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GENERAL => Off-topic discussion => Topic started by: EN318isPDX on August 14, 2008, 06:30:45 PM

Title: You gotta see this picture I took!
Post by: EN318isPDX on August 14, 2008, 06:30:45 PM

http://picasaweb.google.com/ItotheAtotheN/My318is/photo#5234517452112296290 (http://picasaweb.google.com/ItotheAtotheN/My318is/photo#5234517452112296290)

It wont let me the link picture or upload the picture!?! I suck at HTML or our site hates me!

Title: You gotta see this picture I took!
Post by: ak96ss on August 14, 2008, 07:00:46 PM

To use Picasa images, you have to:

Go to the image in Picasa, click on the link to 'link to this photo'.
Select your image size (I always use 800px).
Copy the link it gives you.
Come back here, click the add image icon.
Paste the link from Picasa.
Delete the extraneous HTML info - Picasa gives you a link to use your image as a link. You only want to use the part surrounded by quotations in the img src section.  For example, here is what I copy from Picasa:



Here is what I leave in the box:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/2006TopBanana/RwBMod-t-SI/AAAAAAAACaA/nLoJldwAPvs/s800/p4181450.jpg

In the end, you have:

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/2006TopBanana/RwBMod-t-SI/AAAAAAAACaA/nLoJldwAPvs/s800/p4181450.jpg)

If you forget to change the size of the image, edit your link, replacing 's144' with 's800'.



Oh, yeah, cool pic!

Title: You gotta see this picture I took!
Post by: EN318isPDX on August 14, 2008, 07:02:53 PM

Quote from: ak96ss;54892

To use Picasa images, you have to:

Go to the image in Picasa, click on the link to 'link to this photo'.
Select your image size (I always use 800px).
Copy the link it gives you.
Come back here, click the add image icon.
Paste the link from Picasa.
Delete the extraneous HTML info - Picasa gives you a link to use your image as a link. You only want to use the part surrounded by quotations in the img src section.  For example, here is what I copy from Picasa:



Here is what I leave in the box:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/2006TopBanana/RwBMod-t-SI/AAAAAAAACaA/nLoJldwAPvs/s800/p4181450.jpg

In the end, you have:

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/2006TopBanana/RwBMod-t-SI/AAAAAAAACaA/nLoJldwAPvs/s800/p4181450.jpg)

If you forget to change the size of the image, edit your link, replacing 's144' with 's800'.



Oh, yeah, cool pic!

haha and to think im IT... thanks for the html lesson :) ya that guy was a jerk... cut me off with that license plate.

PS nice pic of your flatbed escort

Title: You gotta see this picture I took!
Post by: ak96ss on August 14, 2008, 07:27:32 PM

Fuel pump died on the way to work - then the asshole tow truck driver neglected to secure the rear end of the car. Trying to merge onto the highway, he slams on the brakes, my car slides into the winch/cross beam. $3000 to fix.

Before (ignore the yellow circles):

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/2006TopBanana/SAUs761IZOI/AAAAAAAADTc/rZQwHrP_W3k/s800/Valance.jpg)


After:

New valance, new hood, new lip, straightened the radiator lower support, painted the whole front end, etc., etc.

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/2006TopBanana/Rso_QjXs7eI/AAAAAAAACIw/QuRRfEEWILQ/s800/pa193703.jpg)

Title: You gotta see this picture I took!
Post by: quinn11m20 on August 14, 2008, 08:00:24 PM

nice rims where did you get them?

Title: You gotta see this picture I took!
Post by: EN318isPDX on August 14, 2008, 08:02:13 PM

When the side of his truck says "Wrecker Service" i dont think id trust him lol

Title: You gotta see this picture I took!
Post by: ak96ss on August 14, 2008, 09:08:58 PM

Quote from: quinn11m20;54903

nice rims where did you get them?

Tire Rack, they're Borbet something-or-others. I was just tired of cleaning the damned basketweaves!

Title: You gotta see this picture I took!
Post by: quinn11m20 on August 17, 2008, 05:23:18 PM

sweet thanks ak96ss.

Title: You gotta see this picture I took!
Post by: nickmpower on August 17, 2008, 07:43:43 PM

3000??? wtf

Title: You gotta see this picture I took!
Post by: ak96ss on August 17, 2008, 08:04:48 PM

Over $1000 in labor alone to pull the front radiator cross member back out, straighten it, repair the associated front end crap that got twisted and paint all the pieces, another $800 for paint/supplies/fees/freight/tax, then about $800 in parts.  OK, so only $2600, give or take. Plus my time.

Doesn't look that bad, but when I got the valance off, the radiator support was mangled to hell - the winch struck smack dab where the valance connects to that support, so it pushed the whole front end out of whack. The bed of the truck was covered in someone else's antifreeze, so it was like an air hockey puck - nothing slowing it down when he slammed on the brakes from about 35 MPH.

Title: You gotta see this picture I took!
Post by: CePa318IS on August 18, 2008, 03:12:16 PM

I am assuming the tow company paid that 3000 to fix that? if so, great, you get new parts. If not, that blows

Title: You gotta see this picture I took!
Post by: RustyTheDriver on September 23, 2008, 11:10:13 PM

Here in South Cakalaki, our plates have 3 numbers, then 3 letters, (they've recently reversed the order for our new suckish SC Tourism plates) but i've seen #69 XXX. I kid you not. I wish i'd taken a picture of it. It was on a Probe I think too. The entire situation was complete irony. I laughed for at least 13 minutes