I have problems with a lot of words. As my fingers all hit the keyboard at the same time, a lot of the time. Like, 'shower' always comes out 'whoer' for some reason. Consistently. And sometimes I end up with the beginning of one word + the end of the next word, just leaving out the middle.
Also terrible trouble with words like exercise and license that have the same sound repeated, but spelled differently. Cheese, for some reason. My fingers think it's got too many e's, it always ends up chees.
Wait, what's this about taking pills making you feel old? I've had to take a handful of pills every single day since I was 14. Mind you, having to is not exactly the same as actually doing so.
I'm 21 though, so I don't know as I can say a lot on anything else related to being old. Growing up doesn't seem all that great, really.
Not really a lurker, but haven't posted lately because I've been horribly busy... I come read every few days though. Anyway, hi, and off I go now to be busy again...
Also, I like pi. Especially pecan pi. Very tasty.
I grabbed We <3 Katamari when I saw it, and played it for about a week straight... Then went back to the first one and was rather annoyed. It's much improved in the second game. But the intro is better on the first... :)
As a sidenote, a million roses takes a fricking long time to roll up.
More knowledge of food allergies and dietary restrictions. And, waitstaff more interested in the continuing health of their customers than with convincing them to buy that specific item on the menu. That they do not, in fact, know all the ingredients of.
And I want my favorite Thai restaurant back. They're closing tomorrow night... with no plans to reopen. It is a terrible tragedy.
I have a linksys card on Win2K also, and have been using a client called Odyssey for the last year and a half. Since the linksys one was totally useless to me as far as I could tell.
Though it's not free software, they have a demo version which you might be interested in trying out.
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation or whatever to them, I can't afford to pay for software anyway. But it's a good program.
The global whitespace will probably help you out a lot. IE figures sizes differently than CSS specs indicate it should be done, so designing a layout to look good in IE is a bad idea. Hacking it to look decent in IE is a good idea.
I have unintentionally been a web designer for the last six months, so I've had to learn a lot of this too. IE gives me no end of trouble. Occasionally I have made something look really nice and forgotten to check it in IE and sent it off for my boss to look at, and he writes back trying to say nicely that it looks horrible... And I say, I hate IE...
iguanapolitico has it right, check it as you go, constantly. If you're tweaking, check it after every single tweak. I took out a width specifier for one element the other day and totally broke my navigation menu in IE. So!
And look up anything you have a problem with. There's lots of information out there. I've found the w3c specs for CSS to be extremely helpful, really, because they'll tell you exactly what is being laid out how (in Firefox at least) and you can go from there to make it work in IE. I only use one stylesheet, but I've had times where I've decided not to use a design because I can't feasibly make it work in IE without a seperate sheet. Just depends on how specific you want to be about it.
meredithea - as a sidenote on the drug testing kids doing extracurricular activities... When I was still in the public schools (not very many years ago), the interpretation I heard was that though schools don't have the right to do that to the student population in general, going along with the privacy thing, they are able to do so when a student chooses to do a school-sponsored and controlled activity. They have considerably more discretion over voluntary activities that they fund than they do over the mandatory activity of going to school at all.
On the other hand, they often have hardly any control over activities they don't fund. We found that to be a rather useful fact at my high school.
I work for a company that uses equations from quantum mechanics in neural networks to do neat things! That has nothing to do with the topic at hand, just more crazy complicated stuff. You don't want any technical description of that, either.
Nor could I really give it to you if you wanted it. Though I don't think it really works euphemistically anyway, since it's equations...
Mostly no one should sit next to anyone else. That would be heavenly, you can bet I'd fly more often then. Or go to class more often. Or... anything, really.
I've always had a problem with people trying to make policies like that based on an entire half of the population. It's utterly ridiculous, and besides they're misusing statistics again. As usual.
What you want to know, when you're restricting a population of people from doing something, is how many of them participate in the dangerous behavior. Not how that entire population compares to some other arbitrary population. Cause then you get, oh, well, only a very small percentage of these people do this. Restricting them all is ridiculous.
Looking at it the other way around is a good way to totally screw up.
Significant statistics, I say! I will be forever disappointed though I am sure...
Incidentally, I decided (randomly) to switch to a Dvorak layout a couple weeks ago. Then I realized, after relabeling all my keys, that the semicolon was in a horribly inconvenient place and I had a project in C++ to finish.
So I went back to qwerty. Luckily I touch-type and didn't have to undo all my labeling. But now my boyfriend can't use my keyboard...
roryk:i think one major problem with our perception of rape is that it continues to be treated as concerning sex rather than concerning violence.planetthoughtful:After establishing whether or not rape (sex without consent) has occurred, I assume other factors (ie whether accompanied by violence, etc) are taken into account in sentencing.
Without particularly taking sides on this, I'd like to point out that there is in fact a total disjoint of perception on what rape actually consists of.
When it's a violent crime, it's a violent crime.
When you expand the definition to include the case where the playing around goes too far without anyone explicitly giving consent, and it turns out that one of the participants was in fact against that happening... I don't know. I know they're both damaging, but I don't think you can call some cases violent crimes.
I don't really have anything useful to say, except to point out what others have said, that there would be a significant difference in what I'd expect for poll numbers depending on whether one was asking about violent rapes or rapes having to do primarily with lack of established consent. It's hard to have a discussion about things unless everyone agrees on a definition for them.
You can also just copy that page with the article, and then edit out the popup... But yeah, that's why I figured I'd post the link even though it was asserting that it was no longer there. :)
I have problems with a lot of words. As my fingers all hit the keyboard at the same time, a lot of the time. Like, 'shower' always comes out 'whoer' for some reason. Consistently. And sometimes I end up with the beginning of one word + the end of the next word, just leaving out the middle. Also terrible trouble with words like exercise and license that have the same sound repeated, but spelled differently. Cheese, for some reason. My fingers think it's got too many e's, it always ends up chees.
posted by shandrin 17 years ago
In "Curious George, what is the new middle aged?"
Wait, what's this about taking pills making you feel old? I've had to take a handful of pills every single day since I was 14. Mind you, having to is not exactly the same as actually doing so. I'm 21 though, so I don't know as I can say a lot on anything else related to being old. Growing up doesn't seem all that great, really.
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "Curious, George: UNLURK!"
Not really a lurker, but haven't posted lately because I've been horribly busy... I come read every few days though. Anyway, hi, and off I go now to be busy again... Also, I like pi. Especially pecan pi. Very tasty.
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "All the Katamari Damacy lyrics, translated to English."
I grabbed We <3 Katamari when I saw it, and played it for about a week straight... Then went back to the first one and was rather annoyed. It's much improved in the second game. But the intro is better on the first... :) As a sidenote, a million roses takes a fricking long time to roll up.
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "Any Monkeys in Dallas/Ft. Worth area?"
I could probably come. I have no idea of anywhere to meet though...
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "What chefs want in the new year. "
More knowledge of food allergies and dietary restrictions. And, waitstaff more interested in the continuing health of their customers than with convincing them to buy that specific item on the menu. That they do not, in fact, know all the ingredients of. And I want my favorite Thai restaurant back. They're closing tomorrow night... with no plans to reopen. It is a terrible tragedy.
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "Curious George: WiFi software."
I have a linksys card on Win2K also, and have been using a client called Odyssey for the last year and a half. Since the linksys one was totally useless to me as far as I could tell. Though it's not free software, they have a demo version which you might be interested in trying out. Disclaimer: I have no affiliation or whatever to them, I can't afford to pay for software anyway. But it's a good program.
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "If you see faces in the ink blots, you're crazy."
cog_nate, you are so right.
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "Curious George: CSS & browsers"
The global whitespace will probably help you out a lot. IE figures sizes differently than CSS specs indicate it should be done, so designing a layout to look good in IE is a bad idea. Hacking it to look decent in IE is a good idea. I have unintentionally been a web designer for the last six months, so I've had to learn a lot of this too. IE gives me no end of trouble. Occasionally I have made something look really nice and forgotten to check it in IE and sent it off for my boss to look at, and he writes back trying to say nicely that it looks horrible... And I say, I hate IE... iguanapolitico has it right, check it as you go, constantly. If you're tweaking, check it after every single tweak. I took out a width specifier for one element the other day and totally broke my navigation menu in IE. So! And look up anything you have a problem with. There's lots of information out there. I've found the w3c specs for CSS to be extremely helpful, really, because they'll tell you exactly what is being laid out how (in Firefox at least) and you can go from there to make it work in IE. I only use one stylesheet, but I've had times where I've decided not to use a design because I can't feasibly make it work in IE without a seperate sheet. Just depends on how specific you want to be about it.
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "An 8th grader discovers a camera in the boys' room of his school in Jasper County, GA. "
meredithea - as a sidenote on the drug testing kids doing extracurricular activities... When I was still in the public schools (not very many years ago), the interpretation I heard was that though schools don't have the right to do that to the student population in general, going along with the privacy thing, they are able to do so when a student chooses to do a school-sponsored and controlled activity. They have considerably more discretion over voluntary activities that they fund than they do over the mandatory activity of going to school at all. On the other hand, they often have hardly any control over activities they don't fund. We found that to be a rather useful fact at my high school.
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "Can quantum physics explain the paranormal?"
I work for a company that uses equations from quantum mechanics in neural networks to do neat things! That has nothing to do with the topic at hand, just more crazy complicated stuff. You don't want any technical description of that, either. Nor could I really give it to you if you wanted it. Though I don't think it really works euphemistically anyway, since it's equations...
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "Should all men be treated as paedophiles by default?"
Mostly no one should sit next to anyone else. That would be heavenly, you can bet I'd fly more often then. Or go to class more often. Or... anything, really.
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
I've always had a problem with people trying to make policies like that based on an entire half of the population. It's utterly ridiculous, and besides they're misusing statistics again. As usual. What you want to know, when you're restricting a population of people from doing something, is how many of them participate in the dangerous behavior. Not how that entire population compares to some other arbitrary population. Cause then you get, oh, well, only a very small percentage of these people do this. Restricting them all is ridiculous. Looking at it the other way around is a good way to totally screw up. Significant statistics, I say! I will be forever disappointed though I am sure...
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "Play 20 Questions with an AI"
I beat it with 'marble' once. I did not beat it with 'black hole'. I guess AIs don't play with marbles.
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "Just in time for Christmas!"
I still love boxes... and shiny things... nothing beats a shiny box.
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "Typing"
Incidentally, I decided (randomly) to switch to a Dvorak layout a couple weeks ago. Then I realized, after relabeling all my keys, that the semicolon was in a horribly inconvenient place and I had a project in C++ to finish. So I went back to qwerty. Luckily I touch-type and didn't have to undo all my labeling. But now my boyfriend can't use my keyboard...
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "She asked for it?"
roryk:i think one major problem with our perception of rape is that it continues to be treated as concerning sex rather than concerning violence. planetthoughtful:After establishing whether or not rape (sex without consent) has occurred, I assume other factors (ie whether accompanied by violence, etc) are taken into account in sentencing. Without particularly taking sides on this, I'd like to point out that there is in fact a total disjoint of perception on what rape actually consists of. When it's a violent crime, it's a violent crime. When you expand the definition to include the case where the playing around goes too far without anyone explicitly giving consent, and it turns out that one of the participants was in fact against that happening... I don't know. I know they're both damaging, but I don't think you can call some cases violent crimes. I don't really have anything useful to say, except to point out what others have said, that there would be a significant difference in what I'd expect for poll numbers depending on whether one was asking about violent rapes or rapes having to do primarily with lack of established consent. It's hard to have a discussion about things unless everyone agrees on a definition for them.
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "Quantum Entanglement"
"Electrons do not eat apples to make a quantum leap (their mouths are too small)." Hah! I enjoy this. More people need to understand these things.
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "Java doodling."
Wow... there goes hours of my day.
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
In "Chop chop!"
You can also just copy that page with the article, and then edit out the popup... But yeah, that's why I figured I'd post the link even though it was asserting that it was no longer there. :)
posted by shandrin 18 years ago
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