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@500 FileNames["B*.png"] will give you all files start with a B and end in .png in the current directory. The keyword to google for is wildcard. – Szabolcs Jan 26 '12 at 14:49 |
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For what it's worth, when working at magnification 200% I get no gaps in Grid using Spacing -> {0, 0}. You could therefore Rasterize and ImageResize from there as needed. |
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Wizard, thank you ! – 500 Jan 26 '12 at 15:04 |
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010 |
Interview Questions of the Future |
I've come to a bit of a crossroads lately in regards to my cell phone. I still have the first phone I ever got and for that reason, I'll be sad to let it go; but it is almost four years old and as everybody knows, in the technology world, four years is more like a hundred. While I've been debating what to do about my "... |
What was the first cell phone you ever got? When or how old were you? |
I was 18, yes, you heard right, 18. My parents didn't believe in buying any child of theirs a cell phone (and I agree with them) so it was something I got once I became an adult. Before then I had to just struggle along using e-mail and a land line, tragic, I know... The first phone I got was a flip phone. It HAD to be... |
What was your first e-mail address? Did it hold any special meaning? When or how old were you? |
My father got his first e-mail account in the mid-1990s and I used that until I got my own. He had one of those CompuServe e-mail addresses and I remember the assigned password was "ankle lustre" and that continues to crack me up to this day. Mostly, I just had fun sending emoticons back and forth to friends. When I wa... |
When was the first time you used the internet and/or "got connected?" |
It was the early 1990s, I'm thinking 1993, when my dad came home with this thing called a modem. It was about the size of a bread basket and almost never worked. I remember he was up most of the night trying to set the thing up and once he did we all kind of had a "now what?" moment. It would be a few years before we e... |
When did you get your first computer? What did it look like? Do you remember what brand it was? |
We got our first computer the same time we got that modem that didn't work. I remember my parents were all excited and took me into the living room where there was this big "thing" in the middle of the room. I was totally bored because it didn't look like it was at all fun so I really didn't care less. I remember how t... |
What kinds of stuff did you do on that computer? |
I played different games. I remember one of them was this puzzle game with bugs and lizards and another one I liked was this weird game with elves(?) playing musical instruments. There was also Mavis Bacon and a Mario typing game in their somewhere. I was completely crazy about SimTown too, I think that was my favorite... |
What kind of technological achievements did you see if your lifetime? |
I lived through the birth and proliferation of the home PC, mass internet use, cellular phones, e-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, websites and I'm sure I'll be adding to this list. |
What things did you use or do that have been replaced (either partially or entirely) by technology? |
I remember life without cell phones (and sometimes I miss those days!) and that is probably the biggest thing I remember living without. I also remember using, you know, BOOKS to get information and actually going to the library and thumbing through the card catalog to try and find one of those said BOOKS (crazy, I kno... |
What was the first Apple product you ever got? |
It was a second generation iPod and it wasn't mine, it was my parents', though I often stole it. Before then we listened to music the old fashioned way, on CDs and cassette. |
I'm also working on a separate set of interview questions which are television related and have to do with events in the 1990s and 2000s (like Oklahoma City and 9/11). While my grandmother doesn't have a computer and thus, can't answer any of these new interview questions, my parents can and so can some older relatives... |
UPDATE: I just thought of some questions you could add having to do with social networking such as whether you used Twitter, Facebook, BLOGS (wink! wink!), etc. Like technology, the possible interview questions are limitless apparently. |
1. LOVE THIS! Fab!! I blogged my responses at: |
2. What a great idea to ask and answer while the answers are still fresh in your mind. Imagine being 80 and having your ggrandchildren ask. Now they'll have the answers! Love it! |
3. I love your comments on playing "Oregon Trail." One of my coworkers and I are part of that generation that grew up on "Oregon Trail" (I always ended up crashing on the end river in Oregon), and have been trying to explain to our coworkers of the earlier generations (some even just a few years) the joy that was the... |
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Hey Republican Politicans [Nov. 7th, 2012|01:56 am] |
[Current Mood |draineddrained] |
Consider this an open letter. |
If you want to continue losing important elections, feel free to keep supporting backwards thinking like dictating a woman's reproductive rights, treating an unborn fetus as more important than a living and breathing child, and telling people who they can or can't marry. |
OR you can concede on the above which essentially amounts to BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS and join the rest of us in the 21st century worrying about actually important things like foreign policy, the economy, and energy. |
but hey, your choice. |
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Help me in Tribes Ascend! [Apr. 1st, 2012|11:53 pm] |
Okay I don't usually do this, but, this thing's kinda fun. |
I know some of you might be into this stuff, so use my referral code to get it, and I get XP bonuses. win win! |
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post singularity post-meatspace thoughts [Sep. 14th, 2011|11:42 am] |
Just some worldbuilding mental exercise, ya? |
Was thinking about the logistics of a civilization that had abandoned meatspace, but you can't do that entirely, can you? Cause that's where your servers live. Automated maintenance and some AIs can go a long way, but you'd about have to have some specialists around who are experts in using realspace robot bodies (prob... |
What would happen with reproduction? Assuming that people can be uploaded into the network and leave their meat bodies behind, where do you go from there? Would simulated genetics be able to create life, or would this be impossible and give you a dead civilization that is just lingering? Perhaps reincarnation services ... |
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a chat log [Jun. 11th, 2011|11:29 pm] |
[Current Mood |amusedamused] |
(11:11:25 PM) loveyajazx3: hello |
(11:12:09 PM) sianmink: hello probable chatbot |
(11:12:16 PM) loveyajazx3: Hey whats up? 21/f here you |
(11:12:25 PM) sianmink: that's pretty old for a computer |
(11:12:42 PM) loveyajazx3: ah alright... sorry i can be forgetful sometimes... |
(11:12:54 PM) sianmink: it's okay. considering your age it's to be expected. |
(11:13:23 PM) loveyajazx3: i'm 26 |
(11:13:33 PM) sianmink: but you just said 21 |
(11:13:51 PM) loveyajazx3: i just got done working out & taking a shower...i'm feeling a little horny |
(11:14:38 PM) sianmink: good thing there's an internet! showers aren't very good for electronics though. |
(11:15:07 PM) loveyajazx3: love to show off :) |
(11:15:42 PM) sianmink: I bet you have a webcam and everything. show off those lights and transparent door, all those led fans. |
(11:16:04 PM) loveyajazx3: love to show off :) |
(11:16:13 PM) sianmink: gonna show me all your dirty, dirty exposed cables? |
(11:16:37 PM) loveyajazx3: dirty can be good ;) |
(11:17:08 PM) sianmink: bad for airflow though. I wanna get an air duster and get all up in there. |
(11:17:39 PM) loveyajazx3: sooo.... what's up you feel like having a little fun? |
(11:17:58 PM) sianmink: this is the part where you give me a website. |
(11:18:17 PM) loveyajazx3: Accept the invite, if you need the link again its http://**REDACTED** |
Entry locked because for some reason spammers keep finding it. *amused* |
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ugh. [Mar. 7th, 2011|08:30 am] |
Why am I more well rested after 3 hours sleep than I usually am after 6+? |
Anyway, dreams tonight=funky. in that I was playing D&D and alternating |
between my POV and my character's, who was apparently a human barbarian named |
Horse who had a Gorian disdain for clothing, stunted language ability on |
account of fending for himself in the wild since he was 4 (he certainly wasn't |
*dumb*, I saw his character sheet!) and an inexplicable proficiency in |
primitive firearms. I had an epiphany towards the end, because the campaign |
world had early internal combustion engines and horseless carriages and stuff |
and how that would combine with a world that already had magic and all.. Then |
I rolled initiative and got some weird 4-digit not-number that's simply impossible |
with a D20 and I woke up. |
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IM THE WORST BOLGGER EVAR [Feb. 22nd, 2011|02:39 pm] |
[Current Mood |workingworking] |
Ramblitioous mode GET! |
3 months since my last post with any content? ugh. |
Let's see, birthday, 1 year at job, house house house, way behind on my car maintenance (not that it cares, it's getting best mileage ever), what else? |
Oh yeah, seriously seriously fiending for some RPG, at this point I don't care what as long as there's dice involved. |
Modeling and mini projects have been on hold for 2 years and will be until my room is together, which it currently is certainly *not*. |
I just want a house that feels like a house and not a warehouse with nice floors and carpet. I think I need to be reminded that nearly depleting my savings to buy a house is OK because that's what it's for, but I worry because this is only barely sustainable without more income. |
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HOUSE GET [Dec. 17th, 2010|01:31 am] |
[Current Mood |exhaustedexhausted] |
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