@sohkamyung Google’s keyboard for Android doesn’t have arrow keys, unfortunately…but based on your comment I tried switching to the Samsung keyboard on my tablet. It has left & right arrow keys! And they work with shift for selecting! This is going to be a huge improvement! Thanks for the idea!
Category: Wandering.Shop
Finding cosplay pictures of a character on Instagram: Good luck with that, because you can …
Finding cosplay pictures of a character on Instagram: Good luck with that, because you can only search by one tag at a time, and people post so many screen grabs, scans, memes & spam that you can’t find the costumes.
Finding cosplay pictures of a character on Flickr: Good luck with that, because even though you can do a full-text search of the title, tags & description, people upload all 400 photos from the weekend as DSC8764.jpg to DSC9163.jpg and only tag them with the convention name.
Also, it doesn’t help much to search for “Flash” on a photography site, particularly one where the people who *do* tag their pictures often add the settings they used for each photo.
Argh. Editing text with a touchscreen keyboard is still a huge pain.Typing new text …
Argh. Editing text with a touchscreen keyboard is still a huge pain.
Typing new text has gotten a lot better over time (even as auto-correct, auto-complete & predictive text have introduced entirely new and fascinating classes of typos!), but trying to position the cursor with a fingertip tap, select exactly the right span of text that you want to replace or format or link, etc. is still SO. DAMN. CLUNKY.
Mouse-click. Shift+arrow keys. So much easier.
@Wolthera I suppose it depends on whether basilisks or volcanoes are more common, right?But …
@Wolthera I suppose it depends on whether basilisks or volcanoes are more common, right?
But yeah, Sauron certainly had a lot more experience to draw on!
Sauron was better at making horcruxes. He only needed to make one since it was …
Sauron was better at making horcruxes. He only needed to make one since it was so durable.
Voldemort needed to make the equivalent of a RAID array.
#LOTR #HarryPotter
Successfully completed watching The Fellowship of the Ring with the 8YO. And he wants to …
Successfully completed watching The Fellowship of the Ring with the 8YO. And he wants to continue to the next movie!
1 hour at a time seems to have worked well.
#LOTR
Toys R Gone. Thanks so much, hedge funds.
On the whole, it wasn’t the glowing rectangles that were unhappy.
On the whole, it wasn’t the glowing rectangles that were unhappy.
Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles
On the plus side, everyone at home is recovering from colds and flu. (Yes, both). …
On the plus side, everyone at home is recovering from colds and flu. (Yes, both). We even all got *out* over the weekend!
On the minus side, that means getting up early on weekdays again, and it’s going to take a while to adjust.
Got a message from an online store asking if I could help answer someone’s question …
Got a message from an online store asking if I could help answer someone’s question about a bluetooth audio receiver I bought a year ago.
The question:
“What kind of flavors are there?”
What is this, iPod Shuffle?
Apparitions & anxiety in a lab are traced to infrasound from a fan…
I stumbled on a reference to this story recently. Just as fascinating this time as when I first read it.
TL;DR: Apparitions & anxiety in a lab are traced to infrasound from a fan producing a standing wave resonating at the frequency of the human eye. Vic Tandy went on to investigate whether the same waves were present in at least some sites with haunted reputations.
He died in 2005. I couldn’t find much follow-up research in a quick search.
Ghost buster: Chris Arnot explains why Vic Tandy of Coventry University is doing time in a cellar
Definition of a tropical depression, according to NOAA
“Tropical cyclones with maximum sustained surface winds of less than 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) are usually called “tropical depressions” (This is not to be confused with the condition mid-latitude people get during a long, cold and grey winter wishing they could be closer to the equator ;-)).”
Sometimes I wonder, why is the Salton Sea worth saving?
Sometimes I wonder, why is the Salton Sea worth saving? It’s not like the Aral Sea or Lake Chad. It was created in an engineering accident 100 years ago. Until then it was a low area in the desert.
This article makes the case for restoration, or at least remediation. A century’s worth of agricultural runoff (which has made the lake too toxic for fish) has settled to the bottom. If it dries out, all that toxic sediment becomes wind-borne dust.
@Alonealastalovedalongthe responds: Too Big To Fail : Lake Edition
Yeah, that’s…a pretty good description.
@mithriltabby wonders about bioremediation and just how salty it’s gotten.
Hmm, according to Wikipedia it’s currently around 56 grams per liter, which is saltier than the ocean, but not as salty as the Great Salt Lake. But it’s increasing by 3% each year.
Working from home to make sure I don’t bring my kid’s flu or wife’s cold …
Working from home to make sure I don’t bring my kid’s flu or wife’s cold to the office. Yesterday I had two visual migraines. Today I had a close call with an errant peanut in the leftovers I heated up for lunch. (Fortunately I didn’t crunch it, and I seem to have escaped any impact from it being on the same plate.)
Yeah, it’s been an interesting week…
Gotta love when something that’s been on your back-burner to-do list for years turns out …
Gotta love when something that’s been on your back-burner to-do list for years turns out to only take 45 minutes.
I mean, on one hand, it’s done! And it was easy! And fast! On the other hand, why didn’t I get it out of the way years ago?
OMG. I’m going through a section of my personal website that I haven’t touched in …
OMG. I’m going through a section of my personal website that I haven’t touched in ages and I found a file called, I kid you not, fixwebtv.js
I think it’s safe to delete that one.
PSA for people with food allergy who plan on drinking green beer
PSA for people with #foodallergy who plan on drinking green beer (or anything else):
Things to watch out for and strategies to keep safe while partying.
Food Allergy and Drinking: How to Socialize Without Brewing Up Trouble
Ordered pizza for pi day. Time estimate was 70 minutes. When I arrived to pick …
Ordered pizza for pi day. Time estimate was 70 minutes. When I arrived to pick it up, it turned out they had a deal on $3.14 personal pizzas for the day. The entire rack was stacked with personal sized pizza boxes. That certainly explains the wait!
@DialMforMara I’m not sure, but I think this may be the first time I saw …
@DialMforMara I’m not sure, but I think this may be the first time I saw Twitter content on Mastodon first, then went over to Twitter specifically to retweet the original.
*sigh* “This is terrible” isn’t a _helpful_ review, even if you agree with it.
*sigh* “This is terrible” isn’t a _helpful_ review, even if you agree with it.