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Happened to discover a weird LJ Layout issue tonight.
Thankfully, it's only showing up on the Chrome & Opera Beta browsers (at least for me).
I checked it out in Safari, Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi, & Yandex browsers and everything looks fine on them.

The issue is having thumbnail images in an LJ post that are no longer nice and neat within the confines of the layout, but spill over in a horizontal line to the right, causing a scroll bar to appear at the bottom of the page.

Like this...Ugh!



So I apologize to anyone looking at my big image posts on my LJ or [livejournal.com profile] hurtwinchesters or [livejournal.com profile] spn_locations on the Chrome or Opera Beta browsers. Hopefully, they will update their code or whatever & those thumbnails will get back in line!

Until then, I hope you use other browsers to view LJ that don't have this issue! :)
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I've talked before how I hate "over-capping", where I end up capping too much. What is considered too much? Generally, once I go over 1,000. I go beyond that and the sorting & deleting process is a MAJOR PAIN! It's just not fun & it takes forever. It's been known to take me 3 days to sort & delete a huge set of caps!

I mean, I love the boys and all, but sometimes looking at thousands of images of them can get tiring. Believe me!

So here is my progress & thoughts through capping SPN Season 14 so far. As you can see, I'm fighting a losing battle in the "over-capping" department. Now, granted, some of this is because I'm also capping for Locations (many caps of which won't be included in the Highlight Caps) but I'm still not looking forward to sorting & deleting through all of these. Sheesh!

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I just made this animated gif because I need it in my life. ;)

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I'll be making a formal posting of this gif (and in other sizes) next week. Stay tuned!

♦ Who knew you couldn't use Spotify in the Safari web browser??? WTH??? *fumes* I looked into why, but then my eyes glazed over because apparently there isn't any solution. Grrr! Well, that's annoying! Especially since I'm trying to use my Safari browser more now, because for some reason when I watch online videos too long in any other browser, my CPU heats up. WTH is with that??? *sigh*

♦ I uploaded the above animation to one of my old Photobucket accounts. Yes, still trying to decide what to do about them - which account to sign up for with payments again, now that they've got more reasonable plans. I wouldn't have even uploaded it to PB, but I can't get into my account at PhotoLand.io!!!! That's where I've been uploading and posting my gifs from. All of a sudden there's no way to sign in with Twitter, which is what I used. Gah!!!! I've contacted them about it, but who knows if I'll ever get a response. Well, speak of the devil....just got this email from them:

Hello,

We are having issues with the twitter API and are working on fixing it. Will update you once it's working again.

Thank you
Photoland Team

Well, I'll give them points for getting back to me so quickly. Sad that I can't get into my account there though. Serves me right for going the shortcut way into signing into a site. *sigh* So I guess I'll be using my PB accounts again for now...

Ok. Wow! The PhotoLand Support Team literally just got back to me, saying the problem is fixed. Sure enough, I was able to log in w/Twitter and upload the gifs. Yay! Very impressive support at PhotoLand!

♦ For my artsy & craftsy friends, I got quite the deal this past week at Hobby Lobby. A Marvy waterbrush marked down to $1.24, a set of Faber Castell 24 Watercolor Pencils marked down to $3.74 (from $14.99), and a set of 25 Stabilo colored pens marked down to $7.49 (from $29.99!). I've always been curious about the Stabilo pens because I've heard such good things about them (they are good!) but the price always turned me off. No more! These aren't the first great deals I've found at HL. A month or so ago I finally got a Gouache set of paints that was marked way down. I do love saving money on supplies!

♦ I found a great site for free book PDFs! Check out Ocean Of PDF! I've already got a few of them loaded on my phone for reading there. Such a great selection.

♦ Since SPN is finished for the summer, it's time to start in on updating the Locations List (LL) with Season 13 for [livejournal.com profile] spn_locations. Problem is...looking up addresses on Google Maps really eats up my internet data. *heavy sigh* I could really use some help from volunteers, but I've failed to use people in the past so I'm pretty sure it's a waste of time. People don't want to risk it. Of course, this time I KNOW what I would have volunteers help me with! :(

Late add-in Edit!!!! OMG Does anyone else play Candy Crush on their phone??? I've been stuck on a level before, but nothing like with Level 149! OMG!!!! I CANNOT GET THROUGH IT!!!!! I've lost track of how many times I've played that level. And I've had tons of help from the game, but alas....still stuck. Gah!

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Yesterday I found one of my VanCon 2010 photos of Jensen posted on Instagram with my watermark cropped off. Now keep in mind that the photo itself is square anyway, so there was no need to crop off my watermark to post it to Instagram. Anyway, I left a comment on the post about it being mine and the watermark being gone.

I then posted the issue to Twitter.


Today, I'm looking at Instagram, see that account and take another look and that post is totally gone! They never responded to my comment, just deleted the photo....which in my mind makes me out to be the bad guy. "How dare you complain about your watermark being cropped out! I won't post your photos anymore!" Really?!?



This is getting frustrating. I don't make my watermarks intrusive on my photos for a reason - I feel they'd detract from the beauty of the subject matter. But I'm seriously reconsidering taking more drastic action. I'm sick of this! Why is it so hard for people to give credit for things in this fandom anymore? Even if they didn't know who to credit...just say that in the post! Indicate that you at least are interested in finding out who to credit for the work! This is what I've done in the past. Because I want to give credit where it's due, even if I can't at the time I post something.

Maybe I'll have to start placing my watermark up by people's faces in con photos from now on. It sucks, but I've seen plenty of other photographers in the fandom doing it and now I know why. *sigh*

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Thought I'd make a post about what I'm working on for LJ, what's still in the works, etc.

First, has anyone else noticed their images being gone in their sidebar???
I noticed it over a month ago, but finally looked into it about a week or so ago. Found that LJ had taken all the URLs I put in from Slickpic and changed them to one starting with https://imgprx.livejournal(dot)net/. WTH???
So I just went through all the links and replaced them with the SlickPic ones yet again! So far they're there, but for how long? Don't like LJ just replacing my links as they please. Grrrr! Odd how the animated gif links from PhotoLand at the top of the Sidebar were not affected at all.

Also, the page view counters that I had in the Sidebar don't work at all anymore. Phooey! That's disappointing. Though I think the Flag one does work, but only in FireFox. Weird.

Moving on!

To Be Capped:
13x08 Highlight Caps
13x09 Highlight Caps
JA Directing
NerdHQ 2015 SPN Panel
SPN 2015 SDCC Panel
SPN Season 10 Gag Reel
SPN Season 11 Gag Reel
SPN Season 12 Gag Reel
NerdHQ 2016 SPN Cast
SPN 2016 SDCC Panel
SPN 2017 SDCC Panel
+ Cap more Season 6 & 7 eps for Beginning & Ending Posts
+ Cap more Season 7 eps for Perfectly Timed Credits Posts
+ Cap Seasons 10-12 for The Road So Far Cap sets


Caps to Finish for Posting:
+ SPN 1x05 "Bloody Mary" -- Sort/Delete, Fix, Upload, & Post to LJ -- Then pull Highlight Caps to post
+ SPN 4x16 "On The Head Of A Pin" -- Upload & Post to LJ -- Then pull Highlight Caps to post
+ J2 on Conan (July 2017) Caps -- Sort/Delete, Fix, Upload, & Post to LJ
+ JP on Jimmy Kimmel (Oct 2017) Caps -- Sort/Delete, Fix, Upload, & Post to LJ


LJ Comm Stuff:
+ Replace image links on Season 7 posts at [livejournal.com profile] spn_locations
+ Make list of locations that no longer exist for [livejournal.com profile] spn_locations
+ Replace image links on Area Location Lists for [livejournal.com profile] spn_locations
+ Cap 1x21 for Locations
+ Replace Google Maps & Street View images for Season 1-7 posts at [livejournal.com profile] spn_locations
+ Continue to gather con video caps of J2 for J2 Convention Clothing Guide at [livejournal.com profile] spnconcatalog
+ Post a panel video Summary List w/Timecodes at [livejournal.com profile] spnconcatalog
+ Post a panel video Transcript at [livejournal.com profile] spnconcatalog
+ Try to get some new post ideas for [livejournal.com profile] positively_spn
+ Fix more caps for [livejournal.com profile] hurtwinchesters


Misc. Stuff:
+ Sort/Delete Etc. Caps from SPN 607-614 for [livejournal.com profile] hurtwinchesters, Beginning & Ending posts, and Sample Caps
+ Sort/Delete Etc. Caps from SPN 701-703 for [livejournal.com profile] hurtwinchesters, Beginning & Ending posts, and Sample Caps
+ Post more finished SPN Animations


Then there's getting back to the SPN Revealed Posts (someday next year, I hope!), resuming SPN Goes B&W Posts and The SPN Timestamp Lottery, and of course more of your Just 'Cause Cap Requests! Oh, and I'm working on putting together some Special SPN Picspams! Shhhh! SUPER SECRET!!! Hee! :P

I'm also working on re-uploading the older SPN Gag Reel Caps and getting back to making/posting the Hi-Res Caps from Season 11 (as requested...you thought I forgot, didn't you?).

There's probably other stuff that I'm forgetting to mention, but this is the bulk of it. Thank goodness I write most of this stuff down now! I'd never remember it all.

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Well, that's 3 and a half hours of my life I won't get back. *sigh*

Got online tonight, opened my usual browser (Opera) and pretty soon, my GPU is running hot and the fans are loud. WTH??? I see this Opera Helper is using a lot of CPU. Weird. I try another browser - same thing. Either there's a Helper file using a lot of CPU or the browser itself is using a lot. What the eff???

I'm frantically searching online for whatever this problem is. Is it malware? I start doing a scan with my Avast software. But it's constantly monitoring me, so the system should be clean. What about that new download of PhotoScape I just got the other night? But that was from the Apple Store. It should be clean, right?

I couldn't figure it out. I tried a few suggested fixes. No change.
I could only stay with one browser open for a while and then I'd shut it down so my fans would get a break.
Then I started closing that Helper file process - that cooled things down, but when I re-opened the browser it would just run the CPU hot again. *sigh*

Eventually, I noticed something...in a couple of the browsers the site only2clicks.com (a visual bookmarking site) was shutting down with a white screen that said it had run out of memory. WTH??? Weird.

Then I opened Google Chrome and made sure only2clicks DIDN'T open with the browser's start.
I closed, then re-opened the browser...no more high CPU usage!!!!

I opened Opera again and instantly closed the tab for only2clicks and everything was fine.

So the problem is with that website, only2clicks.com! Geez!
Which sucks, because I use that site for all of my bookmarks, have for years now. It's had it's issues, but never anything like this! Crazy. So it looks like I'll be avoiding only2clicks for a little while. Hopefully, it gets fixed soon. Gah!

/ Returns you all back to your day/evening. :P

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Sure would like to know what this Tweet from yesterday is all about. Btw, Mark Meloche is the VFX Supervisor on SPN.



I mean, why lump the entire SPN fandom together? Surely we didn't all do something so terrible. Seems unfair to make such a Tweet and then not explain it while vilifying the entire SPN Family.
I've read this statement over and over again and still can't figure out what he's talking about. Any ideas out there?

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We've known the prices for Creation's SPN cons are quite high, but I thought I'd take a look and compare what their other con Gold Ticket prices are like. There's a clear price difference between SPN and TVD, OUAT, & ST. I've listed everything below from highest price to the lowest.

Ten of the fifteen SPN cons are priced over $900. o.O
I'd much rather be paying those $400 and something prices for the other cons. Heck, even $500 or $600 price for Gold would be more reasonable than $900. It's so frustrating & unfair! *sigh*

Note: These are 3-day cons only. That's why you won't see SPN's Las Vegas on the list.
(Done) Means it's a past con from this year.


SPN Hawaii -- Gold $999
SPN Nashville -- Gold $959 (Done)
SPN Pittsburgh -- Gold $949
SPN Secaucus -- Gold $949
SPN Wash DC -- Gold $949
SPN New Orleans -- Gold $939
SPN Seattle -- Gold $939
SPN Houston -- Gold $929 (Done)
SPN Jacksonville -- Gold $919 (Done)
SPN Chicago -- Gold $915
SPN Minneapolis -- Gold $899
SPN SF -- Gold $899
SPN Toronto -- Gold $899
SPN Phoenix -- Gold $889
SPN Vancouver -- Gold $850


OUAT Vancouver -- Gold $729
OUAT Chicago -- Gold $569
VampDiaries Whippany -- Gold $569
OUAT Whippany -- Gold $499
OUAT Burbank -- Gold $489
ST - The Continuing Voyage Chicago -- Gold $469
ST - The Continuing Voyage Parsippany -- Gold $469
OUAT Denver -- Gold $469
OUAT Toronto -- Gold $469
VampDiaries Chicago -- Gold $459
Gotham Chicago -- Gold $459
OUAT SF -- Gold $439

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I've been thinking something was off with my caps lately, but for some reason I just couldn't focus in on what it was.

Until tonight.
I was fixing the Episode Title Cap for last week's ep, 12x12 and realized the resolution was off. Instead of being 1280x720 it was 1280x738. Just to be sure, I resized the cap to the correct dimensions and sure enough, it looked better.

Then I realized, all the caps I've been making for the past several months have been made with the incorrect resolution. GAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

18 friggin' pixels!!!!! 1237373utapqan9n9

I finally figured out what settings were off in VLC, took another cap and the problem is now fixed, but...

WHAT. THE. FRIGGIN'. HELL!!!!!

So, okay, I can fix all the cap sets I still have waiting to be sorted/deleted/fixed and resize them to the correct resolution, but all the already posted caps...*cries* I know, I know...it's no big deal to all of you. Eighteen pixels isn't that bad in the grand scheme of things. But it bugs me!

I'll have to take a hard look at the cap sets I've been posting recently and see if I want to re-fix them and re-upload and post them. Because those 18 pixels matter, dammit! I'm only talking about the episode caps, btw. Everything else I'm willing to let go (JibCon, other video caps). Of course, there's a bunch of caps I use for the Just 'Cause posts that are already uploaded to SlickPic that are also all wrong - those will just have to stay where they are. Sorry!

Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!
Alright, I'm going to watch tonight's SPN. *sigh*
/rant

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What is with all these posts about people using their Dreamwidth accounts instead of LJ all of a sudden???
I get that LJ had some issues last week, but they're fixed now...as far as I can tell. Why the exodus?

Did I miss a memo somehow?
*plants foot firmly on LJ*

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I can't be the only one that feels LJ has become a total ghost town, am I?
Sure, it's SPN's hiatus and all, the start of summer (for those of us in the northern hemisphere), but it just feels especially quiet - at least in the commenting area.

Now I realize I'm way behind (*sigh* again) on replying to comments. May was kind of a rough month for me, so I sort of fell off the replying-wagon, so to speak. I AM going to go back and reply to your comments though. Hope to make a big dent in them this weekend. Wish me luck! :)

But that still doesn't explain how there were 133 visitors to my journal yesterday (Friday) and I only got about 3 comments (not counting the Name That Cap Challenge ones because I don't reply to them).

So I'm feeling kind of like...



So, uh...now's your chance to pipe in and say "Hi" or whatever.
At least let me know you're all still around, huh?


'Cause I've still got a lot of caps & goodies to post and I'd like to know people are around to enjoy them.

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I started writing a SPN fanfic last night that's been rattling around in my brain for the past several months.

What is wrong with me??? I'm not a writer! I hate writing!

*sigh*
Get back to your days/evenings people. Just having an identity crisis here.

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The Seattle Seahawks were set to score, set to win the Super Bowl for the 2nd time in a row. We were soooo close! But a poor play and the Patriots intercepted the ball and it was over. Patriots won 28-24.

Stunned is an understatement. I can't believe they threw the ball instead of giving it to Lynch. Lynch, who'd they'd been using endlessly the entire game! Why, oh why didn't they do it when they needed to the most??? sSa_wah

Bravo to the Patriots for a great game.
I'm heartbroken...as are all the 12s. We had it...victory was ours and now it's gone.

I still love the Seahawks, after all I've been a fan since I was a kid (Steve Largent FTW!), but this is a tough loss to take. We'll be back. I know Russell Wilson's already planning for next season. He's that kind of guy and a true champion. The team will want to erase this bitter loss, but it shouldn't have happened this way.

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Was going to check how the Gold Tickets were selling for VanCon and saw this...

Screen Shot 2014-12-05 at 1.52.19 AM

I think Creation's ticket prices are too high as it is, but WOW! Yeah, over a thousand dollars is a bit much.
And when I clicked on it the seat chart wouldn't load. Ooops!
Something's very wrong with the site. I posted about it on Twitter so hopefully they'll see it this morning.

I checked some of the other cities on the site and ran into the same problem though some were working just fine. Weird.

Btw, I've got my ticket from re-upping this past August. I was simply curious to see how many Gold seats were still left. Keeping track of things for the con, stuff like that...like you do, right? ;)

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Back in August at VanCon, I re-upped and paid for my Gold Ticket (same seat) for next year. It's normal for it to take Creation a while to send out the tickets, so I'm used to waiting. Then I read they were having difficulties and it would be a couple more weeks. That was quite a while ago.

I'm trying to be patient and not worry, but geez, it's been 2 months since the con. I've checked all my email accounts and haven't seen anything about my Gold Ticket from Creation. I even checked all my spam folders, just in case.

Has anyone else who re-upped at VanCon gotten their PDF tickets yet?

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This afternoon while driving home I got to wondering about an old LJ friend. Well, I wouldn't say we were close friends, in fact she didn't even want me to friend her on LJ and I respected her choice. But I enjoyed her LJ comm and interacted with her through there (which I haven't seen her on lately).

So instead we followed each other on Twitter and Instagram. I was really enjoying her photos on Instagram and I even left her some comments.

I get online tonight and check her out on Twitter & Instagram and find that I'm no longer following her. Weird.
So I tried to follow her on both and they failed. The message from Twitter: "You have been blocked from following this account at the request of the user."

What. The. Hell???

I don't even know what happened or what I did for her to block me. She's still posting things, but I can't see her pics on Instagram anymore.

I've met this woman twice, at 2 VanCons. She was nice, warm, funny, friendly, but her actions in her online life completely befuddle and confuse me. I just...I don't know what to make of this and of course there's nothing I can do. It's sad.

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Noticed a couple of messages from MediaFire in my email today. The kind of messages that can ruin a person's day. Grrrr.
My files might be in danger of disappearing. :(


The file (Christmas Cottage DVD Extras Caps by Raloria.zip) violates the MediaFire Terms of Service. Due to it being distributed from your account, it has been removed. Also, a Strike has been placed against your account and can lead to a termination of service.
Check our policy violations page for more information.
Thank you for using MediaFire as your cloud based file sharing service provider.

Sincerely,
The MediaFire Team


Gotta love the "thank you" at the end. "We might terminate your account. But hey, thanks anyway!" :P

The only items they've red-flagged are the "Christmas Cottage" caps. In fact, they left one folder up, but I deleted it myself. No sense in it sticking around when the rest are gone.

Now, I believe that the only reason they went after the CC caps were: A) Big movie, and B) the title was written plainly in the folder name. It might be that my other caps (the SPN ones specifically) might be overlooked. Obviously, I need to be more careful about file/folder names.

ATM, I have no plans to re-upload the CC caps. Sorry.

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Some days I have good walks and other ones I don't. Today's walk definitely fell into the latter category. :(
It's not that I didn't walk far. I did over 2 miles. But I felt tired the whole way and my legs were aching. It wasn't enjoyable. I'd worn my fleece jacket and I soon found out I should've left it at home as it was warmer than I anticipated. The sun was out and temps were in the low to mid 60s. Pretty soon I was hot and sweating because the breeze didn't happen often enough to keep me cool. *sigh* Came home and felt spent, draggy, and depressed. WTH? I thought exercising was supposed to make you feel good? Release those endorphins? Didn't happen today. :(

Stats from MapMyWalk.com:
Miles = 2.26
Time = 44 minutes
Calories = 191

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I remember when the 1st of May was a day to pick flowers and celebrate Spring.

Now it's all about protesting, rioting, and damaging public property.

'May Day' protests turn violent in Downtown Seattle
Violence erupts as May Day protesters flood streets
‘Black Bloc’ protesters ignite violence at Seattle May Day protest



There is peaceful protesting and then there's all out violence for the sole reason of being destructive. That's all these black-clad anarchists wanted. It was just an excuse to run rampant through the city and vandalize businesses and cars. People are just trying to work, make some money to put food on their table and now they have to deal with spray paint damage and busted windows. It sucks!

Uh...

Apr. 30th, 2012 05:58 pm
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Why does the calendar in my sidebar show May already when today is still April 30th?

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