Flickr Convert Testimonial

Inspired by Torley as I often am I took the plunge and set up a Flikr account for myself. This huge weight has lifted off my shoulder and off my hard drive and I feel more agile. Packratting graphics has gotten to be a “problem” and instead of going out and getting an external drive right now to just continue my habit I decided there is a better way and I’ve been shown what that is by my husband and it seems to work pretty well.

An organizer who had gotten lazy about organizing my own things, this is me. I can tell YOU how to organize and keep things in a proper order but then I let my own files begin to overwhelm me and take over my precious and limited time. My computer is down to it’s last 25gigs of space and in SL I have over 25,000 items in my inventory!! It’s going to splode at some point if I don’t take care of all this now. Plus I have new greater things coming in my life and I need to be ready to receive them.

My Flikr account didn’t cost very much I think it was around $25.00 for a year.  You can create sets, add tags, make various levels of permission, add some personal touches and be part of other communities in Flikr, sharing with others pictures of all sorts, all that you can imagine.

Here are their bullet points on the different account levels.

• Unlimited uploads
• Unlimited storage
• Unlimited bandwidth
• Unlimited photosets
• Permanent archiving of high-resolution original images
• The ability to replace a photo
• Ad-free browsing and sharing

Compare that to what you get with a Free Account:

• 100 MB monthly upload limit
• 3 photosets
• Photostream views limited to the 200 most recent images
• Only smaller (resized) images accessible (though the originals saved in case you upgrade later)

Going through every picture in my SL inventory and saving it to my hard drive was a lot of work it is a one by one process but I attacked it like a kitten with a ball of yarn. Turn on some good music! It took me about 8 hours to grab about 1,000 snapshots out of SL from my inventory. I would do it in batches of 20-40 then I made a batch file converting script, WHY? because you can’t seem to upload tga files to Flikr *sads* but I was able to learn about using these tools and that is good *happy*. It’s not scary anymore and it’s not too much to do, it isn’t overwhelming me now, and it’s actually quite easy. Once I converted the 20-40 files I used the Flikr bulk uploader tool and sat back as it uploaded the batched into my Pre-SL 12-06 folder. I gave up on trying to uniquely name them or tag them at this point, they got a number and a standard tag and poof into the Flikr uploader they went down those tubes of the Internet.

Warning going through that many pictures is like surfing lots of memories, some good some not as good, same with all the files on my hard drive.

I highly encourage you to get a Flikr account, for yourself and to add to our global community. You have something to contribute, your special you! I also like how I am so agile now to access these files from any computer hooked to the Internet. So far I am loving the new technology we are seeing pop up for using the Internet.

My goal is to use Flikr for all my graphic file storage needs. I’ll let you know how this plays out.

Christmas 1978

Santa came to my house in 1978 via the front door. I was happy to invite him in but after further investigation it was quite clear that is was our neighbor Mr. Pizzano. I informed the adults and was asked to keep this knowledge to myself as there were other children at the party who did not know. Since “Santa” knew I knew at that point he was very good at letting me play along with his little game and I became the “helper”. The keeper of the secret, the one in the know. From what I do remember it was a fun night and furthered my affection toward this wonderful neighbor I had while growing up.

I was really into playing with my Barbie’s and making mud balls at this age. This is the house I learned to ride a bicycle without training wheels, the house where in the bottom floor my dad had built us a playhouse inside the house that was under the stairs and it had a door that was two pieces an upper and a lower. My cousin Rolfie broke my walking dolls legs in this house and then said he didn’t. Cousin Rolfie is deaf and I felt he didn’t get into trouble because he was deaf, but now that I am an adult I think my mom was just trying to not make a huge fuss about my doll, but I was really upset. I mean..what good is a walking doll that can no longer walk?

A walking doll that can’t walk?? I tried to press her plastic leg back in the socket and then I bent her socket area. I should of waited and had my dad help but this needed to be addressed immediately, so what I hadn’t really played with her for..I don’t know how long but she was moved at some point to second string doll to play with..well come on with a doll that big, she was about as tall as me, there wasn’t too much I could truly do to her like dress her up? You were limited, and my clothes were to big on her but doll clothes too small and not like she had other walking doll friends to hang out with and make believe with..so she didn’t get played with all that much but BUT it doesn’t excuse the fact he broke her leg, ruined her, lied about it and no one seemed to care.  I think his hearing aids were kind of odd for me as a child I hadn’t ever had much experience with kids with hearing aids and in the 70’s hearing aids were pretty big and he was touching my stuff without giving me proper respect…(just because my mom says you can play with my toys you know as a kid you need sign off from the kid’s toys you are about to play with if they are there.)

She would sit by Grover in the toy playhouse. Grover was a cool puppet I got from when my cousin died and her mom let me pick out some toys from her closet. I know that sounds really freaky and in hindsight it is but when you are a kid you don’t put that all together but now when I think of my Grover I think of my dead cousin. I think she had childhood leukemia. OMG see this is so not appropriate for Christmas okay okay..back on track…hmmm hmm hmm hmm

Her hair was pretty nappy too, I am talking again about that walking doll. Why is it Doll hair gets so oogie after a period of time, I wonder if Doll hair technology has gotten much better these days? Sometimes I’d be in the playhouse under the stairs and out of the corner of my eye I’d catch my walking doll silhouette and get scared so I had to bury her deeper into the bottom of the toy box. Of course at this point I couldn’t say I didn’t want my walking doll after I had put all the fuss up about my cousin mutilating her so at the edges of my memory of her she is laying face up under layers of toys in the back toy box under the stairs.You can not duct tape a walking doll leg to the doll and call it a day. The doll can’t walk, or sit, so the duct tape had to be removed then she had a “sticky” spot and goobers started accumulating on her. I WONDER….what she looks like now? Probably in some land fill someplace, standing water in her body a breeding ground for god knows what and army of bloodsucking Nile virus carrying mosquito’s.

Looking at the picture above, and looking into the mirror. I have the same hairstyle it’s just longer. Actually I always had long hair as a child but a few years prior to that picture my mother had my hair cut from waist long hair to a Dorothy Hamel cut. I didn’t know what I was agreeing to or I don’t think I would of agreed but I do clearly remember being excited about having my hair cut like Dorothy Hamel, thankfully hair does grow.

I guess I’ve really always loved figure skaters. I too was a dancer but never had the opportunity as a child to figure skate. I did get to go skating in my late teens when I moved to Michigan for a bit. Figure Skaters are such incredible athlete’s.

Sugar Bulletin Update (SBU)

The sugar crisis has ended in my house (yes I got to the Costco and picked up one of those 1,000 lb bags of it) but for the benefit of sharing knowledge with others I must tell you that you can indeed use powdered sugar as a substitute for granular sugar, I did feel I had to use twice as much of the powdered sugar to achieve the same taste. Thank you to my friend Jon for the suggestion.  (yes I was exaggerating the size of the bag of sugar I bought) ohhh I now that leads me to wonder…do you think sugar ever goes bad?

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