Travels of Code Monkey photo album
I thought it might be helpful to have a link to the Travels of Code Monkey photo album posted conspicuously so that folks can easily check in periodically. This thread is just for the album. Any discussion of the project itself should be done here.
@Bry: Would it be OK to sticky this? I don't want to abuse the "sticky" feature.
@Bry: Would it be OK to sticky this? I don't want to abuse the "sticky" feature.
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I'll sticky this for now, then once I've created such a thread (which might be, to some extent, a redundant reduplication of the JoCopedia "Fan Projects" page, except that the thread can be bumped when milestones are reached), I'll switch the two threads' sticky polarities.
Code Monkey on the First of May in Lawton:
Code Monkey with Joan of Arc in Wichita:
"In 1970, a stone statue of Joan of Arc was presented to the people of Wichita by the people of Orleans, France and was dedicated at a location near the Kansas Gas and Electric Company reflecting pool. It was removed from its original site in 1987 in response to concerns about its condition. A copy in reconstituted stone is currently in storage and is scheduled to be placed at City Hall.
In 1996, a bronze copy was cast in Rome and dedicated to a new site in front of the Wichita Public Library."
According to Wikipedia, Orleans is one of Wichita's sister cities.
(But cool pictures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robgonzo/sets/72157605312759649/
Thanks for the pics, Rob!
Photos here.
Here's a taster:
I really love my city and showing off some of my favourite sites gave me a whole 'nother appreciation for this beautiful place I'm so lucky to live in!
And yeah I did think that the snow would amuse people in warmer climes! I actually took a short 10 second video of Ponkey watching the snow fall but Picasa doesn't like vids
Even his previous stop in Melbourne would have been far from snowing I'm sure!
This is a great project and I feel so lucky to be part of it! Its great fun!
I'm sending Ponkey off to QueenKalliope in Germany today!
(LAST RELEVANT COMMENT ON TOPIC)
[img]url[img]?That's what I was looking for. I'm reading Bry's FAQ at the moment to see if that will help but I'm suffering from a case of the TL;DRs tbh.
Edited to delete img.
(P.S. You might want to delete that image now that I've seen it, 'cause it takes a long time to load.)
All you have to do is right click an image and select view image then copy the URL from the address bar.
Enjoy. Seriously though this Ponkey is basically running itself, and to think I am supposed to be in charge, ha.
ETA: Shrunk picture to the correct size using my Ben magic. Just got to understand how computers name things in perfect patterns and it was easy.
Darn, I can't. Bry would you mind deleting back to the last relevant comment about the topic now that I have it sorted out. Thanks!
Ben: I tried just pasting the image's location and that didn't work either. It would be more useful to see the code you used rather than the img itself :P
Result:
Sorry about the TL;DRs -- I'm afraid I'm suffering from the too-lazy-to-writes myself, or I'd do better than "click the img button".
ETA: That is, yes, hotlinking, but embedding is hotlinking too. In this case, it's not a bad thing, since the embed code more or less hotlinks the same file, I believe. (I've written about three different versions of something to explain this, but my brain isn't working. Maybe Wikipedia will be clearer.)
I know hotlinking is probably a bad thing but it works and is quicker than hunting out the password for the ponkey picassa group and doing it all that way. I should be less lazy in future, etc.
PS I am happy for this conversation to be deleted as C/P suggests if you can/will Bry
But this was a specific issue with my nubness when it comes to Picasa, I know how to post an image generally, as I briefly demonstrated earlier with my photobucket pic.
Thanks all for the help.
If linking from an image hosting site, copy the text from their embed HTML box (usually to the side or below the image) and paste that into the image. Where it offers a range of sizes, choose something smaller than the original image. The posted image will automatically link back to the original if anyone wants to see the big version.
Note: If using Picasa, you need to be logged in to get the link options.
Otherwise, link the pictures hosted address (by right clicking on the image and selecting Copy Image Location or IE equiv and then back in the forum post, click the little img button and paste the URL into the dialog box.
To me that covers all the bases. I'd put it either at the beginning or the end of the longer post and call it the quick version or something appropriate.
Or did I miss something about the Bad Thing? Should the pic also link to the source? In which case add at the end:
Then select the whole img tag, click the blue link button and paste the address of the page on which you found the image.
For example:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Baby_ginger_monkey.jpg - The image location
I agree that the more detailed version needs to be there, not debating its content at all, but for experienced users who just aren't used to Vanilla (me) or sites like Picasa (also me) they may just want a quick tip to sort out their issue. All I needed was the bit in bold ^
I used to write big long threads for my WoW guild and one of our officers refused to read anything long so I took to writing a summary for him in big bold letters at the end. Then I realised that the big bold summary actually said 99% of what needed to be said and detail questions could be covered if they arose and so I started just deleting my big long post at the end once I'd written the summary.
Perhaps its just the Plain English classes finally working!
There was no message here *shifts eyes*