Wed 25 Jan 2006 @17:05
I didn’t intend my question on Monday to be a difficult one. The search term I put in for the Montage-a-google example was simply “otoh”. By the way, I found that if you use exactly the same search term more than once, you get slightly different montages.
I was asked how I saved the montage to use in the post. I use a wonderful little free (for personal, noncommercial or educational use) program called IrfanView (Irfan is the first name of the developer.) It started out as a graphics viewer program, but it does so much more. Like converting images between formats, resizing and cropping images, interfacing with your scanner and printer, creating slideshows, etc. Oh yeah, and it can capture either the entire screen or just the active window. I use it a lot when I write instructions for computer-based projects. Maybe I’ll do a more thorough description for one of my GeekSpeak type posts.
I mentioned yesterday the “news” report about the Most Depressing Day. It was a quick post and I failed to include a link to any of the sources or much of an explanation of how that status was determined. (But, really, if it’s that important to you I figured you would do a search and turn up the same sources I did.) But I do think it’s kind of interesting which factors were included: weather, debt, time between holidays, and failed resolutions, for example and a few others.
While the days are getting longer (in the northern hemisphere) since the winter solstice in December, seasonal weather patterns often bring more dark, cloudy days with ice and snow in January. Seasonal Affective Disorder increases with less exposure to sunlight. The bills you ran up for the holidays are due. And if your new year’s resolutions lasted beyond a week or so, chances are pretty good you have failed to keep them this long.
I was feeling down and depressed when I heard a voice from the cosmos. “Cheer up,” it said, “things could get worse.” So I cheered up. And, sure enough, things got worse….
Oh, I think my cynicism is showing….
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January 25th, 2006 at 22:24
Do you think it’s intentional that Seasonal Affestive Disorder can be shortened to SAD?
I guess it’s better than Affective Seasonal Syndrome, which is more anatomical when abbreviated.
Thanks for the link to the incredibly complicated site. I bookmarked it and danced around it a bit, but it’s beyond my ken. Someday. . .
And if you want to truly embrace your cynicism, check out despair.com. They sell the pessimist’s mug, the bittersweets, and the demotivational posters (like “Not Everyone Can Be an Astronaut” emblazoned under a glossy photo of french fries.) But I think I might have already talked to you about that. Sorry!