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Friday, March 19, 2010

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Friday, March 27, 2009

Photo linking again

The last post showed how to enlarge a picture that was uploaded via the Blogger upload image process. When enlarging, the pictures lost detail.
When a Blogger user uploads pictures, a Picasa Web album is automatically created for each blog the user authors. The user can access this Web album by navigating to their Blogger Dashboard and selecting the My Account link. Under My Products, there will be a listing for Picasa Albums.

I'll link those two pictures again, this time using the Picasa Web album link, but adjusting the Width from Auto to 80% because the auto width seems to spill out the sides of my blog layout and I really don't like that. Also, for the vertical pictures, I set the width to 75% so the picture isn't so big:

Medium size

Directly uploading photos into Blogger

Instead of linking from flickr or the Picasa albums, these two images will be uploaded through the blogger interface.

In the HTML editor, Adjusted the width from 400px / 266px to 100%, deleted the height code

Thursday, March 26, 2009

POTD - City Scapes

St Louis' City Museum is a photographer's dream or nightmare. So many cool textures, structures, artwork, tilework, sculptures and more to photograph. Here are just a small sampling of what I found interesting. I think I have another 2 dozen highly varied photos to sort through yet. If you ever get to St Louis, make sure to visit and bring your camera.

A whole wall of glass bottles adorned the entrance to the Vintage Clothing shop.

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Using scrap or salvaged rebar, someone told the welder / artist to "create whatever you want".

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Kids climb the metal structure to get to the slide.

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Spools of thread that feed the shoelace machine. They design and sell all sorts of flat woven shoe laces, wrist bands, etc on the spot.

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Hundreds of these painted ceramic balusters adorn the staircases and covers one of the slides. They spin, too.

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In the dark recesses of the back part of the warehouse - staircases that lead you to the 7th floor spiral slide.

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Hopefully I'll get to post more pictures over the next several days.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Testing some more

I want to see how the formatting will look on using this template's color scheme.

Large Print

Italic

BOLD

Quoting:

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Inserting Links:

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

POTD - Hungry?

Probably not, but best not to find out. This Amur Tiger will turn 12 months old in April. Yeah, she's only 11 months old now. How scary is that?

She and her 4 siblings reside at the St. Louis Zoo, in a huge, open air enclosure with several vantage points. I used my 300mm lens to capture her licking her chops after some playful exchanges with one of her siblings. Even these huge creatures are cute when they play together.

POTD - Determination [Emotion]

Brian had just maneuvered himself through the body of a gutted airplane. If he had trouble, think about how I felt. Squished, for sure. And I had on these boots with 2" heels. Not the ideal shoes to be climbing in.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

POTD - Monstrocity [Safety/Risk]

A small portion of the outdoor climbing structure at the City Museum in St. Louis. Nothing like a bunch of mangled metal to make you feel safe as you climb upwards to the gutted plane, 7 stories high.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

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Random Picture Challenge

This week's Random Picture Challenge from 4 little men and girly twins

3rd folder
1st picture with the color BROWN

A picture from August, 2005 - Brian in the jaws of a T-rex at the Children's Museum at Navy Pier, Chicago.

Broken Window

Because of the extreme cold weather in January, one of our double paned windows cracked. We covered it up with cardboard to prevent more breakage and keep little hands / feet from getting cut. Scott uncovered it today and took it to a local glass shop to have it measured for repair. A perfect opportunity for Two Peas theme of Safety / Risk.

This is my first picture using a texture! It was super simple. I followed one of CoffeeShop Rita's great tutorials.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

81/365 - Preparations

Grandma Nai Nai arrives tonight for a Spring Break visit. This makes up for the 2 days she spent in the Detroit Airport Christmas Eve and Christmas day. In preparation for her visit, we had to move Hannah's stuff out of the spare bedroom. Normally, the bed and floor are littered with cat toys, cat hair, cat beds and more cat hair. But after cleaning up and vacuuming, here's what the room looks like:

The cat toys migrated to Erica's bedroom where they now litter the floor.

Hannah will stay with Erica for the next week. Hopefully both of them will be able to sleep with the added distraction.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

80/365 - Broad Sword

One element that draws Brian to the advanced TaeKwonDo classes is the use of weapons in various forms and routines. This month featured the Broad Sword, which Brian loves.

It's even more impressive in use, swirling around through the air. Hopefully I'll get capture that in the future.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

79/365 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

The latest book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series arrived for Brian.

I'm sure there's some potty humor, but if it gets him to actively read, I'm OK with a little bit of it.

Erica has been reading it, too. She'll probably finish it tonight.

Edited on Wednesday, March 18 -
Erica and Brian fought last night over this book - they both wanted to read it. Erica finished it on the drive to school this morning and Brian finished the book this afternoon! Normally, one of Brian's homework assignments is to read for 20 minutes each day, which I have to actively enforce. Not this afternoon. That's progress.

Monday, March 16, 2009

78/365 - New Toy

Scott received an iTouch as a reward for accumulating a gazillion points on his American Express card over the past 5 years. He got the card in order to earn golf gear, but he never accumulated enough points, and they switched award offerings that now include electronics.

The new toy arrived today and generated lots of buzz in the house. We even drove to Wal Mart after dinner to purchase a wireless router in order to take advantage of the wireless internet access. Yeah, we're late to the wireless network stuff, but we're there now.

Erica and Brian compete in TapTap Revenge 2 game.

Erica checks out her email.

Scott finally got to play with it after the kids went to bed.

Hmmm.... it may be time for me to upgrade my 4 year old iPod......

Sunday, March 15, 2009

77/365 - Bracket Decisions

Scott is back from his Basketball weekend with Dave G - since both Illinois and Michigan State crashed and burned last night, the boys simply parted ways this morning.

After the Selection Sunday announcements, Scott found a printable bracket and went to work on his "first pass".

As for my bracket - I'll randomly pick out the teams on-line for our NCAA March Madness pool. Once the tournament starts, I'll post my picks.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

76/365: Discoveries

One of the benefits of living in near a college town - numerous special activities on campus. Jill and I took the boys to the Naturally Illinois Expo, a series of exhibits held at the Natural Resources Building. The boys dug for fossils, experimented with pH, learned about stream erosion and watched cool (literally!) liquid nitrogen demonstrations.

Brian examines his fossil:

Another discovery - the Krannert Art Museum. We only took a quick walk through, but I'm sure I'll go back by myself soon. One exhibit featured ceramic sculpture, including these hanging white teardrops suspended against a white backboard. Quite pretty.

I played around with Levels for an "edgier" treatment:

A nice way to spend an early spring day.

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