Far too often in this fast-paced, devil-may-care world of fly-by-night image hosting sites, you'll pop into one of your favorite old threads only to find that the images there have, at some point, been replaced with "Image not found" icons, because the hosting site has gone under.
That may be fine for your average, once in a blue moon poster, but when you're dealing with literally thousands of images (say - like those created by our late friend and beloved LMB founder, Micheal Lash) the loss of those would be immeasurable.
Enter Teeds.
Rather than face a world without Fandango, she did what any reasonable person would do:
Find the most anal-retentive, obsessive-compulsive poster you can and - under threat of repeated shin kicking - demand that he do something to ensure that, should any of Lash's hosting sites go defunct, any image of his on LW could be replaced.
Enter Ex.
After several sleepless, martini-soaked weeks, all the while having Teeds demand that I work faster, we are now - on LW's anniversary - proud to announce that we have methodically dowloaded every single image (3037 of 'em) that Lash ever hosted on either Photobucket, imgur, WordPress, or (for a few video creations) Youtube, and preserved them in a single zip file, stored both locally by Teeds and I for redundancy, and in the Super Cloud of SPACE here:
Kick it in, kick it in Stand it up and knock it down again Kick it in, kick it in Shin kick it to the ground Kick it in, kick it in Tell me about the A&E you've been Don't mess with Teeds, there's some limping going around. - Simple Minds, Kick it In
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
I have a question...I looked at Shanghalla the other day and it wouldn't work very well for me. I couldn't move it up or down to show the "hidden" memorials. Is Lash's there and I couldn't see it?
Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
I have a question...I looked at Shanghalla the other day and it wouldn't work very well for me. I couldn't move it up or down to show the "hidden" memorials. Is Lash's there and I couldn't see it?
Pretty sure it just hasn't been update in a long time.
I both want to get that page updated and don't want to update that page.
I honestly haven't had the mindset required to do it. If there's anyone that wants to make tribute rockets/statues, etc. for those that have gone since I last updated it, please go ahead and give it a try and send that over to me to include. Please keep it in close to the general theme of the page and/or based on existing Legion monuments from the comics.
Otherwise, we have to wait until the mood hits me enough to work on it.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."