UPDATED: SEDOC Fall Tech Session: Saturday Nov 14, 2015

[Ron]

There was only a place holder there (both messages) until today. Fine now.

[Soundkillr]

...fixed...

[DL4567]

This damn internet keeps-a-changin'! Pisses me off, as I went to a lot of trouble to make that image and get the quote wording above it correct. Alright everyone, pretend you're seeing the beginning of this thread for the first time!

(Boring technical details, but I need to vent):
I was happily using Imageshack for hotlinking my forum post images for about 10 years. Then suddenly a couple years ago they decided to not be free anymore, so lots of people dumped them. Since then I've been using Google Photos, and it's been working great. Now some time this summer, suddenly they too have purposefully screwed things up. The image path to anything you upload is no longer a direct path to a jpg file. It's now a super-long string of gobbeldy gook, not ending in ".jpg", to make it impossible to use for hotlinking. No amount of right-clicking, inspect element, view source, etc.. will let you see where the file is located exactly. I tried it with Google Drive -- nope, then I also tried Microsoft One Drive in my hotmail account, -- nope! Same BS, a long string not ending in ".jpg." So what the hell happened? Is hotlinking images suddenly a CrAzY RiDiCuLoUs thing!?!?! Too expensive for large companies like Google and Microsoft to do? What's even worse, is that the now obfuscated links still make the images in my posts show just fine on my own computer, FOOLING me into thinking everything is fine and everyone else can see them too!

I created an Imgur account now, and transferred my recent pics to that. Big thanks to Soundkillr for editing the image paths!
We'll see how long the Imgur ride lasts, before things change again.

Now, let's all give the geniuses at Google a big round of applause for RUINING the first impression and fun of my beginning post!

[Ron]

When they first started that crap, I started using my "free personal pages" space from my provider ;-)

[mr_maxime]

I just had to get 3 stiches in my right ring finger. Hopefully itll be healed enough so I can shift to drive my delorean.

[Dangermouse]

Just back after a few days away on a boat dodging hurricanes

Hopefully I'll be there, sans de lorean unfortunately, but looking forward to seeing old faces and new faces alike.

[Freaky Beetle]

dodging hurricanes

+10 Points for a fantastic use of an emoji.

[DL4567]

Well, as we alllll expected, the forecast is looking worse and worse for Saturday. Not cancelling at this point, as I know it constantly gets adjusted, but we should keep the possibility in mind. If it still looks like this by Friday, we might think about doing it on Oct 24th instead.

@^%*$%#! this world. Seriously. The most beautiful weather every weekday (go outside right now, it's paradise), but if you wanna do something special on a Saturday.....

[Dangermouse]

How quickly can you build a 4 car extension to your garage?

[DL4567]

Hehe, not fast enough I'm afraid.

That did get me thinking though, how many people are we expecting?


Here's the list I've quickly put together:

Freaky Beetle
Soundkillr
Dangermouse
Ron
Mike S
Mr Maxime
iflights
RamblinDMC (maybe)
RammJaeger (maybe)

Looks like we'll be 6+, or, too many to all park in the garage on a rainy day.