LadyCrimson

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:

Standard single, dual-wield I don't like purple or green that much, otherwise don't care. Dark, but Light is easier on the eyes... Atton/Disciple toss up, T3 runner up because he's so cute. The jungle looking one 8/10, mostly because of the unsatisfying ending

@ Sand - August huh? Well, it's usually clear and warm then, so maybe so. That'd be cool. Maybe I'll have a bigger lens or two by then.

Poseidan - as bad as I'd heard, although not so bad I couldn't sit through it to mock it along the way. Wolfgang...I'm disappointed in thee. I've never seen the original one all the way through, but comparing what I have seen to the new one...they're both equally boring. Although there was one bit toward the end of the new one that I wasn't expecting.

I really like Gorth's #3...