Assorted rants
Oct. 14th, 2014 12:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackGot to work late because of waiting for the bed delivery. Then got 8 hours of productive work done. That never happens! Why can't that happen every day?
Squeeeee! Bed!
Where would you put the "off" switch for a monitor?
☐ Somewhere you can't reach
☐ In a concrete bunker under the raptor cage
☑ At the corner where you need to grab it to adjust the height
☐ Anywhere else
How can you tell if a unicode ☐ character shows up correctly? :)
I added two more weekly resolutions to beeminder. It's a lot more convenient now it has a "max safe days" option, it's easier to make goals where you don't want to do a total amount, but want to do an approximate amount every week if you say "doing twice as much this week can give me credit for next week, but no more". But getting in to work 7 hours early, I wouldn't do, but if I did, would be equally unprofessional to getting in to work 7 hours late, not cancel it out. And no amount of cleaning now will mean I don't have to tidy again for three months! My new resolutions are 15 minutes of tidying twice a week (ie. not only at the last minute). And 15 minutes of practising some hobby (drawing, writing, juggling, etc) twice a week.
Personal pet hates, book blurbs that end with an ellipsis. LOOK, STOP BEING COY, THAT'S IMPLICIT IN YOUR PREMISE, IT'S NOT A SNEAKY SURPRISE, JUST SAY IT, WE KNOW THE PROTAGONIST IS GOING TO SPEND ALL BOOK JUGGLING THOSE TWO COMMITMENTS, TELL ME WHAT SETS THIS BOOK APART FROM ALL THE OTHER ONES WITH THE SAME COVER, OK?
In related news, I'm so averse to capslock that even when I am writing an all-caps rant, I just hold down shift! It's easier because my fingers do it automatically.
Come to think of it, why isn't there an italic-lock key?
Finished Saga vol 1. Beautiful and fascinating. I was somehow expecting less gore and disturbing situaitons, though, even if they were perpetrated by bad people. On to Vol 2, but not immediately.
ETA: In case it wasn't clear, guess who just hit the last day of "resolution to post three blog posts a week" :)
Squeeeee! Bed!
Where would you put the "off" switch for a monitor?
☐ Somewhere you can't reach
☐ In a concrete bunker under the raptor cage
☑ At the corner where you need to grab it to adjust the height
☐ Anywhere else
How can you tell if a unicode ☐ character shows up correctly? :)
I added two more weekly resolutions to beeminder. It's a lot more convenient now it has a "max safe days" option, it's easier to make goals where you don't want to do a total amount, but want to do an approximate amount every week if you say "doing twice as much this week can give me credit for next week, but no more". But getting in to work 7 hours early, I wouldn't do, but if I did, would be equally unprofessional to getting in to work 7 hours late, not cancel it out. And no amount of cleaning now will mean I don't have to tidy again for three months! My new resolutions are 15 minutes of tidying twice a week (ie. not only at the last minute). And 15 minutes of practising some hobby (drawing, writing, juggling, etc) twice a week.
Personal pet hates, book blurbs that end with an ellipsis. LOOK, STOP BEING COY, THAT'S IMPLICIT IN YOUR PREMISE, IT'S NOT A SNEAKY SURPRISE, JUST SAY IT, WE KNOW THE PROTAGONIST IS GOING TO SPEND ALL BOOK JUGGLING THOSE TWO COMMITMENTS, TELL ME WHAT SETS THIS BOOK APART FROM ALL THE OTHER ONES WITH THE SAME COVER, OK?
In related news, I'm so averse to capslock that even when I am writing an all-caps rant, I just hold down shift! It's easier because my fingers do it automatically.
Come to think of it, why isn't there an italic-lock key?
Finished Saga vol 1. Beautiful and fascinating. I was somehow expecting less gore and disturbing situaitons, though, even if they were perpetrated by bad people. On to Vol 2, but not immediately.
ETA: In case it wasn't clear, guess who just hit the last day of "resolution to post three blog posts a week" :)
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Date: 2014-10-14 07:22 pm (UTC)Right, thank you for explaining why capslock is so annoying! :)
In fact, I think I was thinking of something in the middle, not assuming a global state, but assuming a standard short-cut key which many programs used, whether that was "change font style" or "insert <i>" or whatever was appropriate for what was being edited. But that might not be plausible.
I agree, having a special keyboard key for everything would be terrible. Although the other side of it is that any special mode should be clearly visible on the screen -- I don't get how people can ever use vi without it being obvious from the whole screen whether you're in insert mode or not, and capslock should tint the screen red or something :) And terminals on non-production machines should always be a different colour :)