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Saturday, February 11th
Feb. 11th, 2012 12:59 pmTHE DAILY REPORT
New laptop continues to be awesome. I'm reacquainting myself with the joy that is the ability to use one computer in multiple locations, to be able to sit on the floor or the stairs or anywhere else and write.
I had a moment of confusion today when I realized that I'd come downstairs thinking I'd left my phone down here last night and it was in fact somewhere upstairs. I thought this would be a good time to install an alarm clock app on Bluebelle, because honestly I do get a little bit Pavlovian about using the stopwatch on my phone so I try to mix things up every once in a while.
So I put timers on my computers, I'd never really found a timer program that I liked... but then I remembered that Chrome has its own app store, and since I do most of my writing in Google Docs I'm almost always going to be on Chrome when I'm writing. So I checked it out and they do have a nice app that combines the functions of a timer, an alarm clock, and a stopwatch, which is great because depending on when I'm starting something and what I'm doing I might have a use for all of those. One of the potentially cooler features that might take some time for me to get the most out of is that it uses a YouTube video as the alarm, which is great because I tend to hate actual alarm noises.
This device came with the "starter" version of Microsoft Office, which is awesome because Word comes with a feature that Open Office doesn't seem to have, and that is the "filtered web page" format - it saves documents as an HTML file with all the paragraph style and page-related and metadata HTML stripped out. You know what that leaves you? The basis of every major e-book format. It's great.
The slightly better/more intuitive tables interface is pretty great, too. I used it to mock up a character sheet for A Wilder World and figured out how simple I can make it. The answer is: very simple. When I didn't have a form in front of me to manipulate I was thinking characters might end up with as many as twenty-four options to fill. Turns out it's more like twelve.
STATE OF THE ME
Pretty good. Little pain in my knees from going out in the cold.
PLANS FOR TODAY
Not terribly involved. Do a little Tales of MU work, maybe try a flash story.
New laptop continues to be awesome. I'm reacquainting myself with the joy that is the ability to use one computer in multiple locations, to be able to sit on the floor or the stairs or anywhere else and write.
I had a moment of confusion today when I realized that I'd come downstairs thinking I'd left my phone down here last night and it was in fact somewhere upstairs. I thought this would be a good time to install an alarm clock app on Bluebelle, because honestly I do get a little bit Pavlovian about using the stopwatch on my phone so I try to mix things up every once in a while.
So I put timers on my computers, I'd never really found a timer program that I liked... but then I remembered that Chrome has its own app store, and since I do most of my writing in Google Docs I'm almost always going to be on Chrome when I'm writing. So I checked it out and they do have a nice app that combines the functions of a timer, an alarm clock, and a stopwatch, which is great because depending on when I'm starting something and what I'm doing I might have a use for all of those. One of the potentially cooler features that might take some time for me to get the most out of is that it uses a YouTube video as the alarm, which is great because I tend to hate actual alarm noises.
This device came with the "starter" version of Microsoft Office, which is awesome because Word comes with a feature that Open Office doesn't seem to have, and that is the "filtered web page" format - it saves documents as an HTML file with all the paragraph style and page-related and metadata HTML stripped out. You know what that leaves you? The basis of every major e-book format. It's great.
The slightly better/more intuitive tables interface is pretty great, too. I used it to mock up a character sheet for A Wilder World and figured out how simple I can make it. The answer is: very simple. When I didn't have a form in front of me to manipulate I was thinking characters might end up with as many as twenty-four options to fill. Turns out it's more like twelve.
STATE OF THE ME
Pretty good. Little pain in my knees from going out in the cold.
PLANS FOR TODAY
Not terribly involved. Do a little Tales of MU work, maybe try a flash story.