2005-08-02

pyrephox: (Default)
2005-08-02 09:42 am

Microsoft Word Gurus?

I have a question, and I hope someone out there might be able to answer it:

Microsoft Word 2003 is doing something funky. It's changed all the hyperlinks and page numbering things, away from a straight display, where hyperlinks read like this to where they read like: {HYPERLINK "this"="Insertlinkhere"}. And the page numbering, instead of having the number, has {PAGE}. It's very strange. It /seems/ to be able to print out correctly, but the faculty member finds the display annoying.

Anyone know how to change it?
pyrephox: (Let's roll!)
2005-08-02 09:48 am

It is to weep.

I really regret seeing three letters in the New York Times talking about how it's time to end manned space travel. While some of them make decent practical points, as far as they go, that's not really the issue. Sending human beings into space was never really about practicality...not to most people. No more than sailing across the Atlantic was solely about trying to find a new trade route to India.

To look up to the stars is to know that our world is one, tiny fraction of the known universe. There is so much more out there, so much to learn, and know, and see. See with our own eyes, with living, HUMAN eyes, not just through the reflected visions or robots and space-borne telescopes. Those visions are valuable, sure, but they'll never be quite as valuable as putting a human out there to go and explore.

We never should have faltered. We never should have let deaths, as tragic as they were, deter us from our journey to the stars. People die when you do dangerous things. It doesn't mean those things aren't worth doing. And, God, if they opened the space program up to any volunteer who cared to go? It doesn't matter if they were putting people in plastic bags and shooting giant slingshots to get them out of the atmosphere, the well would never run dry.

We have to look up, and out. We can't sit here on this planet, and let this be all we ever were.
pyrephox: (Default)
2005-08-02 11:48 am

This is terribly, terribly amusing.

Liberality

Can Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Libby, and Oliver North save America from an Orwellian nightmare of ultra-leftist oppression?!