4009: Space Oddity
Let me introduce y'all to semagic. Y'all. Semagic. Semagic? Y'all.
Semagic has been my choice of LJ client since I started rambling in posts and losing them when my browser closed on accident [usually due to persistent updates that demand an IMMEDIATE LIKE restart at all costs]. Notice that left arrow, right arrow, and stop sign-looking thing above "Subject:".
WHAT IS THAT. I CANNOT FIGURE OUT D= Every other toolbar/menu I don't really use, I can hide, EXCEPT THAT ONE THAT I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT DOES. [YES I read the help guide]
If I'm a little control-freaky about unnecessary things taking up space, it's an in-grained habit. Space is something that's been largely out of my control for the majority of my life, such that every space-wasting thing discarded is a victory, every useless and unremovable thing taking up space is a huge setback.
ESPECIALLY on my computer.
This is hardly the worst offender of late--while I can conceivably work back through my stored installation files to see if I have a pre-what-is-that version and/or a different client to use, other space-wasters elude me as to how to remedy. Like this one:
That bar outlined in red. I USE NOTHING ON THAT. It's a worthless waste of space, and it's the worst thing about Vista/Win7 because it drives me batty and I can't remove it. THE ONE USELESS THING, I CAN'T REMOVE. It's like the fuss over Facebook and their obnoxious renovations that primarily serve to confuse anyone who wants to use the site, except with less reason. [Arguably, FB's doing what they're doing to increase Pages' visibility, but I don't see how since I actually see LESS of the Pages I view.]
It seems like a trivial thing to complain about, but it's like if someone put permanent tape on the bottom half-centimetre of my glasses: it's in the way, does nothing to help me, and does everything to irritate me. Of course I want it gone! It's not even on the top half where I could kinda sorta ignore it maybe, it's on the bottom where my eyes are most likely to look!
[yay metaphors]
If I'm irritable, I guess it's symptomatic of our times. I *had* a phone interview on Friday that I missed because, hey, we decided to reschedule last-minute after giving one day notice in the first place, then oops, the person you would have spoken with bailed out early for the weekend, so we'll talk on Tuesday... and this is the one bite I've had in, what, two months? [well, except the insurance place againEEW I DON'T SALES] That I'm getting the same kind of runaround I got from the last place makes me think I'm kind of at the end of their list and not really important. I hope it's not the case, but that's definitely the impression I get--even if they want me deeply madly desperately, am I going to be subject to the same schedule fuckery that I'm getting now?
I guess I could insert something about #OccupyWallStreet, but I'm kinda bleurgh about the whole thing. I get that the dipshits responsible for the economic collapse haven't been held accountable, and I get that it's ultimately up to everyone to work together vs. relying on the government or the "1%" to make jobs. It seems like a lot more to follow than I can really comprehend, though, since it's not really organized, it's not a single voice, and most of what I pick up is what other people are saying, with the major news outlets trying to squelch everything about it at ALL, as though ignoring them will make them go away.
The main thing I saw and see is that economic growth comes from exchange of wealth: If I make books and Charles makes cookies, and I want cookies and Charles wants books, we can exchange them and both be better. If we can't exchange them, because there's an intermediate step where money is involved, and neither of us have money, both of us are worse off. Or, I guess C is still okay, 'cause he'll eat all the cookies, but I can't eat books. BUT PAYING FOR THINGS IS GOOD and that's the thing I can't understand about being super-rich-greedy. I just don't comprehend what's so important that having $60 million is so vital that $50 million is going to be a hardship. Are you using that $10 million to cure cancer and the other $50 million is making sure the $10 million can go to cancer? What am I missing?
Oh, yeah. GREED.
...as I said, bleurgh.
So anyway, I defaulted on comic -_- mostly it's that I had this persistent "Acrobat 8.0" error that what the fuck is Acrobat 8.0 even doing on my computer?? that I tried to purge it and it ruined my computer so I ended up wiping my drive and starting over [which, at least that part was easy enough] but ended up spending the rest of my time getting all my settings back though even now I have Firefox totally reset itself for no reason??? so I had to RE-reconfigure all my settings again and now this Semagic thing [also resetting itself]...
Draw times? What times are those? =_=
Granted, I have this problem with Sketch Bet that I can't get myself to actually SKETCH for my at-home participation. I end up overdoing it and getting something that took eight hours instead of the prescribed fifteen minutes or so.
Which is cool when I end up throwing all these into a sketchbook for sale, but insofar as my queue is down to ZERO days, it sucks.
Boy, that got rambly. If I was still on the website client, this post would've been obliterated in a refresh by now ¬_¬ ...maybe. Firefox has actually been good about saving drafts in the past, though I'm not sure with the whole resetting thing it's been doing.
Anyway POST
Semagic has been my choice of LJ client since I started rambling in posts and losing them when my browser closed on accident [usually due to persistent updates that demand an IMMEDIATE LIKE restart at all costs]. Notice that left arrow, right arrow, and stop sign-looking thing above "Subject:".
WHAT IS THAT. I CANNOT FIGURE OUT D= Every other toolbar/menu I don't really use, I can hide, EXCEPT THAT ONE THAT I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT DOES. [YES I read the help guide]
If I'm a little control-freaky about unnecessary things taking up space, it's an in-grained habit. Space is something that's been largely out of my control for the majority of my life, such that every space-wasting thing discarded is a victory, every useless and unremovable thing taking up space is a huge setback.
ESPECIALLY on my computer.
This is hardly the worst offender of late--while I can conceivably work back through my stored installation files to see if I have a pre-what-is-that version and/or a different client to use, other space-wasters elude me as to how to remedy. Like this one:
That bar outlined in red. I USE NOTHING ON THAT. It's a worthless waste of space, and it's the worst thing about Vista/Win7 because it drives me batty and I can't remove it. THE ONE USELESS THING, I CAN'T REMOVE. It's like the fuss over Facebook and their obnoxious renovations that primarily serve to confuse anyone who wants to use the site, except with less reason. [Arguably, FB's doing what they're doing to increase Pages' visibility, but I don't see how since I actually see LESS of the Pages I view.]
It seems like a trivial thing to complain about, but it's like if someone put permanent tape on the bottom half-centimetre of my glasses: it's in the way, does nothing to help me, and does everything to irritate me. Of course I want it gone! It's not even on the top half where I could kinda sorta ignore it maybe, it's on the bottom where my eyes are most likely to look!
[yay metaphors]
If I'm irritable, I guess it's symptomatic of our times. I *had* a phone interview on Friday that I missed because, hey, we decided to reschedule last-minute after giving one day notice in the first place, then oops, the person you would have spoken with bailed out early for the weekend, so we'll talk on Tuesday... and this is the one bite I've had in, what, two months? [well, except the insurance place againEEW I DON'T SALES] That I'm getting the same kind of runaround I got from the last place makes me think I'm kind of at the end of their list and not really important. I hope it's not the case, but that's definitely the impression I get--even if they want me deeply madly desperately, am I going to be subject to the same schedule fuckery that I'm getting now?
I guess I could insert something about #OccupyWallStreet, but I'm kinda bleurgh about the whole thing. I get that the dipshits responsible for the economic collapse haven't been held accountable, and I get that it's ultimately up to everyone to work together vs. relying on the government or the "1%" to make jobs. It seems like a lot more to follow than I can really comprehend, though, since it's not really organized, it's not a single voice, and most of what I pick up is what other people are saying, with the major news outlets trying to squelch everything about it at ALL, as though ignoring them will make them go away.
The main thing I saw and see is that economic growth comes from exchange of wealth: If I make books and Charles makes cookies, and I want cookies and Charles wants books, we can exchange them and both be better. If we can't exchange them, because there's an intermediate step where money is involved, and neither of us have money, both of us are worse off. Or, I guess C is still okay, 'cause he'll eat all the cookies, but I can't eat books. BUT PAYING FOR THINGS IS GOOD and that's the thing I can't understand about being super-rich-greedy. I just don't comprehend what's so important that having $60 million is so vital that $50 million is going to be a hardship. Are you using that $10 million to cure cancer and the other $50 million is making sure the $10 million can go to cancer? What am I missing?
Oh, yeah. GREED.
...as I said, bleurgh.
So anyway, I defaulted on comic -_- mostly it's that I had this persistent "Acrobat 8.0" error that what the fuck is Acrobat 8.0 even doing on my computer?? that I tried to purge it and it ruined my computer so I ended up wiping my drive and starting over [which, at least that part was easy enough] but ended up spending the rest of my time getting all my settings back though even now I have Firefox totally reset itself for no reason??? so I had to RE-reconfigure all my settings again and now this Semagic thing [also resetting itself]...
Draw times? What times are those? =_=
Granted, I have this problem with Sketch Bet that I can't get myself to actually SKETCH for my at-home participation. I end up overdoing it and getting something that took eight hours instead of the prescribed fifteen minutes or so.
Which is cool when I end up throwing all these into a sketchbook for sale, but insofar as my queue is down to ZERO days, it sucks.
Boy, that got rambly. If I was still on the website client, this post would've been obliterated in a refresh by now ¬_¬ ...maybe. Firefox has actually been good about saving drafts in the past, though I'm not sure with the whole resetting thing it's been doing.
Anyway POST