3/15/09

[drë]

another lazy sunday afternoon.. ahhhh!

QOTD: who is this mystery songfighter ?


GENERIC?

[Billy's Little Trip]

QOTD: The only thing my investigating eye picks up is that spaceship looking ball with the colored lights. I remember seeing that in one of the SFL shows. But then again, they are easy to obtain pretty much anywhere.

But the box on the head recording style is going to take off someday and my voice box invention will make me rich....RICH! Because I'll make so much money, I can afford to have my name changed to Rich.

[JonPorobil]

I took one look at that picture, and somehow know someone was going to guess me. And then, half a centimeter down...

In unrelated news, I bought a couple of new outfits today, because sometimes you have to look good to feel good, and it's been a good year now since I've bought clothes for myself.

http://jon-eric.com/Images/gray%20suit%20mid-shot.JPG
http://jon-eric.com/Images/pinstripe%20closeup.JPG
http://jon-eric.com/Images/pinstripe%20full-body.JPG

Total: $35 at Goodwill. Yay.

[Steve Durand]

Nice threads Jon. Now do something about that hair.

[Spud]

Dude. Resize your pics before you put them on the internet. How many people do you think want to print these at 8" x 10" and hang them over their desks?

[JonPorobil]

Steve: most days I gel down the stubborn frizz on top. Today was a lazy Sunday, so I didn't bother. Next time I wear the suit to an event that calls for a suit, obviously, I'll be sure not to let the frizz take over.

Spud: I am lazy. What's the simplest way to resize pics without distorting them? I use Linux, so the only way I can think of is going through GIMP, which takes forever and is not intuitive at all.

[Märk]

Spud: I am lazy. What's the simplest way to resize pics without distorting them? I use Linux, so the only way I can think of is going through GIMP, which takes forever and is not intuitive at all.

Download Irfanview and use wine to run it. (it works fine, I've done it in linux) I've seriously been using Irfanview for picture viewing/simple modifications like crop/resize for 10+ years and have never found anything simpler. It's small, easy to use, and free.

Edit: I just resized one of your pics in like 4 clicks- drag it into an Irfanview window from the browser, "Image>Resize/Resample>Half>Half". Save as jpg. Easy.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Spud: I am lazy. What's the simplest way to resize pics

Photobucket.com
...nice sig, Jon.

[irwin]

Spud: I am lazy. What's the simplest way to resize pics without distorting them? I use Linux, so the only way I can think of is going through GIMP, which takes forever and is not intuitive at all.

Use "convert", it's part of the ImageMagick suite, which you probably already have installed.

convert -scale width in.jpg out.jpg

That should preserve aspect ratio and make the image <width> pixels wide.

[fluffy]

'convert' is the correct answer, yes. It will also let you do a bunch of other simple manipulations from the command line, and is also very useful for creating animated .gifs and the like.

[JonPorobil]

Oooh, that sounds both simple and very useful. Thanks!

[drë]

Oooh, that sounds both simple and very useful. Thanks!

don't forget that you learned all of these, from this pic.