Random Pics...from around the web
 

Just post pics from the web that strike yer fancy.

I, personally, am limiting myself to one post per day.

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This one's by Gonzalo Ordóñez Arias @ DeviantArt.

Cerberus, Guardian Hound Of Hades:

http://pre12.deviantart.net/614f/th/...an-d3kkisd.jpg

Seems familiar, somehow...:neutral:

But these are from around the Web!

Attached pictures and pics uploaded from your devices don't count.

If my device is connected to the Web, then isn't it part of the Web?

So you're hotlinking. :eyebrow:

If you mean using IMaGe tags, then yes.

Yes, but not necessarily the images...if they're stored on your device's HDD. Your Facebook/Twitter/whatever photo library doesn't count either.

Doesn't count? To who? You? Are you keeping score in this thread? Guess who has two thumbs and isn't playing.

Keep it comin', Dennis. :D

Isn't hotlinking frowned upon by pretty much the entire universe?

So, using [IMG] tags is hotlinking, but using [url] and [youtube] tags is not? WTF is the difference, and why is it included in every forum software package (including vBulletin, which powers The Cellar)?

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. You're stealing bandwith from the linked site.

I hot link because it's easier and I don't want to fill my hard drive with whims. Most of them are linked to servers that host images for a living and do not object to it. Downloading and uploading images to the cellar server costs the cellar more bandwidth. It's more permanent though....

What is your official position on this matter, Mr Undertow'd?

10 years ago hotlinking was a terrible problem for us because

words = small
images = big
video = huge (it's actually many images per second)

But since bandwidth has increased worldwide, hotlinked images are not much of a problem for us any more, and certainly not for image hosting sites like Imgur. The only problem with hotlinking now is that we will outlast the other sites and the threads won't be pretty. I like the idea that our threads may still be useful and interesting in 10-20 years.

I have always wanted to fill out the utterly simple image hosting that IotD uses, and make it available to all Dwellars with a nice interface, inside the Cellar security so that your username and password allow you into the image hosting. It could still happen.

Good question. #like

Seems logical. #like

Lol @ your hashtags. I'm so old...isn't that a tweeter thing? ;)

#Yep.

I have no problem downloading images to my HDD, and re-uploading them as attached images if you prefer. #yerdaboss

:)

Well there is the longevity thing. I've perused way old threads, having seen something interesting some guest was looking at from 'who's online' and sometimes the relevant pics are gone and that's disappointing. You lose the thread of the thread.

Posterity!

These new-fangled computers let you delete stuff, too.

Download the pic.

Post the pic.

Delete the pic from your computer.

Only if I am in desperate need of space, but with 309GB free on my 323GB D: partition, and a 128GB flash drive, I think I'm good.

And yes, I realize you were replying to Jim.

This Kuratas, a real-life (but maybe not) 13-foot tall mech created by Suidobashi Heavy Industries.

Attachment 54379

If you wish to purchase this suit, it's only 123.1 million yen (1 million US dollars) @ Amazon Japan. your gonna like the way you look. I guarantee it.

And here is how to operate it.

Augment: Megabot's pretty cool too. And he's native.

Sing it, sister!

Agreed, I hate that.

Likewise, however in this case it doesn't much matter.

Ha Ha Tell me about it Mr. B

Pedicure, must be one of those girly Phants.

Sad.

Had not heard of these guys... I don't get out much.

Pssst, wanna buy some land?

Nothing quite says happy new year like lighting a 3 ft diameter roll of firecrackers.

WHAT DID YOU SAY?

HUH? SPEAK UP.

In 1957, Miss was still politically correct. ;)

xoB, that's some firecracker!

glatt, LOL

Yes, she certainly is.


Oh, you mean the, uh, the firecracker...I thought you meant the, uh, y'knowwhatjustnevermind.:runaway:

Don't throw nothin' away, junk is big bucks.

Huh. Like the one in my garage?

A jump to the right...

You have been warned...

Bwaahahahahahahaha!

That's $3942 in 2016 dollars.

37 lbs.

Won't be using that one one-handed from a bucket truck.

Mercedes's ads...

Tiles in an underpass next to the Daimler Benz works Stuttgart-Untertürkheim

That suggests Mercedes had women of their factory race teams, back in the day. Which I doubt. :eyebrow:

The image may well fall into the category of sex sells, then and now, and cars in particular.

On the other hand there was Ines Keil-Folville who in the 1920s allegedly was the first professional woman race-driver. She raced Mercedes cars among other brands, competing with the great male drivers of the day and won four 24-hour races.
I only found this German Wikipedia reference

And there is also this dedicated website, also in German, but linking to an extensive photo album.

Nice photo album. Almost 100 years ago!

Yes, I'd heard of Ines Keil-Folville, but don't know a lot about her career. She likely drove Mercedes from time to time, as did most of the pros of the era. However I've never heard of a woman driving for any of the Mercedes factory teams.

Another victim of demon rum... or Vodka, or wine, or beer, or

Early mechanical street sweepers discovered not all the horseshit comes from horses, especially during an election year. ;)

Why? .......... Just why? :rolleyes:

Because it keeps the likes of Crown Derby and Dartington Glass in business.

Or it would if the Chinese weren't undercutting everybody.:eek:

First, I wouldn't be able to identify that as a soup spoon. Very different from what I recognise.
Second, to me the layout is wrong, as the bread plate is in the wrong place, the napkin should be provided by the waiter so doesn't take up any space on the table, and a cup and saucer is NEVER used until after dinner. In fact tea is rarely served at dinner - coffee is far more acceptable in polite circles. And where is the fish knife?!

But it's a photo to show off a pattern, so I should stop being so picky.

Please note I did not grow up with this kind of dinner service; I was a silver service waitress, and that was back in the days when you could still actually get a slap from the Head Waitress if the wrong glass was in the wrong place.

What, no salad spoon?

They're separating the wheat from the chaff. One wouldn't want the wrong sorts at table.

The truth will set you free keep you safe.

Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes.
They've got those hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.
And whats with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!

Or maybe midgets.

OMG, midget bunnies running up your pant legs like chipmunks. :speechls: