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For all those in the awkward stage: I feel your pain. While I don't think my hair looks all that bad, I am constantly being harassed to abandon my dreams of long hair, as my hair has, to my surprise, grown somewhat curvy/wavy with the added length. I suppose this must look messy to my family, as they're accustomed to seeing me with the shortly-trimmed cuts that I've been forced into all my life.
If I'm not mistaken, the last time I had my hair cut was in late February, so I think I'm doing alright lengthwise. Fortunately, it is now summer over here, so I expect that my hair should only grow faster now that I am in a stage of semi-freakiness.
For all those in the awkward stage: I feel your pain. While I don't think my hair looks all that bad, I am constantly being harassed to abandon my dreams of long hair, as my hair has, to my surprise, grown somewhat curvy/wavy with the added length. I suppose this must look messy to my family, as they're accustomed to seeing me with the shortly-trimmed cuts that I've been forced into all my life.
If I'm not mistaken, the last time I had my hair cut was in late February, so I think I'm doing alright lengthwise. Fortunately, it is now summer over here, so I expect that my hair should only grow faster now that I am in a stage of semi-freakiness.
Tripod's being somewhat stubborn... Anyway, I hope this displays the pic properly.
What picture?
Tripod, and many other hosting sites, check the HTTP Referer for the request and intentionally block image requests where the page being displayed isn't hosted o ntheir site. They do this to prevent exactly this kind of thing, i.e., displaying images on other sites stealing their bamdwidth. (And they have every right to do it.)
The length you can see in this close-up photo is somewhat misleading: If I pull the front of my hair down, it reaches as far as the the upper-middle half of my nose. In other words, although my hair may extend to such a length, it never has the appropriate weight to do so under normal circumstances (weight being a factor relative to the respective length of one's hair).
Tripod won't let you hotlink (directly link) an image file, b/c it uses their bandwidth without people looking at their ads which pays for their bandwidth. Just put a link to the pics. Here's one. I don't know if HTML works on these boards. We'll see!
Double dangit, I just saw the "optional image URL" box below. Oh well.
This thread is full of boring attempts to link a photo from a site that doesn't want us to. We've seen this over and over. What it boils down to is that few advertising-supported sites allow us to link photos from them anymore, because the advertising they put on their pages is not shown when we do that. Tripod has gotten wise enough to throw a commercial for themselves our way when we try that. :-)
There are three ways around this problem:
Upload your photo to your own web space. This is the small space most folks get when they sign up for Internet service. Since you are paying for this space, not advertisers, your right to share photos all by themselves should not be blocked. (If it is, you have a major right to complain!) To upload such photos you'll usually need to use an FTP program. Look at your ISP's help pages to see how to do this. Click on "Upload Picture" above, and follow the instructions. This puts your photo on the same web site that the web board is on, and its use will not be blocked. To do this, the photo must be on your own hard disk somewhere. If it is on the web someplace, you can, of course, always save it onto your own computer first. (Photos are limited to 100k in size of their file with this option.) Link the whole web page, not the picture. Just fill in the "Optional Link URL" with the address of the whole web page, and give the link an appropriate name, such as "My goal is the first pic on this page". Now the advertising will show with the photo, and the advertising-supported site's server should be happy to show it to others.
Now, let's see some manes! :-)
Bill
When you signed up for your tripod page, chances are that you agreed to a clause that said you wouldn't link to it from message boards
http://slapnut123.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/pic1.jpg
http://slapnut123.tripod.com//sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/pic2.jpg
I know it's annoying, I know it sucks, but the way around it is to copy the address above and paste it into a new browser and that works.
Nice hair anyways. :)
Now you don't feel like a theif because you advertised tripod back there quite well. :)
LOL. I suppose you're right. Sorry about any confusion my attempts at posting pics may have caused. You do realise, of course, that I wanted to 'report' my progress as much as you must've wanted to analyse it...
And by who? And how do you respond?
Simply ignore what your family says. If they have any respect for you at all they will get used to it and it won't be an issue. Believe me, my family (mainly my parents) had problems with it for years. Once they realized that I'm my own man and think for myself (no one elses opinion matters); they stopped bugging me and have grown to accept it. Give it time.
