I think spandex has lost a lot of it's lustre since lycra became the new in thing to wear when you're showing off your wobbly bits.

Is there a difference? I thought it was different names for the same stuff.

Is it?

I don't know. CAN SOMEONE GOOGLE THIS?
same stuff

awesome.

I found a few triple a batteries for my $14. digital camera and here is the result. It could double as a halloween picture. eery lighting and all.

With the camera angle we'd be able to see right up your nostrils if the lighting was more normal.

My nostrils are a matter of public record. I've nothing to hide.:worried:

Dude. You kinda look like Ozzy in that pic.

Kinda like lj, is what I thought

I just borrowed a digital camera and tried to get a pic of me to post, but now I just feel ugly and depressed. :( I look like I have some kind of misshapen head. I never knew I was THAT ugly. Oh well, there goes my self-esteem for the day.

lol, selfconsciousness. I took like 20 pictures, all with varying degrees of misshapenheadedness, bags under the eyes, fake smiles, bad hair, bad fashion, and general dorkiness. Then I just picked a random one, because as it turns out they were all of the same guy.

Oh, just post the picture. You look good, and you know it. Or at least you should know it.

Here I am RFN and hating it - Its such a nice day out

Boy lookin at that pic, my monitor has all kinds of junk stuck on it. I gotta do something bout that - maybe tomorrow.

re:shawnee.
lol, selfconsciousness. I took like 20 pictures, all with varying degrees of misshapenheadedness, bags under the eyes, fake smiles, bad hair, bad fashion, and general dorkiness. Then I just picked a random one, because as it turns out they were all of the same guy.

Cowboy up, shawnee :lol: Ain't none of these going to make the cover of People. BigV, you too.

We just wanna meet you, not fap to your picture. Well, except for the boob in zippy's pic, Ibram's bed shot, and LJ making that kissy face.

Thanks, guys. I always do that to myself. Why isn't just being me good enough? Maybe I'll try later. Now I'll go cry. Just found out my brakes are going to cost 418 plus tax, which I don't have, signed up with a credit management company yesterday and found out most of my check will be gone every month, and now I'm ugly. Sorry, I'll be back after my lunch pity party.

BigV's posted before, in the Yesterday and Today thread.

Shawnee don't be self conscious.

My first thought was uh-uh, no way :headshake
I'll wait til tomorrow when I've done my hair & put makeup on.

But in truth it's amazingly liberating to say - here I am, it might not be flattering but it's me!

At least I felt so. Until everyone ignored my picture and made me think I'd been sent to Cov :sniff:

It was just a hiccup when UT and you both posted so close to one another, both responding to noodle. I was glad to see your picture, but there were a bunch that followed you, so I just made a general comment for everyone about how I love this thread. All the participants rock!

Amongst the alcohol-sodden reasons I initiated this thread was the fact that almost all the pics we'd shown each other show obvious signs of having been carefully selected to present us at our best. Since there is so much digital technology in almost everyone's possession, I though it would be nice if we showed one another our *average* selves, spur of the moment, as near to real time as we could given the limitations of our medium, here.

I think that part of what makes The Cellar an actual community is the sense of *real* that we impart to one another. I'm sure there are still a few of us hiding behind a fake personna or even gender, but by and large, the longer one is here, the more one seems to want to reveal one's true self.

I'll always take the real deal over some BS window dressing. Shawnee, I guarantee you that, no matter how your picture comes out, your beauty will be evident therein. We wouldn't be much of a community if we couldn't see that, right?

You know, I don't even remember how I initially found the Cellar, but I must have been guided here for a reason. You are truly some of the neatest people on the planet.

I've certainly felt every possible emotion as I've wandered through the various paths and tunnels down here; right now I'm feeling hopeful. Thank you all for your support and kind words. It means more than you could know.

And Sundae Girl...you're gorgeous. If that's your "unflattering" side I'd hate to see you when you think you look good! All hell would break loose! :)

Me and yesman...RFN!!!

oh la la !!!

I didn't realize you could see out the window till I posted this. This is (obviously) me RFN at work. That's the famous Iowa Capitol Dome that I watched burning a few years back. We had front row seats here in the Bio Building.

You have a window. I'm jealous.

Labrat - Very cool, love the view. I don't have one here.
Shawnee123 - I can't find your pic - so you can't say I ignored it. I am way more interested in the internal beauty versus the external "dressing"

That's EXACTLY what I wanna do! How did you guess? :) I'd love to spend an extra 5 years of my life miserable and alone in a nursing home because when I was younger I was "good" to my body. Fuck that. I'll probably end up cancer ridden and smoking anyway. The only difference is that later on it might be legal, you know, medical marijuana. Haha. That makes me laugh. I figure I might as well enjoy it now while I'm young. I don't have any other form of motivation in my life anyway. If I had a reason that made sense, I would quit...but since I don't, I'll just keep telling myself that I don't care.

trying to post a pic but it's HUGE. You don't need a big old head floatin' around in here...how do I make it smaller?

My computer has a picture manager/editor of some sort...you can decompress the pictures for a webpage through that. Or you can download a program... Other than those, I suck at stuff like that. Hopefully someone else will be able to tell you how to do it.

Download Irfanview from www.irfanview.com I'm no good at linking to old threads, but if you use the search facility you should be able to find some advice.

It's free and so easy to use even I worked it out :)

I'll try this:

Nice to see you Shawnee123
Now I'm really jealous - all of you get to have a "view" and all I have are walls and an old man I share my "office" with.

Don't be sad yesman, it's not true that EVERYONE has a view. Only the lucky ones. My view is of the grocery store checkout stands (which i have to admit, serves to be entertaining on the good days) but I can't see outside. It's sad.

Oh, and Shawnee, that wasn't too hard was it? You like fine. No worries.

Fine?! Shawnee looks great!

What's wrong with fine?

Shawnee - looking good, chick ;)

Not bad for a freakishly strange looking person.:thepain:

Thanks

Nothing. I just think she looks great.

Shawnee, girl...you're a doll. Is that a school you're working in, there?

Yes, the Student Development suite at the local college. We are building a great new addition at which point we will move to where the library currently is. Best thing is...for privacy issues we will get real offices with walls and doors instead of cubbies, and I will have an even better window because they like to keep us FA peeps in the back! :)

And thanks! You're very nice.

I think it is fascinating how people's self-image works. I mean, on a good day, I'm pretty cocky about myself, and I'm short, fat, balding and just generally worn-out looking. You, on the other hand, are fresh, vibrant, and have a kilowatt smile, yet are constantly denigrating your appearance to us. You're very appealing, so let's just quash those nasty image problems here and now! :)

Gosh, and everyone says psychology is so hard. Heck, I'm gonna open me up one of them nickel booths like Lucy.

I was thinking the same thing. I am pretty average, yet my husband makes me feel like the sexiest woman alive, so I occasionally act like it. Most people who I would deem more attractive than myself have much lower self images than me however. Go figure.

I know what you both mean. There are days where I feel like "look out world, here I come." Usually, what makes me feel bad is a picture of me, which is obviously what did it this time, or trying on clothes. My big problem is that I have gained weight over the past couple years, stress eating (and beer), and I just don't feel like me. I've always been active, sporty, love to dance...but now I don't feel comfortable in my own skin at all. I know I am the only one who can change that...and with all the other changes I am making right now I see myself headed in the right direction, but it's so FREAKING HARD!

Yet, I can see someone who thinks they're "average" looking and think "what the hell are you talking about? You're a very attractive person." Why is it that we can easily see the beauty (inner and outer...inner lending much to outer) in others but are so critical of ourselves?

You've got company in that Shawnee - I feel that I am very average at best most of the time, yet others seem to see the best in me more so than I. It is rewarding to be appreciated and also builds my self esteem at the same time.
We tend to see a very little flaw in ourselves that others don't and magnify it to a point where it becomes an issue when in reality it is just a minor blip in the overall picture of who we actually are.

Heh, Lookout is the exception to the rule. He's hot, he knows it, but doesn't flaunt it. --at least not around here...

We are all our own worst critics.

I realized that when I look at people with the same faults as me, and I still they they are attractive, then I just tell myself that no one is as bothered by my flaws as I think and it makes me feel better. Maybe you could try it. :)

I feel your pain Sundae Girl... Everyone ignored me too. **sob**sniffle**sob**

But you are gorgeous! You should be proud of the way you look. That short hairstyle looks so fabulous on you! :p I can't pull that off, I look like a boy. I look bad enough with a pony tail.

LOL. thanks for the boost LR. that is certainly not how i usually view myself. ever actually. i'm 32, average build, bald, braces, have a fixation on bowling shirts, and have now had two wives leave me. not exactly conducive to thinking of myself as hot. but thank you.

RFN.
um, wishing that was smaller... how do i fix that?

Irfanview is the answer. Free and does a good job. You could either crop it (take out the extraneous stuff), or resize it or both.

Edited to add this. I've taken a number of pictures from the closeup thread and resized them to the size of my desktop in Irfanview and used them as wallpaper. Works great.

Iggy, I wasn't ignoring you...its just that the first thing I thought of to say was pretty dirty. But now, since you insist...

You look like a very, very naughty girl to me behind those bank work duds. *Very* naughty. (edited considerably from what actually went through my mind).

RFN I'm getting ready for bed, so I turned on my lava lamp. Yes, that's a pirate hat. Just because.

That's much better than the last pic of you Noodle. Ducks is going to be impressed. ;)

You can tell a difference? Actually, it's probably better cuz it's darker. Wait till you see the followup picture. There's hot man-man action.

BTW, where's the pics of ducks in a pirate hat?

*waiting*

it's not in email yet. damn phones :(

ugh tired of waiting. tweren't that funny nohow.
oh here it is


giving myself sugar goodnight. And with that.................

You missed the pic of me wearing ONLY a pirate hat???

moodle - I dont think we should ever be in the same town :)

"giving myself sugar goodnight"

is that a tagline or a hall of fame?

can it be both. You are a nut. a nutty nutty nutcase

Ridiculous suede hat + pink jacket + Zappa shirt + 12-string + Hotel California =

Going back I see what you mean - but only because everyone was sucked into the fact that 3 Dwellars actually work together and can see eachother in real life and everything...

You look very fine, don't worry :)

Going back & rereading the thread also answers why I have "Wichita" by the Jayhawks running through my head. See? I may not have replied, but you did make an impression!