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Tag: technology
Adobe software is a lot like cars
When Adobe released the CS6 Suite, maybe one entire year after they had just released CS5, I didn’t have high expectations for it, the moment I saw that they had redesigned the software down from the splash graphics to the software’s workspaces.
Recently, I ran into a problem in InDesign CS6, where I couldn’t get a particular file to print, or export to PDF. Upon attempting to initiate either task, the program would crash. It was related to a problem in the file itself, as troubleshooting with blank new documents or other projects did not replicate the problem. After about 20 minutes of frustrating unsuccessful troubleshooting, I realized that I had still not uninstalled CS5. I saved my problematic file out as an IDML legacy file, and opened it up in InDesign CS5.
It printed without any complications.
It PDF’d without any hesitation.
In conclusion, it didn’t work in CS6, because CS6 is fucking retarded. I thought about it for a second and chastised myself, because honestly, this was, and shouldn’t ever have been, much of a surprise.
Fuck Comcast
They’ve fucked up my home phone somehow and in a completely unrelated occurrence, happened to fuck up my home internet in the process. I am too tired and stressed agitated to deal with this after being up since 4 am, but I am ready to raise hell if their constant fuck ups have fried my router. But until then, no LoL or internet at home. Fuck Comcast.
If I ruled the world #5,233
Elevators would be prohibited to stop just one floor.
It agitates me greatly when I’m just trying to get to my floor, and the elevator abruptly stops on floor two, and then an asshole gets on and pushes the button to go to floor three. Or vice-versa, while going down. Actually slightly more, while going down. More than agitation, it’s really sad. The elevator for just one floor? Yeah, that should be illegal.
I have to imagine many people are aware of this too. Otherwise, you wouldn’t get those people who make sheepish remarks and the insincere “sorry” with a bashful smirk on their face. Don’t apologize, stop being so lazy and go take the fucking stairs. It’s just one floor.
Almost as bad as the DMV
I guess it would be naive to believe that a Friday the 13th could go by without having to endure at least one little slice of hell, but this was the picture I saw when I walked into the Comcast Service Store in order to exchange my fried cable modem for a working one, instead of waiting an indeterminate time frame for a technician to come out to my home to do it. For the 26 minutes that I was there, I was the the only customer in the entire building that was not black.
Georgia did away with DMVs and instead has two different divisions that deal with acquiring licenses and license plates. I’ve dealt with the licenses online, and I’d been fortunate to have dealt with my plates at such odd hours when I was still a contractor, to where it wasn’t an inconvenience. But the misery of something reminiscent of DMV lines clearly still exists, in this Comcast Service Store.
First impressions of Adobe CS6 splash graphics
Earlier this week, my office upgraded to CS6. Honestly, I didn’t even realize that CS6 was already here. Nowadays, Adobe doesn’t even wait for the paint to dry on their prior product before shoving the newest one out the door, often times leading to debacles like how awful CS3 was. But the more I think about it, I realize that I first used CS5 products in the tail end of 2010, so for all intents and purposes, CS5 probably had a good, albeit less than two year run, which only makes it feel like time has really flown.
I have a theory that Adobe products are a lot like cars. When a new generation is released, the very first year of it is often the ones where flaws are discovered, recalls are prompted, and for all intents and purposes, are the worst of the eventual generation. When Adobe went from the artistic noir generation of CS1 and CS2, into the periodic table styling introduced in CS3 through CS5, without question CS3 was utter garbage. InDesign being the worst of them all with its endless parade of inexplicable crashes and errors making me rethink my career more than a few times. But by the time CS5 rolled around, most everything was fairly stable, and crossing between software was a fairly harmless process, and business could move as usual.
So far, CS6 hasn’t been too terrible, other than the fact that all of my projects take a few extra moments to open as [Converted] files, but it’s only been three days. This is a first year of a new generation, so I’m sure there are bound to be some inexplicable flaws that will make me want to jump out of a window eventually.
However, with the changing of the generation comes some graphic changes as well, namely the splash screens while the software loads. For some reason, Adobe is trying to go back to the days of when they had fancy, artsy splash screens, but they’re afraid to commit completely, and still have their rectangles and base colors. Regardless, they’re all different, and it’s up to me, to judge them.
Lightroom (shown above) is the most nondescript one of them all. It’s a square, and it’s nothing special at all. For the record as a program, I love Lightroom, and would love to have it on my personal machine too.
But Lightroom is probably the only normal one of them. Snap judgment time.
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Cash therapy
Today, as I was walking down the street to get some lunch, I found a twenty dollar bill on the ground. Awesome.
This was in front of a strip club. lol.
Fortunately, it was folded horizontally instead of vertically, so I know that this wasn’t ever at any point wedged into a stripper’s garter belt or vagina, and comes smeared with the herp or chlamydia. It was probably some asshole taxi driver’s, or some drunk bro’s or something like that. But mine now.
After deliberating it for the better part of the last few months, I finally purchased an iPad today. I saw an ebay deal of the day on brand-new iPads, and seeing as how it wasn’t the retail cost of $500, I saw fit to pounce on the deal while it was available, because I missed out on the last time they were available at this price. Given the fact that I don’t have to pay for shipping or the 8% Georgia sales tax, I think I saved myself about $80.
Hell, add the free strip club twenty, and let’s say I just saved a cool even $100 on an iPad, and even more when I combine all the cash I’ve come upon over the last month from writing, selling old car parts, and selling cheap baseball memorabilia.
Now if only I can really figure out what the heck I’m going to do with this iPad once it comes in, I’d be golden.