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This past weekend kicked off Nürnberg’s Easter Market. It was a wonderful sunny day, with blue skies, so I brought the camera out and snapped a few photos. I also put 36 (much lower quality) snapshots on Facebook. (I believe it is set that anyone should be able to see...
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garrett
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Often, us artist-types need advanced typography when making artwork, laying out text, and fun things like that. How do you usually do it? For me, it’s either been launching a stupidly hard to find (and annoying to use) character picker or searching for some character on the Internet and copy/pasting...
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Jakub just got a HUGE Wacom Cintiq tablet… and he has instructions on how to set it up for Linux (well, and the Mac too, but that’s just a sentence)!It was just a few days ago when I rushed over to Sigi’s office to see his new baby Cintiq —...
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garrett
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I’ve been in Germany for two weeks now, and I miss a few things already… First of all, my family and friends back home (of course!). It was great to spend quite a bit of time with my family, and I was able to visit a few friends before the...
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Dear “lazyweb“,How do I type all those funny European squiggles and dots on the mere 26-letter US keyboard on my Lenovo X61 laptop in Linux? Searching Google and copy-pasting found characters is getting old pretty quickly. The correct way to type these characters is not obvious.If it involves special scripts...
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For some reason, most of the companies I interact with changed my address to a place in South Carolina.I have never lived in South Carolina.So now I have mail randomly going to who-knows-how-many places in Massachusetts, one in South Carolina, and one in Georgia. Thankfully, most of it seems to...
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A kind neighbor found and returned my Nintendo DS. (It’s fun to play while traveling, especially during long transatlantic flights.) He found it on the street, as I must have dropped it when I got back from seeing a few friends in Macon and Atlanta. I’m quite thankful that the...
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I figured I’d break the silence on my blog by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and any other holiday of their celebration! (:Happy holidays!