Erika Nilsson
My Thoughtbook
by Erika on Monday 9 March 2009, 20:27 | Comments
Allright, world, I’m sorry. I’m sorry for having first learnt how to use a computer on a Windows 3.11 machine. I’m sorry for thus having got used to coding, first in Notepad, then in Dreamweaver (never even touched the WYSIWYG features, I only used it as a fancy syntax highlighter, so sue me), before I even came close to learning to use Linux and good editors and web standards and godknowswhat at the age of sixteen. Five years of my life wasted, I know, I know. But to the point, even being a horrible horrible semi-wannabe-half-geek, I would have thought that simple commands such as Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V were sort of standard in GUI applications. I know that things don’t work that way at the command line, but it’s not the XFCE terminal I’m angry at right now but ViM. Stupid, stupid, stupid and still oh so annoyingly competent ViM.
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Tags: coding, grr, rant, usability, ViM
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by Erika on Friday 13 February 2009, 01:08 | Comments
Tags: crushes, layer 3, note, rant
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by Erika on Thursday 4 December 2008, 12:42 | Comments (1)
All right, this messed-up timetabling system is getting on my nerves. I check them all at the start of term, make sure I have no clashes, get my Learning Agreement signed. A week later someone has been there with Murphy’s bloody Tombola and shuffled everything: I have to change two courses (picking the new ones from a choice of the only three I can possibly take); there’s another week of international paper pushing. Then fine for most of term, so much so that I get complacent. Hey presto, December arrives, and not until today do I realise that I’ve already missed out on three lectures and two tutorials, and will miss out on two more lectures if nothing changes (which it, judging by past experience, probably will), because of — yes sir, clashes due to sudden, unexplained, poorly announced timetable changes! Particularly charming was the hastily decided upon extra lecture on Differential Equations on December 2nd, announced on … December 1st. (I learnt about it during the lecture on December 3rd.) Yay, guys.
Continue reading “Timetables and God” »
Tags: God, me-paradox, rant, religion, The God Delusion, timetables
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by Erika on Wednesday 5 November 2008, 11:02 | Comments
Success
Between an issue of Passion for Business, a couple of predictably bland articles in a popular psychology mag — no names mentioned — and the lasting impressions from “The Game”, I’ve started scratching the surface of a worrying realisation. Lately (at least), I’ve become one for never ever finishing anything, and I’ve taken Douglas Adams’ philosophy on deadlines a little too much to heart. This isn’t so much to do with course assignments; I usually do well enough on those. However, I keep starting other projects and never finishing them; these are normally things that I am passionate about and really love doing, so it makes no sense that I just leave it half-done (and then spend a few weeks annoyed that I Did It Again). There are also dreams that I have which I could easily make come true, but I just won’t. Why? “The Game” mentioned it, that pop-psy mag talked about it; it might have something to do with a twisted notion of the “Nextopia” idea, treated in Passion for Business, and it would explain why I never apply for the jobs I could die for and why I still haven’t started that business I started planning when I was thirteen.
Do I have an irrational fear of succeeding?
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Tags: deadlines, girly, megatokyo, Nextopia, projects, rant, success
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by Erika on Thursday 9 October 2008, 12:20 | Comments
Tags: musings, rant
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by Erika on Monday 11 August 2008, 16:29 | Comments
Friday, 10.42 pm.
I just saw a new film called “Make It Happen”. Let’s be honest about it, it sucks. The (excuse for a) plot is, and this is obvious from the first minute, one long, straight (one way) road leading up to a monumental Don’t Sell Out On Your Dreams. A very nice moral which has of course been used, worn out, washed, tumble-dried and recycled about 250.000 times already. I mean, I could have figured that one out from reading the title of the film, duh.
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Tags: rant
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