Hiya, Fluffsters!

Web browsers can be rather silly sometimes. In fact, they can be silly to the point of needing to develop new habits to get around their silliness.

Take Chrome, for instance. That’s one of my primary browsers. (I’ve had bad luck getting Firefox to work at efficient speeds. Hence, my use of Chrome.)

But one of the things with Chrome is that it learns history and anticipates URLs really fast.

(Yes, that’s normally a good thing.)

In some cases, however, it’s not. You see, I (of course) use Google as my default search engine. And I like being able to press “g+tab” in the URL to pull up a google search. But I also read the comic “Girl Genius.”

If I’m not careful, then Girl Genius becomes my automatic first link suggestion when I type “g” into the browser.

So I’ve started reading Girl Genius in my incognito/private browser. That way, it doesn’t record the history, and therefore doesn’t teach the browser to pull up something other than Google for my first suggestion after typing “g”.

It’s kinda silly how much the browser has shaped my internet habits…

Have a great Monday!

Hiya, Fluffsters!

For those of you who don’t know, I love socks. Especially brightly colored extremely clashy socks.

(Yes, I was the one who slightly cried inside when my obnoxious semi-metallic rainbow toe-socks with 3d-puff-paint-smiley-faces developed hols that made them unwearable.)

And one of the reasons I really like socks, besides the fact that they’re bright and chipper, is that it makes everything you wear look intentional.

Are you wearing stripes with polka-dots? well, that’s typically bad.

However, if you throw on a pair of hot-pink knee-highs, suddenly it becomes a “fashion statement.” Yes, the fashion statement might still be clashing. But at least it looks intentional.

And this way, even if you’re not aware of what sort of fashion statement you’re (accidentally) making, it still looks like your own personal style. Because you’re just that cool.

So, have fun! Get some delightful socks! ENjoy your knee-highs!

And have a great Tuesday!

Hiya, Fluffsters!

I don’t have much experience with this, but it seems to me as though worldbuilding a secret society into a fictional world (whether a book, movie, TV show, or any sort of fiction) should be a fun way of keeping stories going. After all, since they’re secret, you can have pretty much an unlimited number of secret societies. So, you destroy the first evil secret society? Scene-change to the second secret society that’s behind the first! And on!

And you can get away with it, because theoretically the society is secret. And if it’s secret, nobody knows it exists… until it is revealed.

Yup. They seem like a fun plot device.

Happy Sunday!

Hiya, Fluffsters!

So… I had a slightly awkward time last night. (Nothing serious.)

Ok, so, as I mentioned, I’m currently hyper-busy. I’m at a conference-y thing that’s really more like a summer camp, except they only randomly provide food.

This means that I’m responsible for my meals.

Well, the thingy is being held in a nice town with lots of food options. So I ended up deciding to go out for dinner tonight. Someone I met at the thing joined me.

We went to a fun place (“Noodles”!) that I went to on Monday. That was the fun part.

The awkward thing is that I apparently said something that falsely implied I’d never been there before. (Woops.)

So the guy was explaining things to me. And mentioned to the employees that it was “my first time” (it wasn’t.)

I never did end up correcting him… there were no advantages or disadvantages to being a first timer, so nobody got hurt…

What are your thoughts about situations like this?