Half-Smart, Half-Stupid, part 2

In keeping with the title theme, I finally figured out (with help from some knowledgeable people) the integral aspect ratio represented by 1366 x 768 pixels...and I should have known it.

1366 by 768 is approximately equal to 16 by 9. 16 by 9 being the aspect ratio of HDTV. Again...half-smart, half-stupid, as promised. The approximate decimal-representation being about 1.77...to 1.00.

Duh!

--mattergy

Half-Smart, Half-Stupid

I didn't pop out of the womb intelligent. In fact I've made some colossally UNINTELLIGENT moves in my life.

But dwelling on personal-stupidity seems a waste of the GOOD that can be accomplished in life.

Sure, it's necessary to consider (humbly) all that one has failed-at in life....but not to the point of self-invalidation.

Such matters require thoughtful attention to the needs of others, odd as this may sound.

The point is not intended as a form of self-absolution, but rather to remind the reader that to err is human, to forgive, divine.

I think this very old saying says so much about the human-condition...that it's fallen out of use.

Everybody makes mistakes in life. I have yet to meet a person who HASN'T.

Myself included.

--mattergy

Social-Networking Sites Huge Security Risks IMHO

Lest I be accused of targeting a specific company's (service), I'll remind the reader again that anything you read here is only my opinion.

But lately I've been receiving increasingly-emotional mail from a particular social-networking site I monitor for various (benign) reasons, and I feel compelled to point-out that these sites are frequently exploited for nefarious-purposes, so don't feel spurned if I know you and I choose not to respond to mail received from such sites!

Rationale: social-networking sites in my experience are BIG SECURITY-RISKS to unwary users who are merely trying to make contact with their old friends, etc.

I could go into detail if only it weren't so darn dangerous to do so!

Again, if you really need to contact me, send mail to admin@dmcrr.com, complete with a valid return-email address, and I can then check your public-background and reply with the appropriate security-questions.

But beware, I don't take kindly to unauthorized mail. And once your address gets put on my DO-NOT-REPLY or DELETE-WITH-PREJUDICE list(s), you'll never in a million years even receive an acknowledgment from me.

;) mattergy

Fluid-Reality

I made an interesting discovery today about the screen-resolution on my PC.

Apparently, the OLD full-screen resolution of 1024 x 768 that I had used successfully for years has been curiously made to appear as "antiquated" by my PC-manufacturer by needing replacement with a 1366 x 786 display-area, making ALL OF MY 1024 X 786 desktop bitmaps appear smaller (1024 x 786 is approximately 4x3, thus it made for fairly high-resolution 4x3 artwork that worked on many other systems (800 x 600 is the highest resolution that most older displays will accept, but easily reduced to 800 x 600 from a 1024 x 768 image, with very little loss-of-clarity).

The alteration of the display-area to (1366 x 786--approximately ???) was troublesome for me at first, but with knowledgeable image-manipulation tactics, I was able to grow my old desktops to the right size again [I was scoffed-at by many-an-artist over the years for eschewing non-integral formats, but was praised by many folks of lesser-art-purity-principles (corporate-desktop-publishers) for normalizing my artwork to RATIONAL-SIZES]...but I guess the Art-dweebs don't care for the real-world(tm)...and rightly so it seems.

Whatever...forget standards...they're only fleeting illusions, right?

:P mattergy

This Ain't No Wordy Rappinghood

I realize that my words are only words in the grand scheme of reality, but I'm always hoping that some benefit comes of them.

I've been accused of many things over the years, but the integrity of my words should be plainly-visible to anyone who can count...nobody FORCED me to write ANYTHING...and if you understand that the form of neural-damage from which I suffer is NO PICNIC, then you realize that just typing is a chore that almost nobody would undertake on their own initiative.

So as sparse as these articles may appear, know that they're about all I have left!

--mattergy