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I am glad you asked!
You can go here:
http://en.gravatar.com/Click "sign up now!"
and get a "Gravatar."
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2/ Your gravatar may appear on other websites which you sign up for with the same email address, if they use software which allows Gravatars to show. In other words, if you pick something you associate with bed bugs, and yet use the same email to comment on a blog about banking, your buggy photo may appear there too.
3/ I have no association with the Gravatar folks, though Automatic is a reliable outfit. If you have questions, look on their site.
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paulaw0919
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Posted 1 year ago
Fri May 9 2008 19:25:31
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I knew this was coming when I seen the little silhouette by our handle. Jeeze, Nobugs..aren't you busy enough? (joking)
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Well, this one did not mean any extra work. (Shhh! Don't tell everyone that!)
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Here is an image of Scoobie MD.
Scoobie is trained for environmental investigations
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Cute!
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Just seeing if my pix will show up when I post a comment. Its a pix of my puppy! It didn't work so I edited this post!! How do you get the pix to show on the site?
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There is a brief delay when you first sign up, Angie, maybe ten minutes or so. but I see your photo now.
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Yeah, I used the same email for a Harry Potter site, that's why the Harry Potter avatar. Yes, I admit it--I'm a big Harry Potter fan....
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buggy,
I am too.
Bed bugs even feature in one of them, though I can no longer remember which book (posted it here somewhere!)
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For those who joined recently...
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death2allbbs
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Posted 1 year ago
Thu Aug 28 2008 22:24:37
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I'm a bit confused. At first I thought that I was using images that were too big because the Gravatar site kept wanting me to "Crop and Finish" all my larger images where the site would extract a small portion from the middle of my larger image and preview the small center of my image as my gravatar. However, I saved a small image to my computer from a google search which wasn't too much larger than Nobugsonme's 48 x 48 pixels gravatar and the Gravatar site expanded my smaller image about 10 times in size and still extracted the middle of that image as the preview for my smaller size gravatar.
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death2allbbs,
It's been a while since I did this, but I think you need a larger image that you can select a small square from.
If you want, you can contact gravatar's support:
http://en.gravatar.com/site/faq/
The website says:
Send an e-mail to support at gravatar dot com
Or maybe someone here will have better advice.
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Itchy-Scratchy
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Posted 1 year ago
Fri Aug 29 2008 6:20:40
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Cool, I've always wondered how everyone does it.
Let's see if this worked...
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death2allbbs
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Posted 1 year ago
Sun Aug 31 2008 2:03:53
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Okay, it took long enough, but I finally figuredit out. :-D
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death2allbbs
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Posted 1 year ago
Sun Aug 31 2008 2:06:05
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Or maybe not. :-(
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Maybe itchy can advise since she did it most recently?
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death2allbbs
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Posted 1 year ago
Sun Aug 31 2008 2:33:25
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Nobugsonme - 7 minutes ago »
Maybe itchy can advise since she did it most recently?I hope so. But the Gravatar site is showing the gravatar that I created, but it's just not showing up on this forum.
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Are you sure you used the same email address to join here and gravatar?
(The site only accepts G rated gravatars--I doubt that's an issue, but maybe.)
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death2allbbs
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Posted 1 year ago
Sun Aug 31 2008 2:49:02
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Nobugsonme - 1 minute ago »
Are you sure you used the same email address to join here and gravatar?
(The site only accepts G rated gravatars--I doubt that's an issue, but maybe.)Yes and No. Unless my image of Gina Lollobrigida in a bathing suit isn't G rated. ...Just kidding. :-)
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death2allbbs
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Posted 1 year ago
Sun Aug 31 2008 2:49:55
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spideyjg
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Posted 1 year ago
Sun Aug 31 2008 17:13:06
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death2allbbs
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Posted 1 year ago
Sun Aug 31 2008 18:10:19
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Alright now. That's more like it. :-) Also, spideyjg, if you don't mind me asking, what is your gravatar a picture of?
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spideyjg
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Posted 1 year ago
Sun Aug 31 2008 18:18:14
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It is one of the US species of Running Crab Spiders from the family Thanatus.
A type of Thanatus (Flavidus Simon in Greece) is the spider that according to research is a voracious BB eater.
Thanatus look kinda like wolves but have that catseye on the abdomen and the eyes are different.
Jim
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death2allbbs
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Sun Aug 31 2008 19:12:55
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spideyjg - 43 minutes ago »
It is one of the US species of Running Crab Spiders from the family Thanatus.
A type of Thanatus (Flavidus Simon in Greece) is the spider that according to research is a voracious BB eater.
Thanatus look kinda like wolves but have that catseye on the abdomen and the eyes are different.
JimI found the site where I believe that you got the picture from:
http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/running_crab_spiders_philodromidae
and saw what I believe is another angle of this spider:
http://k43.pbase.com/g5/50/567150/2/67632682.8ztbJiO5.jpg
And that's one wicked looking spider. Too bad it wouldn't be practical to have one of them in your home.
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spideyjg
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Posted 1 year ago
Sun Aug 31 2008 23:45:49
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death2allbbs - 4 hours ago »
And that's one wicked looking spider. Too bad it wouldn't be practical to have one of them in your home.
See this thread for deets....
http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/interesting-read-from-1934
They are commonly found indoors. If you have BBs you really should let any roaming predatory spider wander at will. Most people kill spiders on sight but with BBS you can learn to cope with them since they are allies.
Jim
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Those are some kick-a$$ gravatars, people.
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This one is for the supreme beings of PCO's on this forum, and you know who you are. What, in your opinion, are the most effective chemicals/treaments/# of treatments that professional PCO's should use.
I'm an afflicted victim, with my second treatment coming up on Monday. The PCO is seeming to use sterifab and a residual 2 week spray. The final treatment will feature a 3 month residual. It's hard to isolate things in a studio, my kitchen, bath, everything is infested. I can't even grok how this happened in front of my eyes without me getting it. I didn't even know there was such a thing.
I own my studio condo in Portland Oregon and selected a company called Halt which seems to specialize in these beasts. However, and my peers on this board will probably agree, getting a local recommendation can be difficult as folks don't want to share the news. KQ, Nobome, anyone else with a high success record. How do you do it?
Finding a positive. I had to, and it wasn't easy. What could I take away that was positive from this living nightmare. (you know, sleeping in your bed to draw them out over the poisen, ready to be the first course, all night long). Yuk, right!
It has forced me to focus on me, me, me. It's changed me. For the worse and better. I'm easily amused, and don't necessarily need anyone else to make that happen. It's been a not funny month or two. But you made me laugh tonight, someone mentioned lint. Yes, lint on legs, right? I have become totally OCD about lint, moles, you know, don't you. Will we ever recover from our fear of lint. That made me laugh. THANK YOU. This is so sad. Would someone reassure me these can be eradicated from one's home. (even if it's not true, tell me it is)
Superfood in Portland
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your host
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Posted 10 months ago
Thu Jan 15 2009 20:46:31
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hoo2677,
PLEASE copy your post above (you can click edit and then copy) then go to the main forums page: http://bedbugger.com/forum and click "Add New" to make a NEW thread.
It will help you get more responses, and keep this thread focused on the topic it covers.
Thanks!
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your host
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Posted 9 months ago
Thu Jan 29 2009 20:43:30
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IMPORTANT: Removing, changing, fixing a photo
Just a reminder, everyone: we do not host the gravatar photos. You put them up on another website: http://en.gravatar.com/
If you need to remove, change, or fix the photo, you need to do that yourself.
If you have lost your Gravatar login, please go to the Gravatar login page and select the "Forgot your password?" link.
Thank you!
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Posted 9 months ago
Thu Jan 29 2009 23:02:55
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Can we have the pic a little bigger? Mine is not clear so there is no point of trying since you can't make it out. It's a picture of a fire breathing dragon roasting bed bugs over the NY city ski line ...lol kidding.. But can they be a bit larger?
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Posted 9 months ago
Thu Jan 29 2009 23:03:58
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skyline that is*
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Hi KQ,
The boxes are pretty much a standard size, I think. I suggest resizing your photo and then uploading it to Gravatar again. Or provide more of the photo and then "crop" the part you want (again on Gravatar). You might have to play around a bit.
If re-sizing the square is an option in future, I will definitely do it.
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your host
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Posted 8 months ago
Wed Mar 25 2009 13:59:11
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For those who do not like the new blue icons... bumping this up.
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