Gord Barentsen
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https://www.abebooks.com/books/weird/?cm_mmc=nl-_-nl-_-CPwel08-h00-wierdbAM-124424GN-_-01cta&abersp=1 'Nuff said.
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Margin comments and printing in LibreOffice Writer
Gord Barentsen posted an article in Misc. Articles
Currently (5.2.3.3), LibreOffice Writer's interface for dealing with comments is quite clunky. While Microsoft Word will automatically adjust print layout to full-page if you don't have margin comments in your document, LibreOffice Writer will not; you have to adjust the page layout for your document manually. To control margin comments when printing a document: In the top menu, click Tools -> Options. In the Options window, expand the menu list for LibreOffice Writer and select Print. Under the Comments heading, select the None radio button to turn off all margin comments when printing. If you don't do this, all your printed documents will include space in the right-hand margin whether you have margin comments or not. To re-enable the comment space in the right-hand margin, select the In margins radio button. Maybe they'll fix this in the future, but for now this is the only way to toggle the margin-comment space on the right-hand side of the page. -
The coolest dog ever!
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the smell of a new book
Gord Barentsen commented on Graham Barnett's Media Gallery item in Misc. Funny
downloaded, pinned, printed, put up as a 5x5 ft. print in my study! -
LOL! that's absolutely classic! Where on earth did you find these? I assume from a Christian periodical or something? Like the Watchtower? The likeness is astonishing. And I guess the big guy in the second picture is Goliath. He looks like that guy from Full Metal Jacket...can't remember his name right now.
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This was configured for the Member group, but I've enabled it now - should work.
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these posts get an official "dude, that's awesome!" Cant go wrong playing to my childhood interest in sharks (especially the GW)...
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A stain...?© 2011 Gord Barentsen
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Hey stimmung...glad you could make it What exactly are you reading right now? I'm still deep in Schelling and Jung but for some reason feel an urge to get more acquainted with Hegel...
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Hey everyone, Just letting you know about a useful site feature - "@ mentions." if you want to include anyone in a forums or blog post, simply type the at (@) sign. You will see a revolving circle icon, and a list of current members will be generated. Select the Member you want to include and their name will be included (boldfaced) in the post, e.g., @Gord Barentsen. Depending on what their notification settings are, the Member will be notified that you mentioned them in your post. Putting your mouse over the name will also allow you to see their profile. It's a great way of keeping people in the loop and reminding them that you're engaging their ideas.
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A swirl.© 2016 Gord Barentsen
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A splotch.© 2016 Gord Barentsen
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A leaf or frond (ok, maybe this one is a bit self-explanatory, but it's a warm-up pic )© 2016 Gord Barentsen
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open up the Language Oddities Blog!
Gord Barentsen replied to Marjorie Pfennig's topic in Suggestions
I'm wonderingif it should perhaps be made a forum? Or leave it as a blog until there are more members? Thoughts? -
Advanced Forums Quoting: "Quote This"
Gord Barentsen posted a Blog entry in Fractal Points: News & Information
The CMS software we're using has a great feature for advanced post quoting for when you want to reply to several different passages in a Forums post without quoting the entire message and without manually copy/pasting each passage into a Quote box. Simply hold down your mouse button and swipe to select the passage in the post you're replying to. When you take your finger off the mouse button, a small Quote This link will appear above the passage. Click that link and the passage you selected will automatically appear as a quote in your reply below! You can repeat this as often as you need to. Simple! -
Hi everyone, I suppose I should have led with this poll(!)...but I've set up a Reputation system on the site. We're a very small group right now, and I hope this will do something to encourage new Members to join and existing Members to come by a bit more and post. Ideally, with a larger community I would like to see some rewards system for regular contributors beyond the points system (e.g., prizes), but I thought we'd start with this. It gives people reputation points based on points, with the opportunity to "graduate" levels based on contributions to the community. I'm entirely open to suggestions on this - we can have prizes, additional access unlocked to the site, etc. I have given all existing Members 10 Reputation points to begin with. So please see the attached poll and vote your conscience, as they say . This poll will automatically close at the end of the month. If people vote against it I will disable it, but for now I thought we'd leave it in place and see what happens.
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Have you ever wanted to take an image and blur the outer border and make its background transparent? The technique is called feathering, and this brief article will describe how to do it. First, open your image (we'll assume it's an average JPG). Then, under the Layers tab on the right, right-click the Background tab and click Layer from Background. Your image now becomes a Layer. Click to select the Rectangular Marquee Tool in the Toolbar (second from the top in the default toolbar view) or press M. Set the value in the Feather box (in px) controls the dimensions of the border's feathering, e.g., 15px is very slight and 150px will make your border look more capsule-shaped or circular. Use this tool to draw the new border around your image. When you're done, you will notice the corners are rounded according to your Feathering dimensions. Note: to change your Feathering weight, press CTRL+D to get rid of your marquee box and repeat step 2 with a different value in the Feather box. When you're satisfied with your new border, click Select > Inverse in the top menu. This selects the opposite of what you've selected with the Marquee tool, i.e. the outer border (as you will see). Press the DELETE key. Each time you press DELETE you will see the Feathering increase. To undo a step/step backward in your feathering, press CTRL+ALT+Z or click Edit > Step Backward in the top menu (use Step Forward or SHIFT+CTRL+Z to redo your last feather). When you're satisfied, press CTRL+D to get rid of your Marquee box. You now have an image with a feathered border against a transparent background. Note: JPGs do not support transparency, so to preserve your feathering effect you must save your image as either a GIF with transparency or (preferably) as a PNG image. PNG images tend to have more definition and your blurred border will show up much better.
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Click your account (i.e. your name and avatar at the upper-right), then select Account Settings from the menu. "Signature" should be listed in the menu on the left.
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Hey ford....oopsie! Signature issue fixed. As for the avatar, let me look in to that. I'm not 100% sure the interface was designed for animated GIFs, so that might be the problem. Let me see what I can find out though.
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hahahahaahha....
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Ok, so my guilty weakness is zombie movies...even the crappiest! There's something about the (even if well-worn) idea of the zombie apocalypse that I always find appealing, and which lets me see beyond some really bad acting and CGI effects in some films at the bottom of the heap. This one looks pretty interesting, even if it is Stephen King (who I am pretty ambivalent about)...
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These days it isn't one step forward, two steps back from the wall - it's more like one step toward the wall, then half of one, then a quarter, etc. - Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox without resolution.
But hey - at least I don't hit the wall.
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Hey Tegan...welcome to the site! I'm replying from my phone so can't type much right now but post or ask if you have any questions.
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Yeah, what he said . Just swipe and select the text of the post you want to quote and the Quote this button should appear.
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Hello everyone, One of you asked me about how to embed content (e.g., from Facebook or Youtube), so I thought I'd post about it here. The software will automatically embed linked content from the following sites: College Humor Facebook Flickr Gfycat Google+ Hulu Instagram SoundCloud Spotify Ted Twitter Vimeo Vine YouTube When you're posting, just paste your link in. Please be patient - it may take a few seconds depending on your connection, but the screen will change and display your embedded content and give you the choice of changing it back to a simple link. I haven't tested embedding with all of these sites, but if anyone has any questions please post them in the Help! forum.
