Forum: The Lounge

I want this symbol http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Image:L ... fEther.png as my avatar. I can't get it to work. I also have a True Type font with the symbol in it. But I can't get a BMP of that to work either. I appreciate any help you can give...

Back to work tomorrow A.M. My vacation was good. I: went to six practices, 3 games(I think I'm deaf), worked the UNC-TV telethon, went to the DOG PARK! 4 times, tailgated with 200 Capitals fans(and raised a good chunk of cash for TSHA), and...

I'm an avid gardener and I have this neighbor who is also. He borrows my truck from time to time to work on his remote garden, and as a repayment of sorts, he will drop off veggies or plants and such for me. So the other night, I'm puttering about...

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Test picture using Imageshack... yuk Just to see if I can stand it...

If I want my link to be a thumbnail, I just upload my resized picture, 600 - 700 pixels on the long side is plenty big enough for computer viewing and compressed to 150K or under.) and a thumbnail of the size I like and if it is picture that others...

Getting better slowly.

Why can't I post pictures as big as this http://domebo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=122 When I use the exact same format? I do not mind rescaling but I have many of my pictures already at 500 Pix on the long side and under 100K so .........

Well, I didn't literally see the dog die, but close enough... (mildly graphic story following -- stop here if you're faint of heart) We had just returned from the dump in my parents' truck after off-loading a bunch of old crap. I was standing...

Well, if they proved it happened on Mythbusters, it must be true! Forty years ago today, Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon. Way cool! Happy Anniversary, NASA, and congrats on that extraordinary feat! :)

I've been getting around for about 9 years now in a 1999 Toyota Tercel. It has been an excellent little car, getting terrific mileage and running as well now as it did when I first bought it. However, it's now logged over 211,500 km (roughly 131,400...

On live right now: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv I've had it on in the background past couple days. Today I'm spending a lazy Saturday morning watching a little more carefully. I'm glad that even though the Hubble won't ever be brought back to...

Anyone got a good source image to start with? Mangetout?

I have an in-person interview scheduled for next Tuesday evening. Here some bullets about the current job... - I make a decent salary, though for this area it's not fantastic - Work a flexible schedule, but it always seems to come out to 55-60...

I'm considering changing the way I bank and I'd like to do a quick poll on how you all bank. 1. What type of bank do you use? (Big Bank, Small Bank, Credit Union, On-line, Other) 2. What's the reason for your choice in #1? Or more clear,...

Thanks everyone! I like this guy: :dumbo:

From one adorable little elephant to another, congratulations on turning 1!

Not me, that's for sure! Some time ago, a friend gave me a hoya. I hung it in the windowseat jungle in my second-floor office, between two others: And there it hung, quietly lapping up sunshine and water, quietly growing and thriving. ...

The software I use for photo editing is ACDSee Photo Manager 2009, which has a lot of neat tools. My favorite, a tool which I use on just about every image, is called Shadows and Highlights. It lets you adjust the brightness, contrast and...

Baby fennec fox! That whole Zooborns site is about the most alluring timewaster it has ever been my desperate struggle to escape.

I have a white painted screened-in back porch that is screaming for hanging ferns, but I don't like them. They're okay from a distance, but up-close the texture and general weirdness of them creeps me out. They don't look like real plants. ...

Right now I'm using the jazzy ending tune from the Jeeves & Wooster TV show. My phone vibrates first, so I don't get to hear the song unless my phone rings when it's in my purse. Before this I was using the Linus & Lucy theme. I'm not really a...

I have the simplest of hairstyles: my hair is straight, with a blunt cut, and falls to the top of my shoulders. I use the same shampoo and conditioner every day, and I dry it the same way every day. So why does it look better on some days than...

Do you have a specialty license plate on your car? Does your state have particularly interesting plates? I like my "First to the Moon" plate (even if it does have the mandated "Heart of Dixie" on it). Proceeds go to the restoration of the Saturn...

Ok, folks, I'm on my way to the train to go to work. I have no topic of convo for this week. Do I have to do a Sally Field and stand on the machinery to get you people organized or what? I ate too much Easter candy yesterday and have this to...

If we are to keep The Dome tidy, we must have a fresh WutWut each week, no? So, here it is, late (sorry). Question of the week: If you had to choose (for one month), which would it be: good sex and good sleep nightly OR good conversation and...

I started a similar thread on Giraffe's board, but my mind is puttering away up there. Why is there no vanilla sauce/syrup for chocolate ice cream? If it takes me 37 minutes to go north on Michigan Ave to my work, how come it takes at least...

As you all know, NOTHING gets by ME. I noticed that I am now officially a Stegodon here. Could I at least be something cool, like an archeopteryx? At the very least a triceratops.... Also, speaking of dinosaurs, you all like my new avatar? I am...

I belong to 3 message boards, which I have found is 2 too many. Between my 2 jobs and kids and RL, I can't keep up. I feel bad, especially about my ST:TOS threads, but unless life settles down fairly soon, I just won't be here much, if at all. I...

Specifics, please, if a particular website, newspaper, magazine, etc. Thanks!

...and if you didn't, Wikipedia would be the first to tell you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal

This is really very interesting... What part of and where in the U.S. is your accent from? http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/american-accent-quiz.html It correctly tagged me as being from "the Midlands" (Midwest).

Stumbled on this via an unrelated Google Images search, and liked it so much I just had to share it:

im elephino and im shy. the first time posting.

can we please extend a hand to gb for putting up with us? i kinda liked it

I am just starting to like this place and it dies

Just looked at the spam mailbox of a spare Gmail account, and discovered hundreds and hundreds of messages with subject lines that are ... well, quite imaginative. Give your bomb longer timer You feel like a giant comparing to the midget in...

My girlfriend in Cleveland has an Australian Cattle Dog, otherwise known as a Blue Heeler. She occasionally commented about how infrequently she would see other ACDs out in public, and it was a rare treat when another ACD showed up at the dog park....

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I've traveled and lived throughout the country -- the United States, I'll make clear, to avoid the flames of EuroDomebites. Anyhow, I've been exposed to practically every accent one will find among English language speakers in North America, both...

OP in GQ: Why do the elderly love Buicks so much? You almost never see anyone driving one who's under 65 years old. Doper 1: Selection bias! You've just noticing it when you see an old person driving a Buick, that's all. Doper 2: I'm 27,...

Seriously, I can't watch CNN or any news channel, or watch a news broadcast for more than a couple of minutes without hearing doom-and-gloom news about the economy, It's not that I don't want to hear about it, but when I've been trying to sell a...

Where I work, a local minister always recites an invocation before every City Council meeting. The Mayor requests that everybody stand for the invocation. At the meetings I've attended, the invocations aren't short prayers; they approach the 90...

Well, c'mon! What's your source?

The Poop Nazi Demographics: usually female and 50+ She's the one who, as soon as a dog looks like it's squatting over to poop, will yell "SOMEONE'S DOG IS POOPING!" She'll yell at you, screaming that your dog is pooping, even as you're...

GeoCities, the first-ever site that gave users a whopping 15 megabytes users to create horrifically ugly home pages, is shutting down today. Fan fiction pages, Ate My Balls, and of course, glurge-filled poetry, "survivor", miscarriage memorial and...

Pretentious foodies or pretentious audiophiles; I don't know what's worse, but they're both rather irritating. The Straight Dope seems to have a growing community of foodies. They might not call themselves such, but they come out in full...

I occasionally describe Canada to those who haven't been there as "kinda' like the United States, but different". The "different" part is seen when you drive by a power center, see the place filled with chain stores, and notice that not a single...

You see, when I grew up in Europe in the 1970s, we didn't watch dreck like Gilligan's Island and Brady Bunch reruns, intelligence-insulting sitcoms, handegg games, or game shows on television. We found ourselves mentally stimulated by intelligent...