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"Truepenny," for anyone who's wondering, comes from Hamlet 1.5.153 (in the Norton Shakespeare); it's one of the rather bizarre endearments Hamlet uses toward his father's ghost.
It also comes from L. M. Boston's The Children of Green Knowe, in which Truepenny is the name the ghost children have given to the mole they've befriended. That's where I first encountered it, and that's the meaning I use.
Which is a circumlocutory way of saying the severity of my myopia is a source of frequent amazement to those around me.
This means, among other things, that any program I use regularly must have some way that I can adjust the text-size up. LJ lets one do that, but boy howdy is it weird about it. It seems to treat that particular command as highly contingent when it comes to html tags, so that some of them are the size I want and some of them are the size LJ wants, and rolling over a tag causes it to revert from legible to miniscule in a most disconcerting fashion.
I am by no stretch of the imagination a code geek, but I know html and I understand what it was Here's Luck tweaked to get the tags the right size to begin with. So it disturbs me that LJ can apparently treat that command as optional. It makes me think of all those Golden Age sf omnipotent technology stories and want to laugh until I cry.
The computer is being subversive, and I don't like it.
It also comes from L. M. Boston's The Children of Green Knowe, in which Truepenny is the name the ghost children have given to the mole they've befriended. That's where I first encountered it, and that's the meaning I use.
Which is a circumlocutory way of saying the severity of my myopia is a source of frequent amazement to those around me.
This means, among other things, that any program I use regularly must have some way that I can adjust the text-size up. LJ lets one do that, but boy howdy is it weird about it. It seems to treat that particular command as highly contingent when it comes to html tags, so that some of them are the size I want and some of them are the size LJ wants, and rolling over a tag causes it to revert from legible to miniscule in a most disconcerting fashion.
I am by no stretch of the imagination a code geek, but I know html and I understand what it was Here's Luck tweaked to get the tags the right size to begin with. So it disturbs me that LJ can apparently treat that command as optional. It makes me think of all those Golden Age sf omnipotent technology stories and want to laugh until I cry.
The computer is being subversive, and I don't like it.
