all things me

Now, this is why I stick to PCs:

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I recommend reading all of Ctrl+Alt+Del. The comics are wonderfully geeky.

It’s strange how often after I learn a new word, it very soon appears somewhere else and I think how lucky I am having learned that just recently. For instance, a couple of days ago I learned the word kludge and today in an email at work someone was writing about a kludge for a program that allows files to be saved in Word doc format.

The day before yesterday I stumbled across the words “axon” and “dendrite” — parts (?) of a synapse, and yesterday, those words were in the book I’m reading, IT.

Maybe I’ve seen the words lots of times before but only now notice them, but I’m not willing to believe that. I want to believe that these are very lucky coincidences.

The instructions above the textarea in the WP forums states

Put code in between `backticks`.

People have hard time understanding and/or following this. Sometimes there’s <code>, [code] or just ‘. But this is definitely the cutest of them all:

‘backticks’
<object classid="…" width="320" height="256" codebase="…">
[…]
</object>
‘backticks’

This is so funny it’s either adorable or sad! There’s this girl in the WP forums who always spells plugin as puglin. It’s not a typo here or there, it’s a braino. A very annoying and funny one, I might add.

Ah…. good laugh.

I’m amazed no one has pointed it out. I would if I was in a mean mood (which is never?) and feeling really really pernickety (which is always?).

WWIFL IWAWOTWA? IWRSA BONOWUOA. MPSTLMA, AESTFY WNAMD. TOTI, NEBTGUTK. NTISFAEODM ICSMH TTRWEGOLSF. *S*

(To demolish this one-of-a-kind reading experience and make my hard work a complete waste of my time go to the post’s individual page.)

This morning I heard an ad on the radio for footstep counters:

(…) askelmittari — askeleen edellä tarkkuudessa

“(…) step counter — one step ahead in accuracy”

I have a very persistent tic on my lower eyelid. It feels like my eye is bulging out my skull (intentional reference to Green Day’s Brainstew). I hate it!

It doesn’t matter when for example one of my fingers is twitching (my right thumb has a mind of her own), or eyebrow, or back, but a tic around the eye makes the field of vision jitter. Once I had a tic in my back for a long time and the next day the surrounding muscles were really sore. Now I’m just getting a little motion sickness and headache…

Is there any remedy for these? Ouch.

Tic, Myokymia — A habitual spasmodic muscular movement or contraction, usually of the face or extremities (Bartleby.com); twitch typically brought on by stress or fatigue (Allaboutvision.com)

This is appalling. I’m browsing through Windows XP terminology — the official terminology — and came across these beauties. For non-Finnish speakers, here’re some pretty examples of Finnish compound words.

1. käyttämättä oloajan asetukset (Idle Settings)
2. kokoonpanomäärityslähde (Configuration Source)

Lookie what I found! I was trying to figure out if ‘out’ is a preposition or an adverb (still couldn’t decide), and just happened to run into that. Good dictionary, I have to say.

(trying to mean a female techie)

I’m recording the Survivor on my brand new DVD+VCR combo. The DVD is the writing kind so I’m testing it out while there’s a “backup” copy running upstairs on our “old” VCR (which was making smush out of the picture until Dad noticed a S-VHS setting).

Very exciting!

I’m a heavy user when it comes to recording. Not a day goes by that I don’t record something. That is why I’m excited about the writing DVD. The tapes I have get worn out pretty quickly, but then again, the DVDs are said to go (only?) 1000 recordings (or re-recordings). Or, maybe the tapes got worn out because of my old and crappy VCR. Who knows.

A VCR and a separate DVD+harddrive combo could’ve been pretty cool too, but that may have been a teensy bit too harsh on my bank account, especially when I have to buy storage space for my piles of tapes and DVDs that got evacuated from the recorder’s shelf.

Härpäke — (Fin.) something like ‘thingamabob’. My version: härpätin