Just Because, TV & Movies

“My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committing suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights.”

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Don’t miss the boat on this show, folks! Anthony Jeselnik’s hilarious show was just starting to really hit its stride the last few episodes of its first season. With more experience and looking at what bits worked and which didn’t will certainly lead to an improved show. Jeselnik is damn smart, and he’s a massive smart ass. His comedy is as biting as it gets; no punches are pulled by any means. Make a point of watching these new episodes, you will not be disappointed!

Until then, check out his stand-up act, which is even better!

Don’t Miss: Anthony Jeselnik Season 2

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Just Because, Sports

My Ongoing Sports Prediction Thread


 

… And that’s a fact!

 

I tend to make bold statements. I really get a kick out of getting people all worked up when I spew opinions as if they are stone cold fact. When I think something is a certain way, and I’m stern about it, that really means I think I am right and would be shocked if I were wrong.

To see how full of shit I am, let us see how well I do at making some sports projections. Determine if I know even half of what I claim to. This should be fun 😁

This list will be an ever-growing thread of things I am going to predict on the fly. I’ll keep track of each’s current status (didn’t happen, hasn’t happened, did happen) and update accordingly. Some of these predictions will be much bolder than others. I’ll also give a confidence indication to demonstrate how passionate I am about my prediction. I’ll try to make at least one bold prediction a day. Sounds about right anyway!

On to the predictions!

Note: These will be in reverse order of when the prediction was made, so the last one is the oldest one and the top one is the newest.

Note: Confidence values range from one to three with 1 being “a little confident”, 2 being “confident”, and 3 being “that’s a fact!” Keep in mind I don’t tend to make predictions for stuff I’m not confident in.

PREDICTIONS

Date – Prediction – Conf (1-3) – Status

8/12/2013 The Seahawks or the 49ers will represent the NFC in the Super Bowl. 3 N/A
7/9/2013 Michael Vick does not does not start more than 8 games for the Eagles this year. 3 N/A
7/9/2013 Rondo is NOT traded this entire season. 2 N/A
6/28/2013 Spain does not win the World Cup in 2014 2 N/A
6/28/2013 Both Paul Pierce (obviously) and Kevin Garnett will have numbers retired. 3 N/A
6/27/2013 Brett Brown will be the next Celtics Coach 1 False. Celtics chose Brad Stevens. Brown eventually chosen by the 76ers.
6/26/2013 Either Paul Pierce or KG is traded NBA draft night 2 Fact. Both traded draft night.
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Just Because

How to Save Anyone’s Instagram Photos


Within the past few months, the super popular (and super slick) mobile app Instagram has established a web presence at instagram.com. Originally you were only able to view other people’s (and your own) Instagram photos within the mobile app. Now, you are able to view these images on the Web; in even greater dimensions!

One thing that has always been a pain with Instagram, however, is that they don’t allow you to save other people’s Instagram photos (or your own, though you do have a copy stored on the device you took the picture on). Sure, you can take a screenshot of the image in the app, but this is far from ideal. There is simply no way in the mobile app to save the image to one’s own phone storage. They don’t allow you to do this in the web version either. Try it for yourself; log into your Instagram account (in another window, of course ;p), and try right-clicking on someone’s image and see if there’s a “Save image as…” option. I’ll wait.

Ok, so you’ve seen that you can’t do that. Bummer. Well, here’s a sneaky little way to be able to save anyone’s Instagram photos using the Web version of Instagram. Note that I am using Google Chrome, but these steps basically will be the same for any web browser (no guarantees for Internet Explorer, of course):

1. Go to Instagram.com and right-click on an image. Click the “inspect element” option.

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2. In the developer tools window that is now displayed, check out the (CSS) “Styles” section for the background-image property.

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3. Right-click on the URL, and open it up in a new tab or window.

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4. This will open just the image in the browser. Now, right click on the image and you’ll happily see the option to “Save Image As…”. There ya go, you can now save the image to your hard drive!

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I hope you found this helpful. Please feel free to leave any questions or the like in the comments below!

– Matt

P.S. Please use this for good. Don’t save other people’s images and claim them as your own or not give proper credit where credit is due! 

 

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