The Junk Drawer

So I’m in the middle of trying to do another post full of pictures … and our transition to the new version has left me a little irritated.

The old Word Press was not all that intuitive, but I found a way to not use thumbnails and also eradicate the annoying hyperlink borders by taking off half the coding.

So now I’m a little stumped at the way yet another photo uploading system works. I’ve uploaded the photos just fine but it’s not intuitive as to how I’m supposed to get a full-size and not thumbnail-size photo in there. I don’t want thumbs. That negates the point of posting pictures, in my opinion.

I could’ve easily asked this quietly, but maybe a discussion would help everyone else.

And now that I’ve posted this publicly, I’m sure I’ll fumble around and find it out for myself. I kinda like that part.

I’ve just set spam karma to “nice.” Hopefully, that will fix the problem we have been having with comments being misidentified as spam.

First, these categories were fun to make up, trying to think of things that might actually be in a junk drawer and what might correspond to them.  Todd was frustrating to work with, however, having little grasp of the concrete.  He kept suggesting really abstract categories like “Everyone Must Get Stoned,” and I would have to ask, “so how is that something that could be in a junk drawer??”, but eventually we got it done, and he did have some good ideas

Here’s what we had in mind for content within the various categories, but really, it’s all pretty loose:

• Cat Treats, Dog Leashes, and Fish Food:  Pet/animal stuff
• Emergency Numbers:  Requests for help, blogging advice, that sort of thing.  Anything other brooders can answer or help each other out with.
• Lint and Toenail Clippers:  The odd junk that doesn’t fit anywhere else
• Newspaper Clippings:  Speaks for itself, I think.  Links, comments, etc. on news items.
• Passports and Postcards:  Travel
• Sixth-Grade Snapshots:  Pictures, not necessarily of you in sixth-grade, but that would be ok too
• Yo-Yos and Uno Decks:  Fun stuff–weird websites, jokes, outrageous but truth things, etc.