2893: Daybreak
I'm at the point now where my slack paranoia has worn off, if my co-workers are flagrantly watching YouTube while there's nothing immediate to do, so now that I've run out of immediate browsing material, I might as well drone off on some trivial things that were on my mind.
Yahoo! came up with a Top Ten Work-from-Home Jobs list:8: Desktop Publisher
Just as small businesses rely on public relations professionals to tell their stories, company owners look to desktop publishing professionals to make their stories look good in print. Advanced publishing tools now make it possible for desktop publishers to work from home, often earning over $20 as freelancers or in staff positions. Advanced training courses in graphic design and desktop publishing help these specialists retain the cutting-edge skills that help build strong client rosters.
I like that "earning over $20" part. I think most jobs would net that, if spread across several hours. This is, incidentally, something I meant to work on, but it's hard creating a demo when I have to build EVERYTHING from scratch. Layouts are pretty quick [with the right assets], since I just organize it all to look good: crop here and there, put a filter on this image for a nice background. If I had to do everything from scratch, I'd still be on my first one =p
I also came across an article about not being able to tell left from right, which I'd meant to comment on in terms of it actually being entirely understandable. I know it's even a joke--"How do you not know your left from your right?!" [which the article addresses]--but when you get down to it, "left" and "right" are really among the hardest concepts to explain. That is a spoiler for this riddle, but when the only clear way to describe the difference between "left" and "right" is to physically show it, it's actually NOT so clear, is it? Yes, you can say things like, "to the west, when facing north" or "When you face the sun in the morning, left is where the nouth end of a compass needle points and right is where the south end points," but relying so heavily on multiple external references for it is tedious [what if I don't have a compass?], compared to other things we can define so much more easily. Even Merriam-Webster has to say "of, relating to, situated on, or being the side of the body in which the heart is mostly located"--which doesn't make it any clearer if you don't know biology that well.
Similarly, what is "life"? This was a question in one of our science classes, what property is inherent in something that is "alive" vs. something that is "dead"--and what a lot of abortion politics can't get clear, otherwise there would be no argument of whether it actually is murder.
I suppose you could say, "Life...is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast." Even by humourous guidelines, it's still a little unclear, though. [I'd post the one about "Life is the property one loses when dropped from a high place" that has flaws because it may refer to one's glasses and fails to take into account what if one subsequently lands on a passing bird, but I can't find the exact quote.]
...wow! Two solid hours of doing NOT A DAMN THING. I may as well go shopping or something =p Odd thinking I only have a week-and-a-half-ish more of this, 'cause there's either much less to do than I thought or it'll get stretched out quite a bit due to having to wait to be assigned something. Unfortunately, I can't think of anything else [work-safe] to sit and read in the meantime--I've exhausted most of my usual hangouts, and I'm not too adventurous about new things [as I'm not always certain about work-safeness].
Yahoo! came up with a Top Ten Work-from-Home Jobs list:8: Desktop Publisher
Just as small businesses rely on public relations professionals to tell their stories, company owners look to desktop publishing professionals to make their stories look good in print. Advanced publishing tools now make it possible for desktop publishers to work from home, often earning over $20 as freelancers or in staff positions. Advanced training courses in graphic design and desktop publishing help these specialists retain the cutting-edge skills that help build strong client rosters.
I like that "earning over $20" part. I think most jobs would net that, if spread across several hours. This is, incidentally, something I meant to work on, but it's hard creating a demo when I have to build EVERYTHING from scratch. Layouts are pretty quick [with the right assets], since I just organize it all to look good: crop here and there, put a filter on this image for a nice background. If I had to do everything from scratch, I'd still be on my first one =p
I also came across an article about not being able to tell left from right, which I'd meant to comment on in terms of it actually being entirely understandable. I know it's even a joke--"How do you not know your left from your right?!" [which the article addresses]--but when you get down to it, "left" and "right" are really among the hardest concepts to explain. That is a spoiler for this riddle, but when the only clear way to describe the difference between "left" and "right" is to physically show it, it's actually NOT so clear, is it? Yes, you can say things like, "to the west, when facing north" or "When you face the sun in the morning, left is where the nouth end of a compass needle points and right is where the south end points," but relying so heavily on multiple external references for it is tedious [what if I don't have a compass?], compared to other things we can define so much more easily. Even Merriam-Webster has to say "of, relating to, situated on, or being the side of the body in which the heart is mostly located"--which doesn't make it any clearer if you don't know biology that well.
Similarly, what is "life"? This was a question in one of our science classes, what property is inherent in something that is "alive" vs. something that is "dead"--and what a lot of abortion politics can't get clear, otherwise there would be no argument of whether it actually is murder.
I suppose you could say, "Life...is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast." Even by humourous guidelines, it's still a little unclear, though. [I'd post the one about "Life is the property one loses when dropped from a high place" that has flaws because it may refer to one's glasses and fails to take into account what if one subsequently lands on a passing bird, but I can't find the exact quote.]
...wow! Two solid hours of doing NOT A DAMN THING. I may as well go shopping or something =p Odd thinking I only have a week-and-a-half-ish more of this, 'cause there's either much less to do than I thought or it'll get stretched out quite a bit due to having to wait to be assigned something. Unfortunately, I can't think of anything else [work-safe] to sit and read in the meantime--I've exhausted most of my usual hangouts, and I'm not too adventurous about new things [as I'm not always certain about work-safeness].