Insolent postillions

Today is my Monday, so while I hope to get something done this evening, I haven't gotten there yet. How about you?

Poll #33705

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Where are you in working on your WIP at the moment?

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Working on pre-writing: research, planning, outlining, etc.!
1 (20.0%)

Writing!
3 (60.0%)

Editing!
1 (20.0%)

Working on something other than my intended WIP!
0 (0.0%)

Not working on anything/taking a break!
1 (20.0%)

Something else!
1 (20.0%)

Not knitting, but the first mockup for the car template was surprisingly good. The skins arrive tomorrow, so I should get them on!

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My day definitely got away from me. How about yours?

Poll #33702

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Where are you in working on your WIP at the moment?

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Working on pre-writing: research, planning, outlining, etc.!
3 (37.5%)

Writing!
3 (37.5%)

This week is going to be all about planning!
0 (0.0%)

Working on something other than my intended WIP!
1 (12.5%)

Not working on anything/taking a break!
3 (37.5%)

Something else!
0 (0.0%)

The inside of my car is boring. The inside of my old car was cute. So I ordered two laptop skins and started making templates of the computer and "shifter" surround so I can hopefully have a cute inside of my car again. The relentless black with hints of grey is too bleak. There's enough bleakness without a bleak car interior.

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I hope everyone's week is off to a good start!

Poll #33695

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Where are you in working on your WIP at the moment?

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Working on pre-writing: research, planning, outlining, etc.!
2 (33.3%)

Writing!
3 (50.0%)

Editing!
0 (0.0%)

Working on something other than my intended WIP!
0 (0.0%)

Not working on anything/taking a break!
2 (33.3%)

Something else!
1 (16.7%)

ursula

I'm on A Meal of Thorns this week talking about Melissa Scott's Burning Bright: why I love it, what makes it space opera or cyberpunk, and the mystery of the ending.

Sunday night. But it was a relaxing weekend

mistressofmuses posting in

Apologies for the late post; long workday.

So the question is...

Poll #33692

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What are your writing plans for this week?

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I have an existing WIP (or multiples!) that I plan to work on!
8 (100.0%)

I'm planning to start a new project!
2 (25.0%)

This week is going to be all about planning!
1 (12.5%)

I have non-writing projects that are likely to absorb my week!
2 (25.0%)

Something else!
0 (0.0%)

Here's to another week, and hopefully getting to everything we hope to!

I almost never do this, but I looked up a hint in the crossword blog today. My personal rule is to do that when I stop enjoying it. I spent ten minutes on three questions. 39:45 minutes and 1422 day streak!

9:35, a new best time for a Saturday crossword!

raptureofthemoon

From

thefridayfive

1. Do you ever wonder if the way you see things visually aren't how other people see them?

Oh, I'm certain I do. Both literally (most of the people I know wear glasses of varying prescriptions) and figuratively (picking out patterns and being whimsical and fantastical is a past time).

2. What kind of sounds are the most annoying?

Very erratic ones. I can handle a lot of noises at most volumes, but when the noise comes and goes with no pattern, it grates on my nerves.

Also, pretty much any noise when I'm looking for an address or a parking spot.

3. When walking through a store, do you shop with your hands by touching/feeling the texture of things?

When I shop, I'm usually shopping with intention - hunting for a specific thing or a non-specific thing that I know I'll recognize when I find it. In short, yes.

Before I buy anything, be it a dish, a towel, decor, furniture, etc., I have to touch it. Turn it over if it can be turned over. Test its weight. Feel its texture. If it can be opened, I look inside it. If it's for sitting or lying on, I do that.

4. If you could only smell three scents for the rest of your life, what would they be?

Off the top of my head, I'll say: nag champa, storms, and coffee. There's nothing quite like the smell of a storm (I realize, I could've said petrichor, but there's more to a storm than that); nag champa is one of my favorite perfume oil scents and one I wear often; and coffee...reminds me of so many good times, home and creativity and my favorite people. There's a reason I have coffee scented candles tucked throughout my office.

5. What sorts of things do you savor when eating them?

Pizza. Coffee. Van Leeuwen's Black Cherry Chip ice cream. Tiramisu. (There are probably many more things I should savor. I'm working on that.)

Almost the weekend

Zzz

ursula

My October AMS Feature Column, The Hypergeometric Flower Pot, follows a train of thought from high Balatro scores to a famous infinite series.

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this issue is solved! turns out aspect-ratio works just fine on DW, i was just not using it correctly so the problem was in front of the keyboard and not in the code, haha

here's what i originally posted:

hi again! this is more of a general html/css question, but it has to work within dreamwidth's constraints, so i decided to ask it here. please let me know if this isn't the appropriate comm for this. i hope i used the right tags for this post.

here's what i'm trying to achieve (this would be displayed inside the most recent entry on my journal, so i can use regular CSS and not just inline, in case this matters):

i want to have a big box, and inside it a picture and a small box below that. i want the big box to resize responsively while keeping its proportions: suppose its width:height ratio is 1:2; i want it to keep that ratio always. as it resizes, i want the picture and small box inside to also resize while also keeping their proportions.

normally this would be really easy to do with aspect-ratio (<- this is a link to mozilla's developer resources) but that property doesn't seem to work on dreamwidth -- when i put it in my custom CSS, it doesn't seem to do anything, and it gets highlighted in red. (it works okay when i try it in online CSS editors, so i think it's not my mistake that's causing this.)

assuming this is true and i can't use aspect-ratio on DW, i need to cobble together some other solution, but i'm completely out of ideas. is this possible to achieve without aspect-ratio, or should i just change my idea to something that can be done on DW?

thanks again for your time!

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Hello on Thursday! I am declaring it the weekend a day early, hope no one minds!

Looking back at the day today -- or yesterday, if today hasn't gotten going yet -- how did it go?

- I thought about my fic once or twice
- I wrote
- I did some planning and/or research
- I edited
- I've sent my fic off to my beta
- I posted today!
- I'm taking a break
- I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Looking forward, how are you planning to spend your weekend?

- I'm going to make up for not writing all week by having a writing marathon
- I'm going to keep writing at my current rate and see how it goes
- I have other plans, but I might have time to get some writing in
- I'm going to take a break from writing

Have a great weekend with hopefully lots of writing happening!

I absolutely adored the trick in today's Thursday puzzle. I'm going to comment what it was. I'm stunned I didn't get it when I saw the grid, but when I did, everything came together and it was so fun!

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Hello on Wednesday! How are things going in the world of fic?

Did you write?

- Yes!
- No!
- Not yet!

If yes, what kind of writerly activity did you engage in? How do you feel about it?
If no, what were the obstacles/situations that affected your writerly pursuits? What will you do differently tomorrow to get more writing done?
If not yet, because the day hasn't gotten going yet, what kind of writing activity are you planning (or hoping) to accomplish?

Someone used the email that I just use for dreamwidth and blog notifications to send out spam. I've been getting tons of failed address messages.

I changed this to another email address, remembered how to log into my website, and set the email address to not send or receive email.

So that was fun

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