Dear various computerized search mechanisms,

What happened to wildcards? What happened to me having to ask if I wanted you to find words inside words? It's not that I object, really, to finding "elves" and "elvish" when I ask for "elf", or finding "danced", "dancing", and "dancer" when I ask for "dance" -- I could have misremembered what I was ( Read more... )

My computer at school is a PowerBook running OS 10.3.9, which means that it is becoming increasingly incapable of dealing with the internet, what with being unable to run Firefox \ge 3, or whatever the current version of Flashplayer is, etc. I've been playing with the idea of installing some version of Linux so as to let the computer continue to ( Read more... )

Technology may have reached the point where TextEdit and TexShop fill all my word-processing* needs, since apparently TextEdit can open .doc files (so I can still work on stuff that was started on the other computer, which has Word) and it appears that I can copy-paste text from .pdf files in Preview (so I can write my nano in tex and still be able ( Read more... )

Hey, look, robots!

As I am drowning in midterms (again. There are only two-ish weeks left in the semester, by the way, which is a terrifying thought), I may have misrepresented the likelihood of an actual ConBust post containing actual content. But there are pictures here.

Observation 1: Skype does conference calls, apparently with ridiculous numbers of people ( Read more... )

My Victorian underwear patterns have arrived. (Unfortunately my external hard-drive hasn't, since apparently somebody took the pre-sign for delivery sheet off the door after I left this morning, and put it on the table. The tracking website says they came around noon, when I was in class, and apparently no one else was home, either. And then ( Read more... )

And we're talking about the computers first. I think I need to get an external hard-drive, for the purposes of backups, because my computer is getting old and grumbly, and it quite literally froze some twenty minutes ago. (As in, the screen wouldn't do anything. ITunes was still playing, but the screen was stuck--I'd pushed F9, and it refused to ( Read more... )