Yesterday, I was cutting slices of salami while eating lunch. In a move that wasn't quite as smart as it seemed at the time, I lifted the salami and started cutting it in mid-air. Because the cutting wasn't proceeding as swiftly as planned, I increased pressure on the sausage from both sides and somehow my thumb must have ended up in the cutting trajectory. A small drop of blood rears its head out of the cut, and that's the end of it. That night, while listening to one of Wil Wheaton's amusing podcasts, I felt my thumb throbbing a little and I decide to show it to her. Me Hon, I cut myself with a bread knife—um, I mean a butter knife. My wife Leave it to you to cut yourself with a butter knife. Me What are you talking about, they have sharp teeth and everything! My wife It's got a rounded corner and is not actually sharp. Just because they are slightly serrated doesn't mean that they're meant for cutting, or that anybody but you could manage to cut themselves with it. Me But–but–but, you could cut steaks with it too! My wife That's what steak knives are for. Sharp knives have sharp points. Why do you think that knives made for stabbing people aren't serrated? Me So you're saying that all of our kitchen knives are for stabbing people? My wife *softly slaps my chest* You're such a dork!
Google apparently thinks that it knows what I want better than I do. I have clearly specified "en-US" as my preferred language, "en" if that's not available, and "nl" if that's not available. I tried removing the "nl" in an attempt to get Google to speak English to me, but it won't comply. I finally got annoyed enough to write this little script to fix it. It would be easy to adjust for other preferred languages. Install Google in English user script.
I can't describe Ubuntu's default alt-tab behavior as anything other than "utter crap." In its defense, more recent versions have switched to the Static Application Switcher, which is much better than the absolutely horrific Application Switcher that, if I'm not mistaken, was used from version 6 through 8. However, it's no more than a slightly fancier, and in my opinion, inferior, version of the standard Windows/Metacity/whatever alt-tab behavior, which, frankly, has been outdated for at least half a decade due to applications like SmartTab.org and KWin. I wouldn't be surprised if it's been outdated since the '80s; it's merely me who's no longer ignorant of the existence of better solutions since about half a decade ago. The solution, SuperSwitcher, is not quite as nice as SmartTab.org because I can't switch applications as fast, but it does offer a nice way to easily switch between different desktops. Typing a part of the name of a window is just not as fast as alt plus a number or a letter that's already defined. All in all, it's the only way that I know of to get an acceptable alt-tab behavior in Gnome without using KWin or another alternative window manager.
I really want to do the following, but I'm still stuck with Microsoft's icon format and PNG. <link rel="shortcut icon" href="some-vector-image.svg" type="type="image/svg+xml"> I'm especially surprised that Google Chrome doesn't support this. They do the whole web application thing; which utilizes the favicons of sites as application icons. SVG would be perfect to also offer a nice larger size icon. Another thing I didn't know is that IE7 still doesn't support PNGs as favicons. Last, but not least, here is the favicon I created in the end: .
Well, I surely don't use this weblog to its full potential at this point in time. I suppose the main negative factor in my amount of writing is the lack of something that I feel is somehow important to share with the world. Nevertheless, a couple of interesting things have happened. During the Christmas vacation I hung out with a few of my old friends, which was nice. I also went to the beach where I shot this video of a lone Sanderling on the beach. I'm not sure if I've ever seen one on its own before. My whole plan of learning Latin has more or less failed so far. I could only take along so many books to my parents during the vacation and the Latin books didn't make the cut. Because I was quite busy during the two weeks prior to the vacation I hadn't done anything about it then either, so by now I'll have to start over again, because I've forgotten at least a third of the tenses by now already. On top of that my main reference and motivator was supposed to be the woman mentioned above. The most important change in my life I haven't mentioned yet, however. In half a year I'll move to Utrecht to study English Language and Culture at the Utrecht University. Another important change is that Clawfinger will exist in a different way from now on. Maybe it's time I got my hair cut.
I quite like the autocomplete function in Write, but in Calc it was quickly driving me crazy. It wasn't hard to find in the help, so I suppose the existence of weblog entries about OpenOffice.org autocomplete (like my own) are mainly about the sentiment rather than about an actual neccessity. I think things like this are a lot easier to disable in Microsoft Office since XP. But on the other hand, where I tell Office to disable a dozen features the very first time I use it I've generally been able to use OpenOffice without disabling anything. In the end I just try to use OpenOffice as much as I can because I like OpenDocument. I don't just mean the idea, I also think the XML structure and such is better than Microsoft's competing Office Open XML.
I thought this conversation about an American product called string cheese was quite amusing. As you can see I'm also experimenting a bit with a better way to display conversations, but my results are fairly unsatisfactory so far. Frenzie: string_cheese.jpg They've got some weird shit in the US. Axonn: ... heh. Axonn: You know why it's like that? Axonn: I can explain. Frenzie: It's like that cuz they pushed it through some shape? :P Axonn: You see... the cow... or sheep... or wheverthefuck creature they milk... well... it sees the yank farmer... and has an immediate cheesing of the milk inside it (that is caused by fear of armed retaliation by the Bush government if not cooperating with the Food Obtaining Services For Fat Yanks). So the milk is transformed into cheese internally because the poor animal's temperature grows. Even so, the terrified creature starts running around the farm with 2 up to 5 Yankers trying to get it. During the process, the creature (now guided by adrenaline and fear) reaches speeds up to 300 KM/h. In this moment, due to friction, it's shape alters a bit, and liquid/semi-liquid stuff tends to be thrown out by the centrifuge force. In that moment, the creature shits the cheese into the said forms. Axonn: It is still a mistery how the cheese (former milk) gets from the belly to the ass. Frenzie: ROFLMAO Axonn: Perhaps due to the great speed and fear, it can either tear holes through the creature's belly, or simply travel through the available holes. Frenzie: Dude, can I post this to my weblog or something, it's hilarious XD Axonn: At least that's my theory to the thing. Axonn: I might be wrong tho'........... Axonn: But it's pretty logical right? Frenzie: Yeah, indeed it is! =D Axonn: I mean, sure looks like shitted cheese. Axonn: Oh, another explanation might be that the creatures refuse to cooperate with fake-capitalist would-be-nazi pigs and they end up in a fight where the Yank shuves his hand up the creature's ass or mouth and pulls that shit out... hence, the form... like it's obtained after 2 people fought over it. Or maybe they're so greedy for that shit they *do* fight over it. Axonn: Donno... Axonn: ::- ) Frenzie: rofl Axonn: Anyway, you have my blessing to post wherever... ::- ) Frenzie: rijpen-kaas.jpg You mean it looked like this, but then they fought over it resulting in one big... string-thing. Frenzie: That's some Dutch cheese btw :P Axonn: Bingooooooo. Axonn: Yes, Romanian cheese looks like that too. Axonn: You see, we Europeans .. respect food... in a way. Axonn: They LOVE food. Axonn: And you know, love can get preeeeeeeeeeeeeeetty passional. Axonn: We eat and digest our food. Axonn: They DEVOUR. Axonn: :;- D Frenzie: Wait... you mean the shape is also related to other holes than the ass of the cow? Axonn: Could be, could be. Frenzie: Perhaps that's why they're so afraid of gays Frenzie: they're afraid the cheese ass-fuck monopoly will be broken! Axonn: No no. The problem is that gays don't give milk. Well, I did hear of a few US semen-cheese specialties *laugh*... Axonn: That was sick. Axonn: ::- D Frenzie: >_> Frenzie: <_< Frenzie: >_>
Yesterday I've been drawing some stuff to get my hand-eye coordination between the tablet and my screen better, so I thought I'd post this one exercise. It's a drawing of a female face with a brush which was too fat and such, but I am still kind of interested in what I could do with it without actually redrawing it.
