#micky rambles

[the-studious-archie]

Back up your work!

I am in the habit of saving everything to my flash drive, and only to my flash drive. It’s easy to transport between computers, and everything is safe in the event that a computer crashes on me.

Until I lose my flash drive.

Which I did. Two weeks ago. I keep it on my keys so that I always know where it is. The only problem is that I keep my keys on a carabiner, which is almost always on my belt loop for easy access/again with the not losing things. This unfortunately makes it prone to falling off when I go to use my keys. I have retraced my steps from the day it went missing. It wasn’t laying anywhere outside between our building and my car, and no one has turned it in to any of the offices at school.

I lost almost all of my third year work, save for the shared files with my partner from last semester, and a few things I’d sent to myself or saved elsewhere for one reason or another. My theory work is gone. My portfolio is gone. Files/templates I’d saved for here and Insta are gone. A lot of my edited photos are gone unless I can get my older, damaged flash drive to read.

The point of this depressing lovely post, is to learn from my mistakes/misfortune and back up your work in multiple places kids. Starting tomorrow, I’m planning on figuring out which cloud service offers the most storage for free, and I’m setting up a system to back up that way. 

[lord-lunatic]

Nothing like sitting down in the sun and reading a book in one go on a Monday afternoon

[the-studious-archie]

Word to the wise (because I was about to strangle CAD because I forgot this):

If you are going to xRef a drawing that contains within it ANOTHER xRef BIND THE SUB-XREF. I don’t know how it behaves in newer versions because we’re using a dinosaur version of CAD in our office, but if you xRef a drawing, any xRefs within that file won’t show up when you further xRef it. Which means you could be missing a ton of the drawing.

I figured this out weeks ago, but forgot it, and just spent over an hour trying to get this stupid drawing to properly xRef before I remembered this. 

[lord-lunatic]

Hi.

I feel like I'm really, really inactive on here in the last time.

I've been really uninspired in the last time and continue to be so when it comes to writing scripts for rp or going through the process of an online. And I don't think that that is gonna change in the near future.

So I just wanted to say, sorry for being so inactive.

On another note:

If you ever need anyone to play in your script, I am most likely available. I honestly miss rp a lot but can't really find a way for myself to go online or write stuff.

I've been known to get gifs fine pretty quickly, so if you need someone, you know who to dm c:

My current characters are: Marlene, Peter, James, Remus, (Tonks), Neville, Luna, Draco, (young) Umbridge and probably a couple more that you can find on my character list.

I am also open to knew characters I haven't done before. For example I have Tom Riddle, Harry, Fleur and a couple other characters basically ready to go.

Just a tiny sign of life from me over here.

Micky

[lord-lunatic]

What i should be doing: getting those 4 hours of sleep that should give me the energy for 2 flights and a train ride tomorrow in a country I don't know.

What I'm doing instead: Slowly starting to panic about everything that could go wrong and how much of a bad idea this is.

[the-studious-archie]

Any advice for someone considering a major in architecture? Maybe some misconceptions about the field and things you wish you’d known before going into it?

I’d say the number one thing a lot of prospective archies worry about is that they don’t have the necessary skills to pursue architecture. Don’t worry if you hate math – and on the same note, don’tworry if you’re not the most creative person in the world. You don’t need to besuper strong in both areas, most architects are a lot stronger in one area thanthe area, and that’s perfectly fine. Not all architects can quote every codethey have to abide for, just as not all are necessarily the best at coming up withinteresting design ideas at a moment’s notice. While it helps to have somestrengths in both areas for the purposes of getting a job, there are positionsavailable for both kinds of people – things balance out when there are a mix ofpeople with different strengths and weaknesses that back each other up.

[lord-lunatic]

When you realise that you're leaving the UK in 3 days?!

What the heck is time? How are 3 1/2 months already over?

Tomorrow I'm already going to London?

WHAT IS THIS LIFE??

[lord-lunatic]

How to kill a Micky 1.0

... @siriussly-serious ...

... JAY WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

Phase 1: Speechless for minutes, grinning to themselves

Phase 2: Slowly realising what just happened wait WHAT DID HE SAY

Phase 3: Read it again and come to a conclusion