Etymological Coincidence 🤔

I naturally assumed that the words emoticon :-) and emoji ☺️ came from the same roots.

BUT according to the Oxford English Dictionary, emoticon is a "blend of emotion and icon"

Emoji, on the other hand, is Japanese, "from e ‘picture’ + moji ‘letter, character’"

Some coincidence! :-o 😯

Space

I thought I needed to do some art just for the sake of it - not for anything at all.
Came across a photo of a painting I did in school, so I thought I'd see if I could do it better now.😁

I've changed as little as possible, but I have made it a flat plain, because that's how it was meant to be. My teacher got me to add the hills to show distance, but now that I'm grown up I can do it how I want! ('Can' as in allowed to, but also as in am able to.)

It's not easy to do a picture with dark sky during daytime - presumably meaning there is very little atmosphere. I'm really not sure how that would affect the lighting, particularly the aerial perspective.

Done in Clip Studio. I think my settings may have been a bit wrong, because the paint never dried, which was interesting to work with...

Not going to get a job as a concept artist any time soon, but it was fun!

 

Many books*

These were all piled up beside my bed. Maybe I should put them back on their shelves

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*Also a few DVDs

An easy way to write profound (?) music

 This is a fun toy.

With a bit of trial you could actually get something reasonable sounding - but even a quick play sounds not bad.

'Help'

If you want to help someone, it's a good idea to check if what you are planning to do will actually be helpful to them.

Otherwise, you may put them in the awkward position of having things made more difficult and stressful, but having to be grateful for it.

Unhelpful technical help

 "Browsers want you to think (rightly!) that site owners who can’t be bothered using HTTPS (it’s free in many cases) aren’t worth your time and certainly not your money."

WordPress 'support' article

If your article also explained how I could implement this in my site, it would be helpful. Maybe it's not always laziness, but lack of technical know-how.

On a similar note, it's amazing how many 'how-to' articles go: "It's really simple - all you need to do is copy this bit of code into the blah-blah-blah file gobbledygook xyz folder mumbo-jumbo" [location unspecified]

[Edit: I got it done, and it was extremely easy (simply moving a slider from off to on). What was not easy was finding out that that was what I had to do.]

I still don't have enough S's

The magnetic letters I have been using for Sunday School are the ones I had when I was wee.

I bought some extras recently, but it's still not enough!

 Well, it'll amuse the children.