# Creative dopers, it's almost February, and time for Thing a Day 2010! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133 "2010-01-23T16:59:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/21 "2010-02-01T20:03:17Z")
Help! I thought I joined but I can not post! What am I doing wrong?? ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/22 "2010-02-01T20:24:54Z")
It appears I will not participate after all. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/23 "2010-02-01T20:27:36Z")
OK, now the sketch is showing up full-sized, but it’s still sideways. _sigh_ Hopefully, I’ll get better at this as the month goes on… ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/24 "2010-02-01T23:13:16Z")
I’m signed up as daphneblack. I’ll probably post a mix of poems, short-short stories/musings, and maybe some photoart. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/25 "2010-02-02T04:34:53Z")
> [@CT\_Damsel](#): > > Help! I thought I joined but I can not post! What am I doing wrong?? There’s a [post](http://thing-a-day.com/help-i-cant-post) at Thing-a-Day addressing this; hope this helps. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/26 "2010-02-03T14:39:06Z")
I think I’m finally getting this site straight now. I wasn’t able to post anything but empty posts yesterday, but I finally got both yesterday and today’s drawings up. Does anybody know how I can rotate the pictures? Both day 1 and 2 are sideways, and for the life of me, I can’t seem to turn them right. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/27 "2010-02-03T14:46:36Z")
My photos have been posted at the orientation in which I sent them … did you rotate them on your computer before sending? ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/28 "2010-02-03T15:48:57Z")
I can’t find my camera. Sometime soon, there’ll be a collage of the first X-days projects as the X+1 day’s project. So far, I’ve learned that 1) no, you can’t draw on canvas with oil pastels, no matter what the label on the canvas or the back of the oil pastel box says. and 2) I’m not so good with cut and paste. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/29 "2010-02-03T15:58:39Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > I think I’m finally getting this site straight now. I wasn’t able to post anything but empty posts yesterday, but I finally got both yesterday and today’s drawings up. Does anybody know how I can rotate the pictures? Both day 1 and 2 are sideways, and for the life of me, I can’t seem to turn them right. Finally found your page. Dang, you’re good. **envious smiley** Anyway – for me, 1 and 2 are sideways, 3 is correctly oriented. What did you do differently with #3? ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/30 "2010-02-03T21:38:02Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Finally found your page. Dang, you’re good. **envious smiley** > > Anyway – for me, 1 and 2 are sideways, 3 is correctly oriented. What did you do differently with #3? Nothing! That’s the part that’s freaking me out! :eek:😕:eek:😕:eek: (And thank you! I left you a comment on yours on the first day’s post, but I’m not sure it survived. I did a lot of typing that mysteriously disappeared from that site.) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/31 "2010-02-04T00:58:33Z")
Yeah, I saw the note, thanks. No making fun of me for today’s entry, please. (I had a serious “oh dear” moment when I finished and held it out at arm’s length.) ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/32 "2010-02-07T16:51:38Z")
Crap. I missed registration by a few days. Anyway, I’m participating in my own way. My thing this year will be to draw a “graph comic” every day. Here’s my entries on my [Facebook page.](http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=52468&id=1178524479&l=1f50ac74b8) I made it public for everyone, so hopefully you can see. Enjoy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/33 "2010-02-07T17:05:47Z")
Have you thought about [submitting your stuff](http://www.teemings.net/submission_guidelines.html) to _teemings_? ---
**Author:** ![nicole1912](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9de0a6/32.png) [@nicole1912](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nicole1912)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/34 "2010-02-07T17:17:34Z")
Oooh - I hadn’t seen this thread! I’m [here](http://nicolehill.posterous.com/), if anyone wants to see what I’m up to for TAD. Now to try and work out how to search for specific contributors in posterous. I’m not finding it the easiest platform I’ve ever worked with! ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/35 "2010-02-07T17:43:19Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Have you thought about [submitting your stuff](http://www.teemings.net/submission_guidelines.html) to _teemings_? If you’re talkin’ to me (?)… I’m down. My skills are bent toward the visual, but I’ve been known to tamper with short fiction as well. I’ve only made two comics so far (but, more to come), so feel free to use any of those for now. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/36 "2010-02-07T19:44:53Z")
Can we do a Thing A Day here in Café Society? I have lots of things. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/37 "2010-02-07T22:07:48Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > If you’re talkin’ to me (?)… I’m down. > > My skills are bent toward the visual, but I’ve been known to tamper with short fiction as well. I’ve only made two comics so far (but, more to come), so feel free to use any of those for now. I like your comics/graphs/whatever they are, and want more visual stuff, so let me use one of them … but please do send in some short fiction as well. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/38 "2010-02-07T22:13:06Z")
> [@nicole1912](#): > > Oooh - I hadn’t seen this thread! I’m [here](http://nicolehill.posterous.com/), if anyone wants to see what I’m up to for TAD. > > Now to try and work out how to search for specific contributors in posterous. I’m not finding it the easiest platform I’ve ever worked with! Ah – that’s who you are! I checked when you subscribed to me, but the bio didn’t ring any bells. The leaf is really cool – I don’t blame you for being pleased! ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/39 "2010-02-07T22:51:19Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Can we do a Thing A Day here in Café Society? I have lots of things. Start a new thread! ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133/40 "2010-02-07T23:54:11Z")
> [@nicole1912](#): > > Oooh - I hadn’t seen this thread! I’m [here](http://nicolehill.posterous.com/), if anyone wants to see what I’m up to for TAD. > > Now to try and work out how to search for specific contributors in posterous. I’m not finding it the easiest platform I’ve ever worked with! Your jewelry is really neat! I’m having a hard time with it, too. The main thing bugging me now is that if I post to TAD and to my posterous account, everything ends up on my Facebook page twice, which is a pain in the ass. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-dopers-its-almost-february-and-time-for-thing-a-day-2010/526133.md?page=3)