I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.

Buffy ,'Get It Done'


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dcp - Sep 08, 2013 3:43:49 pm PDT #23006 of 25496
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Where would I record it, product obsolescence aside, that I could retrieve that sort of info?

Does it need to be anything more than a simple timeline of events in a .txt document? Start each paragraph with a timestamp (my preference is YYYY-MM-DD), order the paragraphs by them.


§ ita § - Sep 08, 2013 4:31:47 pm PDT #23007 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Does it need to be anything more than a simple timeline of events in a .txt document? Start each paragraph with a timestamp (my preference is YYYY-MM-DD), order the paragraphs by them.

I'd need attachments. Pictures at a minimum, and embedded into the flow would be better. So far, in the experimentation, the "all day event" in the calendar is the sparest, but the S-Planner lets me add S-Notes as well as images, so that's quite nice.

What you're describing is how I'd implement in Evernote, probably. Still playing around there.


Cass - Sep 09, 2013 9:43:41 pm PDT #23008 of 25496
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Chrome just randomly made a weird retro mishmash of my bookmarks that I cleaned up yesterday and the far past. It is midway through the hours and mega hours I put in to clean and sort them. I can't punch a browser in the face, right? Because identifying a face is hard. But I want to punch it.


Jessica - Sep 10, 2013 8:50:40 am PDT #23009 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Ok, photographers, tell me straight - Apple is just making up words now, right?

"dynamic local tone map"

"autofocus matrix metering"


§ ita § - Sep 10, 2013 9:03:57 am PDT #23010 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Can you combine them? I suppose, if you want to focus based on information from all over the scene. I can't work out how it's useful, mind. Just that it could be done.

What do they say it is?


Jon B. - Sep 10, 2013 11:15:45 am PDT #23011 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

"autofocus matrix metering"

I can imagine what this is, and if it is what I think it is, it could be very cool: Figuring out the ideal focal point and exposure, based on all objects in the photo, rather than just focusing on one central object.


NoiseDesign - Sep 10, 2013 11:20:57 am PDT #23012 of 25496
Our wings are not tired

Matrix metering is something most SLR cameras have. It is, as Jon said about taking information from the whole frame rather than just spot metering which takes the information from one point.


Jon B. - Sep 10, 2013 11:26:12 am PDT #23013 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Yeah, but the addition of "autofocus" to the phrase is new, isn't it?


NoiseDesign - Sep 10, 2013 11:32:01 am PDT #23014 of 25496
Our wings are not tired

Not really, my SLR can take into account multiple focal points and adjust as needed. There's a menu buried in there somewhere that will even allow me to set which point, or group of points is being used.


sumi - Sep 10, 2013 11:52:19 am PDT #23015 of 25496
Art Crawl!!!

Automatically? Or manually?