The lure of things we don't need, could easily find greater needs to apply the cash to, and which we may not even have the space for, is a very First(ish) World Problem, to be sure. HasLabs is a special projects division of Hasbro, that occasionally pitches large and/or elaborate items - oversized figures and/or vehicles - essentially crowdfunding each project. They set the price, and a funding line - the number of people who need to pledge to buy one (or more -- up to five) at the announced price, then collect the names and information of interested parties for a period of 45 days. Once the number of pledged buys hits the target, the project is greenlit. A couple years ago there was a HasLabs special build project aiming to fund a production run for an oversized (32" tall), elaborately-articulated action figure of Marvel comics' Devourer of Worlds: Galactus. Back on July 18, 2021 I posted a piece on the project, which at the time was just two days
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Hey, how do you do the thing where only the first few sentences of your post appear, and then someone has to click a link to read the rest? I'd like to do that with my blogspot page, but can't figure out how.
I'd also like to liven my blog up with some photos, but can't be bothered with it, either. Why can't I just think them into there? Dammit.
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=898&topic=41
I read about it early on, had some questionable experiences with tampering with my template code earlier and so put it off for a while. Once Tim Tjarks did it with his I revisited the idea and it worked fairly easily. The (tiny) downside is that the format will be retroactive, so your earlier posts will be fully on display with a link to no-more-text ("More", "Full Post" or however you decide to designate it) at the bottom of each.
They've made adding images very easy, the biggest difficulty being that if you want them to appear at a particular place in your piece, once you've added a pic you'll need to go to the html edit screen, cut the image code block at the top and paste it where you want it below. There's no intermediate ftp image upload step and addresses to remember, so if it's an image on your hard drive you can send a copy up and access it in your blog in one step.