291 posts tagged “photo”

Frustration

Okay, I've gotten a number of minor issues taken care of concerning the wonderful world of Vista learning.  But would someone please help me with something that should be relatively simple??  Pretty please? 

I have a 22 inch flat screen monitor.  The optimum resolution, according to Dell, is 1680 x 1050.  Yeah, right!  Oh, it's beautiful!  The text is so clear and the quality is great, but........it's made for teeny tiny people with teeny tiny eyes!!  I would be blind in two weeks tops....not something I'm particularly looking forward to since I rather enjoy having sight.

I've checked around a lot of places, and it appears that people using Vista have two main resolutions:  1024 x 768 and 1280 x 1024.  The latter one makes for small print, and also leaves about 2.5 inches of blank space on each side of the web page.  What's the point of having a nice big monitor if it doesn't use it well?  Lol.  And the former leaves everything at a nice size (no eye strain), with about 1 inch remaining on each side of the web page.  But the photos and the text are not SHARP and clear.

I have tried every resolution for a 22 inch monitor with 32-bit color, and the 1024 x 768 seems to be the best.  But why isn't it sharp and clear?  Boo hoo.  The photos are a little on the grainy side, and the text is a little on the pale, fuzzy side.

What resolution do you use?  And what other settings do you use for the colors, etc?  I've been trying, but I just can't get my mind wrapped around it. 

Thank you, guys.  Sorry for bothering you so much.  I know I'm a pain.

Show us something happy.
Submitted by L33tchica.

Swimming With Horses

This would make me very happy.  I've ridden horses many times, but I've never been in the water with them....let alone having the horse swimming beneath me.  I would have to say that this definately qualifies as a happy photo for the VOX Hunt.

Tokyo Rose

Tokyo Rose

U.S.-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, who was dubbed "Tokyo Rose" for broadcasting anti-American propaganda from Japan during World War II, was convicted of treason and sent to federal prison for about seven years (this picture was taken at the lockup in Alderson, West Virginia). D'Aquino was pardoned by President Gerald Ford in 1977.

Dell Inspiron 530 Desktop

Okay, I just had this brand new system built for me by Dell....all the goodies you could ever possibly want in it and more (my son helped me with all the components)....plus a 22 inch flat screen monitor....and it was delivered yesterday.  Guess what?  Everything is still in the boxes.  Boo hoo.  I admit it.  I've failed you all.  I'm not a genius.  I don't know what the heck to do with it.  There are so many items on the Dell computer I'm using now that I want to place on the new system (like folders of photos, documents), and I don't even know how to format a CD to copy those folders, and then I could install them somehow onto the new system.  They are family photos and documents I use for work, etc.  And it came with Vista (hate the idea already), and I'm an XP gal.  So I'm going to be looking at something that is totally new to me, and I won't know where to go.  And how do I get my Favorites copied over??  Ugh.  Oh, and of course, my 5-in-1 (printer, copier, fax, scanner, and photo thingy) doesn't operate with Vista.  What?!?  So I have to find some sort of converter, right??  I dunno.  What the heck do I do?  Well, I guess the first thing is to format a CD, right?  HELP!!!!

Beach Patrol Hazard

Although this foreign police officer seems to be doing a pretty good job of digging her patrol vehicle out of the sand, where are all the big burly beach boys who like to show off for a female.....especially one in uniform?  Awwwww, they're making her do this all by herself?  I'd force the shovel onto the person taking the photograph.  Tag, you're it!  After all, she's the one with the gun and the aching back.

Foolish Man Creation

Only a foolish man, with tremendous time on his hands, would wait for the perfect opportunity to build this little creation atop his beloved sleeping cat.  Now...how do you suppose this loving kitty is going to react when he wakes up??  Sure hope he doesn't have a heart attack.  Actually, he might have a "man attack" when it finally registers on him that his beloved human is laughing AT him.  Grrrrrrrrrrr!!

Together Forever

A man and a woman were asleep like two innocent babies. Suddenly, at 3 o'clock in the morning, a resounding noise came from outside...

The woman, sort of bewildered, jumps up from the bed and yells at the man:
"Darn, that must be my husband!"

So the guy quickly got out of bed, scared and naked. He jumped out the window like a crazy man, smashed himself on the ground, went through a thorn bush, then he stood up and started to run fast to his car.

Just a few minutes later he returns and tells the woman:
"I'm your husband!"

So the woman answers:
"Oh, yeah?  Then why were you running?!!"

Anaconda

Can you imagine?  This is supposedly a Green Anaconda....although, to me, one anaconda is the same as another!  It doesn't seem to be very concerned with the photographer or the vehicle (I would HOPE the photographer is in a vehicle!).  But what a shock to come across this size snake out in the woods.  In California, rattlesnakes would warm themselves on the roads....but I've never seen a rattlesnake this size.  Lol.  I've been told the anaconda comes in a size even larger than this...for all those "gotta have the biggest" people.

Hate To Intrude

HATE TO INTRUDE . . . Yaakov Kanelsky shows the window in his Brooklyn apartment where an alleged burglar begged for the wallet he'd dropped inside.

Posted: 3:43 am
July 14, 2008

A hapless burglar who swiped more than $200 from a Brooklyn apartment was back within moments begging to return the stolen cash - in exchange for the wallet he left behind.

Victor Marin, 20, broke into the 40th Street building in Borough Park last Thursday and made off with the money, but left his billfold - complete with his identification - on the victim's bed, according to police sources.

The bewildered victim, Yaakov Kanelsky, 49, arrived home from a shopping trip around 1:30 p.m. to see the accused thief at his first-floor kitchen window.

"There was someone knocking on my window, and I asked him, 'What do you want? Why are you here?' And he said, he told me, 'I left my wallet inside your house,' " Kanelsky told The Post.

"Why were you inside my house?" a perplexed Kanelsky asked.

"He told me he needed to use the bathroom."

When Kanelsky asked the next logical question - why the intruder needed to use a bathroom in someone else's home - Marin allegedly replied, "It doesn't matter. I need my wallet. I forgot my wallet. It's in your bedroom."

Kanelsky, a retired rabbi who is originally from Israel, called 911 while Marin allegedly ran from the kitchen window to the apartment's front door.

"If you give me my wallet, I'll give you back your money," the intruder hollered through the door.

"What money?" asked Kanelsky. "I didn't even know any money was missing."

The absent-minded burglar flashed a wad of bills through the peephole.

A quick check of the bedroom confirmed that Kanelsky's cash - $93 in singles and $125 in larger bills - was missing from his dresser.

Instead, the victim found a wallet filled with credit cards, photos and cash - and a pair of sunglasses.

So Kanelsky told the man on the other side of the door to return his cash, which he promptly did, sliding the $125 under the door.

But the $93 wad of singles was too bulky to push under the door, so Marin allegedly began stuffing the bills little by little through the small crack. That's when the cops showed up.

Marin was quickly picked up in a nearby yard and charged with burglary, petty larceny and possession of stolen property.

Kanelsky said he believed the thief had entered via the kitchen window - which he had habitually left open since he moved into the apartment seven years ago.

"I just thought this whole thing was crazy," said Kanelsky.

Too Tired To Go On

I thought I was getting better, but I could barely keep myself going for this long.  Off to bed I go again....maybe for another 2 or 3 days.  For all these years, I took care of the kids and myself all by myself.  I did it all because I had to.  Now the kids are gone and I'm on my own.  And I don't feel right at all. 

This is the time that I would give anything to have a man who loves me....who loves the person that I am.....to take care of me.  Just this once.  All I can do is sleep, and one day I won't even have the energy to get up for water.  Did I tell you that when I went to the washroom this morning that my urine was practically brown?  That's how long I had been holding it in my bladder....and I couldn't even tell. 

Don't take for granted the man or the woman who is there by your side and loves you.  Relationships aren't perfect, but I so want to be loved....and to love even more in return.

I'll write more whenever I get over this.  Sorry for whining.