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* "The Twitter Song", Ben Walker
Jun. 18th, 2009
* "The Twitter Song", Ben Walker
Spent the morning struggling with the ArcGIS part of the report. Basically, what that means for today is that I spent all my time staring at the manual a professor made (for a course they held in Nairobi, which I always thought I could so have used attending).
The manual is super clear for the first few pages, saying how to copy-paste, even, and then *poof* suddenly I'm staring at windows thingking, "How the fuck did you get there? What button?!?" Also, I was thoroughly stumped by Notepad, couldn't import data, then had to struggle with Textpad fpor a while. (Oh gods, "struggle with textpad"- makes me sound so computer illiterate. Look, Ctrl-F wasn't working, ok?!?)
I even sent a "Halp!" email to the professor, and he kindly came over as soon as he got it. Trouble is, his suggestion was to do it all over again. Then he spent some time just reading the manual at me, beccause that makes things so clear. Look, I've done that step already! Yes, I can read. But no, he's nice and all that jazz. I just didn't understand half of what he was saying. Like the manual, he tends to over explain simple concepts and then just leap over complicated things. "Oh, right, so of course I can't rename tables because then that would undo the queries - wait, what?"
So that made me feel like a wibble. ( There's more where that came from. )
Links of the Day:
Chinese Characters Dictionary
Chinese-English Dictionary
Chinese Characters and Culture
* Eddie Izzard, "Glorious"
** Significant Other, I think is the PC term. I just call him "my boy" (amongst other things).
The manual is super clear for the first few pages, saying how to copy-paste, even, and then *poof* suddenly I'm staring at windows thingking, "How the fuck did you get there? What button?!?" Also, I was thoroughly stumped by Notepad, couldn't import data, then had to struggle with Textpad fpor a while. (Oh gods, "struggle with textpad"- makes me sound so computer illiterate. Look, Ctrl-F wasn't working, ok?!?)
I even sent a "Halp!" email to the professor, and he kindly came over as soon as he got it. Trouble is, his suggestion was to do it all over again. Then he spent some time just reading the manual at me, beccause that makes things so clear. Look, I've done that step already! Yes, I can read. But no, he's nice and all that jazz. I just didn't understand half of what he was saying. Like the manual, he tends to over explain simple concepts and then just leap over complicated things. "Oh, right, so of course I can't rename tables because then that would undo the queries - wait, what?"
So that made me feel like a wibble. ( There's more where that came from. )
Links of the Day:
Chinese Characters Dictionary
Chinese-English Dictionary
Chinese Characters and Culture
* Eddie Izzard, "Glorious"
** Significant Other, I think is the PC term. I just call him "my boy" (amongst other things).
Trapped in a box by a cockney nutjob.*
Jun. 18th, 2009 04:31 pmHave a cup of tea, have a cup of tea.*
Taking a breather from Access (tea and cookies) because my brain is fried. Had another little session with professor because I kept on getting error messages (through no fault of my own). Then I hid out in the bathroom, 'cause that's what they're for.
Am just so tired of trying to wade through this program. Why didn't I read Access for Dummies when I had a chance?
...reading fanfic at the office feels wrong, but I needs it, I does.
Links of the Day:
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henrygalelovers's Will Ben Get Away With It All? - Article clipping.
bold_as_brass's Life on Mars 1x01 Icons
* The Mighty Boosh
Taking a breather from Access (tea and cookies) because my brain is fried. Had another little session with professor because I kept on getting error messages (through no fault of my own). Then I hid out in the bathroom, 'cause that's what they're for.
Am just so tired of trying to wade through this program. Why didn't I read Access for Dummies when I had a chance?
...reading fanfic at the office feels wrong, but I needs it, I does.
Links of the Day:
henrygalelovers's Will Ben Get Away With It All? - Article clipping.bold_as_brass's Life on Mars 1x01 Icons* The Mighty Boosh
