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720, 960, 2048 pixels wide
These are the optimal sizes for photos you upload to Facebook. I had no idea. I knew that FB automatically resizes and formats your photos, but did not know these were the magic numbers. Also: Resize your photo to one of the following supported sizes: Regular photos: 720px, 960px, 2048px (width) Cover photos: 851px by 315px If you use a 2048px photo, select the High Quality option when you upload To avoid compression when you upload your cover photo (emphasis mine), make sure the file size is less than 100KB Save your image as a JPEG with an sRGB color profile I copied the entire contents here, but the FB…
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Cökelek salad
At our friend Turgay’s house having this wonderful Turkish salad with tomato, onion, parsley, mint and Cökelek cheese from Hatai, Turkey. This regional cheese is smoked, fermented, and has an otherworldly funk about it. Absolutely delicious.
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Yoshida Kitchen Creation: Issan Sushi
Sticky rice topped with crispy pork rind and corn somtam. Unbelievably delicious dipped in somtam juice.
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RIP Phife
A Tribe Called Quest – People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm One of the best lyricist combos, musical styles, and album names/covers of the 90’s… It was a time for exploration, and these guys were the pioneers!
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Sunday dinner
Whole smoked chicken.
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Mina’s Picnic
Out of the blue, Mina told us that she and her best friend, on the last day of school (yesterday), had promised to have a picnic together today. It was quite amusing to watch her put together a bag of snacks and water, and she even washed a plastic bowl and dried it carefully with a paper towel. But when it came to asking what time they were supposed to meet, she gave me a blank stare… “She’ll just know, daddy, we’re best friends!” Knowing which way this was heading, I asked if we all could go together. Mina agreed and we were soon hitting the McD’s drive thru and…
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Coolest ski video, perhaps evah
This guy spends more time in the air than on the snow. Also, jumping over spinning helicopter blades? SRSLY?
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Alien eyestalks
I found these crazy-looking plants in a local wet market at the base of Phu Rua National park in Loei province yesterday afternoon. An old lady was selling plants from the roadside and forest (Loei people are apparently known to be formidable foragers) across from a stall displaying animal traps, snares, and freshly skinned rats. Nobody who has seen these photos (+/- a few hundred Thais in person and my wife’s Facebook) has ever tried these plants before. But the old lady told me how to prepare them, so we steamed them and ate with a green chili dip (the alternative was to make a soup). As it turns out,…
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A man in a dinosaur suit riding a horse.
This is the new best video of the year, and incidentally, the most touching horse video I’ve ever seen. A true thing of beauty.
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Bicycle lane at work
When the curb is lined with cars and long pickups (can you see the diagonal parking lines? ), you definitely do not want to hug that lane line too closely… I’ve backed in in this photo, but people usually park forward, and back out pretty much blind if there are cars on either side of them. On a more positive note, that’s possibly the best bicycle drawn freehand with a paintbrush I’ve ever seen. Posted from WordPress for Android
