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Shrew · Post by **Shrew** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 5:45 pm

Highlight the text. Click the URL button. Add =http://www.whateversite.com to the first tag. It will look like this (without ... Good ReadsExcellent, works like a charm. Thank you.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 5:54 pm

Request for anglicisation of profile name (Johnny Carwash).

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 5:54 pm

Sure thing. I'll make the change as soon as you log out.

Shrew · Post by **Shrew** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 5:57 pm

Edit: Now that I have A working computer and I'm relearning every other darn thing; could you please tell me how to resize an avatar? Last swamp you were kind enough to do it for me but as the saying goes: "give a man a fish, and a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while."

May I also be changed from ShrewToo to Shrew?

Edit II: I will log out for a while.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 6:00 pm

I'll change it as soon as you log-out.

To resize an avatar, you need a photo editor. Like PhotoShop, for example. Also, if you post your image on PhotoBucket, or any other similar site, you can re-size it there quite easily; PhotoBucket albums let you edit images.

Post by **admin** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 6:03 pm

Johnny Carwash and Shrew are now good to go.

Shrew · Post by **Shrew** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 6:30 pm

Photobucket did the trick, thank you. Now everyone can share in the joy of Thai Fisher Kittens

travzilla · Post by **travzilla** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:50 pm

Scottie wrote: To resize an avatar, you need a photo editor. Like PhotoShop, for example. Also, if you post your image on PhotoBucket, or any other similar site, you can re-size it there quite easily; PhotoBucket albums let you edit images.

Actually it looks like you can resize your avatar right in your profile here, at the bottom of the page where you upload your file. (though it doesn't maintain ratio). Seemed to work fine for me.

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 8:02 pm

travzilla wrote:Actually it looks like you can resize your avatar right in your profile here, at the bottom of the page where you upload your file. (though it doesn't maintain ratio). Seemed to work fine for me.

My experience was I could not upload an avatar larger than 200x200. Once uploaded, I could adjust it to display smaller than 200x200.

travzilla · Post by **travzilla** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 8:06 pm

howard wrote:
travzilla wrote:Actually it looks like you can resize your avatar right in your profile here, at the bottom of the page where you upload your file. (though it doesn't maintain ratio). Seemed to work fine for me.
My experience was I could not upload an avatar larger than 200x200. Once uploaded, I could adjust it to display smaller than 200x200.

Ah, that could be. mine was 195x150 when uploaded.

Johnny Hotcakes · Post by **Johnny Hotcakes** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:51 pm

Scottie - absolutely no rush on this since I'm sure there are many more important things to do, but at some point down the road could you please edit my name to Johnny Hotcakes? No rush at all, so please put this request at the very bottom of your in basket.

I think the Zlax stink is starting to wear off on me.

Post by **admin** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:55 pm

Sure thing. Done. Looks good on ya', too. (Your password and settings will remain the same)

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:58 pm

Random New Old New New Swamp question: Are we going to have the phony football player names from the Key & Peele skit as our profile modifier name thingies? (whatever that's called.)

Just wondering. I'm sure there are much more pressing issues, but I have to ask.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:06 pm

Oooooh . . . I completely forgot about that. And I found a list HERE.

Or should we hang on to those until football season rolls around? I'm open to suggestions from anyone for anything to use as the ranks.

Anyway, what? You don't like defunct WHA franchises? (I just added those for the sake of adding something.)

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:21 am

are the san francisco sharks on the list? they were defunked before they ever played in sf. otoh, they live on in denver.

Post by **admin** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:33 am

They are. But by the time anyone hits that many posts we'l likely have moved on to different ranks, methinks.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:39 am

I know you're kidding but, I don't mind the current ranks at all. In fact, I was wondering what they were. Defunct WHA franchises are cool until whenever.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:04 am

Scottie, can you change ljam1.5 to L-Jam3, si'l vout plait? I'll log out now. Much obliged.

Post by **admin** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:41 pm

Done.

Post by **admin** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:30 pm

A partir de maintenant, LeFrenchGuy est That French Guy.

Johnny Hotcakes · Post by **Johnny Hotcakes** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 5:54 pm

Thanks Scottie!

ZMan · Post by **ZMan** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:27 am

Whenever you have the time... ZMan

Post by **admin** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:31 am

Done. You're good to go.

ZMan · Post by **ZMan** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:18 am

Holy shit that was fast, thank you.

Post by **Shirley** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:24 am

ZMan wrote:Whenever you have the time... ZMan

Damn, I preferred you as ztest. Probably the stats geek in me.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Sun Mar 24, 2013 10:51 pm

Bump. If anyone has any suggestions for changing the "ranks" under the usernames, from defunct WHA franchises to anything under the sun else, kindly post them.

howard · Post by **howard** » Sun Mar 24, 2013 11:04 pm

Phil Spector top ten hits?

(I just tuned to the HBO biopic starring Pacino)

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Sun Mar 24, 2013 11:11 pm

howard wrote:Phil Spector top ten hits?

This is going to be more difficult than I thought.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Sun Mar 24, 2013 11:13 pm

I did like my choice of 1986 Edmonton Oilers.

Johnny Hotcakes · Post by **Johnny Hotcakes** » Sun Mar 24, 2013 11:59 pm

Towns of Newfoundland. I'll take Dildo, please.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 12:02 am

Johnny Hotcakes wrote:Towns of Newfoundland. I'll take Dildo, please.

Ah, dammit. That's brilliant. And I just changed them to the East/West game players. Well, at least we know what the next round of ranks will be. Nice.

Joe Batt's Arm, Blow Me Down, Come-By-Chance, Pothead, Baytona.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 2:57 am

Okay . . . after far too much frigging around, YouTube videos are now 640x360.

That work better for y'all? If you don't tell me, I won't know. I'd like to particularly hear from Swampers on mobiles and Macs.

I tried to make it backwards compatible. I believe it is but I can't test it on everything. And it now appears that all of your previously posted vids have been adjusted to that size upon editing the code. So anything you posted that once showed up as 425x344 should now reflect a rewrite into 640x360 dimension.

Kindly, gents, report any oddness, errors, conflicts, failures, crashes, whathaveyou. Buffalo Stance followed by Metheny and more jazz and then Prisencolinensinainciusolin in the Random Videos thread is the first test post of the new embedded dimensions. And I picked those because I wanted to see how various unequal recordings worked on this forum in a 640x360 fixed space.

Thank you.

Post by **Sabo** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 8:13 am

Scottie wrote:Bump. If anyone has any suggestions for changing the "ranks" under the usernames, from defunct WHA franchises to anything under the sun else, kindly post them.

John McPhee books? Or maybe we already did that once ...

ZMan · Post by **ZMan** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:07 am

Shirley wrote:
ZMan wrote:Whenever you have the time... ZMan
Damn, I preferred you as ztest. Probably the stats geek in me.

I wish I saw that connection. It kept making me think of medical procedures. "Draw a sample of blood and send it for a ztest"

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:37 am

A couple times in recent days, including this morning's tour of the Swamp, I have had to log in even though every time I do, I check the "log me in automatically" box. A new twist was when I clicked on the "take me to the first unread post" button, I was logged out and taken to the first post of the thread. Don't know what any of this means and it's only a minor, minor inconvenience, at most.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:41 am

DSafetyGuy wrote:A couple times in recent days, including this morning's tour of the Swamp, I have had to log in even though every time I do, I check the "log me in automatically" box. A new twist was when I clicked on the "take me to the first unread post" button, I was logged out and taken to the first post of the thread. Don't know what any of this means and it's only a minor, minor inconvenience, at most.

The "log me in automatically" box for me hasn't worked on any Swamp in years. Or any other site, for that matter. Could it be your system settings?

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 12:12 pm

Log me in automaticaly works like a boss for me.

travzilla · Post by **travzilla** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 12:46 pm

AB_skin_test wrote:Log me in automaticaly works like a boss for me.

have "keep me logged in" checked on mobile and home laptop, with no problems. Have it unchecked at work and it asks me to log in (as intended). I have noticed though that if I'm logged in and have the swamp minimized for a while, I need to re-login when I go back to it. Some sort of inactive/log out time setting perhaps?

note: not really a problem for me, just thought it might be related to DSG and SL issues above.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 1:01 pm

I can look in to that. It really sounds like your local settings, browser settings, however.

devilfluff · Post by **devilfluff** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:13 pm

Can I be devilfluff again?