Ok, so this is how I do it, and I am getting faster, but is there another way to do this and save time?? I tried googling it and I feel this is pretty efficient, but I just didn't know if someone else had a faster way??? Also if you are just learning about/using this method, when you bring up your picture on Flickr that you want to use, that dialog box :
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8093/8515064324_b45ce0b200.jpg
That lets you select your image size.... choose what size you want (which it later defaults too) before you copy and paste the link. EVEN THOUGH YOU EXCLUDE ALL OTHER TEXT/CODE AND SIMPLY COPY THE FILES HOST URL THIS STILL DETERMINES THE IMAGE SIZE! ....I think this is b/c flickr hosts all image sizes independently, ehh???

Any who.... here is the meat and taters of what I am talking about:
also I may or may not have had some brewskies in the making of this...