So I’m trying *really* hard (not to start all my sentences with the word “so.”) No, just kidding. This is just something I think is probably really annoying about my writing. If you’re not me.
But *really*, I’m trying *really* hard to do this blog thing. I keep getting so sucked into this one blog that’s just fantastic and reminds me how great it can be to both read and write these things. (I had a different blog a couple years ago, but it died. There are still some things I like there, so I’ll probably eventually move that stuff over.)
Anyway, I have been quite earnest in (re-)learning this crap. I wasn’t sure what to do about pictures, but I’d used tinypic, flickr, and photobucket before. I was having trouble scaling my pictures for the weird widths of my columns (still want to play with html to figure that out), and I knew tinypic could get the pics small enough (hell, the site’s name is “tinypic”), so I went with that as a short-term solution. I uploaded a few of them without an account, but decided to get an account, even for the short-term, because the ones uploaded without an account are removed after 90 days of inactivity. Blah, blah, blah. This was not intended to be this boring. Clearly.
Anyway, I uploaded two pictures of my kids’ naked butts and called it a day. Not *two days later*, my fucking account was “banned”! The *only* thing I can figure (because I don’t even have the option to contact customer service) is that, *somehow*, my naked butt photos were tagged as “inappropriate” or some shit. The fucking feds are probably on their way to my house to arrest my children’s pregnant mother for child pornography.
Because I took two pictures of the sleeping butts of my sweet 7- and 4-year-old children! Because I thought they were adorable!
What the fuck?! Seriously. What is *wrong* with people? (I should add here that I established my tinyshit settings to disallow public searches of my photos, and my account had absolutely *no* personally identifiable information.)
So. I switched to flickr. Which I can already tell is better. And which I’ll link. Link. Link.
flickr‘s got to be better. Because that kind of absurdity can’t happen twice.
And I’ll keep saying that until the feds bust my door down.
