the frustrations of my computer!!

CONFLABIT!!

whew, just needed to get that out of the way first. ok so i-like most married people (or at least newly married people) keep pictures of their wedding as their desktop background. Let me first just say that I had an amazing wedding photographer and she shot some truly spectacular shots. Now the saddest part is that some of these are verticle shots and my computer feels compelled to STRETCH every single photo. I’ve tried changing the settings and all sorts of stuff, but nothing works. it has all these options but doesn’t accept them. I’ve even (as an experiment) made a 50 x 50 pixel dot on paint to see if i could get the desktop to have it as a tiled background. NOPE, i just ended up with a large, overly pixilated picture of a dot as my background! i’ve been trying to fix this since day one. the only reason i haven’t called HP on this is that THEY CHARGE YOU FOR HELP. i mean, fine, i get it. they’re computer doctors and we pay doctors, but i have one question about aspect ratio; where do they get off charging me on something that their company messed up in when making the computer. and if they’re going to tell me (which they might if i ever swallow my pride, get paid and actually call them) that the computer is just programmed that way then why the heck to the have the options to “center” pictures, “tile” them? why not just have the decency to DENY us the choice instead of pretending that we have the choice then not letting us pick anything anyway.

ugh.

England 1660: Restoration

So i’m taking restoration lit. one of my new classes (and despite the negativity i’ve heard about it, i’m going to try to keep interested). so far i’ve started reading the introduction “The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century 1660-1785”

One thing i’ve noticed (and i’m only on the second page) is that all turmoil comes from the greed for power. I’m sure those of you (i should probably say ‘both’ of you) that read my blog have figured this out a long time ago. and to some degree i knew it too, but i think that it’s become more obvious for me. Everything is about power, “no political settlement could be stable until the religious issues had been resolved” (Greenblatt 2058). You can’t have a change of power until the source of power has first been discovered. Stability only comes when a set person is in power and when the majority of the citizens agree with having that person have power. i think England, or at least Charles II believed that lack of education, land and the inability to vote diminished a person’s power; to some degrees, he’d be correct, but in some like in the case of Alexander Pope who, because he was a Catholic, “[was] largely excluded from public life” it didn’t seem to make a difference (2058).

Anyway, i just thought this little epiphany should be shared. No plagiarizing! ;)