Followup on ow post:

Thank goodness I am wearing sweatpants. My regular pants would have required mending.

We've had some warm days, in which snow melted, followed by some cold days in which the puddle at the bottom of our back steps has frozen.

Today it started snowing so I got gloves and hat on, and thrust my feet into tennis shoes to go out and retrieve the 60 gallon recycle bin and the 40 gallon trash bin from the curb.

Of course, being that I am doing a cleanup project at home, I grabbed two old computer carcasses to bring out to my van, first.

I stepped out and set the two computers on the top landing, then closed the back door. CD-rom drives removed, the two computer towers had handy handles, so I grabbed one in each hand and decided to not take our side path, and instead set out to walk across the lawn to the van.

And put my left foot right on the snow-covered ice.

I knew it was a mistake as I did it.

A man my size should not do the splits, especially while holding two twenty-pound computers.

Luckily I halted the full splits by jamming the two computers down hard and bracing.

The initial muscle spasm is gone, but I'm going to feel this later.

ETCorrect: take, not toke.

waves

So, hotlinking: I don't want to do that. But I'm a bit of a luddite. If I want to snag an animated icon somebody has made on LJ, is there a way I can do that that doesn't involve me owning my own lump of internet space? Because...I don't own my own lot of internet space. I can't keep it in the scrapbook bit of LJ, can I? Or Facebook? Or, or...oh, God, I NEED THESE ICONS!!!! LIKE A NEEDY THING THAT NEEDS!

t /firstworldLudditegeeklywoes

Fay, is it a profile icon? Cause can't you just download that to your computer, and then upload it through the icon interface or whatever-it's-called?

How? How does that work?

(It's an inimated icon, not just an image. Doesn't it need to live somewhere?)

Yes, despite being an internet geek socially, I really AM this stupid.

t ashamed

The kind of animation you see in LJ icons is just another kind of image -- you can right-click on it to grab it, same as you would any other icon.

If it's the standard LJ icon size (that is, 100 x 100 pixels), then I'm pretty sure all you need to do is download it to your computer, and then go to the icon management page and, provided you have icon space, you should be able to upload it just like the others.

At least I'm pretty sure that's how it works.

you can right-click on it to grab it, same as you would any other icon.

Well, that's what I've done - but now I've realised that on her page, whence I'm snagging them, it says 'Upload to your own photobucket/server', which implies (to my ignorant flaily mind) that she's still hosting the image while I use it, and I'm stealing her bandwidth? Or something?

(OMG, you guys - they are teh awesome, these icons! With Dean's "I'm Batman" moment, that I've been wanting to get as an animated icon like crazy, and, and Castiel, and Sammy, and did I mention the Dean, and and and Dean's cannot-breathe freakout when the Impala was stolen, and...)

Ahem. Okay. Right. So I don't need to open a photobucket account?

Nope, she's just saying not to hotlink. If you're just putting them in your icons, you can just have a copy on your local machine.

Oh. Cool!

So - what does hotlink mean, then?

Hotlinking is kind of what you were saying... instead of putting a picture on your own webspace, and then linking to it wherever you're putting up the picture, you just link to the original picture, wherever it happens to be. Then, whenever someone loads your webpage, it uses the original location to load, using their webspace instead. It's an issue for things like Photobucket, where you're only allowed a set amount of downloads per month for a free account.