frustratedpilot | Entries tagged with recognition

...I finally got my 2007 Tax Refund. Not the Stimulus payment--the refund I should have gotten months ago.

Forgone conclusion #1) Fix the printer.
#2) New monitor.
#3) Get my watch checked up on. (The battery went last week. It's been three years.)
#4) If there's anything left over...another pair of slacks.

I'm still not counting on the Stimulus check. I've heard they've run their course.

FP

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Several years ago I saw a computer science program on Public TV that showed a piece of software that could take an existing MIDI file and alter it so it sounded like it was played with non-digital musical instruments. Well, I have the MIDI files I want to play with...and I can't remember the name of the software, or the name of the TV program where I heard about it. *sigh*

Hey.

Spent most of the afternoon in the library at Carson-Newman College today. Looking for something I saw years ago in an old issue of American Heritage magazine. The pros and cons about American Heritage:

PRO:
* Most libraries have the back issues, and they're often easy to find
* They're always well worth browsing if you're interested in History
* They're entertaining reads
* The magazine has a new website in which all their content is searchable

CON:
* The first twenty years of the run of the magazine was in HARDBACK format
* They tend to get beat up after years and years of use
* The website doesn't include the old illustrations, for copyright reasons (so sometimes context is lost)
* The website content is digitized via a optical character recognition software, and often posted without proofreading, so typoes creep into the on-line version (something of an annoyance)

Now, what I was looking for was definitely in the Hardback era of the magazine. I went through about a third of the Hardbacks in the C-N collection, and didn't find what I sought, so I will likely go back on Monday or Tuesday. Or I'll go through the on-line version and see if I can find what I want that, way...tho' I doubt that method has much chance of success.

Bah. If I was so interested in the subject matter the first time, I should have written it down the first time.

FP

As a by-product of my usual chaotic research addiction logic chains, I found out that I couple fonts I have on my computer (and I suppose, more than just those--I just haven't looked that hard yet) will support Japanese--not just kana, but kanji!

So I'm thinking about various ways I can use these fonts to expand my know-how of Japanese writing in general and kanji in particular. As the kanji seem to be arranged in Japanese alphabetical order (niku ["meat"] is only a few characters from nichi ["day"] for an example), I might make some actual headway.

Of course, there are about 4000 characters in the set, so I doubt I'll learn all of them. I've only been studying Japanese twenty years--with no formal courses.

FP

Looks like all of LJ-Land was out-of-order till just a few minutes ago.

And now I don't have to blog about the withdrawl that comes from not being able to blog, be blogged about, read others' bloggities and blogsights, and so on.

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My mood was rescued when Ted Nomura (creator and artist of the Families of Altered Wars series at Antarctic Press) visited his series' forum at the AP website and answered a bunch of posts--including MINE!

Recognition is such a sweet thing.

Gawd, that's pathetic, isn't it?

FP

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Hey.

I, through a search of the Kenzerco Forum, just found out that I had been (post tense) nominated for a 2005 Kenzer Forum Award--but nobody told me about it! (I don't think anybody seconded my nomination, tho')

At least I got a Post of the Month Award and thus an elevation to Guru at the Antarctic Press official forum.

Sniff sniff...appreciation is such a wonderful thing.

FP (who cares more about competing than about winning)

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