#time limits

[the-beastmodality]

I’m sorry for not being active at all yesterday and just randomly disappearing. Before I updated to the new iOS version, I had a way to use the browser version without it getting limited. These limits would make an app or multiple apps disabled after a certain amount of time. After I updated it, the browser using thing got patched and now I only have 30 minutes on tumblr, magma, everything. I can’t search things up on google (for example, my friend told me to search up brain and it just had that stupid time limit screen). 

It really is annoying, I have no way to get by it anymore which means I will have to be sectioning out the time and also using my notes app to type things out (like how I’m doing now) throughout the day so I am eligible to still be online.

It’s weird but I think I got it. 

Also for RPs, I’ll still respond but also use the same process I stated earlier so I can actually reply to shit. 

I hope you all understand, thank you!

This also means the daily doodles might start being traditional art.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

How would things change if the time limits switched? Yeerks need kadrona every two hours (so way more portable generators or have them installed in yeerk run building bathrooms maybe? ) But the Animorphs can stay in morph for up to three days (way more surveillance opportunities/longer battles...)

I think that in a world where yeerks need kandrona every two hours, the invasion can't happen like in canon. We know a kandrona generator is "the size of a small car" and that yeerk pools don't work without it (#7). The yeerks might have to take a few decades and improve kandrona technology (i.e. #41) and then invade Earth, because an invasion would be too risky without that tech.

That said, the yeerks are fleeing the andalites as much as they are colonizing planets — the andalites control their homeworld, part of why they're stealing everyone else's. So maybe the yeerks try to make do, for lack of time. Probably they'd equip humans with thermoses of kandrona à la AniTV, and then help controllers create excuses to slip out every two hours. The thermoses might have to be refilled often, but there's a system for that in canon.

However, as anyone who's ever raised an infant can tell you, humans do not function well if their sleep is constantly interrupted every two hours. So lots of tired/confused controllers. And all kinds of other issues — work shifts with an "on" component, long tests, driving really far, needing a security team 24/7, being in hospital, etc. It'd preclude taking most important people as hosts, including anyone who regularly flies on airplanes. Animorphs can go for weeks without morphing, and can pop briefly out of morph in a pinch (even underwater and in the yeerk pool as needed). Yeerks literally die without kandrona, and they can't leave their hosts unattended for even a second; Mr. Pardue gets like 10 seconds of freedom in #8 makes a huge mess.

Ergo, I don't think they could pull off an invasion. There are too many humans with too much weaponry to launch an open attack from Day 1, but a quiet attack won't be able to get those with social power. And it'd run up against a thousand instances of (for instance) Jean and Steve taking Tom to deprogramming therapy because he hasn't been sleeping and has been carrying a thermos everywhere for weeks so clearly SOMETHING is wrong. So the yeerks are already quite underpowered, before we touch the issue of the andalites being wildly overpowered in this universe.

[subjectverb]

btw i cannot be reached from 7 pm to 10 am est

[moonlight-breeze-44]

A timed ACT is a bad ACT.

I’ve made a post about the ACT before, as some of you may know. Today, I have another post to share with you. In my ACT Prep class, our teacher assigned us to do a practice test of the English portion of the ACT. However, instead of the 45 minutes that is required in the actual ACT, our teacher gave us unlimited time to do it. With this unlimited time, I managed to score a 35. A 35 is one question away from a perfect score. It’s more than I could have possibly hoped for. However, under the time restrictions set by the ACT, I only scored a 27. This is a drastic improvement that has everything to do with the amount of time I was given to finish the test. There are four tests that comprise the ACT - English, Reading, Math, and Science Reasoning. On every single one of these tests, I had at least 20 questions left, probably more on the Math and Science Reasoning, by the time that the teacher called the five-minute-warning. A timed ACT does not give all students an opportunity to succeed. What about students who suffer from test anxiety? Students with ADHD or extreme distractability? Students who suffer from maladaptive daydreaming? Students who don’t read quickly? Students with poor time management skills and not enough time to remedy them before the test? Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder or learning disabilities? Or even the average student who just takes a bit longer on tests? Most standardized testing leaves out at least one group of students who serve as the exception to the “standardized” rule. But for one standardized test to leave out such large groups of students who are directly negatively impacted by its rules is not something that is at all helpful to America’s education system and the general and academic welfare of the students it caters to. If I can score a 35 without being timed but a 27 with being timed, that should stand as a statement in itself. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and I’ll say it for the rest of my life: THE ACT SHOULD NOT BE TIMED. 

[mystoryinrawfreeverse]

Reasons You're Here - 7/19/17

I'm making the most of it

But does that translate to sadness or the need to have a good time?

In many ways, you show me what I deserve

Words that fall around me like feathers

I glue them to my ragged wings and find the sky beneath me

The sunset approaches but a sunrise rests beyond our horizon

Because I'm making the most of the reasons you're here

And learning that I don't need to bleed to be loved

My kindness is a blessing and my love is a gift

And their lies are not faults of my own

So I'll smile as we kiss and flutter and float

And enjoy the moments we spend money we don't have

It's the summer love I never had the chance to know

How lucky I am to bask in your glow

Hopefully we part better, open, and ready

Me to face my demons, you to find a gentle soul

[i-just-hit-a-kid-with-my-car]

OKAY WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

update:Phone promptly went onto downtime :(

[jeremy-citylit]

Bradshaw's Railway Atlas: Great Britain and Ireland - 1852 #I

A sample of 4 prints from a series of 4-way colour prints created from CYMK channels split out of a screenshot of a photogrammatic image using photoshop.

The colour ways were printed in the order MYCK. This order was followed to assist with the registration process (difficult to register from a yellow image on white paper).

This image is from the class discussion after printing had been completed. There were issues with misregistration. Registration was made harder because there was no image border.

The image itself had to be used for registration (line & colour). This was difficult from early on in the process as the magenta layer was quite loosely printed (likely due mainly to weak flooding technique).

Registration became increasingly problematic partly because each colour-way was not sharply printed but also because the colour in the initial screenshot image had been manipulated and was not naturalistic.

For the purposes of the learning process it would also have been useful to have been working with larger pixels so as to see the contrast in the different angles for each colour more clearly.

Refer to the points on angles & other aspects of the photoshop process in my notebook.