Friday, 13. June 2008, 10:46:58
mint tea, Potomac River, idiot, housing
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- Opera 9.5 is sweet like a sweet sweet thing. It's wickedly fast, and I've experienced only one glitch. I had to update my Gmail pop information; but from what I understand that isn't necessarily a bad/unexpected thing.
- I'm not homeless anymore! I have housing for next year. Oddly, it is in the same building on the same floor, but across the hall. Or maybe that will just be familiar, as it will mimic my housing from 1st and 2nd years.
- Speaking of not being homeless, my view isn't as expensive. No Potomac. That's okay though, because the room is nearly the same size. It has three fewer inches on the wall where I had five extra inches of space. Officially, this single occupancy room size is known as 'a whole lot of room'.
- I need to do something productive today, but I'm not sure what that's going to be. I do think mint tea should be involved, though.
- Is it healthy to be this excited about a browser? Do I care?
- E D Hill is a moron. Yes, I know she works (worked?) for Fox News, and so I should expect her to be a moron. However, the phrase 'terrorist fist jab' goes above and beyond most normal measures of Fox News idiocy. It is so stupid that it made me forget for almost a full day that the NYT refuses to call a fist bump a fist bump and uses silly other phrases instead. Even if she didn't write it, she still read it off of the teleprompter without hesitation. The sheer epic scope of this idiocy is such that I cannot possibly express it with words.
- Also, Miss Manners is a bright spot in the dark dark universe.
- The end.
Friday, 16. May 2008, 04:22:22
Internet Explorer, font, website, guas website
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IE can't render worth crap. I know this. And yet, I did not fully anticipate it. I finally thought today to check how the
new GUAS website looked in IE, and it was really bad. I had to change the font back from courier to times new roman, which I hate. I might compromise with perpetua, but I don't know if that will work. For now it stays tnr. It was a little bit traumatizing, especially because the site looked so good in Opera. To make up for the trauma, I give you one photo from
the album I made the other day of Mister Bones playing with the starfish toy L--- gave him. Speaking of Mister Bones, he still is strange about feet. Today he woke up, saw my feet, and walked
very quickly out of the room. Our only theory is that maybe, before he ended up at the shelter and before we adopted him, in between being starved and kept in a tiny cage he may have been kicked. He isn't weird about his own feet anymore - now my parents play this game with him where they tickle the fur that sticks out between the pads on the bottoms of his feet. Somehow, watching
South Park just now reminded me that I need to check how the GUAS website shows up in Firefox...
Thursday, 31. January 2008, 21:51:53
Silent Cal, geeky, browser, insomnia
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I was having a
problem with Opera session restore, inexplicably.
But! Today at lunch a friend used Silent Cal to look up conditions for some proposed astronomical viewing tomorrow night, and closed the entire browser window when he was done. He's not a tabs-using kind of guy. Anyway, when I relaunched, it opened the correct way, with everything as it had been before it was closed. Yay!
Yes, I realize how much of an uber-geek this makes me (and not even the useful kind who can write programs). Whatev. In celebration I removed a few more buttons from my user interface - now it's extra-super-minimalist(!)
Missed Jewish Ethics this morning because I couldn't fall asleep until five am. I would consider going to see someone about this, except that I know why I couldn't fall asleep, and there's nothing to be done about it. It shouldn't repeat itself, though. And also, that's my favourite class. [sad face]
