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Apple crates
Jun. 15th, 2010 01:51 pmStephen Fry about Apple haters and Apple lovers.
Quote:
Quote:
"Otherwise funny and sane people [...] have taken up anti-Apple stances as a matter of style. ‘People who like Apple are pretentious and style conscious, so I will never ever have one,’ the argument goes, if I can call it an argument, and obviously I can’t, because it isn’t an argument it’s just a dumb and slightly mad assertion. After all, how style conscious do you have to be to refuse to be seen dead in anything so fashionable. Huh? I mean huh?"
Quote of the day
Jun. 5th, 2010 04:55 pmThe social dynamics of the net are a direct consequence of the fact that nobody has yet developed a Remote Strangulation Protocol.
-- Larry Wall
[[found here]]
-- Larry Wall
[[found here]]
O hai headvoice, thanks for the help!
Jun. 3rd, 2010 03:06 pmHere I am, agreeing to earn some money with Latin. Somebody I know is doing a Latin training box thingger for middle school student doing Latin, and I agreed to help.
I think I earned money for knowing Latin about, erm, once before? Having done nine years of Latin in school, and then studied Medieval Latin as a minor subject at university, one might say it is a breadless art -- not really, it's the basis for all Western culture, but never mind.
But now, Latin => money!
Now I was waiting for the bus the other day in the Miserable Village, listening to a piece by Helium Vola that happened to be in Latin. I had never heard or seen the lyrics, but found I could follow the medieval Latin without any hitch.
There's no real reason that Latin suddenly comes so much more easily to me again. It's been sort of shaken loose in the last year or two, though, what with two medieval Milliways headvoices who second language (as active as English is for me) was Latin. I do feel that helps...
I think I earned money for knowing Latin about, erm, once before? Having done nine years of Latin in school, and then studied Medieval Latin as a minor subject at university, one might say it is a breadless art -- not really, it's the basis for all Western culture, but never mind.
But now, Latin => money!
Now I was waiting for the bus the other day in the Miserable Village, listening to a piece by Helium Vola that happened to be in Latin. I had never heard or seen the lyrics, but found I could follow the medieval Latin without any hitch.
There's no real reason that Latin suddenly comes so much more easily to me again. It's been sort of shaken loose in the last year or two, though, what with two medieval Milliways headvoices who second language (as active as English is for me) was Latin. I do feel that helps...
Now with pictorial proof!
Apr. 17th, 2010 01:31 am
Here you see
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japanologist's Samsung netbook running the Zattoo TV application, my EEE having Ubuntu installed, and our dinner: prosecco, and woked chicken and vegetables in coconut-and-wasabi sauce, on rice.It was all great fun!
Numb3rs maths
Mar. 20th, 2010 06:18 pmOh, cool, there's a web site dedicated to the maths behind 'Numb3rs'.
I, being less mathematically minded, am usually happy just to look at Nmb3rs!Charlie, but still, it's a very nice web site...
I, being less mathematically minded, am usually happy just to look at Nmb3rs!Charlie, but still, it's a very nice web site...
Negative advertising
Feb. 20th, 2010 06:29 pmAdvertising on Web 2.0 sites is not meant to sell whatever shit it pretends to be about. Nobody ever orders a Muslim bride, clicks on that idiotic weight loss link with shrinking!chick on, or wants that insanely giggling deathday oracle cast for themselves.
If you want to sell services or products, you go via Google ads, in either direction.
These annoying ads are MEANT to be annoying like hell, and their real purpose is to sell paid accounts, which make those ads go away.
It works, too.-
If you want to sell services or products, you go via Google ads, in either direction.
These annoying ads are MEANT to be annoying like hell, and their real purpose is to sell paid accounts, which make those ads go away.
It works, too.-
We can has webcam...
Feb. 12th, 2010 01:56 pm
... and it just caught us staring at the screen together!
Random varia at night
Feb. 12th, 2010 04:14 amMy new computer did its thing without any hassle, and now has all my data and music, and I've been on it, with the old one closed down, for about five or six hours.
I made a play list of all music I'd never played, according to iTunes. Now it's playing them one by one, then kicking them off the play list. Fun, eh? So I make sure, in the next days or weeks, I have nothing on there I've never listened to.
And my cats are cute. Lucifer's paws are huge.
And I should go to sleep soon. I want to be awake tomorrow in the afternoon, after all, to go swimming with the Nazgul...
I made a play list of all music I'd never played, according to iTunes. Now it's playing them one by one, then kicking them off the play list. Fun, eh? So I make sure, in the next days or weeks, I have nothing on there I've never listened to.
And my cats are cute. Lucifer's paws are huge.
And I should go to sleep soon. I want to be awake tomorrow in the afternoon, after all, to go swimming with the Nazgul...
Brain: eaten -- check
Feb. 3rd, 2010 10:37 amI don't use LJ-Login to change between my charries in Firefox, I assign browsers to the main logins that stay logged in in that browser. My standard browser is Firefox, though.
I just changed the permanent login in Firefox to Urquhart's, and assigned Teja to Flock. That means Urq's now technically my main Milli!character.
And he's going to come to Morningstar Manor as well, 'translated' for that world. Plot is brewing that'll keep us amused for some time.
So, my brain has been officially consumed.
Help I have this crazy straight bloke in my headspace...!!!
I just changed the permanent login in Firefox to Urquhart's, and assigned Teja to Flock. That means Urq's now technically my main Milli!character.
And he's going to come to Morningstar Manor as well, 'translated' for that world. Plot is brewing that'll keep us amused for some time.
So, my brain has been officially consumed.
Help I have this crazy straight bloke in my headspace...!!!
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Jan. 30th, 2010 02:44 pmI just ordered my new 'main' computer. It's not getting any cheaper, and I know which one I want.
Stuff will take a while, so prepare to see me really squee near the end of next week.
I guess PaintShopPro7 won't be talking to Windows 7 for real now. So it'll be the Gimp for me, but according to people, it's no longer a cryptic compile-it-yourself thing, but behaves like a normal application.
Prepare to see me curse the Gimp until I get the hang of it for a bit, though. But unlike the last time, my 'old' laptop (which I am on now) isn't dead, just very, very elderly with a concatenation of known problems of the peripheral/hardware kind. So I can screencap and icon the material for the Morningstar-Manor!AU!Urquhart on this computer if the Gimp really, really doesn't like me, and/or PowerDVD really, really isn't free any more.-
Stuff will take a while, so prepare to see me really squee near the end of next week.
I guess PaintShopPro7 won't be talking to Windows 7 for real now. So it'll be the Gimp for me, but according to people, it's no longer a cryptic compile-it-yourself thing, but behaves like a normal application.
Prepare to see me curse the Gimp until I get the hang of it for a bit, though. But unlike the last time, my 'old' laptop (which I am on now) isn't dead, just very, very elderly with a concatenation of known problems of the peripheral/hardware kind. So I can screencap and icon the material for the Morningstar-Manor!AU!Urquhart on this computer if the Gimp really, really doesn't like me, and/or PowerDVD really, really isn't free any more.-
When is a pixel not a pixel?
Jan. 22nd, 2010 03:03 amWhen it's rendered by Firefox, apparently.
I did think that icons and layout look odd, but today, I saw the same thing side by side in Flock (left) and Firefox (right).
Weird, huh?
I did think that icons and layout look odd, but today, I saw the same thing side by side in Flock (left) and Firefox (right).
Weird, huh?
Internet addiction and health warning
Jan. 6th, 2010 04:55 pmDo not play catfishing! You can't win, you feel very stupid at times, and it's terribly addicting.
Remember how everybody was scared that computers would stop working on January 1st 2000 because maybe somewhere some program would still use two-digit years in their date format?
And how nothing happened.
Instead, it is happening now. The Y2K+10 bug not only took a sizeable percentage of German bank and credit cards temporarily out of commission, the Nazgul and I have seen it affecting public transport here in Munich, too. The system for announcing arrivals and destinations of trains, trams and buses was totally down in New Year's night and still isn't back up everywhere. At the station where she has to catch a bus to get to her new fatally cool job, all electronic signs are replaced by handwritten A4 papers signs that are pastede on yay.-
The bus we took to IKEA today was hit as well; the 'bing' didn't work most of the time, the screen not at all, and the electronic voice announcing the next station was drunk as a skunk.
In other (but still Nazgul-related) news, today she announced by IM that librarians are peculiar, because she had to print out five copies of a 500-page cataloguing guideline. The existence of such a document struck her as somewhat detail-obsessed. I asked her how come she didn't notice that before.-
But actually, she seems to fit in well there. I am still totally green with envy.
And how nothing happened.
Instead, it is happening now. The Y2K+10 bug not only took a sizeable percentage of German bank and credit cards temporarily out of commission, the Nazgul and I have seen it affecting public transport here in Munich, too. The system for announcing arrivals and destinations of trains, trams and buses was totally down in New Year's night and still isn't back up everywhere. At the station where she has to catch a bus to get to her new fatally cool job, all electronic signs are replaced by handwritten A4 papers signs that are pastede on yay.-
The bus we took to IKEA today was hit as well; the 'bing' didn't work most of the time, the screen not at all, and the electronic voice announcing the next station was drunk as a skunk.
In other (but still Nazgul-related) news, today she announced by IM that librarians are peculiar, because she had to print out five copies of a 500-page cataloguing guideline. The existence of such a document struck her as somewhat detail-obsessed. I asked her how come she didn't notice that before.-
But actually, she seems to fit in well there. I am still totally green with envy.
My geek desk -- for carolinw
Dec. 17th, 2009 12:56 am
That's my desk at work as described by IM earlier when I actually was there -- doesn't it look geeky?
