Real-life Avatars

[jomar]

I'm a believer in Alka Seltzer Cold Plus. Really works for me.

 

[sr71plt]

I'm a believer in Alka Seltzer Cold Plus. Really works for me.

Thanks. Might try that.

 

[Guest]

I'm a believer in Alka Seltzer Cold Plus. Really works for me.

It does for me, too. It lasts four hours exactly.

It's gotten me through performances (go home to collapse after).

 

[damppanties]

No, I've never had an avatar here. wouldn't know how to put one up. Can't even figure out how to put any of my book covers up. Was a major accomplishment figuring out how to put in a signature line. A technological dope.

Want help with the book covers?

 

[jomar]

Thanks. Might try that.

It does for me, too. It lasts four hours exactly.

It's gotten me through performances (go home to collapse after).

You're welcome. But like sarahh says, have a backup pack if you're out and about.

 

[Stella_Omega]

... You can totally tell me I don't match your mind-image of me, but I'd be more interested in how your mind-image is, rather than just being told it doesn't match.

Less clothing would be a start... Especially facing away from us as you're doing

You could go totally be-jewelled too, like the sculptures of Parvathi or Lakshmi.

 

[damppanties]

Less clothing would be a start... Especially facing away from us as you're doing

You could go totally be-jewelled too, like the sculptures of Parvathi or Lakshmi.

Oooh. That makes me feel so exotic.

 

[sr71plt]

Want help with the book covers?

Might need help, yes. I thought I'd ask my writing partner tonight. I can get images into my Web sites, but can't figure out how to post them here. The image icon just says to put in the URL, but when I do that with the URL of the photo at the publisher's Web site, all I get here is that box with the red x in it. (and there appear to be two URLs for the cover image at the publisher's site, neither of which works with what I'm trying to do).

 

[sr71plt]

It does for me, too. It lasts four hours exactly.

It's gotten me through performances (go home to collapse after).

Thanks. If I had to do a four-hour performance, though, I'd collapse on stage before the medicine gave out.

 

[Darkniciad]

Might need help, yes. I thought I'd ask my writing partner tonight. I can get images into my Web sites, but can't figure out how to post them here. The image icon just says to put in the URL, but when I do that with the URL of the photo at the publisher's Web site, all I get here is that box with the red x in it. (and there appear to be two URLs for the cover image at the publisher's site, neither of which works with what I'm trying to do).

Sounds like hotlinking is blocked on the website. The images will show up there, but not anywhere else. Not a bad idea, really. There may be an option to turn hotlinking on, but you'd probably be better served just to start a photo upload account at one of the sites like photobucket, if you just need a place to upload sig pics.

 

[sr71plt]

Sounds like hotlinking is blocked on the website. The images will show up there, but not anywhere else. Not a bad idea, really. There may be an option to turn hotlinking on, but you'd probably be better served just to start a photo upload account at one of the sites like photobucket, if you just need a place to upload sig pics.

Other eXcessica authors are posting their cover images here. Maybe they are doing the latter(?)--which is probably a tad more work than I have interest/time to give it. I'm pretty much a "turn the minutia over to the spouse and toss her a bouquet of roses every once in a while" sort of guy. The joke (pretty true) at my house is that if she goes before I do, I'll have to move into an apartment, because I don't know where the thermostats are or what to do with them if I found them.

 

[Guest]

Thanks. If I had to do a four-hour performance, though, I'd collapse on stage before the medicine gave out.

Makeup to curtain.

 

[cloudy]

Other eXcessica authors are posting their cover images here. Maybe they are doing the latter(?)--which is probably a tad more work than I have interest/time to give it. I'm pretty much a "turn the minutia over to the spouse and toss her a bouquet of roses every once in a while" sort of guy. The joke (pretty true) at my house is that if she goes before I do, I'll have to move into an apartment, because I don't know where the thermostats are or what to do with them if I found them.

You sound just like my husband. Anything in the house more technical than flipping a switch is my territory.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Oooh. That makes me feel so exotic.

Like the surasundahi of Khajuraho? *begins to drool all over the keyboard*

 

[sr71plt]

You sound just like my husband. Anything in the house more technical than flipping a switch is my territory.

Case in point. Turning on the night light in the hall bathroom two nights ago shorted most of the bedroom-level lights. I had to wake my wife up to get the circuit back on. (Of course, the switch that needed switched was at the light socket, not the circuit breaker box. But who knew?)

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

On the whole, I must say, I'd really rather not know what some of you really look like by way of your avatars. Just saying.

But, but everyone says mine is so flattering.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[sr71plt]

Makeup to curtain.

Anymore I try for just the 3-minute showstopper in the second act, which cuts the whole process down to an hour. (The best I found was playing King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar in the Bangkok Opera--that's the first point in the work that permits audience response and is the only high-stepping show tune. Riding the tricycle was a bit tricky, though.)

 

[sr71plt]

But, but everyone says mine is so flattering.

Rumple Foreskin

I try to think of you as the guy in your book cover.

 

[Darkniciad]

Other eXcessica authors are posting their cover images here. Maybe they are doing the latter(?)--which is probably a tad more work than I have interest/time to give it. I'm pretty much a "turn the minutia over to the spouse and toss her a bouquet of roses every once in a while" sort of guy. The joke (pretty true) at my house is that if she goes before I do, I'll have to move into an apartment, because I don't know where the thermostats are or what to do with them if I found them.

Looks like it, at least on the ones that I've found and right-clicked.

If you want me to upload them on my webspace and/or pass along the sig code to display them, just give me a yell. Not a big deal to add/remove them as your latest release changes, either. It only takes a minute or two.

At least that way, I'll be contributing to eXcessia in some small way, and a little payback for the questions I drop on you every once in a while.

 

[Guest]

Anymore I try for just the 3-minute showstopper in the second act, which cuts the whole process down to an hour. (The best I found was playing King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar in the Bangkok Opera--that's the first point in the work that permits audience response and is the only high-stepping show tune. Riding the tricycle was a bit tricky, though.)

Laughing out Loud.

I do love that song. Never seen it done with a trike, though.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Might need help, yes. I thought I'd ask my writing partner tonight. I can get images into my Web sites, but can't figure out how to post them here. The image icon just says to put in the URL, but when I do that with the URL of the photo at the publisher's Web site, all I get here is that box with the red x in it. (and there appear to be two URLs for the cover image at the publisher's site, neither of which works with what I'm trying to do).

One solution is this;
on the "reply to thread" page, look under the bar "individual options" and find "manage attachments" use it to upload your bookcover into your post. If you click on "browse" it shows you your own computer, or you might be able to get it from the url, I've never tried that.

In any case, successful upload will show as a "current attachment."
You can command click on that link and choose "Copy link location" which you then use in the "image" dropdown... and hit submit-- or preview just to see if you did it right

You end up with the image shown in the post and also as a live link that oens in another window, thusly;

 

[sr71plt]

Laughing out Loud.

I do love that song. Never seen it done with a trike, though.

That's how Elton John did it (with oversized sunglasses). The Thai love that stuff, so the director insisted I do that too. Better than the original Broadway production, where he came swinging in on a vine (as I recall).

". . . Prove to me that you're no fool; walk across my swimmng pool."

 

[sr71plt]

One solution is this;
on the "reply to thread" page, look under the bar "individual options" and find "manage attachments" use it to upload your bookcover into your post. If you click on "browse" it shows you your own computer, or you might be able to get it from the url, I've never tried that.

In any case, successful upload will show as a "current attachment."
You can command click on that link and choose "Copy link location" which you then use in the "image" dropdown... and hit submit-- or preview just to see if you did it right

You end up with the image shown in the post and also as a live link that oens in another window, thusly;

Thanks. Damppanties came to the rescue--I was so sure I'd tried that myself (probably did, but just don't have "the touch").

 

[Guest]

That's how Elton John did it (with oversized sunglasses). The Thai love that stuff, so the director insisted I do that too. Better than the original Broadway production, where he came swinging in on a vine (as I recall).

". . . Prove to me that you're no fool; walk across my swimmng pool."

"If ya do that for me, then I'll let you go free . . ."

Love that, muchly. The very first Lloyd-Webber show I learned as a kid.

 

[sr71plt]

"If ya do that for me, then I'll let you go free . . ."

Love that, muchly. The very first Lloyd-Webber show I learned as a kid.

I think I did Joseph and His Technicolor Dream Coat earlier--but it's all pretty hazy right at the moment.