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Viva Las Legos!

by , May 24, 2007 | 8:24 am

Comments (12)

Who says Las Vegas isn’t for kids? Check out these pictures (sent via a Myspace friend and also found here) … apparently from the Lego amusement park in Carlsbad, Ca.


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12 Comments to “Viva Las Legos!”


  1. jen     says:
    May 24th, 2007 at 9:01am

    Very cool.Legos rock.


  2. Ed     says:
    May 24th, 2007 at 9:37am

    Lego Jen. Lego rock. Even plural it is still Lego. I think if we wanted to get technical it is LEGO but that is just being anal.

    Got too many of the things around the house and we don’t even have kids yet. We went through a phase and had to buy all the cool sets…build them…and display them.

    Ed


  3. Venita     says:
    May 24th, 2007 at 9:46am

    Hmmm . . . are you sure it’s not Legi? Just kidding.

    That whole Little Vegas thing is amazing. For some reason the MGM Grand cracks me up. It looks so real!


  4. Kajagugu     says:
    May 24th, 2007 at 11:01am

    When I was 4 years old I built a scale model of the Luxor with Legos.


  5. Karridy     says:
    May 24th, 2007 at 11:03am

    Ed,… Do you want to teach Dan how to reduce filesize and optimize images for the web, or should I. Regardless of who, the other should explain how doing such can dramatically increase server performance and global user experience.


  6. Karridy     says:
    May 24th, 2007 at 11:03am

    Sorry. Had to Geek for a sec.


  7. Ed     says:
    May 24th, 2007 at 11:43am

    What he needs is some WordPress plugin that takes the image…makes a smaller “thumbnail” version for people to click if they wish to see a bigger version.

    Is there one out there Dan? Do you have it installed but refuse to use it?

    Ed


  8. Karridy     says:
    May 24th, 2007 at 12:44pm

    That just changes appearance (zoom). Doesn’t do much for the 385k size or load time of the last image alone. Unless it optimizes natively.


  9. Ed     says:
    May 24th, 2007 at 2:14pm

    Yes…the way it is now…is bad. Was wondering if there was something installed that would deal with images put in a blog posting. by “deal” i mean use backend code to make a smaller version that we see in the entry and then keep the big version aside so it only loads that one when the image is clicked on.

    been to some gallery type sites where they had 20 pics on one page that were the original 1M+ images shrunk to size using html. my response usually is “got photoshop?”

    EDIT: just did a right click on an image and did View Image. there IS something being done with the images…I think a few tweaks to it should help out. (i.e. make them a tad smaller in size) but doing that may not help either if the backend code is pulling the full sized image first and then making the changes.

    Ed


  10. DanM     says:
    May 24th, 2007 at 7:29pm

    Ed, we actually do have the zoom-in capability (replace width=”” with xenlarge=””) … but Karridy is right, that doesn’t change the file size. in fact it just adds another query.

    believe it or not, i do know how to optimize (or at least shrink) photos. But I decided this post was worth about five minutes of cutting and pasting URLs, not much more. Some posts are tougher than others … goes both ways. My apologies to the readers for not putting in the extra effort on their browsing behalf.


  11. Fresh Princess     says:
    May 24th, 2007 at 8:35pm

    Jen
    It’s Legos at our house.

    Ed
    Thanks for correcting us ladies, Dan confused us with the headline. And just so you know…Barbies is Barbies.


  12. Ed     says:
    May 25th, 2007 at 1:31am

    hey i didnt make the rule. those LEGO people did.

    Ed