images in the site that are over 1024x768 are resized to 1024x768 but only for the web-size or viewed image. Images smaller than 1024x768 are not resized for the web view when looking at images in your account.

The best I can suggest you do until this option is available is to resize your photos to the resolution you would like before uploading (as long as they are under 1024x768), so that you are linking out that exact size image on the new site.

If you want an update on when that feature will be added to the site follow these steps: 1) log into your Photobucket account, 2) open the article below and 3) click the subscribe link in the top right-hand corner of the page.

http://photobucket.zendesk.com/entries/22494178-current-list-of-missing-features

Let me know if you have any further questions, feedback, comments or concerns. I'd be more than happy to assist in any way I can.

Thanks!

For those who want to, and are also inconvenienced, maybe more folks writing them would help put it on the front burner.

[email protected]

February 19, 2013

This stirred my soul - especially after Rachel's work last night - New reason to like Chuck Hagel

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Imagine this, and think through that a Republican Senator took Condosleeza Rice to task for 4 minutes. Also watch her devlish eyes and be grateful we don't have to see them much any more.

I am not surprised that our current President has put his support behind Hagel and is enlisting him for service.

This is an important video to me, also shows up why ineffectual Republican Senators like Graham and McCain are so incredibly envious of a man with clarity/vision and guts.

February 19, 2013

Reminder 2 hours out - set your kitchen timer or something

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022387155

Rachel's Special about the war in Iraq. Though with us she will be re-tuning the choir's songs - it will probably be must see TV, like most of what she does.

Without a doubt we will find out some things even we did not know.
We also I think would do well to know what it is others will hear and see. Those around us who are not as aware as we are.

February 18, 2013

Winter contest - follow up on my thread from yesterday - another poll

I'm so awesome with polls - so I'll do another one.
March 1st is around the corner, and we could start it on time. CC knows these things, and she said Winter Seasonal starts March 1st.

I went back and looked and promptly now forgot her name again, but sure enough the Autumn winner has been banned.

Earth first has offered to run the contest, and so has CC
They can flip a coin and maybe talk amongst themselves and if majority rules that we want to go for it you are on your own.

And yes, to answer a question that was asked, Seasonal and Monthly contests run side by side.
We try to co-ordinate the timing a bit. But we do not forgo one to have the other. We do them both simultaneously.

February 18, 2013

Taking your temperature - subject: blind voting

I wailed about non-private votes in our contests. I finally said, at one other time, that I would just acquiesce and give up. But my nature asks: "why stick with that stance just because you felt like giving up then?"

I'm thinking the loss of blind voting has hurt our contests. Time passed is saying yes to that.
I'm thinking we did not (collectively) protest enough.
I'm thinking that we ought to at least request an answer to the long standing question of why an exception is not available to turn on anonymous voting for our contests.
I absolutely know this is not that difficult and our contests do not fall into the categories that were stated why non-private voting was preferred for other polls.

I think we rolled over and gave in too easily, and deserved an answer.

I won't take it personally, promise! I will not look ( who said what since I'm posting what unfortunately is a non-private poll. You who know me know this has pissed me off from the start.

So just say yay or nay about us as the photographers asking for an answer.

February 18, 2013

Winter contest - seasonal - quick question.

Who knows the answer to exactly when it should be run?
My guess is right about NOW, and it may not be too late.
If that is so, then we could try to recruit a volunteer host and go for it.

I don't like it if we ignore a bit of our heritage here just because we hit snags.
If we kept that up, then surely soon we may either not have winters, or photo contests.

Also, since I live in the South, it's a challenge

February 17, 2013

House Science Committee Questions Existence of Meteors - Shocking Borowitz report

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology said today that the committee would hold hearings next week “to settle the question, once and for all, of whether meteors exist.”

“The media has been in something of a frenzy recently on this whole topic of meteors,” said chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas). “I think it’s irresponsible of them to frighten the public about something that, at the end of the day, may be about as real as unicorns.”
Rep. Smith said that he had seen recent reports of the “so-called Russian meteor” of last week, but added, “Maybe it’s the scientific skeptic in me, but this ‘meteor’ may just have been a bunch of fireworks that some Siberian fellow set off after drinking a little too much Stoli.
It is winter, after all, and that’s how those folks keep warm.”

The Texas congressman said that he and other meteor doubters are worried that scientists had “a vested interest” in convincing people that meteors are real: “They want the government to spend more money on science, and, let me tell you, that is the last thing the Science Committee is going to do.”

As for the scientific theory that meteors may have killed the dinosaurs, Rep. Smith chuckled, “That theory would also have us believe that there were dinosaurs.”


Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/02/house-science-committee-questions-existence-of-meteors.html#ixzz2LB1ldqhm

February 16, 2013

Three votes - I got! And none of them was my own :)

There is a website I stumbled across about a half a year ago
http://news.uglyhedgehog.com/b-59618-d-546

I did not often visit there it looked too daunting and I think I'm a too amateurish to hang with these folks
They have a contest a week, I realized, and I entered a first photo last week. No votes for me.

This week I went with the first one my eyes hit on (contest: Rule of Thirds) and got THREE votes. I'm proud of that. 210 entries, and I think the winner had 19 or so votes

I'm not that proud of my photo - but to my DU photo friends I say:
The contests they run are pretty amazing to me. Blind - no name entries - dead blind voting with not even the vote count announced as the voting goes on.
Submission time is a few days, and then voting takes place on Thursday and Friday.

The themes, and the interpretations shown in the submissions are worthy of some study.

February 16, 2013

Interview with brother of George Zimmerman lead in on Bill Maher's show 10 pm and 11 pm HBO

The Interview:

Robert Zimmerman, Jr. is the brother of George Zimmerman, who has been accused of second-degree murder in the shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.


The Panel:

Donna Brazile is a Democratic strategist, contributor to ABC News and CNN, and the Vice Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. This week she wrote an article outlining the GOP’s efforts to "restart, reform and rebrand."


Jon Meacham is executive editor and executive vice president at Random House and the author of Thomas


Jamie Weinstein is senior editor of The Daily Caller.

Comedian and actor Joel McHale will join the panel mid-show. He is the host of E!'s 'The Soup' and stars in NBC's 'Community.' McHale recently participated in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything," the result of which can be found here.

February 15, 2013

Two videos of Peter Sprigg getting his (Ass) Hat handed to him by CNN

Anti Gay Ass-Hattery

Peter Sprigg Family Research Council
striking out on CNN - twice

about gay soldiers serving the country
and about the Boy Scouts' changing policy

CNN Pundit Politely Tells Anti-Gay Interview Guest That He Is An Idiot

Contrary to popular belief, the Boy Scouts is not an organization created in the 1500s to maintain the bigoted status quo.

http://www.upworthy.com/cnn-pundit-politely-tells-anti-gay-interview-guest-that-he-is-an-idiot?c=upw1

and then he is on with Tweety about the soldiers