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Chessie2

Staff
Article Team
Kitty is driving me up the wall today wanting in and out of the room. She can't decide what she wants so now she's locked in here, sitting by the door waiting for me to open it.

Sorry, kitty. I'm tired of your indecisiveness!
 

CupofJoe

Myth Weaver
Alas for Stephen Hawking, I bought aBHoT, read aBHoT, and then bought three more books to try an understand aBHoT.
Or maybe that was his point... To get people thinking about Physics. It did that.
 

Incanus

Auror
Oh my, I certainly have a good deal of unread books on my shelves too! Just not that one.

The reason I ended up reading it twice was because I think I understood about 10-15% of it the first time. As a slow reader, I had to stop with the science books when my writing began to take off. Now its history and reference books and biographies and whatnot. So much to learn----
 
Ack. This happened a few days ago but it's been hurting me more and more. My friend told me the other day not to hug her in front of her sister or mom because they think I'm a lesbian...??? Imagine being so homophobic that you don't want best friends to hug each other in front of you. The best/worst part is, I'm not even gay?? Maybe it's the pixie cut??? Martial arts???? The fact that I'm not prioritizing getting into a guy's pants over everything else in my life?????? I don't know. Anyway, it's really hurtful. i wonder if she's indirectly signaling that i'm making her uncomfortable too? How can I tell? Should I back off? idkkkkk. Have i broken some kind of boundary somehow? I'm so bad about seeing those.

To clarify, I live in an uber-conservative southern state where a lot of people seem to think gays can "turn" people. Zombie-fashion, i guess?

I want out of this stupid town so bad.

anyone down for writing a satirical piece about the gay apocalypse? it might make me feel better
 

CupofJoe

Myth Weaver
Ack. This happened a few days ago but it's been hurting me more and more. My friend told me the other day not to hug her in front of her sister or mom because they think I'm a lesbian...??? Imagine being so homophobic that you don't want best friends to hug each other in front of you. The best/worst part is, I'm not even gay?? Maybe it's the pixie cut??? Martial arts???? The fact that I'm not prioritizing getting into a guy's pants over everything else in my life?????? I don't know. Anyway, it's really hurtful. i wonder if she's indirectly signaling that i'm making her uncomfortable too? How can I tell? Should I back off? idkkkkk. Have i broken some kind of boundary somehow? I'm so bad about seeing those.
To clarify, I live in an uber-conservative southern state where a lot of people seem to think gays can "turn" people. Zombie-fashion, i guess?
I want out of this stupid town so bad.
anyone down for writing a satirical piece about the gay apocalypse? it might make me feel better
If someone says they don't want to be hugged, don't hug them. I have a very tactile group of friends where hugging cheek kissing and even hold handing is common and I hate hugging, cheek kissing and hand holding. So they know not to include me most of the time. I don't mean like like or love them any less. I relent when I feel comfortable but that isn't often. [relent - even my choice of words is defensive...]
As for people thinking that you are gay, there is nothing you can do about that. They will think how they will. For a long time, I thought a Russian student I knew was coming on to me because they always held my hand when we talked, but apparently its a thing in parts of Russia.
Personally, I'd ask your friend if you've missed something because I'm terrible at working that stuff out as well.
 
If someone says they don't want to be hugged, don't hug them. I have a very tactile group of friends where hugging cheek kissing and even hold handing is common and I hate hugging, cheek kissing and hand holding. So they know not to include me most of the time. I don't mean like like or love them any less. I relent when I feel comfortable but that isn't often. [relent - even my choice of words is defensive...]
As for people thinking that you are gay, there is nothing you can do about that. They will think how they will. For a long time, I thought a Russian student I knew was coming on to me because they always held my hand when we talked, but apparently its a thing in parts of Russia.
Personally, I'd ask your friend if you've missed something because I'm terrible at working that stuff out as well.

She's told me it's okay, but people don't always say what they mean.
 

CupofJoe

Myth Weaver
Someone at work has just given me a copy of "An Introduction to Elvish And to Other Tongues and Proper Names and Writing Systems of the Third Age of the Western Lands of Middle-earth as Set Forth in the Published Writings of Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien".
For no reason - just because...
I am truly touched by the niceness of people!
 

Tom

Istar
My laptop and Photoshop CS3 met today. They do not like each other. I don't understand why--my laptop meets the system requirements (and then some), but Photoshop won't get past the damn boot-up screen. All I want to do is process my camera raw files outside of school...
 

Tom

Istar
My laptop and Photoshop CS3 met today. They do not like each other. I don't understand why--my laptop meets the system requirements (and then some), but Photoshop won't get past the damn boot-up screen. All I want to do is process my camera raw files outside of school...
Update: Two hours of frantic research has taught me that CS3 is only compatible with Windows OS older than Vista. I have 7. So much for saving money on a lighter weight program than newer editions...

Technology: 1
Tom: 0
 

Tom

Istar
Adobe is the worst...they know they're industry standard, so they basically get to set all the rules. And no one can object to them because as of right now there's no real professional-quality alternative to Photoshop. I could say a lot more but I'm going to stop myself there, lol.
 

CupofJoe

Myth Weaver
Adobe is the worst...they know they're industry standard, so they basically get to set all the rules. And no one can object to them because as of right now there's no real professional-quality alternative to Photoshop. I could say a lot more but I'm going to stop myself there, lol.
At home, I'm running CS3 on Win10 with no problems... It was installed on Win7 and then I upgraded.
I agree that Adobe suck. At work we used CS3, 5 and then 6 with no problems until Adobe pulled a plug somewhere. Then they died. Now we have to lease the software under Creative Cloud and have a real bugger of a job to get some of it to load and run on the network PC. At least it means I never have to hot desk... So there is a silver lining to that cloud
 

Dark Squiggle

Troubadour
Gimp and Krita are both really good. IMO Krita is a better painting program by far than photoshop, if a bit clumsier to learn (I am a beginner with this, so take what I say with a grain of salt.) both are free and opensource, part of the GNU project, and will run on windows, mac, and most linuxes I think you can even use Gimp through your browser. If you have a chromebook, though, you would probably need to switch to linux.
 
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