"Crosswords Rock!" - April 12, 2019

[EdStrong]

Ashore - good one

[Colin]

Lights went out in the old ships bar before closing time! Very sad. Luckily, I made it to this one and swam ashore easily this week. It’s been a torrid week of reorganization, but nice to end it winding down with the Tiki crew. You can’t keep a good team down!

[Lucas S]

On shore, but wishing I was at Augusta... What a great Masters!

[billkatz]

A huge thank you to my friend Bill Katz who loaded my avatar. These are my exact thoughts when I am trying to explain my meta fascination to a non muggle.

I need Bill Katz. I am having trouble loading my avatar! Sigh.

This is the site I used to resize CIndy's avatar:
http://picresize.com/
It took some work to get her text to not get blurred when the high-def phone picture (2000+ pixels/side) was shrunk to avatar size (<180 pixels per side and <12kB). What I did was first convert it from jpeg to gif at full resolution to reduce it to 256 colors, and then I changed the size and saved it as a jpeg with the max file size specified.

[kiera]

Forgot to post - ashore! Officially on a streak again!

[Cindy]

A huge thank you to my friend Bill Katz who loaded my avatar. These are my exact thoughts when I am trying to explain my meta fascination to a non muggle.

I need Bill Katz. I am having trouble loading my avatar! Sigh.

This is the site I used to resize CIndy's avatar:
http://picresize.com/
It took some work to get her text to not get blurred when the high-def phone picture (2000+ pixels/side) was shrunk to avatar size (<180 pixels per side and <12kB). What I did was first convert it from jpeg to gif at full resolution to reduce it to 256 colors, and then I changed the size and saved it as a jpeg with the max file size specified.

Yes what Bill said,lol!

[SusanF]

Ashore. So glad to be back in the game with you all~

[SusanF]

On posting: I am a subscriber - new rules also indicate that conversations close after 48 hours so unable to post on official WSJ site as conversation closed there. Thanks so much for setting this up.

[BethA]

A huge thank you to my friend Bill Katz who loaded my avatar. These are my exact thoughts when I am trying to explain my meta fascination to a non muggle.

I need Bill Katz. I am having trouble loading my avatar! Sigh.

This is the site I used to resize CIndy's avatar:
http://picresize.com/
It took some work to get her text to not get blurred when the high-def phone picture (2000+ pixels/side) was shrunk to avatar size (<180 pixels per side and <12kB). What I did was first convert it from jpeg to gif at full resolution to reduce it to 256 colors, and then I changed the size and saved it as a jpeg with the max file size specified.

Another nomination for our FAQ list!

I found some simple instructions on using Paint to reduce pic size, too, but not entirely satisfied. I got the size to <12, only to get an error saying that my file wasn’t <11kb. Below 11 worked.

[Deb F]

Oops. Getting acquainted with our new home. So I said in my Introduction that I was onshore. Wanted to make sure I was counted among the beach people!

Oops. Getting acquainted with our new home. So I said in my Introduction that I was onshore. Wanted to make sure I was counted among the beach people!

You are now counted

I knew I could count on you:-)

[Deb F]

A huge thank you to my friend Bill Katz who loaded my avatar. These are my exact thoughts when I am trying to explain my meta fascination to a non muggle.

I need Bill Katz. I am having trouble loading my avatar! Sigh.

This is the site I used to resize CIndy's avatar:
http://picresize.com/
It took some work to get her text to not get blurred when the high-def phone picture (2000+ pixels/side) was shrunk to avatar size (<180 pixels per side and <12kB). What I did was first convert it from jpeg to gif at full resolution to reduce it to 256 colors, and then I changed the size and saved it as a jpeg with the max file size specified.

Thanks much. I'll give it a go.

[bunella]

Good morning for our Saturday report


i think you missed me. Bunny with the pretzels.

I realized that after I sent it out. You will be honored in tomorrow's report (which may be late as I have to do some electrical work for my son)

My humble apologies

All is forgiven my humble Leader of the Muggles Pack.

[HowardHuddleston]

Don't know if I'll have a chance to look at both MG metas today but may give it a shot later. Anyway, I'm on here and looking forward to see if this thing actually posts.....I should have picked a cooler screen name, wonder if there's a way to change it??? And, yes, they really did shut down the comments on the WSJ site at 48 hours!

[Inca]

Good morning for our Saturday report

So without further ado - we have 84 on the shore and Isaac is refinishing the bar for the next time we have a full house on the ship.

On the shore we have
Les
Laura
Meg
Darryl
To
If I missed anyone or have you in here twice, please let me know.

Bob

I do not see Inca on the list although I may have missed it. I had messaged you that I was Freida Cohen on the latest WSJ forum, but was actually Inca on the original WSJ forum so you can list me as Inca. Appreciate that you are doing a lot of work on this.

[Inca]

Greetings Muggles in exile! A quick note to tell you that comments on wsj.com are now up and running for subscribers, after a short delay. We look forward to hearing from you there and anywhere else that WSJ puzzle fans congregate.

Hey, Hey. Good to see you! (Freida)

[Guy]

On shore! I think it’s time for one also after watching that amazing accomplishment by Tiger today!

[SueJ]

On shore, hope it's the right shore!

Bob - was a lurker on the WSJ site, new to this one...

[OGuyDave]

Glad we have an alternate discussion forum. Thanks to those who made it work.

On shore. Meta made me smile.

OGuyDave

[wjchatto]

Noticed The WSJ Blog of this week's puzzle contest is "closed" to commenting. Does that mean we no longer will have access to the statistics regarding the number of submissions and correct answers, etc.?

[Cindy]

Mike Miller has posted a couple of times here. So hopefully he will post that info here.