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“House cafeterias will be serving fries with a side order of patriotism Tuesday with a decision by GOP lawmakers to replace the “French” cuisine with “freedom fries.””
Haha! That’s funny *laughing* where did you get that article? The Onion? What? You’re serious? This is true? *weeps*
Besides the fact that the fries are named for the style in which they are cut and not that they are from france (they are from belgium), this is so childish! Not to mention intolerant, since when did we treat our ALLIES with such indignity because we don’t agree with them? During WW2 patriot cabbage, or victory cabbage, was the name for sauerkraut, but Germany was our enemy! And this was laughed at later as a clear case of propaganda. I am so ashamed of my country right now.
I am however, more upset at my family at the moment %) I messaged my sister Heather (PurpleDragon11) yesterday to see how she was doing:
-PrincessLeia2- Hey sis, how’s it going?
-PurpleDragon11- good
-PrincessLeia2- good %)
-PurpleDragon11- Oh, dad is mad at you for spending the money granddad sent you on a new car instead of coming to visit like you were supposed to
-PrincessLeia2- What? We didn’t, the money is sitting in the drawer next to me
-PurpleDragon11- Oh
-PrincessLeia2- I wish you people wouldnt jump to fucking conclusions
-PurpleDragon11- Well you said you spent savings on getting a new car
-PrincessLeia2- That was not THIS savings, that was savings we had particularly for that purpose! Besides, granddad DID NOT say this money was for a trip up to Maine, this was with “no strings attached” and he said if I needed money to visit that I could ask for it
Now understand, the check my grandfather sent me was only for $500. It was really nice of my grandfater, and I appreciate it, but not exactly a gold mine. The down payment for the new car was twice this, we pay over twice this a month in rent! What kind of reality is my father living in? This isn’t 1980. Without even getting into the fact that he is a fucking failure in alcoholic rehab that I am sick of defending and shouldnt be judging me in the first place… doesnt he realize that this sort of critism and nagging only makes me want to visit LESS? What will I get when I finally get up to Maine? More lectures and messages of disapproval? I don’t need that. And doesn’t he realize that I’m an adult now? I can’t just grab some cash and drive 600 miles when I feel like it! We have responsibilities here, I remember growing up that we didnt get to go on vacation much, we saw family in other states only once every couple of years, the only reason I saw my grandparents yearly was because they were retired and could drive up and visit. I moved away from home for good over three years ago, and have my parents even made the slighest effort to visit me? No. Have I visited them once? YES! Last April. I saw my mother and sisters the year after I moved away from home because they came to New York to visit family, but I still had to drive an hour to get to the family she was staying with! While my presence in New York was no doubt one of the reasons she visited, she made no attempt to visit me at my home. But has my father done even this much? No. He had a responsibility to my sister to keep the house he was living in, and thus working sometimes two jobs, so why does he not seem to understand the responsibility of being an adult? Is it just an issue of still seeing me as a child? Is it an issue of him having trouble letting go?
Besides, if he was so concerned about how I was spending my money, why not confront me about it? Why complain to my younger sister? It’s the same game my parents played when I was younger, complain to everyone in the family EXCEPT the person you have the problem with. I understand that it’s hard to confront someone with concerns, everyone is guilty of being non-confrontational, everyone is guilty of holding a grudge and just letting it fester because they don’t feel comf
ortable with a confrontation. But in all cases it just makes it worse, not only am I upset because he feels the need to judge me YET AGAIN, but he brings my sister into it because he is too cowardly to tell me himself. After all the times growing up that I defended and stood by him, why does he treat me like this now? Does he not realize the sacrifices I made growing up for him? Does he just not fucking care? I know he wants to see me, I want to see my family too, but he is just driving me away now. All plans to visit are officially put on hold.
I also learned the other day that my father didn’t even call Annette on her birthday, he is basically not even a part of her life anymore. I don’t care what his excuse is this time, there is NO excuse for not having contact with your daughter on her birthday, not even the week of her birthday! He left her no message on the answering machine, no card, not a written note saying happy birthday (even I got that)… Unfortunately from what my mother said Annette was sad, but not surprised by my father’s lack of contact, and she was just glad that she heard from Heather and I.
Ok, I will stop complaining about my father now.
So I spent 4 hours yesterday afternoon trying to write a keybinding the “borderless” window option in enlightenment. Unsuccessfully. I can do almost anything else! Apparently the “Window Operations Menu” (alt rightclick in E, how you get your windows to do cool things, like go borderless) is defined in /usr/share/enlightenment/config/menus.cfg This is the only reference I found to the defining of the WINOPS_MENU. And what does the section about “Set Border Style” say?
BEGIN_NEW_BORDERS_MENU(“WINOPS_BORDERS”, “EMPTY”)
END_MENU
That’s it. Nothing in the menu. But there IS! Now in ~/.enlightenment/themes/darkone/borders/borderless.cfg there is a definition of what borderless should mean
__BORDER __BGN
__NAME BORDERLESS
__BORDER_SIZE_LEFT 0
__BORDER_SIZE_RIGHT 0
__BORDER_SIZE_TOP 0
__BORDER_SIZE_BOTTOM 0
__END
So maybe, automagically, enlightenment has the WINOPS_MENU look to the theme for the configuation of what borderless means? I honestly don’t know. But you figure, hey, I can just put the “__BORDER_SIZE_TOP 0” info into the ~/.enlightenment/keybindings.cfg file, right? So I try that.
__NEXT_ACTION
__KEY t
__MODIFIER_KEY __ALT
__EVENT __KEY_PRESS
__ACTION __BORDER_SIZE_TOP 0
So now when I press alt t with a window focused it should make the top border disappear right? Just like when I hit alt m and it maximizes a window. Nope! Segmentation Fault, Enlightenment crashes. I tried dozens of things, even calling the borderless.cfg file by name. I can do anything with keybindings but the things in the Set Border Style menu! Maybe it’s an enlightenment bug that makes it segfault? Maybe I was just going about it all wrong? When Myk came home yesterday afternoon I told him of my ordeal, he laughed and said he had a similar experience, and he felt better knowing that I ran into the same troubles in the same places. I googled for this, but found nothing on the problem, apparently Myk even went into #enlightenment on freenode but they were unhelpful *shrugs* Looking back it seems like a funny thing to spend an entire afternoon working on but linux is all about customization! The way of linux is being able to do whatever you want even when you press the limits. I hate being stumped.
Hmm, so MorganHorse‘s comment yesterday about the “geek analyzation” being like a Discovery Channel documentary got me thinking… You know, I could easily expand that to a website, including pictures, and stories from other geeks, little “sections” of encounters that other people have had with fellow geeks, it could be an awsome mockumentary of unix geek culture! I’d need help tho, obviously my view as a female geek does not encompass all of unix geekdom, nor do I believe I could define each big group of geeks myself. Any voluteers? This could be really fun…
I guess t
hat’s it for now, I will find something to do today, it’s supposed to be fairly warm (50s) so I think I’ll go take a walk this afternoon %) Of course tomorrow there is a weather advisory for snow and sleet, yay the winter that wouldnt end! %) *wanders off*