Random Fascinations? May 25, 12, 2:22 p.m.

Anything in particular you have a strange fascination with?

I, for example, am fascinated by the battle between snake and gator going on in the Florida Everglades. Can easily waste an hour or two every now and then searching for photos and news stories about how pythons and boas are taking over the Everglades, even killing off alligators there and several other animal species. They estimate there could be as many as 180,000 Burmese pythons living there.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino…

Kids Helmet Dilemma May 24, 12, 10:52 p.m.

Just saw a pic on Instagram of an acquaintances niece (She's maybe 4, I've met her before and know the dad) riding her little kids scooter wearing a helmet that is way too far back on her head. Worn totally incorrectly. Anything wrong with me politely pointing this out? Kids wear helmets incorrectly all the time; they don't protect jack shit of the forehead, and it's usually the parents fault.

OK to politely point this out?

CNN Comments May 22, 12, 10:40 a.m.

LOL at this total zoo of comments on a story about a plane diverted to Maine earlier today because of suspicious person on board.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/22/us…

Apparently CNN doesn't review comments anymore, it's just a total free for all as long as you have something to log in with.

Wordpress Contact Forms? May 20, 12, 10:15 p.m.

Anyone have a good suggestion for an easy to use contact form plugin in Wordpress?

I have been struggling with both Custom Contact Forms and Easy Contact Forms (they're not) and I want something stupid easy to set up for:

Name field
Email Address
RSVP yes / no drop down
Number attending drop down
Submit button.

That's it. Anybody used anything that's very easy and works well? Thanks.

Lazy Web Design May 18, 12, 7:42 a.m.

What are your top annoyances, complaints, etc?

Currently looking at concepts someone did to "push the envelope" and "be daring" in which doing so was accomplished through vertical text on the navigation. SO WRONG.

Fast, styled web page May 16, 12, 3:46 p.m.

Got a good question for you guys:

I need to set up a short web page with text and an email address, maybe some photos, and other information. I want to set up this single page as a sub-domain on one of my websites; specifically this is for some RSVP / info details for our wedding reception.

What is the absolute easiest way that I can set up a single HTML page with CSS styles that are VERY easy to tweak so that I don't spend a ton of time to make it look nice? I know how to code, I know how to do CSS, etc. but I don't have the time to do it for this.

I really just need headings, and text, maybe a tiled background or something. I can't use Wordpress since it will be on a new sub-domain.

How would you choose to do this and keep it easy?

Weddings w/out family? May 9, 12, 8:51 a.m.

Have any of you gotten married by yourselves with no family present? Was it in the US or out of the country?

Just curious if you caught any flack from family about them not being there. I'm getting a little bit of that in preparation for our wedding, but really trying hard not to feel bad about that. We've always wanted to get married out of the country, and our rule has always been that if any one family member can't go, nobody is going to go. We're going to have photos and a video though.

Leopard>SnowLeopard>Lion May 6, 12, 8:49 a.m.

I want to upgrade my fiance's Macbook - she's still on Lion - and obviously I need to upgrade to Snow Leopard first.

I still have my old Snow Leopard install disc from my old MBP that i don't use anymore. Is it legit for me to use that disc to upgrade her computer, then upgrade digitally to Lion? Even if there were an issue with it being on multiple devices, surely on the old MBP I could just upgrade it to Lion as well and I'd only have Snow Leopard on one device, right?

Thanks.

Fear of explosions? May 5, 12, 9:27 p.m.

Do any of you have a fear of stuff blowing up? I often will be in my living room and get kind of tense thinking a house on the street might blow up, gas leak or something. Same thing happens sometimes when I'm walking outside. Or hear some huge explosion from down the street. Coincidently someone just lit off a single firework in the parking lot behind our place and since it's kind of foggy out, it was loud as fuck and made me jump.

Monitor Calibration May 5, 12, 5:54 p.m.

I"ve been making some monitor adjustments after really noticing the difference in color quality between my 2011 MacBook Pro and my 2007 Dell monitor. Different technologies, I know...

But does anyone have any tips for properly calibrating an external monitor to most closely match the color quality of a laptop screen? I can get photos to sort of look similar, but where I really notice a difference is the menu bars in Safari. I can look at them in each screen, Dell appearance is more greenish gray, and Mac appearance is more light whitish gray.

I've tried messing with the calibration for each one on Expert mode, keep the same photo on both screens, adjusting gamma, etc. and I just can't get them to be as close as I'd like. The MBP screen consistently looks the best.

Oh, and these are both matte screens.

Any tips?

Naples Italy Suggestions? May 1, 12, 7:40 a.m.

Anyone here been to Naples recently or ever? We are planning our vacation to Naples and the Amalfi Coast in a few months and then we are headed to Paris. We're getting married in Italy as well!

Any suggestions for stuff to do in Naples? Our first time to Italy and pretty excited about it. Heard Naples can be a bit sketchy in some spots but I think we can handle that.