I mean, good lord! I should be able to convert something to greyscale with the click of one button! I should not have to try to choose the right shade of grey, and hope that it's not trying to be RGB and is willing to be Black and White, and then run around with a fill tool!
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04:07:49 PM,Tuesday 27 March 2007
Paint is a rotten substitute.
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04:01:45 PM,Tuesday 27 March 2007
It is Tuesday, and already I can barely keep my eyes open. My body's natural sleep patterns do their best to reassert themselves on the weekend. I despise that the working world is run so clearly on a pattern that my body doesn't like. I have found that if you are not a morning person, the world looks down on you. It pisses me off to no end.
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02:32:22 PM,Tuesday 27 March 2007
Just when I was getting used to Hugh Laurie as a curmudgeonly but brilliant American doctor, Lara and I watched like five episodes of Jeeves and Wooster and it is blown again.
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02:04:21 PM,Monday 19 March 2007
I am, and have been for ages, incredibly picky at pens. My preference is towards refillable fountain pens, but that seemed like an extraordinary amount of work for work, so I went out and bought some fairly decent roller ball pens. Typical ball point mens make my wrist hurt, I have to press down so hard. I am now down to one, and it is running dry. I am sad. I will have to go out and get more.
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02:52:44 PM,Friday 16 March 2007
After frantic phone calls about "broken" appliances that turned out to not actually be broken, I am quite relieved that the Comcast guy actually did find something wrong with our cables that he had to fix. It is, apparently, now all fixed.
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11:35:09 AM,Wednesday 14 March 2007
Our new virus scanner picked up more than 31000 dangerous files on my computer, all of which were in Norton's Quarantine folder. This struck me as odd and unusual. They were all, originally, cookies from Firefox. I've had Firefox on my computer for like two weeks. Is this, like, remotely normal? No one else in my office had a similar problem.
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01:44:05 PM,Tuesday 13 March 2007
The moral of yesterday is that I am, in fact, addicted to caffeine. I drank no coffee in the morning, as there was no cream. And I was barely functional. I couldn't remotely type. By the afternoon, I had the sort of headache that felt like my skull was being stabbed from the inside. I'd been thinking about going to the gym, but all I had the energy to do was curl up in a ball on my couch and watch videos on my laptop. I was unsure if it was my sinuses, the weather change, the lack of caffeine, or a combination of the three. And today I ran into Giant before I went to work, to pick up cream and tissues before going to work, and I feel much much better.
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09:40:05 AM,Tuesday 13 March 2007
Our new virus scanner at work apparently found Norton's Quarantine folder and recognized everything within as a threat. Which made for quite the fun scan, let me tell you.
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09:30:50 AM,Tuesday 13 March 2007
Burgandy and flamy red and orange do not go, whatever I may have been thinking when I grabbed my sweater this morning. Granted, I was thinking "it's going to be 70 something, I'm not wearing my coat, and this sweater is right here" but still. This is why I need a simple black sweater.
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08:52:42 AM,Tuesday 13 March 2007
I went home last night, and my internet was running like molasses. It was odd, though, if I ran a speed test, my download speed was great, it was just my upload speed apparently didn't exist. I called Comcast. We spent about an hour on the phone, I swear the guy didn't believe me. At some point he said "well, maybe it's just the website you're going to is having problems." Says I: "I'm going to Google. I can't even search it, cause it doesn't load." At which point he kind of went "huh." They are sending a technician to my house on Tuesday. I may very well spend far too much time on the internet, but I feel odd without it.
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09:44:41 AM,Friday 9 March 2007
I have this nearly Pavlovian response to it being 5 and hearing the elevator go at which point I desperately need to use the bathroom, just as the cleaning lady starts cleaning. It's totally absurd. It's gotten to the point where if it's almost 5, I'll go to the bathroom, to avoid waiting for her to finish or going downstairs.
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04:53:52 PM,Wednesday 7 March 2007
I took the BBC's how well do you know what happened in the world this week quiz, and I got them all right! I'm quite proud of myself. Generally, I get like two right cause I knew, and then I make a few random guesses. This week the only one I had to guess was about what early Europeans would not have eaten.
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09:06:58 AM,Friday 2 March 2007
Dan Bern will be playing at the Birchmere in May. I will dance around in glee.
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02:26:41 PM,Wednesday 28 February 2007
I fell majorly behind on filing. I have spent today trying to get caught up since like October. It sucks. I managed to get someone to help me, but it still sucks.
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05:04:21 PM,Tuesday 27 February 2007
I keep getting unsolicited sales calls on my cell phone. Which is registered with donotcall.gov.
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05:03:29 PM,Tuesday 27 February 2007
So, yesterday at work, we had to update my Java and put it on Sun's instead of Microsoft's. I hadn't even known Microsoft made a Java. We went to the website to download it, and there was one version for Linux, two for Solaris, and one for Windows. There was none for the Mac. I got very upset. Why two for Solaris? Who uses Solaris anyway? I didn't even know it still existed. And why wasn't it there for the Mac?
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07:58:26 AM,Tuesday 27 February 2007
Jamie's suggestion about how to deal with my inability to use the Netflix streaming thing was to install bootcamp on my computer. I'm vaguely terrified of bootcamp, and having Windows running on my computer, even if it's only on a partition. Has anyone used it at all?
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09:11:24 AM,Sunday 25 February 2007
I suspect my computer at work knows that I don't trust Dells, and that I despise XP.
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11:45:31 AM,Thursday 22 February 2007
Hello, Alexandria? Bikes belong on the road. They don't belong on the sidewalk. If they are going to be on the sidewalk, which is for pedestrians, they shouldn't get mad at pedestrians for being there.
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10:10:30 AM,Wednesday 21 February 2007