LadyCrimson

I can't make the volume on XP alone go low enough, using headphones, to "barely" be able to hear the initial sound. I put Windows vol. as low as it can go before it shuts off completely, and it was still loud & piercing. Had to use another program to reduce by another 18 'dB' to make it almost silent. Then w/the test, I can hear every tone - the first one is the quietest to me, the last one loud and hurts my ears even w/the initial low volume. They should have a couple more low tones on that 'test'. If I have any hearing loss at this point, it's in the lower registers...the high tones have always driven me nuts.

Similar...I went there a lot largely because they were the best option close to home, w/the most games. I don't personally have anything against their service; I usually run in and out so fast, without talking, I never notice. Most of the guys in the one by our house were polite enough, but again, I don't talk much when I buy, so...The past few years, since I don't have a console to buy for, they've lost my interest completely. I go to Fry's these days even tho it's a further drive and more hassle overall. Best Buy is ok, but the ones close to us don't have a lot of games either - their DVD section is pretty big tho, and we bought our TV there.

Most of the little things I've already done, and most of the bigger things become less likely - or less desired - all the time. I'm kind of in the middle as far as 'dreams' - sometimes I like talking about wild what-ifs/maybes, but I won't be upset if they never happen. For myself, contentment comes from the the small day to day stuff. But let's see... Stay married to the same person till I die: to be determined, but it looks good Owning a house: we've been frustrated by this one for about a year, but we're currently trying to negotiate to buy this house we've been living in/renting for around a decade. Funny how that works. We'll see. Spend a summer in the Alaska wilderness (with lots of expensive camera/video equipment of course): Unlikely, but not too impossible. Become a professional nature photographer who travels all over the world for photos: Dream - I'm not that motivated Own 5000+ acres and build big cat sancturaries: Dreamin' and then some

Sorry, I don't know the answer to that, and even if I did, it was 20 years ago and it'd be outdated info by now. She had a group and someone in it had a plane, they had different landing zones they'd go to every week, that sort of thing.

I'd say Biggs was a pretty minor character, particularly in the original non-messed-with films where it felt like he was just suddenly there at the end, but he was still someone you remembered and empathized with in some minor way. I can't say the same for most of the minors in the new trilogy, even if they did have names. Except I did feel sorry for poor Supreme Chancellor Valorum. I think that's mostly because I love Terrance Stamp, tho.

You just need a graphic editor then save as a gif - usually there will be some gif optimization/compression options in the menus somewhere where you can set the transparency to the background color when you save, along with a shading-tolerance level - so just make sure the background color for the smiliey isn't too close to any color that's actually in the smilie...

My cousin did parachuting for a year or so. She loved it and did it often, freaking out her parents a bit.

Don't listen to the radio all that much anymore, but I still like Alice @97.3 I think they've changed their genres format a little but it's still the station most likely to play something I'll like the sound of. When they put out their first annual compilation CD's I bought them all. Don't know if they still do that. Their morning DJ's used to be kind of obnoxious, but I haven't listened then in a long while so don't know if that's changed or not.

I love the blue cat(?) Oh Face animation bit.

Depends on the grocery store, and what you're buying.

After the experience of horrible 4images support when I needed it, I'm considering switching gallery software, which would be somewhat easier to use/configure - and would let users have/create their own 'albums' if they wished, as opposed to just uploading to pre-made ones. But that would mean some downtime and re-registering w/the new program; there aren't too many using the gallery right now tho, so I kind of figure it wouldn't bother anyone much... but thought I'd ask first? It wouldn't happen for a little while at any rate.

We have an accountant who deals with most of it - and while hubby works largely for one company and goes to their offices at least a few times a week, he does a lot of work from home; his stuff takes up our whole living room. But yeah, gets tricky and you have to be cautious.

Not sure if someone's linked to this within another thread somewhere already, but ran across this month or two old article while researching image gallery software. The only image gallery I think they list is Gallery2, which is the one I'm already checking out, but it's kind of an interesting resource read. Some I've heard of, some I haven't, some I agree with, some I don't. Wordpress never excited me, for example.

So it says it's converting to .doc but when you actually try to open up/edit the converted file in Word, it doesn't work so well? Something like that?

I'm an evil red ...

Yeah, I belive that to be true, also. There's a lot of things that can be used as a business expense. We deduct one of our rooms as an office for hubby, and a percentage of auto expenses and such. Just not plain 'old clothes.'

I don't mind income taxes - it's the high prices I mind. California...social security+federal+state taxes combined equal about 40-60% of your annual income - Social Security is almost as much as the actual Federal taxes. On state and Federal, rates varies on how much you earn, deductions if any, etc. There's generally no food-grocery tax but there are still food items or food services (like getting a pizza) that have taxes. Plus minor recycling fees and the like on some things added to the price.

I've been accused of creating things that are too 'busy' a lot. It usually happens because I have an idea, then notice something (the reflections) and start concentrating on that w/out changing the original idea much and... I think overall I do better with more spontaneous subjects/shots that don't have a lot of forethought put into them, because I don't have time to become overly obsessed, but I'd need a serious telephoto to get the images I'd want w/out having to crop out empty space. Sigh.

I know jack about RSS, so hopefully I'm not completely wrong...but Googling and looking at your page source I'd say the feed has some xml issues - ie, your server/software/whatever is having problems with the forum feeds entity definitions - or lack thereof ... or something ... I don't know terminology. So you have all those < /b > < br etc. being written in your pagesource rather than the actual symbol < br > that's in the XML feed, and so on; thus your page "sees" entity names and to it that means "draw a < " instead of recognizing it as a codetag to make a line break or bold or () symbols, if that made any sense at all. If something like that's actually the case, it's possible you won't be able to fix it on your end, but there I don't really know. Your portal software may have an idea/solution from past users having similar problems with linking to outside feeds.

So some of it's writer-research? I can understand that. That's partly how I first developed such an interest in ancient weapons and battle tactics, myself. Not that I write anymore ... but it's amazing how much research you can end up doing in order to make certain things in a novel be believable.

Cowardly party members...they like to run off and hide.

New World. It's a pretty movie, for sure. Kind of slow yet melodramatic. The periodic character voice-over monologues are distracting and unneccesary tho.

Ahaha! That's exactly it. "Dee doot!"

No water bottles ... been trying to learn still-lifes with a homemade lightbox. It's kickin' my arse, this lighting stuff. :/ In-camera white balance is annoying to configure. And I need a taller table, this hunching over thing is killing my back, which makes me feel like this: