I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


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omnis_audis - Nov 09, 2012 9:25:59 am PST #21466 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Found it. Let's see if it sticks this time. Gosh, that dock is annoying, and a processor hog.


NoiseDesign - Nov 09, 2012 9:43:18 am PST #21467 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

Microsoft has XP pretty much on life support at this point, it is an OS that is more than a decade old. I think they are only doing absolute minimum security related updates on it at this point.


Gris - Nov 09, 2012 10:12:23 am PST #21468 of 25501
Hey. New board.

can I insert variables into HTML popups

I don't know... probably? I'm not sure what an HTML popup is but will look into it!

delete button

Yes! Also, if you long click on an action in a task, it disappears. I accidentally deleted TWO actions yesterday trying to move them. Very annoying. Also Also, there is no good way to do an If statement for two things at once (no And/Or). You literally have to do nested if loops for Ands and ifs-inside-of-elses for Ors. Whoa. Wouldn't be so bad with a keyboard to type things, but with having to navigate to a menu for each and every End If, it made for some very annoying programming!

Why did I need to do this? I was fixing my 10-minute call thing, which didn't work. Turns out the %CTIME variable is stored as a decimal in the form hh.mm, so to actually check if I was with 10 minutes, I had to split the variable at the decimal, then do the equivalent of

If (%CTIME1 = %LASTCALLTIME1 and %CTIME2 < %LASTCALLTIME2 + 10) or (%CTIME1 = %lASTCALLTIME1 + 1 and %CTIME2 < LASTCALLTIME2 - 50)...

which required two completely separate nested if loops AND completely repeating the actual task twice! Crazy.


§ ita § - Nov 11, 2012 7:08:19 am PST #21469 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

This is so frustrating that I must be overlooking something obvious.

I'm trying to view/save web source in Android. I know I've done this before, but devices and apps ago. Any share I tried was just the URL, and when I installed the View Web Source app, because the page loads with errors (expired SSL cert), it doesn't actually give me anything except an error message.

If the HTML is in the browser window, why the fuck can't I have it?


§ ita § - Nov 11, 2012 8:25:51 am PST #21470 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

So, I'm testing the code for stolen phone--send an SMS with GPS coordinates and snap a stealth photo back and front camera (which is the uploaded to Dropbox as part of my DB config). I wanted to use a simple trigger to fire off the code, instead of hitting the play button, so I chose "camera shake" for brevity's sake.

Awesome pictures, as one might guess.

I'm also trying to work out what Defcon Bears should encompass.

Right now, upon receipt of a text with the word "funkytown" (SPN fans know whereof I speak) takes my phone out of any silent mode, and bounces up the volume just in case. Doesn't currently announce itself, though. And the settings changes are permanent.

Sensible? I had been thinking of putting the changes on a timer (so it would revert after thirty or however many minutes) but that doesn't seem as simple as I'd originally hoped. Another consideration is that the settings will be changed for just that one person--so if my sister funkytowns me from her Blackberry, it'll only ring if she calls me from the same device. I'm trying to work out if that's practical, or will people be texting me so they can call me from a land line?

Also, are there really some times you don't want it screaming at you? What if it was during a calendar entry with the word "movie" in it? Should it maybe "just" vibrate ferociously? That's still going to annoy the other watchers, but significantly less.

Hmm....

This is hard.


Liese S. - Nov 11, 2012 10:12:46 am PST #21471 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, sounds reasonable. There is definitely opportunity for abuse, depending on your friends' sense of humor. The SO Byfuglien'ed me in the middle of a crowded department store once, to find me. Fortunately for me, I had yet to reset it. But it would have been very embarrassing had it succeeded.


§ ita § - Nov 11, 2012 10:24:46 am PST #21472 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I know nowt about (those don't rhyme in my head, FWIW) Byfuglieri, so I skimmed the wikipedia page of the hockey player, and all that stood out was this:

Byfuglien has appeared in a video supporting You Can Play, a campaign dedicated to fighting homophobia in sports

So I'm more confused than before.

My sister does get grumpy when I don't pick up during the work day. I think she understands I have a trufax grownup job where I have to do tings instead of waiting wth bated breath for her to call me randomly once a month, but I can't be sure. She might get excitable. However, ever since my mother's diagnosis (and my selfsame sister's reluctance TO CALL ME DURING WORK HOURS WITH CANCER NEWS) I've been kinda twitchy about which call I might be ignoring and which I'm not.

Maybe I should set up a filter on the Google voice transcriptions for hot-button words, and robo-call them back ASAP. That totally wouldn't be an overreaction...


Liese S. - Nov 11, 2012 10:43:02 am PST #21473 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

No, he's awesome, that's true, but it just happens that Byfuglien is my trigger word. Because he's my favorite player that no longer plays for my team, but also because his name is really hard to spell, and it's unlikely that someone would be randomly texting me about his excellent play.

I didn't mean to be confusing. I thought I'd mentioned before that he was my trigger word. Although now you will all know this and can totally set off my phone. So maybe that was a bad idea.


§ ita § - Nov 11, 2012 3:44:05 pm PST #21474 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Of course, when you say "trigger word" I have a whole different thought...I think this conversation is inherently flawed.

If only I had your phone number! I'd be Byfugging you left right and centre...

My Chumby died a couple months ago. I didn't consider replacing it with a Chumby--it was an interesting piece of hardware, but I wasn't totally happy with the solidity of the hardware, and the software was a bit glitchy too...in the end I got a tablet easel, and have the Touchpad doing a (pretty subpar) job instead. I just stumbled into something which informed me that the hardware arm had gone dead, and the software had been sold to Sony, who'd also stopped selling their hardware....damn.

I did poke around to see if a cheap tablet would fit the slot properly, and came away with the impression that it wouldn't. Cheap tablets weren't sacrificing the right things, precisely, to leave a better-than-Chumby in its wake. I mean, why not just take the phone/tablet you actually like and use that instead?

(WebOS is sucking at it, because I had to spend money to get the app solution I have, and there are two apps running--one clock and one alarm app...such a damned shame...)


Liese S. - Nov 11, 2012 4:04:29 pm PST #21475 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I know! But I don't know what I should call it! Yeah, we may be having a conversation fail. But anyway, yes.

If only I had your phone number! I'd be Byfugging you left right and centre...

(And you do. It's in my profile for the nonce, for f2f reasons.) BUT DON'T EVERYBODY BYFUG ME!