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[greyias]

Random Things I've Learned this Week:

1. The "Replace Color" feature in Photoshop CS3 (Image -> Adjustments -> Replace Color) is a lying liar that lies. Or, at least it's a very misleading tool. I have spent hours agonizing about colors not matching, when I realized that it applies the shade/color you pick to the one you're "replacing", it doesn't actually replace it. My faith in Photoshop is forever shaken.

   
   

2. How to Build a Snow Cave - Thanks to my handy dandy, Worst-Case Scenario 2009 Daily Survival Calendar I will never go shelterless in a snowfilled area ever again. Unfortunately due to the fact that I couldn't remember to bring in my calendar until this morning, I've missed all of the other helpful winter survival situations. So it's possible after building my shelter, I will be royally screwed.

   
   

3. Speaking of Desk Calendars... - I might not be someone who should have one of these. I feel incredibly guilty about throwing away every piece of paper I peel off. Especially when they're so fun!

   
   

4. Misty - Our German Shepherd is getting too smart for her own good. Crafty dog somehow managed to get out of her kennel this morning. It has yet to be determined whether she can actually open the latches on her kennel, or if it was human error. Either way, there is the sad possibility my dog might one day try to topple the human regime, and I'll have to stop her. For the good of the planet. *sniff*

   
   

5. I Fail at Replying to Comments - Okay, I've actually known this for a while, but I somehow have not found time to finish replying to everything last week. So for anyone thinking I might be ignoring them... I'm not. I just really don't know how to manage my time at the moment.

   
   

6. I need to have a voice recorder on me at all times - If only so that when people say things like "the only reason Obama got elected is because 24 got the American public used to a black man being president" I can play it back to them, over and over and over until they hear the words that they're saying, and possibly think about the implications of said words. It's probably a much more effective tactic than going "... ... ..." or "Way to dis-empower the voting public". Especially since "dis-empower" is not a word.

   
   

7. Context is a wonderful thing - and taking the time to find it helps me come down from the angry/offended cliff edge I find myself getting on perusing around the blogosphere. It's also a nice reminder that I'm entirely too vague in my own entries, especially when I'm trying to be *gasp* thoughtful.

   
   

8. Angry people make me tired - They really do. Not that there's not always a reason for their anger, their anger isn't justified, or anything of that sort -- but it's still incredibly draining. Also, I need to take more B-vitamins.

   
   

9. Sadly, I'm too tired to try and put context on some of the above items. Partly because somehow, my thoughts inevitably drift so far away from the original context that it becomes useless without a very detailed diagram, and man, those take time.

   
   

10. Stephen King is Made of Awesome. But more on this later.

    
    

11. Once again, hunger is making me loopy. I should probably, y'know, eat something.

    
    

12. Coherency is overrated
    

Comments

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[(Anonymous)]

random thoughts or an inherent lack of order

Re: uh

[greyias.livejournal.com]

Buh?

Re: uh

[(Anonymous)]

LOL, you don't reply to comments, and yet i received a "buh?" u skip from thoughts of "building a snow cave", to clever dog escape tactics, followed by the tiring angry folks (no implications as to what THAT is in actual reference to--examples???), all randomness blamed on being famished. you're the master of randomness, on all accounts, combined with unexpected humor, *sniff*, is it like A.D.D. meets Spock or something? :D

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

...I saved all the pages of my old Far Side daily calender myself (I mean, one can always find a place to stick a Far Side comic!)

[greyias.livejournal.com]

I mean, one can always find a place to stick a Far Side comic!

This is so true!

I need to get a giant tack-board for my office, methinks. You should always have a reference handy on how to ski off a hundred foot drop.

[(Anonymous)]

i suppose randomness is much harder to track, which is why you tend to speak in "code." hey, it sucks that some anonymous person can track and comment your blog, huh?! Bah haaaaaa!!!!

[greyias.livejournal.com]

Yes, it truly does suck.

But you seem... familiar somehow. Perhaps you are not so anonymous afterall?

[leesa_perrie]

McKay does not approve of incoherency...

...butI most certainly do!!! *bg* I think you need to keep a close eye on Misty... can't have a dog taking over the world, now can we?! I mean, what will the cats think of that?!



As for the calendar - sounds like it's full of plot ideas!! Go on, McKay in a snow cave, you know you want to!

*prods a plot bunny your way*

[greyias.livejournal.com]

I think you need to keep a close eye on Misty...

This is a good practice in general, since when one takes an eye off of her, things generally wind up in a thoroughly chewed state of disarray ;)

Go on, McKay in a snow cave, you know you want to!

Wellll... do you remember the icebergs (http://greyias.livejournal.com/51829.html)? XD

[leesa_perrie]

I'd forgotten about that! How could I have forgotten about that?!! I want iceburg whump and Rodney in a snow cave, please!! *g*

(Of course, Rodney is looking abit worried about all this ice cave talk!)

[greyias.livejournal.com]

*snort* I'll see what I can do. After all, I have all of 2009 ahead of me.

(Rodney is overreacting a bit, methinks.)

[leesa_perrie]

Nah, I think Rodney's got reason to worry!! *bg* Us whumping whumpers have a whole year ahead of us...!!!

[gnine.livejournal.com]

I want iceburg whump and Rodney in a snow cave, please!! *g*

Oh, oh, can I second this?! ^__-

[greyias.livejournal.com]

The masses have spoken! *g*

[water-soter.livejournal.com]

Masses or am I just mass *contemplates* This story must be written, oh awesome goddess of all things written. *nonchalantly slides very blue poster of Rodney and Sheppard acting dorky* Perhaps I little incentive is needed? *grin*

BTW that anonymous comments from before are really creepy. Is this person for real or is it just me.

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Speaking of Desk Calendars... - I might not be someone who should have one of these. I feel incredibly guilty about throwing away every piece of paper I peel off. Especially when they're so fun!
My mother flips the pages instead of ripping them off. Small Child delighted in going through the 2008 "Bat Cat" calendar when we were there for Christmas; all the pages were still attached!
I, on the other hand, simply forget to change the pages because I have stuff piled on the calendar. I've got last year's New Yorker calendar all over my desk, because periodically I'd pull all the outdated ones and set them aside to go through later. "Later" never came--ever, in 2008.

I know what you mean about anger. I read a lot of posts last night that made me think, but then...I couldn't sleep because I was thinking.

[greyias.livejournal.com]

Hee! I just got a mental image of SC going through the calendar. Very cute.

I know what you mean about anger. I read a lot of posts last night that made me think, but then...I couldn't sleep because I was thinking.

I've only skimmed through a few of those posts, I'm setting them aside to read through when I've got the time and energy to really process and think about them. It's definitely a charged subject that leads to a lot of critical thinking, which can definitely keep me up at night too, so you have my sympathy.

I think I find the ones who are almost always angry or negative about... whatever it is that's got their yarn that day (weather, service in a restaurant, person looked at me funny), to be particularly draining. Not sure why that is...

[gnine.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that calender sounds like a hoot. And I so know what you mean about replying to comments. I'm so bad at it, too...(course, I'm even worse with email. For me, procrastination, name of the game. ^_-) *huggles*

[greyias.livejournal.com]

Haha... well, seeing what day I've gotten back to my replying, I guess we're about even on that.

course, I'm even worse with email

Oh god, me too. I think the time it takes me to reply can be worked out on some mathematical equation like

n = z^{x + y}

Where n=number of days it takes to reply, z=reply length, x=singular related thoughts, y=tangential thoughts... it's the math of procrastination!

[little-blue.livejournal.com]

I <3 Worst Case Scenario Survival Guide Calendar. Too bad it's the middle of January and mine is still sitting out in the ether waiting to be purchased.

And having seen what we were talking about on the phone last night, I don't think it's either of them. The diction is almost intellectual :( LOL

Also Misty could rule the world if she can keep from getting her feelings hurt XD and going FINE I'M GOING OUTSIDE *poutflounceLEAVE* Which reminds me, I am really craving a Bagelful ;_; ANYway.

[greyias.livejournal.com]

Too bad it's the middle of January and mine is still sitting out in the ether waiting to be purchased.

Amazon.com third party sellers ftw! It cost me about $20, but I now have something to giggle about each morning :D