I felt fairly well restored yesterday evening, but today I'm headachey, queasy, and have lots of stabby pains.
Labels: Licking Wounds
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It flipped over to autumn last week - funny how the change is distinct.
Labels: Lake
An Example of How Helping New People is Time-Consuming
And this was an easy one.
(Note: these items have nothing to do with me (as in, I don't sell them).
New Person in need of help:
Hello, i purshased the leg warmers, which i cannot ear them, the description sais "DO NOT WEAR THEM Need to be alliend to your legs and linked together if you do not know hot to link your leg warmers please send me an im and i will walk you threw it enjoy" what the heck that means? i mean i already tryed to contact but i am still waittting confused. What alliend means? someone help me
Me:
Go to a place where you can build, like a sandbox.
Detach your legs.
Find them in Inventory.
Check that they are Modify and Copy.
Put the left leg on the ground.
Put the left legwarmer on the ground.
Move them around until the legwarmer is in the correct place.
Put the right leg on the ground.
Put the right legwarmer on the ground.
Move them around until the legwarmer is in the correct place.
Then look at them and make sure they look good as a pair.
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Select the left legwarmer.
Hold down Shift.
Select the left leg as well.
Control - L will link them.
Name it "L leg and legwarmer" or something unique.
Take the left leg/legwarmer into Inventory.
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Select the right legwarmer.
Hold down Shift.
Select the right leg as well.
Control - L will link them.
Name it "R leg and legwarmer" or something unique.
Take the right leg/legwarmer into Inventory.
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Find "leg and legwarmer" in your Inventory.
Wear them.
oh my, thank you very much!!! it worked ^^ -walks around with my awesome leg warmers- XDDDD i am so happy
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Lulz from the Emerald Collapse*
"I don't know what Soft's particular expertise is, but it makes sense to me that some engineers would, in their pursuit of cool features, forget about security. It is the sort of thing that would be caught in a design review or status report, by some OTHER person."
"His expertise is security."*Particularly the encoding of paths into a jpeg.
There's a Snowstorm fix pending for particles not timing out when UI suppressed! Yay!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.
Labels: vimeo
Jebus, it's cold. :-(
August is generally warm and dry - it's raining, cold (54F/12C), and breezy (7mph/11kph) today.
Labels: Climate Disruption
Fight
As I sat in the waiting room for three and a half hours I thought about various things, including trying to decide why I felt slightly nervous. I came to the conclusion it's because I'm not good at fighting and a doctor visit is a kind of fight. The fight involves making the doctor understand what you need, and then trying to extract something useful in a limited time.
She rightfully ran through a battery of tests and questions to get the overall picture, while I was saying, "I'm here for two reasons: one..." etc., etc. Although I can't have much influence over the "useful" part, I can over the "understand" part, which was why I took printed information with me. It remains to be seen what will happen, as she's going to contact a couple of people then email me. The last thing I said before I followed the long route out was, "I wanted to talk to the office people about the new patient packet. Why isn't that online?"
DrC: I don't think they are that technologically savvy.
Me: !!! It could just be a form you fill out online - I can't write, so it was difficult.
DrC: It should at least be something you can fill out then print and bring in.
She is also connected to an unconnected-to-ms issue which is vaguely interesting, although I am not able to pursue everything all at once, either financially, physically, or even just by inclination.
DrC: (paraphrase) That killed my father.
DrC: Of course, he was 83.
Me: Well... 83!
I'm extremely limited in medical choices - like, extremely, dude. Since I depend upon savings to survive anything I spend now comes off the other end - when, one hopes, one will be dead. A couple of years ago I was confident I'd be dead before I ran out of money, but now I've perked up a bit so it's not assured. Two years ago I was motivated to start writing a will after I developed a fever and wound up on the floor* for a few days, ha ha. It was annoying that the meat puppet is so hard to kill off :-D It will go on for years, dwindling down to nothing - not very useful.
I have a few little trails I'd like to travel, but alone and with very limited energy and money their accomplishment is very difficult. Still, it's very interesting - so don't think I'm sad about it. It's just the cogitation of the month, because going to the neuro, a once-a-decade-or-less occurence for me, makes these thoughts come to the forefront.
* That's why I keep ibuprofen and a phone book on the floor.
Labels: Cogitation
Monday, August 30, 2010
Labels: yootoob
Shhhhhhhh
I was in the OnLive beta, and it worked very well, but for me it was the same old story: one can't play games unless one has two hands (except a few like World of Goo). At least I got to try whatever it's called - Razer's Edge, which I thought I'd like, but sadly, with one hand all I do is fall off the roof. Now they are giving a year free, which most people would like, but not me, I suppose. *kicks the floor and stabs the old yahoo bloodspot on the wall*
When I was talking to Dr C I said, "Oh, look, we're reflected in the lid of the trash bin - it's great. Too bad I don't have a camera," and she whipped around and said, "NO ONE HAS EVER SAID THAT BEFORE* - that's the artist speaking." And she moved it around in case it was the way it was at that moment that was causing the lovely image, but no, it was just like that, and most excellent.
The decor is abhorrent, and I made the birthday man laugh by saying, "This is THE WORST WALLPAPER EVER." It's all 1980s horrid purple-pink and off green, with that awful 80s graphic style wallpaper that even the Web can't come up with because it's so ugly no one uploaded it (I googled '1980s horrid wallpaper' 'ugly pink 1980 graphic' 'wallpaper horrible' etc.).
There were four doctors and about 65 office-workers - well, I saw at least 15. They had 100 signs on the glass saying DO NOT TAP ON THE GLASS with pictures of sharks and goldfish. And multiple signs saying copayments are to be paid prior to service, and if you want a bill it's $15. And ALL THE OXYGEN WAS ON THEIR SIDE, and only leaked out when they opened the window. The receptionist was very nice to me (I hadn't tapped on the glass).
*That reminds me of once while walking the backstreets of Olympia (which we did every day, just about) with my soon-to-be-husband, I said (he was 8 years older than I), "Our mothers were born in the same year, and since a female is born with all her eggs it means we were born from eggs of the same age." He whipped around and said, "No one has ever had that thought before." Ha ha!
Labels: Department of Bwuhahahaha
Argh. *stabs Yahoo*
Yesterday I decided to try Panda Cloud - ok, let's see NO I HATE YAHOO DON'T INSTALL THE TOOLBAR KTHNXBAI - oh, sorry, was I shouting? :-D Today I noticed it, while not having installed frackin' Yahoo toolbar, had set Ya-fracking-hoo as all my search engine defaults. I was so annoyed I uninstalled Panda Cloud, changed search back to SL, and deleted Yahoo-ishness from my Mozilla folder. Then saw IT WAS LIKE THE UNDEAD it kept on coming. I had to go into about:config for FireFox and monkey around. If that hadn't worked I'd've uninstalled FireFox. And maybe burned the computer.
I HATE that effing Yahoo bought Flickr I HATE THAT.
I'll never get used to that, never, never never
*stabs Yahoo over and over and over*
DIE DIE DIE YOU MOTHER I HATE Y-OO
Tired
Ugh, I just got home from my neurology appt. It was scheduled at 11 am, and I was told to come 15 min early, but I wasn't sure how long it would take me to get in there so turned up ten or fifteen minutes before that. Then I had to wait 3.5 hours. A man was there when I arrived, waiting for a different neurologist; it's his birthday, today, too. I was going to beat on the receptionist if he went in first, to get her to give him a sticker or something, but I went in before him and exited out the back door.
She didn't know anything at all about CCSVI but is going to ask the ms walla at Swedish Hospital. She did a lot of asking/testing to see how I am. I had two questions - regarding CCSVI and a technologically more advanced foot drop appliance, but although she couldn't give me any info about either she says she'll ask people who do know. I said I'd find out if an mri is paid for at all by insurance, which she'd like me to do if possible.
I'd thought long and hard about what to take with me, and when she said she didn't know anything about CCSVI I gave her an article explaining it, and told her a doctor at Swedish is doing the procedure for m.s. sufferers.
Me: blah blah CCSVI
DrC: I don't know anything about it.
Me: You are supposed to be a fount of knowledge :(
later
Me: Coming here is such an ordeal.
DrC: Nooo, I disappointed you because I'm not a fount of knowledge!
Me: Heh. You should be!
She knew me perfectly well despite the fact that I've seen her perhaps three times, the last time ten years ago or so. My doctor's office knows me, too - I never understand that, either.
Me: I don't get it.
Frank: Most people are sheep. You're not a sheep.
Be that as it may, I'd never make a master criminal.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Errr... great... idea... :/Labels: Dept of ZOMG, Duct Tape
Saturday, August 28, 2010
LGG is working with Virtual Ability to create a specialised viewer from the Snowstorm project. (For anyone needing a scorecard for Emeraldgate, LGG backed out of the project and wrote a blogpost warning that he could no longer vouch for Emerald's trustworthiness, just before the whole project erupted).
Friday, August 27, 2010
Paul Allen is busy suing Aol, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, Officemax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube all at once.
Paging the Guiness Book of Worlds Records!
Labels: Dept of Divine Moles, Dept of ZOMG, Dept. of This Will Not End Well, Intarwebz, revived by an electric nut-grind
Human Age attempt at monkey mating:
"My monkey Dr Earnest Worthing has requested I write to you as he is consumed with admiration for the lovely Fingers."
Sun-like star's system is similar to our solar system.
Its designation "HD 10180" makes me think of video.
Shuffler
I like this because I like randomness. Shuffler surfs the music web and taps in to whatever is available at the time and within your chosen genre. Stations that give me what they think I want don't suit me much - like Netflix if I give something a high mark I immediately get ten more "just like" that one. Their idea of "just like" doesn't even coincide with mine, but I like diversity, randomness, new, so "just like" isn't something I prize anyway.
