Labour Day and The Day Beforehand 2020

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 01:33:42 GMT

Usually, on Labour Day, I'd be downtown photographing the parade, and uploading the pix that suited me to Flickr. Because, usually, there would be a Labour Day Parade organized by the local unions and allied organizations. This year, it looks like, thanks to the Time of Pandemic - yet again - that parade is not going to happen.

Instead, there's going to be online events all over the Ottawa-adjacent cyberspaces, hosted by those same labour groups and their allies. I'm not sure which, if any, I'm going to be participating in.

Until then...what did I do today?

I was involved in a video chat with assorted members of ByMUG. Details for today's session were here. Shadow-dot-tech as a gamer's workaround. RSS resources. That sort of thing.

I mowed the front lawn for my household and the next-door neighbours.

I've been adding brushes from my previous Clip Studio Paint version to the current one. That's taking more time than I'd like, because the current version is not set up to batch-import brushes and other materials. Over a hundred brushes involved.

Yesterday, I looked at a script for an old project that never got finished. I was never happy with pencils that I'd handed in, nor with the tech I'd used to paste together the scans of each page. Now that I have both a scanner that can handle an 11 x 17 art board in one pass, and Clip Studio Paint as options to work with...should I revisit that script? I'm tempted.

I am tempted to see if I can do a better job now than I did then.

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A note about printers

Mon, 11 Feb 2019 01:01:13 GMT

I currently own and use a Hewlett-Packard-made scanner-printer device. I didn't buy into such plans as described in the article by Cory Doctorow, but it is programmed to complain to me every time I use a refilled ink cartridge. I find that obnoxious enough as it is.

This is worse.

If Hewlett-Packard wants me to keep buying their scanner-printer devices when my current machine "dies", it would go well for them to cease and desist in the practices Mr. Doctorow describes here.

Permanently.

(And is this happening in Canada, and whom do we speak with at which level(s) of government if it is?)

https://boingboing.net/2019/02/08/inkjet-dystopias.html

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Labour Day and The Day Beforehand 2020

A note about printers