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Da Vinci Reversed Text For PC

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Well, I am not satisfied until I discover something acceptable for my goal.  This goal would be to reverse all of the English text on my Windows PC in a manner consistent with Da Vinci’s unique backwards-right-to-left writing style.  It’s done for other languages on Windows, so I don’t see why it couldn’t be done on English with some kind of a hack.

Somehow, I think reversing the video output horizontally (mirrored) would achieve a decent result without any side-effects other than EVERYTHING being horizontally reverse (including images and buttons, and all UI elements).  However, then I would have to get used to moving the mouse cursor to the left when I want to go right, and right when I wanted to go left.  Unless of course, there is a way to invert the mouse’s horizontal directions as well.

The closest thing I’ve found is a Da Vinci backwards font.  However, this doesn’t achieve the result of making all text read right-to-left.  Besides, the system actually uses many different fonts, and making it hacked to use a single font like that would take a lot of work, and make it darn near boring.

If you have any ideas I could try, please let me know!

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New Gripes From The Grump

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Grumpy gripes are back!  If you were missing the whole umpitygrumpity gripey gruffness, well…you’re about to see some more.

I’m driving down the road eating a simple little Powerbar Protein Plus.  I look down and what do I see?  A flippin little piece of the candy bar on my pants.  Can I scrape it off before it melts itself permanently into my nice khakis?  Nope!  It’s already too late.  There goes another perfectly good pair of pants and it’s all because candy bars all fricken hate me.

I mean, I suppose I could try and be more careful.  Naw..I mean, shoot, I am pretty careful already.  I guess pants should just be more indestructible.  They can make pants wrinkle-free (which I want some by the way), but they can’t make them stain-proof?  Come on.  If there are good looking affordable pants that resist wrinkles and stains both, please let me know.  I just freakin hate stains.

Now let me begin on another gripe.  This involves internet that costs like $50 a month for residential service.  You would imagine, at that price a person would have pretty dang good internet service.  Wow, I mean, what a price to pay. We get 10 mbit/sec download speed and hmm maybe 3 1/4ths of an mbit/sec up speed.  Sure the down speed is nice.  The games don’t play so nice though.  The connection is just as crappy for me as for Shane’s 1.5 mbit/sec service from the same company.  It offers laggy multiplayer gaming, and what – …disconnects to boot!

I sit here using my web browser and email and what-not for a while, and I kid you not.  I’ve had to reset this dumb connection about 10 times tonight.  What on earth causes the stupid thing to go off that much in the first place?  It’s not wireless!  I just don’t understand.  CenturyTel’s networks really SUCK.  If they don’t do something to fix the internet around here so that uptime is more than 75%, …I’m gonna crack….CRACK!  I’ll go bonkers!

I wish internet could be something with more options to choose from around here.  CenturyTel is the best we’ve got.  Doesn’t that SUCK like…royally?  CenturyTel….you are one lousy service provider, and money grubbing greedy to boot.  TO BOOT!  I wish we could totally give you the BOOT!  SUCKY company.  YOU SUCK.

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