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Post by Emily on Dec 3, 2010 8:48:26 GMT
yeah but the guides have some lame motto instead like "always do your best" or "promises are super-important"... what good is that?
Me and Ally weren't very good girlguides... we just cooked strange things and tried to name our patrol "the bluetits"
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Post by Ally on Dec 3, 2010 10:06:11 GMT
And sang about night hikes! ;D
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Post by Animae on Dec 3, 2010 17:34:55 GMT
Allykins, I'm not sure what to tell you about the clumsy. Meditate so your brain calms down maybe?
Is it that you're thinking about something else when you do stuff? But then again, sometimes my hands just drop things that I'm holding for no reason.
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Post by Ally on Dec 4, 2010 10:28:33 GMT
I dunno...doesn't everyone think about other stuff when they're doing things? Especially things like taking a bowl out of the microwave. Meditation could be good, though, I always feel like I need to defragment my brain.
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Post by Ally on Dec 30, 2010 13:31:50 GMT
Tim (or anyone), how do I get the footnotes in Word to stay in Arial? I've changed the main font to Arial because I prefer writing in it (Times New Roman just makes me think of school projects), but whenever I start a new footnote it's in Times New Roman.
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Post by stokerino on Dec 30, 2010 17:04:59 GMT
I think the footnotes automatically follow whatever the Default Font is, regardless of what you've been using in the main body of text.
When you first open Word, is the font initially set to Times New Roman?
If so, you can change the Default Font to Arial by right-clicking anywhere on the page and selecting "Font...". If you then select Arial and whatever size etc. you want, click the "Default..." button. It will ask if you want this change to affect all new documents in the 'NORMAL' template. Click Yes. Close and re-open Word, and it should already be set to Arial and - hopefully - the footnotes should be as well.
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Post by Ally on Jan 12, 2011 20:51:49 GMT
This might be one for Tangent, actually...
Is there a particular TV Trope for something I've just noticed (which I will explain below)?
The situation is that a character is introduced, who acts perfectly normally (within the confines of the show) until something happens to reveal them to be not normal at all. However, rather than being killed off or written out as part of the story, the character stays - and completely fails to return to the masquerade of normality they seemed to have no trouble with before, even when appearing normal would be helpful to them or other characters they've allied themselves with. The examples I'm thinking of are Anya from Buffy and Cameron from the Sarah Connor Chronicles. Both of them managed to pass as normal before they were revealed as being not what they seemed, and both of them carried on being strange after the other protagonists found out the truth.
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Post by tangent on Jan 13, 2011 2:20:35 GMT
No. There's not a specific trope on that. Though I honestly don't recall Anya acting "normal" at the start, and haven't watched SCC to get an idea of how long it took before Cameron was unveiled as a Terminator.
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Post by Ally on Jan 13, 2011 9:33:15 GMT
She was able to act completely normal when she was convincing Cordelia to make a wish, and trying to get Willow to get her source of power back.
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Post by Ally on Jan 21, 2011 14:04:35 GMT
You're all going to laugh at me for this, but I'm having a complete brainfart about computer-related stuff that I've done a million times before, and racking my brains all morning hasn't helped.
Where oh where is the programme in my computer that allows me to delete things safely? (You know, the bit where it shows you whether things are used all the time, or only very rarely, and you can click "delete" to get rid of a programme)? I need to free up some space on my C drive (somehow there's only 2% left, I've no idea why, since I almost never download anything, I have no games, and most of my saved documents are Word), and I have a phobia of deleting things without going through this particular channel, since I totalled my first laptop doing that.
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Post by tangent on Jan 21, 2011 14:47:57 GMT
Why not get a couple of flash drives and download your documents onto those? If you put them on two flash drives you can usually ensure data corruption doesn't occur (and there are online data storage sites as well). The four gig jobs are fairly inexpensive now and that would open up a bit of space for your computer.
Can't really tell you about the Program Removal tool as I'm not sure which specific OS you're using (Vista, Windows 7, XP, or whatever). However, it might be under Accessories in the Systems Tools setting. Or it might be in Control Panel with "Add or Remove Programs."
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Post by Emily on Jan 21, 2011 15:48:33 GMT
I suspect you're looking for control panel> add/remove programs, ally.
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Post by Ally on Jan 21, 2011 16:07:50 GMT
YES! That's the one. I could see it in my mind's eye...
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Post by Emily on Jan 23, 2011 10:22:14 GMT
just a shame that we cant plug our brains in via flash drive yet then...
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Post by Ally on Jan 25, 2011 15:59:25 GMT
It would be useful, and utterly terrifying at the same time.
Another question, as part of my never-ending quest to get the concept of irony straight in my mind - would it be ironic if the TV series "Episodes" was badly remade in America?
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Post by tangent on Jan 25, 2011 16:33:10 GMT
No. It would just be par for the course for American television.
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Post by X'o'Lore on Jan 25, 2011 17:50:25 GMT
Seeing as how I'm practically TV illiterate due to watching almost none of it, I am unfamiliar with this "Episodes" show. Still, if it happens to be a show about badly remade shows and itself got badly remade...well if the whole point of the original show was to make fun of badly remade shows then it would indeed be ironic. Otherwise, yes, it'd pretty much be par for the course.
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Post by Ally on Jan 25, 2011 19:58:22 GMT
Yup, it's a show about a British couple who've produced a very successful comedy show about a boarding school - then it gets picked up by an American studio who cast Matt Leblanc in the lead role and make it about a hockey team.
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Post by X'o'Lore on Jan 25, 2011 21:59:20 GMT
If that is the case then the show NEEDS to be badly remade. The remake should be so bad it'll be canceled before the first season is even done. Then years later someone can get the bright idea of doing to bad tv shows what Mystery Science Theater did to bad old movies and this ironic remake could be featured as the pilot episode for it.
A show that mocks a bad remake of a show that mocks bad remakes...
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Post by Emily on Jan 26, 2011 8:58:06 GMT
Yup, it's a show about a British couple who've produced a very successful comedy show about a boarding school - then it gets picked up by an American studio who cast Matt Leblanc in the lead role and make it about a hockey team. ...I thought that was the truth... not the show. Dear god its confusing.
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