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Recently I started to consciously realize that the video game design world picked up a lot of its messaging/iconography from comics and cartoons.
Speaking of video, I recently saw a short video on how to use a banana to repair a scratched CD/DVD. I don't even know if it works or not, but my first reaction to the video was that it took far longer to watch the video than it would have taken to read all the text in the video and understand the instructions. It also would have taken less time for its author to simply write the instructions and put them up on a web page. The bottom line here: Not everything needs to be made into a YouTube video. It is actually wasteful. You're only doing it that way because it's the "hip" or "popular" way to do things now, because everyone is doing it. But is the medium more important than your message? Are less people going to hear you if you don't have a YouTube video, a MySpace page, etc.? Is any of that stuff really necessary? End rant.
The raging Zaca fire, now over 120,000 acres old, is upwind of us again this morning, which is causing more ash and smoke to come our way. The ash just gets all over everything (I can't wash my car until it's all over, which might not be until September), and the sky looks "apocalyptic" (according to our local morning radio host). He's right, in a way; it's turned many darker red/yellow colors you don't see every day out here, and the sun is a dim yellow lightbulb behind it all. I'm glad I'm working indoors.
I recently had the urge to get a laptop, but I've resisted on the grounds that what I want in a laptop is not only too expensive for me right now, but not necessary enough either.
Getting used to running Ubuntu Linux at home has made me dislike the Windows delete confirmation dialog, so I turned it off (right-click Recycle Bin, click Properties). I still hate the fact that the size of the Recycle Bin is measured in PERCENT and not MB. Wasteful. I don't even need 300MB for my Recycle Bin. I can use that space for, you know, stuff I'm not deleting.
I've got half a mind to turn the Recycle Bin off completely. (You can do that, you know!) I don't really work with local files much on this computer anyway, and when I do, I almost never throw them away.
Recently I started to consciously realize that the video game design world picked up a lot of its messaging/iconography from comics and cartoons.
Speaking of video, I recently saw a short video on how to use a banana to repair a scratched CD/DVD. I don't even know if it works or not, but my first reaction to the video was that it took far longer to watch the video than it would have taken to read all the text in the video and understand the instructions. It also would have taken less time for its author to simply write the instructions and put them up on a web page. The bottom line here: Not everything needs to be made into a YouTube video. It is actually wasteful. You're only doing it that way because it's the "hip" or "popular" way to do things now, because everyone is doing it. But is the medium more important than your message? Are less people going to hear you if you don't have a YouTube video, a MySpace page, etc.? Is any of that stuff really necessary? End rant.
The raging Zaca fire, now over 120,000 acres old, is upwind of us again this morning, which is causing more ash and smoke to come our way. The ash just gets all over everything (I can't wash my car until it's all over, which might not be until September), and the sky looks "apocalyptic" (according to our local morning radio host). He's right, in a way; it's turned many darker red/yellow colors you don't see every day out here, and the sun is a dim yellow lightbulb behind it all. I'm glad I'm working indoors.
I recently had the urge to get a laptop, but I've resisted on the grounds that what I want in a laptop is not only too expensive for me right now, but not necessary enough either.
Getting used to running Ubuntu Linux at home has made me dislike the Windows delete confirmation dialog, so I turned it off (right-click Recycle Bin, click Properties). I still hate the fact that the size of the Recycle Bin is measured in PERCENT and not MB. Wasteful. I don't even need 300MB for my Recycle Bin. I can use that space for, you know, stuff I'm not deleting.
I've got half a mind to turn the Recycle Bin off completely. (You can do that, you know!) I don't really work with local files much on this computer anyway, and when I do, I almost never throw them away.