today's 'technology is in such a hell state now that I genuinely feel compelled to scream about it daily' moment was my trying to print and scan a document, with my printer/scanner (which, I must have you note, despite my pleading with the seller did not come with usb wire option available, and none of the others did).
Predictably, having been used on the day of purchase and not since, the printer did not work despite being less than 6 months old. Searching for why this could be led me down a rabbit hole that eventually resolved into how the print cartridges for this model just dry out and clog up if you don't use them every single week. you know. what a normal thing to happen. but don't worry! just soak the bottom in a shallow bath of warm water for 30 minutes dry it off and reinstall it that'll make it work
8)
you what.
Anyway, it did work. I print the test sheet, boom, what should have worked before at least worked now. And there was Much Rejoicing.
alas. alas. how shortly lived it was.
Now I naturally move on to print the document, sign it, and scan the newly signed document. The document from my pc. With this printer/scanner which is sitting on a desk directly NEXT TO my pc.
Which. will not. connect to my pc.
I plead. I bargain. I follow the wizard twice, thrice, but it is a cruel wizard, a tormenter from the nether world. "Type in the IP address!" He taunts me, cackling maniacally as I do, weeping over my staggering fingers attempting to puzzle the code out of the 1 inch touch screen, numbers and dots jazzing into nonsense in my field of vision as I loose all comprehension of what the symbols mean. The printer cannot be found. The printer does not Exist. The printer, at this moment, the sole focus of my gaze, decides it is bored and goes to sleep, therefore ending the whole attempt of communicating with it just as the 938678th loading bar had reached its zenith and I, ever the hapless Sisyphus, watch my dignity flatten into a pancake of wordless, stark-eyed bewilderment verging on hysteria as my boulder crashes back down the hill as the wizard begins to drag me back to the beginning of his never ending Labrynth, to be eaten by and become the ouroboros yet again but no! I will not enter back! I shall bite down, break my scales, and end this cycle of tyrannous misery!
anyway that's why I ended up taking a shitty photo with my phone's camera and I'm doctoring it in CSPaint to look like I scanned it with the SCANNER THAT I AM ABOUT TO THROW OUT OF A SECOND STORY WINDOW
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Odysseus' reintegration into the world bound by mortal limitations foregrounds both his age and the distance he has traveled. The shipwrecked sailor who manages to crawl ashore naked on Scheria, bereft of companions, possessions, any token of identity — of all but the bare ember of vitality (cf. 5.488-90 — a lonely spark in a pile of ashes) — meets the young Nausikaa, whose life (like that of Telemachus) is just opening to the possibilities before her. The scene in which Odysseus, awakened by sounds that evoke in him fears of hostile men, faces instead a group of teenage girls playing ball, is both comic and poignant as it measures the difference between their expectations and stages of experience. Later, as he is challenged to compete in an athletic contest, Odysseus acknowledges the toll that age and journeying inevitably take. This is not, then, the epic of the beautiful death (one way to read the Iliad (e.g., see Vernant 1991: 50-74)) but the epic of timeworn, embraceable life.
John Miles Foley, A Companion to Ancient Epic, 2005.
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KEY MY NOTES: ENG LYRICS
FRAGMEM IS FINALLY HAPPY FOR ONCE??!?!?!??!?!?!
KURODE
Always reaching out, far far away
Until this desire dies out
CIELOMORT, KLARKSTELLA
Opening the door to something changing
KURODE
The key is always in the heart
KURODE
On a note I don't know anything about yet
I write out about this day
CIELOMORT
Someday the future will be a blank slate
I'll let you take the right steps
KLARKSTELLA
It's not about the surface, looks don't matter
You don't have to fit in if you don't want to
KURODE
So that I can be more than I am right now
ALL
A stage (world) that no one has ever seen before
The image (imagination) that will eventually overtake us
CIELOMORT
Keep on drawing, until you can grab it
KURODE
I'll let this throbbing take care of me
ALL
The deeply rooted inferiority tearing you apart
A longing that sounds faint and far away
KLARKSTELLA
Creating a signpost which looks like a nightmare
ALL
Together in this chest, a memory
CIELOMORT
The sound of raindrops piercing through stone
You say it as if you'll get it
KLARKSTELLA
If you could have the best sound that makes you lively
KURODE
No matter how absurd or buggy it is
I can't help but love this world
KURODE
Always reaching out, far far away
Until my wish comes true
CIELOMORT, KLARKSTELLA
Like noticing the scent of bellflowers
KURODE
The key is always in the heart
ALL
Even with the clumsiness under neither shade nor sunlight
Sometimes we let go of our weakness
CIELOMORT, KURODE
Let me protect all of them if you need me to
ALL
The tears that overflow from your face along with your usual broken smile
KLARKSTELLA
So you could be yourself
CIELOMORT
This chest, this memory
KLARKSTELLA
Sincerely, forever
KURODE
I'll make it echo all around
Together, a melody
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i still struggle so much drawing the creature in a non gijinka way
also i know the background is horrible but uhhhhh
i have been drawing basically like, the entire week lol to try to lift my mood up since last post, yknow so i at least know i can still draw, and i made a list with stuff to draw, i have a few of em done but i wanna upload them in the same post so it will take a while (its nothing much, just some silly un-shaded quick drawings) i also im doing this one drawing and im trying something different so uh, i very much have no idea of what the fuck im trying to do in that one (it has a bit to do with chaos elfilis as in im tryna remake their gijinka and going crazy on not being satisfied with the designs i came up with and cool ideas i dont have the skill to do)
went in a bit of rant there, huh? well, i just wanted to post something already (i was planning to upload this tmrrw)
uh Jambuhbye! :D
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in case i ever doubt whether im Actually disabled. i have to do nothing today so i’ll have the spoons to sit upright for an hour & a half tomorrow morning so i can watch my baby brother’s dance performance. that is not able-bodied behavior!!!!
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