Yet Another Bikeshed

like buying the green cheese from a bankrupt grocery store

There was a virtual blue moon yesterday, I wrote a tutorial to both celebrate this modern day miracle and to kill time.

To celebrate the virtual blue moon yesterday, I wrote a tutorial to both celebrate this modern day miracle and to kill time.

This soft light moded green cheese image is meant to be a companion piece for this lovely screenshot I grabbed the day before yesterday. I had a gift to give a friend at this years camp; I waited so many years for camp to happen again. So, this was some fish for the dolphins who had another camp without me. Very big men there.

What should not be in soft light mode is California, where the moon is made of green cheese and high school students completely understand graduate level thermodynamics even if they fail to understand that things that things fall down (he looked around to find the shell that fell down). They should be so proud.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.  Except a
creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely
a loose misapplication of the word.  Consider the flea!--incomparably the
bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact
that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth
to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the
very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more
afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by
an earthquake ten centuries before.  When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam
as men who "didn't know what fear was," we ought always to add the flea--and
put him at the head of the procession.
                -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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Considering changing the name of my web log

gui.gimp.org has been getting some mention on gimp's irc channel, and good for Peter Sikking! I have been using this application for so long now that anything if anything that I use changes, I become frustrated. Some of this frustration (and you will have it as well if you are a long time user of GIMP and let your distribution or the label 'stable' determine when you upgrade, because things have moved around now for the approaching 2.4) causes me to consider renaming my web log from 'bikeshed' to 'gui-victim'....

Here is an example of how little knobs and options can victimize you.

16:18 (holycow) hi guys.  on this workstation when i'm using the move layers tool and i click on a 
          visible layer ... that layer becomes active in the layer palette
16:18 (holycow) this is perfect
16:18 (holycow) on my home workstation with a similar version of gnome that doesn't happen
16:19 (holycow) i can't find the setting to turn this on ... any suggestions on what controls this 
          behaviour?
16:19 (Jack_of_Trades) I think yosh would know.. As for myself I havn't had a problem like that so 
          I wouldn't know.. Sorry :(
16:20 ::: Jack_of_Trades has quit [Connection closed]
16:22 (carol) toggle in the move tool options?
16:30 (holycow) carol: i think you may be right
16:32 (holycow) didn't seem to do anything when i was at  home but it does change the behaviour here
16:42 (Kentrel) So what are your favourite sites for tutorials?
16:44 (Kevin) Kentrel: Depends what you mean by 'upcoming version'. If you mean version 2.4, then 
          no, IIRC. If you meant some future, then yes.
17:08 (carol) holycow: it might be some combination lock like thing between tool options and 
          preferences/tool options eh, options also
17:09  + carol begins to expound in a possibly unwanted fashion into the dark cold irc channel
17:10 (carol) at this place i have been staying, there is an old general motors oven. it is 
          separate from yet matches the range top and was designed to fit into a carpentered hole 
          in the wall. this might be too much information for what i am about to describe except 
          that it might help to get the age of the device
17:11 (carol) it has this combination of knobs which are labeled as the timer
17:12 (carol) frightening now because i imagine putting a large chicken in the oven and setting these 
          timers to start the oven at maybe 4pm and leaving for work at 5am
17:13 (carol) the chicken would ripen while it sat there in the enclosed area at room temperature or 
          dangerously slightly above it for hours
17:14 (carol) if one of those knobs gets turned now, perhaps several decades since it was designed, 
          purchased and installed here -- the oven refuses to work
17:14 (carol) it is now a combination lock 
17:14 (carol) all of the 'zero' settings have moved throughtout the years
17:15 (carol) move tool only has three behaviour options to toggle and untoggle
17:16  + carol stops thinking about it because calculating permutations *will* shorten ones life
17:16 (holycow) heh