An interesting use of the text follows path tool in Inkscape to show a bit of optimism.
Category: Illustration
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So continuing the collaborative disgusting book titles series, Iddrise made me snarf my milk with a book idea that focused on 108 keys to success for the sedentary secretary in all of us. Why 108 keys? The US keyboard standard layout uses 108 keys. The book is rife with silly exercise tips, rather than any ideas for improving nutrition, backwards puns on office life, and ageist, sexist, and other prejudiced thinking, such as Key 86: replenish the water in the cooler while you wait for your copies to finish! and Key 112: bring extra coffee cups to the meeting to work out your biceps! All 108 Keys end in exclamation points. Add your own keys in the comments below, and we’ll get this thing shipped.
The two most important days in your life are: The day you are born, and the day when you find out why. – Mark Twain
On Mac OS X, some applications, like GIMP and Inkscape, use ctrl combinations for other purposes, rendering a ctrl-click (like a right-click, brings up a contextual menu) inoperable. In cases where a touchpad is present, a two finger click works equally well. You might also consider connecting a two-button mouse, though given the touchpad solution, it may be unnecessary.
There are only a few key rules that I keep in my nutritional set. This is one of the most important: Eat real food. This covers a lot of other rules, such as avoiding processed, advertised, labeled, shrink-wrapped foods. It means shopping at farmer’s markets. It means avoiding foods with ingredient lists. It means cooking from scratch. It means everything, from a nutritional standpoint.
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When I was 12 years old, my mom saw that computers might be something I’d be interested in and that it might be an important skill in my future. She got me a couple of computers that worked in Basic, namely the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A and the Timex Sinclair 2000. The Sinclair with its 16k memory module addon was especially frustrating because it had this graphics mode that you could hold down a modifier key to add symbols to the screen, but it would take forever to refresh, would suddenly crash after a half hour of work, and had no easy way to save. The TI-99/4A at least had the ability to save to cassette tape. It was a simpler time for technology, but definitely not better. I think my favorite program I made on the TI was an ATM machine simulation that asked your password, denied access without the right one, asked if you wanted your bills in large denominations or small ones, and thanked you for your business.