https://schadenfreude.dreamwidth.org/ If You Ask Me - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 16 Apr 2017 04:46:38 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios schadenfreude personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/127668/190123 https://schadenfreude.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://schadenfreude.dreamwidth.org/97617.html Sun, 16 Apr 2017 04:46:38 GMT https://schadenfreude.dreamwidth.org/97617.html <div align="justify"><b>April 13, 2017 - Tourist Trap - what's your dream tourist destination, what about it speaks to you?</b><p>The Taj Mahal. Now, I'm completely aware that the woman who is entombed there, Mumtaz Mahal, died in childbirth, delivering her 14th child. I know that it is a monument to the sub-human subjugation and mistreatment of women. I get that, truly I do. But..every time I see a photo in a magazine or on television, the sheer beauty makes me catch my breath.<p>Honestly, I try to imagine visiting the slave trade / auction sites in the American Southern States and trying to find beauty there, and it makes me feel nauseous and sweaty. However, the Taj Mahal... I long to see it, it sings a sweet siren song to my soul, 'come, come to me and you'll find peace'.<p><img src="http://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2015-08/taj-mahal_650x400_41439633133.jpg"></p></p></p></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=schadenfreude&ditemid=97617" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://schadenfreude.dreamwidth.org/97617.html learning writing contemplative Neil Diamond - Solitary Man confused public 1 https://schadenfreude.dreamwidth.org/89460.html Fri, 17 Mar 2017 02:33:19 GMT https://schadenfreude.dreamwidth.org/89460.html <div align="justify"><br /><b>Something New</b><br /><br />A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I'd bought a Samsung Chromebook. It wasn't expensive by any standard, but it has a decent size, really pretty display, and a nice, roomy keyboard. Last night, I was at How to Geek and found an article about installing a lite version of Unbuntu called Crouton, along side the Chrome OS. Crouton adds a desktop functionality and the ability to add applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet, .pdf creator, etc. I thought this sounded like a win-win situation.<br /><br />After re-reading the article and following the links, I downloaded Crouton, and followed the extremely clear, concise, user-friendly instructions to install it. This will probably surprise you, but I managed to make it much harder than it really is... anyway, after about an hour, I had everything up and running.<br /><br />Crouton isn't pretty.<br /><br />It's a stripped down and plain looking, I suppose, to make it run faster and conserve resources. Bonus points for being easy to move around in and understand. However, finding the tools I want to add wasn't that easy. I finally got frustrated, shut everything down, and went to bed.<br /><br />Ah well, the weekend is almost here and I'll have plenty of time to play with it and search for the applications I want.<br /></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=schadenfreude&ditemid=89460" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://schadenfreude.dreamwidth.org/89460.html writing computers learning Roger McGuinn - King of the Hill hopeful public 0