I'm bored so you get an entry, whee~

[verloren1983]

☀I can't believe it's December and there's NO SNOW. We had a little the other day, but nothing stuck. This is completely unheard of where I live. Hello, Global Warming. On the upside.... well, there's no snow. On the downside... with there being no snow and also in general being unseasonably warm (still not, yanno, warm, but warmer than it usually is this time of year), it just... doesn't feel like Christmas. D:

☀Did I ever tell you guys that I caved and got Sims 3? Well... I caved and got Sims 3. XD Some things I like, some things I don't. I'm working on a few different things at the moment with that... it's sort of eaten my brain, as Sims tend to do. Oh! Biggest thing I like about this one- I can actually DO OTHER THINGS while simming. With 2, the loading screens took so long after I came back from checking on AIM or firefox or anything that I just wouldn't switch, it wasn't worth it. There's still a slight delay on 3, but it's pretty much insignificant. I -LOVE- that.

☀There is actually a bunny for fifthmus . O_o I'd have to check, but I think that might be record early. XD It needs developing, and it's certainly not TEH BEST BUNNY EVAR, but it's something at least, and that's better than showing up empty handed. ^_^;;;

☀Continuing the Hikago rewatch, slowly but surely. It's slow going mostly because I'm taking screencaps of... well, a lot. And a lot of times I have to go back and go through stuff slowly to get a particular frame, and... guh. It generally takes about an hour and a half to go through each episode. But! When I'm done with this I'll have screencaps for pretty much anything I want ever, which is pretty cool. At some point I should probably make bases of them and post them for everyone... not all at once, of course, because there's a ton. Maybe 5-10 episodes at a time?

☀Downloaded Liquid Story Binder, just to see. I'm.... so confused. D: This really makes me wish I had a Mac, just for Scrivener (which looks completely awesome). Honestly? I will probably never use this. I would much rather have everything in one document where I can actually FIND it as opposed to ten thousand different files and I can't figure out where anything is. Although maybe that's just me, and maybe I just don't understand this program yet. It's just that at this point, it seems more frustrating than useful. I'm going to try to use this for the fifthmus fic, though, and we'll see.

☀There was an update to the Mario firefox theme that I loved.... I hate the update. Urgh. But the old one won't work with the most recent upgrade of FF that I just downloaded this afternoon. *glowers* Guess I need to find a new theme. *grumpy grumbling* The good news, however, is that with the upgrade firefox doesn't seem to be continually eating my tabs whenever the window gets closed. So far. This is a good thing and helps Ver to not go nuts.

*EDIT* Actually, there's a really cool Christmas one that I just installed. It's whiter in parts than I like generally, but it's neat so I'll live with it. Here, I will even screencap it for you all because I'm a dork like that. <3 (It's called Tinseltown for anybody that might be interested, btw)

Comments

[februaryfour]

LSB XE really has a very steep learning curve. I've invested heavily into learning the software, though, and I'm slowly beginning to get it. Damn, this thing is POWERFUL. Scrivener is very different and far more like tabbed text editors such as yWriter. I took a look at the Scrivener tutorial video, and that immediately cured me of any desire to use it--not when I have LSB XE.

My suggestion: read the manual. Then play with it. Spend about a week just playing around with it: input your stories into LSB and see how you work from bits and pieces up to the finished product. (I'm doing this right now.) As you work with it, you really get a feel for just how powerful LSB is.

The problem with LSB is the wicked learning curve (reading the manual helps a teensy bit, but I keep referring back to it--I printed it out.) But damn--it's powerful.

[verloren1983.livejournal.com]

See, I watched a lot of the Scrivener tutorial, and I kept going "ooohshiny." It's... a lot easier, I think, and meshes better with how I write. I don't -need- anything complicated- notepad and word documents set up in folders have worked just fine for me in the past. Basically, I'd be interested in improving that system.

However, I'm willing to try this, hence why I downloaded it. I'll probably do more playing around than reading... particularly with things like this, I find that I learn better actually doing things as opposed to just reading how to do it.

We'll see how it goes. Also, I've never hear of yWriter before... it looks interesting, though it seems like that would be more for original work or fanfic that was more on the extensive side. But that was just my impression. XD

[februaryfour]

From the tutorials it seemed like yWriter and PageFour are VERY similar to Scrivener. ^_^ LSB really is in a class of its own (AFAIK).

[jet]

I got your card! Thank you so much! When I opened it, I squeed out loud XD

[verloren1983.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked. <3