Picture resizing?
 

I think I said 300 pixels, but I'm too lazy to go back and look. At any rate, file size isn't as important as pixel dimensions and 300 pixels wide is plenty big.

I will take what I wrote in that avatar resizing faq and turn it into a separate FAQ on image resizing in general (when I get a chance).

Reality Show Bachelor Interview
 

He'll be okay. He's pretty, so if he can't get another legal job, he can always--assuming he keeps his mouth shut so he doesn't wreck things by speaking and has the requisite skill set--be a man-ho. :)

*edited to add, "shut", etc.

Fightin' Words
 

Picture resizing?
 

Oh, sorry, you did say pixels.

Guess we all know why I am not the picture resizing guru . . .

Thanks, M_R.

Fightin' Words
 

Am I the only one wondering why they're playing hockey at midnight? (Except for that 10 pm match with Louisville, that is.)

Trading Spaces
 

Lessons learned from the weekend.

1.) All home improvement projects take at least twice as long as anticipated.

2.) Wallpaper that was glued on in the 60s is a bitch to take off.

3.) The guys at Home Depot really do offer useful suggestions.

4.) Hydrochloric acid will eat through the mop in no time, but has difficulty with carpet clue on a concrete floor. Paint drops will be eaten, but a mark will be left.

5.) Safety goggles will inevitably fog up.

6.) It takes about an hour to get a noise complaint (from two floors down) when you're using a concrete grinder on a floor.

7.) Carpet pads installed in the 60s begin to disentegrate upon removal in the 00s.

8.) The Chevrolet Suburban is one of the more useful vehicles on the planet for home improvement projects.

9.) You'll never have to pay for food for a month if you help out a friend with their home improvement project.

10.) Things begin to look like the vision about two days into the project.

11.) I'm the nicest sister in the world. And he's in my debt big time.

U.S. Open Topless Girl
 

Because, while she appears to have a nice rack, a woman's body should never never never be defiled by using it as an advertisement for gambling. Illinois is not Vegas.

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...2148474985.jpg

Trading Spaces
 

12. A man with a tool in his hand becomes a screaming tyrant to the "helper" person.
13. Never do the upstairs shower AFTER the kitchen because when the shower leaks, you WILL have to re-do the kitchen.
14. Home Improvement ALWAYS costs twice as much as you thought it would.
15. Get a health club membership so that at least you can take a shower when the (electricity/water) is turned off.
16. Don't listen when people tell you something is "easy" to do.

DVD Recommendation
 

Only film that I can recall to use the "yar" at least 3 times.

not7y(horrid)S

Trading Spaces
 

17. Hire a professional. Use the money you would otherwise spend on couple's counseling or gifts intended to compensate for home-improvement related cantankerousness. Use the time you save to do something that is actually enjoyable.

What?
 

Tokyo crowned most expensive city.
LONDON, June 16 — Living in Tokyo isn’t cheap. In fact, it’s more expensive than anywhere else in the world.
A COST-OF-LIVING survey of 144 urban areas around the world showed Tokyo has overtaken Hong Kong as the most expensive city. Tokyo is followed by Moscow and Osaka, Japan.
Bogota, Colombia, meanwhile, is the cheapest.
The surging euro currency pushed European cities up in the rankings, while a weaker dollar sent American cities down. New York was the only American city in the top of the survey, coming it at No. 10. The next most expensive U.S. cities were White Plains, New York (No. 20), Los Angeles (No. 22 ) and Chicago (No. 25).
Full story here

How in the hell does LA and Chicago get more expensive than SF?

DVD Recommendation
 

I assume you mean the word "yare," and that you said "3 times" to exclude "The Philadelphia Story," which (as I recall) only used it twice.

(spree: sound, but nothing offensive)

http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresse...e_faceshot.jpg

60 minutes
 

I watched the Dole vs. Clinton, Clinton vs. Dole segment on that show for the first time last night and I was appalled at how trite and rehearsed the whole thing is. Are there really people in this country who get some value from this? They are just caricatures at this point anyway.

n(Bob Dole's face job looks like someone stretched a balloon really tightly over his skin)cs

60 minutes
 

All I can guess is that Bill is such a shameless publicity whore he'd appear on "Celebrity Blind Date" if he had to, and the 60 Minutes gig would piss off Hillary somewhat less, and perhaps Bob is feeling eclipsed by Elizabeth and the invites from "Meet the Press" are down so he's taking whatever he can get.

DVD Recommendation
 

I assume you mean the word "yare,"[/quote]

Yeah, no Scripps Howard finalist I

That was the point, yes. Twice was bad enough. But Three? F that.

not7yS

Talk about a horror movie not based in reality
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/op...d%2fColumnists

spree: they are remaking Stepford Wives, set in New Canaan and Norwalk (!). I thought successful men who dumped their wives and married trophys gave wife number one the CT manor and moved to the city with the trophy?

Fightin' Words
 

My ex-boyfriend used to play in a league that always played at midnight because ice time was at such a premium (there was a league that played when his games ended). It's fairly common in places where people play a lot of ice sports - hockey, figure skating etc. But I did not realize that Lexington KY was one of those places.

DVD Recommendation
 

Not a word I use much, either, but I had a part in a stage version once, so I knew how it looked in the script.

60 minutes
 

Speaking of Blind Date (love that show), this weekend they aired the Date From Hell where the guy yelled at some girl in a bar during his date and then told his date that she was average looking and uninteresting while they were riding home in the cab. Made me long for the single days gone by...

I also saw the While You Were Out show from Memphis when the husband busted to camera person who was following him and they had to turn it around into a surprise on the wife.

Brothel stuff for sale on ebay
 

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/interne....ap/index.html

Unfortunately it is just run of the mill stuff, the article informs us.

No more fun nude stuff.

Talk about a horror movie not based in reality
 

I think Stepford-ization happened to the original wives. It wasn't about new trophy wives. The Stepford men wanted to keep the CT house, so they got robots of the first wife. Of course, a Stepford wife wouldn't object to the husband dating the girl that would otherwise have become the second trophy wife.

Reality Show Bachelor Interview
 

The guy was a freaking office temp. doesnt get more fungible than that. I am sure he will pose for Playgirl or something and the women hating queens will be digging it. He is obviously one of life's losers if, at 33, he is still an office temp in his chosen profession. ( Assuming of course, he didnt get laid off from a dot bomb, in which case, I take it back.) Also, at 33, no relationshipa dn an inability to commit or whatever and the lack of brains to try and pull and elevensome on tv, like that would work. If you are 22 and just out of college, fine, I get it, but at 33 and without a career? HE is fucking stupid. He oughta cash in his chips while he still has his hair and can get a decent looking woman who doesnt mind the fact that he has no career. SHe might have to be dumber than whaleshit though. You know, the type who hears "lawyer" and thinks "$$$".

He is truly a waste of a hot guy.

Talk about a horror movie not based in reality
 

You'd think they'd turn their mistresses into robots--a Fairfield County wife who already waits on you and takes care of your kids is a hell of a lot easier to deal with than a whiny bimbo mistress who constantly threatens to tell the wife about you if you don't get her another rock from Tiffany's and start taking out to more places.

U.S. Open Topless Girl
 

Speaking of topless, I haev noticed men in my neighborhood walking the streets topless. More often that not, they are pale, pasty, middleaged with gray armpit hair. I have also seen a couple of superbuff guys with shaven chests. I dont really want to see that either. Isnt this against the law or something? It should be. ITs a crime against my eyeballs. I have never seen such a public display on the sidewalks before and I will take off my shirt in protest if it keeps up.

60 minutes
 

Did you see the Trading Spaces where Hildy painted the walls and ceiling of a dining room black, then painted the oval table and chairs bumblebee yellow, so the room looked exactly like the inside of a rotten egg? The wife complained during the credits, "I stayed up to 2 am painting frickin' zinnias on the walls (of Lauri's little girls' room) and I come home to THIS?" :D

U.S. Open Topless Girl
 

So, the protest-move to Monte Carlo is off?

U.S. Open Topless Girl
 

I was only moving there in an Alec Baldwin kinda way. Why was I moving there again? Taxes? Its gotta be better than where I live, wher ethe men apparently think they are in a deadshow parking lot in Sacramento in August. Cover it up, man.

60 minutes
 

I missed that one. I did see a preview of a Hildi room (it might be this week's new episode) where there is a big mosiac or other design on the wall that looks like Hildi's face. How weird to go into someone's house and put your picture on their wall?

Another TLC show that I've been watching is For Better or for Worse, where people let their families/friends plan their weddings in a week for $5000. Another invitation to watch people squabble.

60 minutes
 

I watched one of those (the groom started faux-crying during the vows - it was ghastly. Looked like a bit of a train wreck. I think that was the first one. I didn't see the one with the girl with multi-colored hair and the fuschia dress - did you? That one looked like a disaster waiting to happen.

U.S. Open Topless Girl
 

I've got rules for shirtlessness (for guys):

Yes: Anywhere in the burbs. Who cares? Your life is over anyway; you might as well take your shirt off. Especially when mowing the lawn.

Yes: Running when it's EXTREMELY hot.

Yes: On the beach or NEAR the beach. In Chicago, that means your shirt goes back on once you cross LSD. NO walking the streets of Chicago shirtless.

Yes: Any golf course with no dress code. Jean shorts are mandatory too. If they wanted you to wear a shirt, they would have said so.


And for girls:

No toplessness when you're dead.

U.S. Open Topless Girl
 

Once you've seen a number of senior German and Italian men in speedos, you'll run, not walk, for that Dead parking lot. And their topless wives ain't no treat either. ¡Ay Caramba!

60 minutes
 

I saw it. She was really appalled at first, but it actually looked alright to me. And she was non-traditional enough to pull it off. Much better than the episode where they put the cute little hippy chick in a dress that looked like a potato sack. The scary thing about that show is the wedding planners always put the budget for the dress really low, so the families end up needing to hire someone to make a dress in a week (or, in the case of the fuschia dress, the aunt was going to make a dress from the equivalent of a McCalls pattern before they decided on the fuschia bridesmaids dress).

Rules for Shirtlessness
 

And guys, if you have major monkey thatch, especially on your back, for God's sake cover up. Innocent people shouldn't have to see that. It's just cruel.

Perfect FB nexus topics
 

I'm surprised that no one ever posts article from Nerve here. Like this one, about a guy who does different drugs, has sex and writes a lab report about it.

"We settled on ecstasy, cocaine, marijuana, mushrooms and Viagra. Each would be evaluated by six criteria: immediate physical effect, tactile response, duration of sex, mental images produced, lab assistant's reaction, and comparison to usage outside the sexual realm."

Anyone have any good stories they want to share?

U.S. Open Topless Girl
 

What pool do you hang out at? THe Washington Hilton? Is there a good hotel pool scene that isnt speedo city? OR shaved buff guy city (not that they arent the same thing)?

U.S. Open Topless Girl
 

I saw enough of that at ZUMA beach to put me off of going to Italy for a very long time. What is it with Italian guys with the fat gut and the speedos? And for chrissakes, put a t-shirt on! And if you're on the beach the ghetto chain is not necessary.

Rules for Shirtlessness
 

PJ, you read my mind. eEery so often I see Robin Williams out running. He looks like a woolly mammoth and it grosses me out whenever I see him.

Trading Spaces
 

17. Men with power tools are sexy.
18. Women with power tools are sexier.

BR(we bought a cordless drill this weekend - heh, heh heh)C

Rules for Shirtlessness
 

That should read: Every so often I see Robin Williams out running.

U.S. Open Topless Girl
 

I have no particular euro-expertise, but my sister, who dates a German, insists that anything but tight-fitting bathing suits and underwear are anathema to european men. It doesn't matter the age or the size of the gut--tighty-whiteys and speedos for all. Her observations certainly accord with the horrifying sites I've seen on some european beaches. I'm limiting all future trips to Fall and Spring (Winter's out too -- coed naked saunas throughout the Alps).