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10/29/2009 21:34 #50144
Liveblogging costume progress!10/29/2009 21:01 #50143
E:zobar's costume
HAHA I moblogged!!!
So can you guess what it is? It's a small part of the whole thing, but very labor-intensive. :)
dragonlady7 - 10/29/09 21:32
Ooh good one!
But no. The Holy Hand Grenade basically looks like a bottle of Chambord. I should try to get a clearer shot of this one, though-- this isn't showing the shape all that well.
Ooh good one!
But no. The Holy Hand Grenade basically looks like a bottle of Chambord. I should try to get a clearer shot of this one, though-- this isn't showing the shape all that well.
drew - 10/29/09 21:11
He is a monty-python knight, and that is the holy hand grenade?
He is a monty-python knight, and that is the holy hand grenade?
10/29/2009 16:11 #50141
HamthraxMy boss's kids had H1N1 last week. His wife had it as well. It made his older daughter (7) pretty sick, and his wife was miserable, but it only slowed the 3-year-old slightly. (The 3-year-old has the attitude and constitution of a Mack truck. She is the kind of child who puts her Tonka trucks onto the coffee table, and then pushes the coffee table around the room making vroom-vroom noises.)
Monday one of the clerks I work with (and indeed had spent Sunday's shift with) came in and was promptly dismissed as too sick to work. His girlfriend had spent the previous week miserable, probably with H1N1. He'd felt under the weather and had been obsessively using hand sanitizer for several days. I'd worked with him for most of those days.
Monday the boss went home at his normal quitting time, which is uncharacteristic. He normally stays at least an hour late, usually two.
Tuesday he came in and instructed everyone to keep their distance, as he certainly was suffering with the flu. He wound up staying several hours, and while he was careful to maintain distance from everyone and sanitize his hands frequently and not use the same telephone as anyone else, he still was there in a small room with everyone.
We expect to lose most of the rest of the store staff at some point, but hopefully not all at the same time. There are only five clerks, so there aren't a lot of people able to cover for one another.
I've just had 2 days off in a row, counting today. I have felt a little under the weather, intermittently, all autumn, but have been able to dismiss it as allergies. But now I really don't feel quite right-- my ability to regulate my body temperature is off, my chest is tight, my head is fuzzy, and my throat is sore. So I'm probably coming down with something.
Should we lay bets on whether it's the H1N1?
Monday one of the clerks I work with (and indeed had spent Sunday's shift with) came in and was promptly dismissed as too sick to work. His girlfriend had spent the previous week miserable, probably with H1N1. He'd felt under the weather and had been obsessively using hand sanitizer for several days. I'd worked with him for most of those days.
Monday the boss went home at his normal quitting time, which is uncharacteristic. He normally stays at least an hour late, usually two.
Tuesday he came in and instructed everyone to keep their distance, as he certainly was suffering with the flu. He wound up staying several hours, and while he was careful to maintain distance from everyone and sanitize his hands frequently and not use the same telephone as anyone else, he still was there in a small room with everyone.
We expect to lose most of the rest of the store staff at some point, but hopefully not all at the same time. There are only five clerks, so there aren't a lot of people able to cover for one another.
I've just had 2 days off in a row, counting today. I have felt a little under the weather, intermittently, all autumn, but have been able to dismiss it as allergies. But now I really don't feel quite right-- my ability to regulate my body temperature is off, my chest is tight, my head is fuzzy, and my throat is sore. So I'm probably coming down with something.
Should we lay bets on whether it's the H1N1?
09/25/2009 09:19 #49851
p.s.just for (e:tinypliny)-- I tried again to send this from my iPhone but no luck. I email using the address I have on file here, to mobl@estrip.org, and it just never shows up. :(
tinypliny - 09/26/09 10:41
Try a smaller size pic? ~100kb or so and see if it appears on the panel (below the post area) after it finishes uploading. If it doesn't appear there, that means something went wrong with the upload, and it won't post.
On the compose view, if you click on the "my media" button - its the first button in the string of formatting buttons, a pop-up window shows you thumbnails of all the photos/videos/sounds etc that you have uploaded. You can view this list by month using the dropdown list also in the same pop-up window. Clicking any of that media thumbnails puts a link to it in the post you are composing in the main window.
Try a smaller size pic? ~100kb or so and see if it appears on the panel (below the post area) after it finishes uploading. If it doesn't appear there, that means something went wrong with the upload, and it won't post.
On the compose view, if you click on the "my media" button - its the first button in the string of formatting buttons, a pop-up window shows you thumbnails of all the photos/videos/sounds etc that you have uploaded. You can view this list by month using the dropdown list also in the same pop-up window. Clicking any of that media thumbnails puts a link to it in the post you are composing in the main window.
dragonlady7 - 09/25/09 11:32
Oh, I have to visit the mobile site to access that preference? I never do-- I just always browse the regular site from my iPhone. Hm OK, I'll try going there.
Oh, I have to visit the mobile site to access that preference? I never do-- I just always browse the regular site from my iPhone. Hm OK, I'll try going there.
dragonlady7 - 09/25/09 11:31
I went into "change my email" and the email there is the one I use. I went into "change my preferences" and my mobile email isn't one of them. I went through the rest of the settings I could find, but I have no idea how on earth to change my mobile email-- I wasn't aware it was something I had on file! I remember trying to moblog from my old cellphone and never managing to be successful.
But today I'm just trying to upload from the regular post-new-journal page, in my browser (Firefox on a Mac), and it uploads the file but won't put it into the entry, and I can't figure out how to fix it. I've had that problem before and I vaguely recall manually typing the tag in, but I can't remember how it was composed and can't find an entry I was successful at doing it to.
I'm not whining, just explaining why I don't seem to be able to post things I've been asked to.
I went into "change my email" and the email there is the one I use. I went into "change my preferences" and my mobile email isn't one of them. I went through the rest of the settings I could find, but I have no idea how on earth to change my mobile email-- I wasn't aware it was something I had on file! I remember trying to moblog from my old cellphone and never managing to be successful.
But today I'm just trying to upload from the regular post-new-journal page, in my browser (Firefox on a Mac), and it uploads the file but won't put it into the entry, and I can't figure out how to fix it. I've had that problem before and I vaguely recall manually typing the tag in, but I can't remember how it was composed and can't find an entry I was successful at doing it to.
I'm not whining, just explaining why I don't seem to be able to post things I've been asked to.
paul - 09/25/09 11:15
I think you have the wrong email in your mobl preferences. It only accepts emails from the address you have set up there. To get there on the mobile site, click the prefs link.
The one you have on file is XXXXXXXXXX@mms.mycingular.com. Each one of the Xs is a number that is your phone number. Is that really the mobile email address you send the pics from on your iphone? Seems like an old address?
I think you have the wrong email in your mobl preferences. It only accepts emails from the address you have set up there. To get there on the mobile site, click the prefs link.
The one you have on file is XXXXXXXXXX@mms.mycingular.com. Each one of the Xs is a number that is your phone number. Is that really the mobile email address you send the pics from on your iphone? Seems like an old address?
tinypliny - 09/25/09 09:43
Excuses, excuses! Hmmmpph.
I want that toilet shot, you hear me?
If you want inspiration *and roll around in slightly grossed out laughs* --> :::link:::
Excuses, excuses! Hmmmpph.
I want that toilet shot, you hear me?
If you want inspiration *and roll around in slightly grossed out laughs* --> :::link:::
09/25/2009 09:14 #49850
we DID get robbedNot like (e:Paul)'s entry, but the other night, the two guys on the closing shift were going about their business, and some guy who was "just looking" darted behind the counter, grabbed the most expensive lens he could reach , and strolled all casual-like out of the store.
What frosts my buttons, besides the fact that the dude just straight-up stole from us, is that the TWO customers who WITNESSED this happening SAID NOTHING. Both of them took their prints they'd been waiting for, walked out to their cars, drove home, and THEN AND ONLY THEN did they call the store to say "Hey that guy took something." When it was WAY too late to do ANYTHING about it.
Williamsvillites. Wouldn't it have been more useful to tap the shoulder of the clerk who was at the photo kiosk working on something (and thus not watching) and whisper discreetly to him, if you are so averse to confrontation?
Oy. I love the suburbs.
What frosts my buttons, besides the fact that the dude just straight-up stole from us, is that the TWO customers who WITNESSED this happening SAID NOTHING. Both of them took their prints they'd been waiting for, walked out to their cars, drove home, and THEN AND ONLY THEN did they call the store to say "Hey that guy took something." When it was WAY too late to do ANYTHING about it.
Williamsvillites. Wouldn't it have been more useful to tap the shoulder of the clerk who was at the photo kiosk working on something (and thus not watching) and whisper discreetly to him, if you are so averse to confrontation?
Oy. I love the suburbs.
tinypliny - 09/25/09 09:45
Oh that is terrible! I am sorry. :/
I hate when people just walk away. I am a big ratter and have reported people in the past - because in the end I pay the costs that go up due to losses.
Oh that is terrible! I am sorry. :/
I hate when people just walk away. I am a big ratter and have reported people in the past - because in the end I pay the costs that go up due to losses.
Wow, I missed all of this awesomeness!
Looking forward to it! Congrats on mobl posting!
I know! I know!! I'm the scared dude from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
- Z
I dunno! Can't wait to see. We Nordics grew up Protestant.
Aw come on isn't anybody old-skool Catholic in this piece? Or is (e:zobar) going to be explaining himself all night?
Well, no, once it's in place on the costume I am positive it will make perfect sense.