Was it here that people were talking about Ainsley from West Wing/chick who was on CSI Miami? Man, her face. Not good.

Yes and yes.

Why didn't we enable pictures here in the first place? Was there a technical reason, or just cultural? Because I do love a reaction-gif, but am not sure how I'd feel about them here.

I had a lovely balloon flight, and a really impressively soft landing. Just before we descended, the pilot said, "You know the money that you paid me for this flight? This is where I EARN it." And he did.

This was in the desert outside Phoenix, just after dawn, so it was as spectacular as you could want.

The text only pages are certainly more subtle in the work environment but I'm not opposed to a Buffistas Illustrated thread. ita, is this about not wanting to post links to images or how mobile devices deal with the links or something else?

an experimental aircraft called the Breezy

I've always wanted to ride in a plane like that. And in a Piper Cub. Smalles plane I flew in was a Cessna 152 (a two-seater).

My favorite small plane ride was in a Beaver. (The Beaver is a bush plane.) We rode in one equipped with floats to a remote fishing cabin on a lake in Ontario.

Hear's a Beaver: [link] The one we flew in was built during WWII. They are still extensively used in Canada and Alaska.

Well, we got the offer and it's a low-ball one, but our realtor is somewhat confident that there is room to bring them up to what is acceptable for us, especially since the season is just beginning and the house has only been on the market 6 days. Sigh.

Also, I am going to a "Digital Humanities Salon" at the university today with the express goal of networking, and remember how I am not good at that? I totally sucked at it at the lecture I went to Tuesday night, although in my defense, I had an anxious and clingy 6 year old holding my hand the whole time. Sigh.

A balloon ride is on my list.

The method we have used for linking to pictures on Flickr or Facebook or blogs or whatever has worked ok for me.

They are still extensively used in Canada and Alaska.

Yeah, I took a Beaver out to a project site south of Ketchikan a few years ago. So fun!

Good luck with the house and the networking, flea!

I'm so in love with the cleanliness of the b.org design that I see no major value in adding pictures. I don't mind following links but, then again, I only use a desktop, so portable devises are not my issue.

I have to go read the article about the Harlem Shake because I have been completely mystified by it's popularity.

The Gangnam style thing, I could somehow understand more. Getting people to do synchronized stuff is more interesting to me. Mass craziness? Not so funny to me.

I wouldn't want to disturb most of b.org. Thinking again about what I posted, making some threads image-able (as in, the pictures are embedded in thread, not linked) would make a specific area of the site change in tenor, so if you have bandwidth or passing off as work issues, you could ignore that thread, or turn images off (my style sheet forces them off, for instance).

But I feel that images are becoming a bigger part of casual communication, and they're fun, and clicking on links doesn't paint the same picture (pun perhaps intended) as images embedded in text.

You want to go wild in Supernatural, don't you? Not that I don't approve, of course.

I never figured out how to embed images in LJ comments, so someone might have to explain it to me, but I would be okay with it.