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Post by mareofnight on Sept 6, 2013 0:45:47 GMT
I remember as a child imitating a meanhearted joke from television once and then getting scolded and realizing it was a stupid thing to do and resolving not to imitate that style of joke ever again.
I remember one of my cousins used to act like that, but then grew out of it. I didn't see her that often, though, so I don't know why she changed.
When I was growing up, I would've liked shows with more drama... As in, plots where the central conflict is something dangerous, like fighting monsters or hiding from the evil government or something. I guess Kim Possible sort of had that, but I wasn't really into the magical girl style plot for some reason - maybe the school half of the plot was a turnoff. Now that I think about it, I might have been able to find those shows if I'd bothered to flip channels.
Now that I think about it... is it unusual that I didn't have a fictional role model that I was consciously aware was a role model until I was almost 18? I'm sure that my ideals about what I wanted to be like were influenced a lot by stories, but it took that long for me to find someone who was a good and interesting person, who I could also figure out how to be like.
I actually rather like most of Google's interfaces. Drive in particular - a lot of the word processing I do is really just notes, and I like to be able to make headings and bulleted lists, but I prefer fewer buttons. And if you're working on a group essay or presentation, email attachments are no replacement for Drive. I'm confused about the taking away folders thing, though? I can put my email into folders just fine? Unless you mean a fancier use of folders than that. (I didn't like the multiple inboxes thing they did recently, though. I tried it and then deleted all the extra tabs pretty much immediately.)
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Post by X'o'Lore on Sept 6, 2013 3:39:37 GMT
Google Drive is great for what it does, but completely replacing all email attachments with google drive for ALL attachments in every case is overkill. Options are nice. Maybe the attachments are back now. I didn't look recently and google does like to keep changing things, but I'll tell you that at one point I got in a situation where I had to physically copy a small file onto a portable drive and hand deliver it because gmail literally took away my ability to attach a file. The option had been removed. I was being forced to use google drive which was a strangely complicated task at the time and I was not able to get it working in the 2 minutes I had before I had to leave.
And the labels do not do what I need them to do. Again, I simply want to make filters that can automatically move new mail to different folders so they never enter my inbox. Gmail doesn't do that. I can auto apply labels, but they STILL appear in my inbox until I manually move, archive or delete them. I don't feel like it should be mandatory for me to manually handle every piece of email. Regardless the solution is simply to run a local email client that pulls my email from my gmail account anyway. Gets me away from the google+ junk I don't care about, gets rid of the ads, etc.
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Post by Soff on Sept 6, 2013 5:42:45 GMT
I'm pretty sure there is some way to do that automatic foldering because I did it somehow when I put some project wonderful things and let it email me. I generally work fine with google stuff, but sometimes they DO develop some changes that really puzzle me. Those tabs Mare was talking about were really annoying for me, too. They basically do what you want to do with folders, but I found them dumb and uncomfortable (I prefer actual folders myself, too). I found it both weird and pretty amazing when I heard people today in class (well, during the break actually) talking about it really happily because it "took away all the annoying stuff from facebook, twitter, etc". I guess they are the target of those kinds of invasive "new" developments, then...? Also, I can still attach stuff allright. I have to send a lot of pdfs with documents to Italy yearly and did it recently and I had no trouble...? Drive lets me open them without downloading (just as Docs used to do before that and... I think plain html would let you do that too even before?), but it doesn't give me problems. Although I remember one of the girls I worked with for a teamwork last semester did send a Drive file and I had to piece a lot of stuff together because we were working in a file that was coming and going and this girl didn't seem to have understood that and kept working with that... So I guess sometimes it just chips in uninvited.
But generally speaking, I quite like google stuff. I still remember hotmail and shudder (it does seem to be working less horribly now, I've seen, but it still seemed clunky and awful).
I'm not sure if it's unusual...? I mean, I have a friend that is very much into politics and I don't think she actually has a fictional role model even now? Unless you consider them fictional bacause of the way historical characters are built... I don't know. Not all people enjoys fiction that much or thinks it very important, so I think there is quite a lot of people who doesn't have a conscious fictional role model and doesn't really care about picking one. And though there's always some fiction in the way "real people" are built, I think a lot of people just take real people as their conscious role models (it can be anything from their grandma to Gandhi). They have the adventage that they usually did "real" good stuff in the real world instead of being impossible by their very definition.
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Post by X'o'Lore on Sept 6, 2013 18:39:57 GMT
I'm not sure if I can pick out any specific role model I ever had. Donatello was my favorite ninja turtle? I suppose that makes him something of a role model from my childhood? That's as much as I got. I don't think I ever really consciously felt a significant desire to be like another person/character fictional or not.
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Post by mareofnight on Sept 7, 2013 0:00:00 GMT
@x: oooohh. I was able to attach files a few months ago, but I might not have tried in a while. Soff: Well, I'm not sure if I've had non-fictional ones either... I imitated my parents and such like kids always do because that's the way they learn how humans act, but there weren't real people who I thought were the specific sort of human I wanted to be. I think you're right that looking up to real people is more usual.
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Post by clemon on Sept 7, 2013 5:56:07 GMT
As for role models during my teenage years, they were shojo manga heroes. Looking back I consider this a poor judgement, but I don't think I was consciously aware of it. The shojo heroes I read were shy virginal awkward social outcasts with average grades and few good friends. They are had spunk and managed to somehow snag a violent cool guy that luckily didn't exist in my high school. Nowadays, I try to be inspired by Superman or professors who are smart and do good research. Again, I simply want to make filters that can automatically move new mail to different folders so they never enter my inbox. Gmail doesn't do that. I can back up Soff with this. The way I have it set up, annoying emails from CareerBuilder are automatically archived and placed under label Personal/CareerBuilder, so when I feel like re-visiting product that I signed up for when I was in high school, and I can go through these emails. To be honest, I don't use the different tabs very much. "Promotions" just eats my MATLAB seminar emails, and "Social" takes my facebook/Google+ invitations of which I have few. If it would just sort out my TA, financial emails, and orientation mail.
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Post by mareofnight on Sept 7, 2013 13:00:06 GMT
For me it was the guy in A Tale of Two Cities who most readers see as the boring, too-nice one. I think that, at that point in my life, I just really needed to see a character who knew the world was shitty and they were privileged, and then responded by trying to use their privilege to help matters. (That is, use in a way that I could see myself using mine - I'd probably seen characters who use their connections to raise awareness, but that didn't click with me because I didn't have good social skills and so didn't think I'd be capable of that. But I read the book during senior year of high school, and my parents kept talking about how they were happy I was going into programming because I'd probably actually get a job, and the example of a minor, unpopular nobleman trying to use wealth to help people from afar didn't seem impossible for someone probably destined to become an upper middle class software developer to follow.) I suspect I didn't have any famous people role models because I'd never learned about famous people too in-depth, and because the ones I knew about were either praised as innovators because they were smart, or as heroes because they were great leaders or acted really well when thrown into a bad situation (like the guy in Hotel Rawanda). I couldn't see myself being a good leader, and having a disaster to respond to didn't seem likely. I respected people who made discoveries or built awesome things, but I didn't desperately want to be smart in the same way I wanted to be heroic. (blaaaarg sorry to mind-dump all over the thread) clemon: Good professors seem like a good model Why Superman?
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Post by purenightshade on Sept 23, 2013 2:15:02 GMT
Getting a flu AND a massive migraine at the same time is terrible. I've been sick since Friday. Finally feeling better despite the 3 hours I spent waiting at the emergency room today. Took them all of 10 minutes to dose me with meds and send me on my way. Remind me never to go to the hospital on a Sunday afternoon unless I'm dying or something. Granted, I felt like my head was going to explode so I guess it counts, but still.
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Post by X'o'Lore on Sept 23, 2013 5:10:28 GMT
Ouch. Reminds me of that time I was sick and had a headache that made my entire head hurt and I could really sleep because laying down in any position put pressure on my head that was painful and kept me awake. Except that didn't last an entire weekend.
Nice to hear you're feeling better.
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Post by purenightshade on Sept 23, 2013 13:26:14 GMT
My left arm is still sore after yesterday, but feeling well enough to move it. This is good as being sick for the weekend means I have a crap ton of house cleaning to do. Ugh.
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Post by X'o'Lore on Oct 13, 2013 18:04:08 GMT
My school switched to largely ebooks and pushed iPads on everyone. 1 week in...the iPad is pretty useless. The ebooks program is kind of poor and doesn't even have a simple search functionality, it can't seamlessly page from one chapter to the next, it scrolls pages sideways, which is awkward in a digital format that doesn't flip pages...I guess it can do highlights? Which is useless to me. I've never done any highlighting in textbooks. Browsing the web on it is ok I guess? Still much inferior to a desktop browser.
Furthermore, my school is setting up mobile app development classes that focus on Android/Windows development, because the Apple system is too much of a pain in the backside to work with in a classroom context. Irony!
The iPad has no file structure and doesn't really work with documents like that and that difference kills me. I'm a programmer and occasionally an artist in a pinch. I need programs like visual studio or photoshop to do the things that I do. Not to mention a development web server, an ftp program, and many other tools not really available on an iPad.
Clearly I actually need a Windows 8 tablet. Still waiting on good ones. Surface 2 Pro may be a bit too spendy, but there should be alternatives in another month or so that could be cheaper.
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Post by Emily on Oct 16, 2013 9:17:29 GMT
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Post by X'o'Lore on Oct 16, 2013 16:54:44 GMT
I don't know enough about that device to say much for it. I know the Surface Pro tablet comes with a pen from Wacom, but I'd imagine that cintiq companion thing is perhaps more specialized for artists. I mean, it'd almost have to be. Looks pretty spendy though. Like more than a Surface Pro. Plus it's still running Ivy Bridge rather than Haswell so I'm guessing the battery life as actually kind of poor in tablet terms. In fairness, it's a fair bit bigger than a lot of tablets too. It's really more of an odd-ball laptop.
As a sort of non-artist I don't really know the intricate details of Wacom's products I guess, so I only look at it in terms of computer tech specs which makes this hard to judge.
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Post by mareofnight on Oct 16, 2013 23:04:25 GMT
I've heard that pressure-sensitive pens can't be made as sensitive as tablets where the sensor is in the surface instead, so I'd imagine that's the reason it's more expensive. If you want to look at specs, there's a "technical details" button down below the strip of thumbnails. Actually, would anyone like to talk about icons/buttons that are too damn hard to find? I would have completely missed the link to the specs if I hadn't already seen it on an older version of Wacom's site. It's too grey, too flat, too hard to even notice it's there and that it's a link. I haven't used many things that have "metro-style" graphics myself, but Nielsen made some good points against it, and is generally considered someone who knows what he's talking about, so I'm probably gonna avoid that style of buttons on my own stuff.
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Post by mareofnight on Oct 16, 2013 23:10:27 GMT
Oh, speaking of hatey hatey hate. Clothes that don't let you lift your arms enough. And sewing patterns that don't let you lift your arms at ALL. After long searching, I found an alteration that seems likely to work, but I hadn't expected to need to make any changes this drastic, so I'll have to re-cut my coat sleeves and waste a bunch of fabric
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Post by purenightshade on Oct 21, 2013 21:09:36 GMT
Thieving thieves that thieve....
A couple years ago, a friend surprised me with a picture she'd commissioned of one of my characters. It was just a line art, but it was so lovely and thoughtful. A lot of people since then have coloured the line art and have been really good about using the character's correct colour scheme.
Until I found someone on deviantart today who had coloured her wrong. Not just a little wrong, but brutally butchered her looks. I can't even...UGH! Why would you do that, especially when the artist deliberately put her reference image in the image description?
Gross, man. Just gross.
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Post by X'o'Lore on Oct 23, 2013 2:43:45 GMT
Why do people gotta go an remind me about papers I'm supposed to write when all I want to do is play my video game of choice? I'm hooked on Terraria. I must collect all the things and then build all the things. Not necessarily in that order. But, first I guess I should write a short paper.
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Post by purenightshade on Nov 3, 2013 15:14:30 GMT
15 cm of snow was called for yesterday. I woke up today to white stuff everywhere and it's still coming down and blowing everywhere.
On the plus side, it waited until after Halloween to snow, but yuck... I had plans to go out today. Not so much anymore.
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Post by Emily on Nov 7, 2013 9:17:56 GMT
my new car is a broken piece of crap
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Post by Tea on Nov 7, 2013 20:34:23 GMT
Can you insure it for far more than it's worth and leave it in a bad neighbourhood?
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