General Q & A #16

wanderlust:

Can anyone tell me where this is from?

According to Google, it's from 'The Fault In Our Stars" - John Green's newest novel.

What's the code for gifs to use in profiles? I deleted the one in mine and can't find it and if someone could help me a bit with it, I'd appreciate it.

Does anyone know remedies for laryngitis? I've already taken a lot of cold & flu drinks/lozenges so something else would be good.

^ Antibiotics? I seem to remember getting some kind of medicine from my GP when I had laryngitis. It tasted like bananas :)

Is confectioner's sugar and powder sugar the same thing? Is one sweeter than the other?

*Trying to get a good cream cheese frosting recipe and I'm seeing some LARGE leaps between how much sugar is needed. For example, one is saying 8 oz cream cheese to 1 cup of confectioners sugar, and another is saying 8 oz of cream cheese to 4 cups of powdered sugar.

How do you get the blue subheadings in an article/review? I've tried looking everywhere and I can't for the life of me find the code.

^I believe it's [h1]text[/h1] or [h2]text[/h2], but I've never used them, so.

Audrey T:

Is confectioner's sugar and powder sugar the same thing? Is one sweeter than the other?

*Trying to get a good cream cheese frosting recipe and I'm seeing some LARGE leaps between how much sugar is needed. For example, one is saying 8 oz cream cheese to 1 cup of confectioners sugar, and another is saying 8 oz of cream cheese to 4 cups of powdered sugar.

Unless I've been wrong about this my whole life, they're the same. I'd guess the reason for the difference is different texture preferences, although that does seem extreme.

Dancing Dead.:

What's the code for gifs to use in profiles? I deleted the one in mine and can't find it and if someone could help me a bit with it, I'd appreciate it.

Do you mean for putting it into your about section, or putting it as a background? For about sections, if your using the Mibba about section, it's the regular [img] BBcode; if your writing it into your HTML, it's <img src="link" />. For making it a background image, it might vary depending on your code, but usually you add "background-image: url(link);" to body { }.

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Does anyone know if turnitin emails you if/when a grade is posted for an assignment? According to my account settings they'll send me email updates, but I'm not a 100% sure what that entails, and I'd just like to know whether or not I need to obsessively check the website in order to seem my grades as soon as possible or if I can just wait for an email.

Also, are there good/bad times of the year to sell textbooks? I don't expect to get much for them, but if I could get a few dollars more by waiting a couple of months I would. (None of them are traditional textbooks where a new edition comes out every few year and renders old editions worthless, so I'm not worried about that aspect.)

^ Thank you! I guess I'll just have to add sugar by taste when I'm making it.

battalions:

Also, are there good/bad times of the year to sell textbooks? I don't expect to get much for them, but if I could get a few dollars more by waiting a couple of months I would. (None of them are traditional textbooks where a new edition comes out every few year and renders old editions worthless, so I'm not worried about that aspect.)

If you're looking to sell to individuals (and not to a buyback program), the start of the next semester is probably best. It's usually when most people start the rush to buy books and when everyone has their book-list for courses. If the books you want are required for some summer session course, you could also sell them about now or the very beginning of June, when those people will be looking.

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What (if any) is the difference between IMAX 3D and Real D 3D?

renegade.:

I have a question about tumblr I started a tumblelog last night (one of the ones that's added onto your dashboard, not a separate blog) and none of my likes/reblogs/followers are showing up, but I know they're happening. I've had tumblelogs before and this has never happened. They're also not showing up on the tumblr app on my phone. Did they change it so they don't show up anymore or do I have to select it somewhere?

^ Are you checking the individual Tumblr-dashboard pages for the blog? Reblogs/likes for your extra (non primary) blog won't show up on your main dashboard - so that might be why you can't see them.

Audrey T:

I hadn't thought about selling them directly; I think I'll try selling some of the ones in better condition on half.com in August. Thanks for the advice!

Masters of hair dye, I require your assistance.
My hair is naturally a light-mid brown colour that I've been dying chocolate brown. As a youth (so about 4 years ago) I had vibrant red hair and I want to go back to that for a little while before going back to brown.
I have a box of permanent brown dye already (this one), and I've got Paintbox dyes in Hot Chilli and Cherry Bomb because I couldn't remember the original dye I used.
So the question is, would I be able to dye over the red with the brown dye, or would a red tone still show through?

traceuse.:

Masters of hair dye, I require your assistance.
My hair is naturally a light-mid brown colour that I've been dying chocolate brown. As a youth (so about 4 years ago) I had vibrant red hair and I want to go back to that for a little while before going back to brown.
I have a box of permanent brown dye already (this one), and I've got Paintbox dyes in Hot Chilli and Cherry Bomb because I couldn't remember the original dye I used.
So the question is, would I be able to dye over the red with the brown dye, or would a red tone still show through?

Would you be dying over the red after it had faded a bit? I went over orange/yellow hair with that (brand of) dye, perfectly - and when I was trying to cover my purple hair the hairdresser (incompetent) put a brown dye which hardly held at all - so again I went and bought that brand, threw it on, it worked brilliantly. It does wash out a little, but took months to look like anything besides progressively-slightly-lighter-brown. (i.e. the purple did eventually show through) (at which point I did something else colour-wise, but you could get another packet of the brown dye) (which shouldn't cost you more than $10-15 on special)

pravda.:

traceuse.:

Masters of hair dye, I require your assistance.
My hair is naturally a light-mid brown colour that I've been dying chocolate brown. As a youth (so about 4 years ago) I had vibrant red hair and I want to go back to that for a little while before going back to brown.
I have a box of permanent brown dye already (this one), and I've got Paintbox dyes in Hot Chilli and Cherry Bomb because I couldn't remember the original dye I used.
So the question is, would I be able to dye over the red with the brown dye, or would a red tone still show through?

Would you be dying over the red after it had faded a bit? I went over orange/yellow hair with that (brand of) dye, perfectly - and when I was trying to cover my purple hair the hairdresser (incompetent people) put a brown dye which hardly held at all - so again I went and bought that brand, threw it on, it worked brilliantly. It does wash out a little, but took months to look like anything besides progressively-slightly-lighter-brown. (i.e. the purple did eventually show through) (at which point I did something else colour-wise, but you could get another packet of the brown dye) (which shouldn't cost you more than $10-15 on special)

I'll most likely be keeping the red till it fades/grows out cause I'm pretty lazy
For some reason dying it again didn't occur to me, and I imagine if the red tone still does come through I could get a cooler brown colour which should even it out a bit.
I was just worried cause last time I had red hair I bleached it out, but because I was going to purple.
Thank you!

I have a really bad dry cough. I was playing on the Kinect earlier and got a pretty good exercise out of it but ever since, I can barely breathe without getting a cough attack. Does anyone have any good home remedies that might help?

^ Maybe you're just dehydrated? Drink some water, and maybe take some cough medicine (I don't know if there's CF where you are, but it works wonders.)

Any idea how long homemade cream cheese icing can keep when refrigerated?

^ ChaCha and this Ask a Pastry Chef site said that it can last for 10 days if it's in a tightly sealed container.

Did Mibba get rid of the Photo forums?

Nevermind I'm stupid

Alex;:

^ ChaCha and this Ask a Pastry Chef site said that it can last for 10 days if it's in a tightly sealed container.

Thanks. :)