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| New MSPaint annoys me to pieces! I want to draw clear, sharp pictures of graphs. Just graphs. Collections of points that are sometimes connected by lines. I want this picture to be clear and legible. So how come I can't make solid points anymore? Every single one of the "paintbrushes" involves some kind of weird smearing at the edges, and it takes more memory to record it all, and the resulting point is not as clear. When I want to zoom in to look at it, I have to go to a separate tab to zoom in at all, and everything isn't just buttons anymore, it's classifications of buttons into a hierarchy! Maybe I liked to click on one button and have everything I wanted right there. Maybe I liked solid dots.
Yes, I can have solid dots with the pencil button instead, but the biggest pencil dot is way too small. Yes, I can draw a circle and then fill it in with the bucket, but that takes more time.
I've heard it said that someone who has milk, water, juice, and wine has more freedom than someone who has 50 types of soda. Well maybe I agree. I want to draw a solid dot, or a solid line of a certain thickness, and instead I have 9 brushes that smear in slightly different ways.
I'm not happy about it. All this complaining about technology makes me feel like a great big reactionary, complaining about every change that happens, and it's true that every improvement is a change. But not every change is an improvement! Getting rid of the functionality of drawing thick solid lines is NOT an improvement. I don't care if the new interface has gently-rounded corners and pretty, soft colors. I want the one-click drawing tools, and I want big solid dots back.
P.S. I stopped using TeXnicCenter on my computer. Images don't work right. Too incompatible. PDFs don't build at all half the time. I'll be looking for a way to have LaTeX again, either by getting OldAdobe back or by trying a new LaTeX thing. This is stupid.
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| It's not terribly compatible with TeXnic Center, the thing I use to type in LaTeX. When I compile it without New Adobe already open, then it opens up New Adobe. . . but then it gives me a little pop-up asking if I want to open a file or make one. Every single time! I don't know how to turn that setting off! It doesn't even let me close the little pop-up. I have to choose one or the other. Meanwhile, TeXnic is trying and trying to open the thing I just compiled, but it can't do it because Adobe is waiting for me to choose one of two undesirable options. I want it to just open up and give me a blank window with nothing on it. Is that so hard? Then TeXnic can do its thing, and everything would be fine!
Well, I don't want to make a new document, so I end up "choosing" to open an existing file, and in the meanwhile my clicking things is giving New Adobe all sorts of outside input. By the time I go back to TeXnic, it's given up and given me a little error message. So now that New Adobe is already open, I try to compile the thing again. After all, maybe if it's already open, it won't give me the noob window again, right?
Nothing's ever as easy as that. For whatever reason, if New Adobe is already open, and I try to compile in TeXnic, then it crashes. Freezes completely, and I have to close TeXnic and open it up again. I'm really not happy about this! I don't know if it's the fault of TeXnic or New Adobe. TeXnic has crashed in the past on me before, but infrequently, and certainly not every time I compiled. I think it's the fault of New Adobe, because it's definitely different, and TeXnic looks the same as before. I'm really unhappy about this. Whoever decided everyone wants a noob window forcing them to choose one of two options anyways?
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| A friend was staying with me the last three nights, and what does one do with a friend for three nights? Get into a lot of arguments and play a lot of Set. Let's call this friend Puff (the Magic Dragon).
So there we were, arguing and playing Set and arguing some more, and then he suggests an experiment. We sit across from each other and deal cards in four rows of three, and if there are no sets on the board, then we deal two more cards. We each keep two separate piles of sets: those taken from our own side of the board, and those taken from the other person's side. This was to see if we favored one side over another. Puff hypothesized that we'd favor our own sides of the board more.
It turned out that we both strongly favored his side of the board. Now that I think about it, I guess I do start at the top of the board and scan down, like starting at the top of a page. I never noticed that before. It was an interesting thing to notice.
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| I have Second Sock Syndrome. It's when you knit one sock, and then you don't quite get around to knitting the other one. I remember being at that knitting store picking out sock yarn months ago, thinking, yipes this dinky yarn is thin as a thread. I asked the lady how long it would take to knit a pair of socks, and she warned me that each sock takes longer than a hat.
I bought a set of sock-sized knitting needles. They are like toothpicks. I'm knitting with thread on toothpicks. Friends who are real masochists call me a masochist.
For months I knitted the stupid thing, on and off. All through spring break, as we traveled, as other guild members played the carillon, I'd sit somewhere knitting. Facebook is filled with pictures of me knitting, labeled 正正正正正, the Chinese character I'd use for tallying rows.
And then the first sock was done, a thing with a cubical heel and a very trapezoidal toe. I thought about starting the other one, and I put it off.
Apparently this is really common! People chug through the first sock, and then lose steam, and then they don't make the second. It even has its own name.
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Terraria isn't entertaining to me anymore. I open the silly thing, and I just don't care to keep playing it. I really really wanted to play it for days after my laptop broke, and then the weeks went by, and I gradually forgot about it. And now, now that I actually can play it, I don't want to anymore. First-world problems.
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I don't feel like doing anything. Not a single thing. But the Internet isn't entertaining either. I want to go do something, and nothing seems like a good thing to do. Maybe I just want to go to bed. Maybe everything will seem more exciting after being asleep for half a day.
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A good programmer can pick up a new language. But sometimes, the new language is something like Haskell. The thing doesn't have any loops in it! And then I go online and type "how to use loops in Haskell", and of course such a question has been asked before. The answers, however, are horrifying things informing the asker that anything done with loops can be done with recursion in Haskell. Great. Thanks. I just have to try and come up with a weird way of recursively doing things that are normally done with loops.
Something as simple as determining if a number is prime! Any language has things which can be said better, and things which can only be said poorly. This thing, I fear, in Haskell, can only be said poorly.
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| As far as I can tell, Datingish is a spin-off of Xanga that focuses on dating questions. It is one site that feeds into the thing that suggest stories for me to read. Frequently, is comes up with people wondering whether something is acceptable (porn, cyber sex, etc.), or whether something is "cheating" in a relationship.
It makes me want to say, who cares? Who cares what a mass poll says about what is "cheating" and what isn't? That's just like wondering what kind of food you like, and going to a blog and posting, "is French food better than Mexican?"
But that's not how it works! You don't know until you go and try French food and Mexican food, and see how you yourself feel about them. Even if 90% of people prefer French food, that doesn't mean you have to like it better. Even if 99% of people say kissing other people is "cheating", that doesn't mean you have to snub your nose at it and say in indignant tones, "that's immoral!" Even if all your friends make fun of Justin Bieber, that doesn't mean it's bad to like his music.
What I want to know is, your significant other is doing this action. How does it make you feel?
If it makes you feel bad or disrespected or uncomfortable, then it doesn't matter if a hundred people say, that's not cheating, people do it all the time. It bothers you, and that's all the reason you need to bring it up. Discuss it with your significant other(s) and try to work out a solution. Maybe your partner(s) will say, "why is this an issue? Everyone else is fine with it!" But that's not an excuse, because relationships are all different.
And if it doesn't bother you? No one in the world can tell you that it should. If your significant other can kiss, touch, and sleep with other people, and it doesn't bother you, then why make yourself bothered by it? There's no reason every relationship has to have the same traditions and the same taboos. To me, "everyone else says sex with other people is cheating, so we have to treat it as a bad thing" sounds exactly the same as "everyone else says French food is better than Mexican, so we have to like French food better." Sure, it's bad for most relationships. But it's not bad for mine, and it doesn't have to be for yours.
That's up to you to decide. It doesn't matter how a hundred other people feel. How do you feel about it, and how do(es) your partner(s) feel about it? It's between you and your partner(s), and those are the opinions that matter in your relationship.
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