Oh, Comic Sans…
Hahaha, wow, I thought I was anal about fonts. In truth, I kinda started to feel sorry for Comic Sans once I began typing it into Google and found, within the first few lines of suggestions, these:
“Comic Sans should die”
“Comic Sans is not a font”
And:
“The Combs’ site also reported the Ontario New Democratic Party included the clause ‘Ban the font known as Comic Sans’ in its recent omnibus ban bill, proposed at the 2005 session of Ontario Model Parliament in Canada. However, the message was signed under ‘NDP Against Comic Sans’, leading to doubts of the validity of the claim. Further investigation revealed it was from a youth model parliament.”
Apparently people feel that it is overused (not going to argue there) and that it should be taken off computers.
Also, this: http://bancomicsans.com/home.html
The funny thing about this site is the fact that their bumper stickers, reading “Ban Comic Sans,” are written in Comic Sans. Doesn’t that completely go against their goal?
What’s even funnier is the fact that I can’t tell if this is a joke site or not. People are just crazy enough to try and ban a font.
My life
What do most people do when they’re bored? Sleep? Watch TV? Mess around on the internet?
What do I do when I’m bored? I make stupid graphs in Excel while simultaneously ranting about how stupid Excel is. Did you know that it MESSES WITH YOUR PERCENTAGES if, when you’re making a pie chart, your percentages don’t add up to 100%? I mean, I guess it kind of has to change your data, ‘cause otherwise a pie chart would not work, but still.
But it doesn’t do it evenly! I was experimenting with this and had data with percentages of 3, 2, 2, and 1. The three percent and the one percent were different, obviously, when Excel changed the values, but the two two percents were different from each other! By a lot, too, not just a percentage point.
What the hell, Excel?
Oh, here are my stupid graphs. Enjoy.
Songs at work
So I’ve noticed this weird trend with my music when I’m listening to it at work…even though I keep my iPod on shuffle and even though we never go the same places in the same order, there are certain songs that only come up when we’re at certain places. Examples:
- Apocalyptica’s Farewell always comes on in the GSR parking lot.
- Battles’ Atlas comes on when I’m sweeping; I think there’s only been one occasion where it’s come on when I was doing something else.
- Love Rollercoaster (by the Ohio Players) has never been played outside of the van.
- Valdres March only comes on when I’m cleaning the AC vents in GSR.
- Sweet’s Ballroom Blitz? Always in the parking lot for South Hill Vista.
- I always get two Metro Station songs in a row. Always.
My iPod scares me.
Haha, Apple, use a better font
My readers, I have one question for you all…
Also, Apple, you need to pick a better font for your updates, okay? swear I do not have this horrendously illegible font on my computer…which makes me wonder how it is showing up at all…
Stop the presses! Halt the copying machine! Don’t press CONTROL+P!
So I had this huge blog all planned out regarding my discovery that Microsoft Word recognizes “Spongebob” as a word.
That is, until I realized that I’d actually added the word awhile ago when I was typing a document that was heavy in the usage of the word “Spongebob” and had gotten sick of seeing the word underlined in red.
Silly girl.
I’d give you a survey, but I can’t find one worthy of my “humorous” responses.
That and I’m lazy.
Well maybe it’s—
Yeah. I’m lazy.
And I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t ask why I was typing a document that involved the heavy usage of the word “Spongebob.”
I’m not the type of person who is easily distra–OMFG A PUPPY!
I love SAS (Statistical Analysis Software). We got an introduction to it in 422 and I took to it like breathing.
It looks promising.
Unfortunately, SPSS, the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (which is something I’m sure I’ll have to be more familiar with) is not as intuitive, so I’ll have to work with that.
But oh well. Claudia + data + SAS = good times!
Fillmore Fact: Apparently, the comic strip character “Mallard Fillmore” is named after our guy. Wikipedia’s article on Mallard has a little disclaimer, “not to be confused with Millard Fillmore.” That totally made my day.
I really, really need to make a cartoon strip featuring our favorite president. “Millard Who?” it shall be called.
This is great.
New Camera + Photoshop = FUN!
Alternate title: “Claudia’s Photoshop Skills are Nearly as Poor as Her Flash Skills”
Today’s lesson: eyes
Ingredients:
1 camera
1 pair of eyes
1 copy of Photoshop
A computer helps, too
Normal. Boring, huh?
I wished my eyes really looked like this, cause this is sexy.
They say large pupils are indicative of arousal.
Now this is cool. Just lightened them a bit.
Pupil mitosis!!! The only one that required a slight bit of skill.
Tell me which one you liked best! Claudia loves feedback.
Further proof that I should not be left alone
You know what I’ve realized? I give really interesting names to my Microsoft Word documents. Observe:
~PAPER LOL!—my research proposal.
~The Helvetica Report—the rough draft of my third philosophy paper.
~GEOGRAPHY NOTES LOL!!!!!!1—geography notes.
~WA 3, bitch!—third writing assignment for psychology.
~OH MY GOD IT’S GOD—philosophy paper on Aristotle’s god.
~CITATIONS OMFG—citations for psychology research paper.
~More research! QUADRUPLE SEX!—there’s absolutely nothing in this document.
~Love—another empty document (suggestive of something?).
~Yogi bear, bitch!—what I renamed the sample for my Tests and Measurements Excel file.
~This document will self destruct when it wants to, dammit!—philosophy paper 1.
~Jesus called, he wants his essay back—social psych extra credit essay.
~IT’S A TRAP!—obscure Star Wars reference I gave to my notes for my research paper.
~XXX PORN—geography final paper.
What does all this mean? Someone tell me, I’m disturbed.
Haha, I like titling things in caps.
Claudia got a new toy!
Alright—despite the fact that I rarely, if ever, get called, the fact that I rarely make calls, and the fact that my old phone spent more hours in the Ag Sci computer lab than I did, I got a new phone (it was obligatory-every-two-years-free-upgrade weekend last weekend). It’s lime green on the sides! Here are pics. Ignore the stupid expressions.
Behold!
Open!
And a picture of me just messing around with my webcam. I think this was a few months ago. Sexy, eh? (gag)
My iPod is talking to me!
It tells me to shake my booty, tells me it’s addicted to me, explains to me the sound of silence, and blames me for things I haven’t done (“Look what you’ve done,” it says to me!), among other things…
…help me…
(Note: I’m avoiding talking about the math final I took today.)
They just found a spot on Uranus!
Alrightythen. I just got flash from my mom (Flash 5, since she doesn’t use it and the newer ones can only be installed on two computers). I am now learning to use it. I am hoping to create many weird things with it.
‘Ta!
P.S. Don’t read this.
There’s something magical about those grammatically incorrect directions…
Today my grandma gave me this little clock doodad that she got for free with some sort of thing from PBS.
Anyway, I open it and check out the directions to set it.
Direct quote: “Do not drop down floor. Do not pressure LCD screen.”
I guess I’d better not take this clock to college…it might break from the pressure and fall down floor.
Internet = up and running!
Yay!
My Internet’s working again, and I feel stupid, cause the only reason it wasn’t working was because I had accidentally turned off the little “wireless” switch. Dur…
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