dream theater

Had a dream last night (this morning) that I was the goalkeeper on a very competitive hockey team; we were playing in a gold-medal match (so we were assured at least silver) against Canada, I think, but the ice was more like curling ice and the whole mood was more like the baseball playoffs.

And then I was awakened by a very loud, very angry bird that must have a nest on the roof of my building or something, because damn.  (Eventually it shut up.)

memo

to:  MS Word
from:  Fox
re:  freezing just after I hit 'save as'

Dear Word:

HA, I FOOLED YOU.  I did a regular save not three seconds earlier, and then changed two words and then decided to save-as under a new title with today's date on it.  So I haven't lost a THING!

Sucker.

signed,
Fox
(crash this)

hey, people who know from MS Word

Isn't there a way I can put a header at the (portrait) top of a landscape-oriented page?  In other words, can't I somehow put a "header" on the right, facing in toward the text?

[eta: Temporary workaround:  since it's only a few pages, I'm printing the header and then running those pages through the printer like letterhead.  But there's got to be a real solution, hasn't there?]

{waiting apprehensively for something to explode}

Wow, poll creator in Semagic.  Rock the hell on.

So I'm in the shining-things-up-before-printing stage now.  (I do have one more reference to check, but I'll do that this afternoon while my laundry is laundering.)  The pages are, of course, numbered; I also have three appendices, the pages of which are numbered A1, A2, A3, and B1, B2, B3, etc.  Today's poll question pertains to the reference list, appearing between the text and the first appendix.

[Poll #717320]


[eta:  Well, thanks, MHRA, you're a big help.

Unless local regulations specify otherwise, page numbers should begin on the first page of the main text (following the preliminaries) and continue to the end, and should be placed at the top right of each page.

I happen to think page numbers go at the bottom right, but I'm willing to be overruled by local custom on that one.  But, the end of what, please -- of the main text, or of the whole caboodle?  RAR.]

serves me right, i suppose

So everything is done except for this One Last Reference that I have to check (I have the source, but not the page number) and explain why I only smoothed the data for x≤2 instead of x≤5.  No problem, I thought; I'll just go back to Blackwell's, where I checked all my references yesterday, because who has the time to wait for things to come up from the Bodleian stacks?  (For the non-Oxonians:  some books are on shelves in libraries and no problem; but the great Bodleian is great in part because things aren't out where people can get their grubby hands on them, so you have to order things up from the stacks, which takes no less than about four hours.  Business hours, y'understand.  By the time I would have made the request, I wouldn't see the book until 11 tomorrow morning.)

Blackwells, despite their website saying the thing is in stock and Oxford being the flagship store, doesn't have the book.  Curses.  So I go buy my paper and extra ink cartridges, and I stop at the Taylorean on the way home, because that's where the linguistics library is, and as the book is called Speech and Language Processing, it makes sense that they'd have it, right?  I don't want to hike up the four flights of stairs, but I can't get away with only giving the book title and not the specific reference.

The fucking Taylorean doesn't have the fucking book.  Both Bod copies are in place, for all the good that does me, and there are three copies at the ComLab, where a friend of mine is doing his DPhil, but they're all out, and there's a copy in each of ten colleges of which I'm not a member, and --

Hey.

There's a copy in my own college library, downstairs from where I live.  Score.  (Now there's a copy on my desk.  [g])

It serves me right, I say, because in five terms and one week, I think that's the second or third time I've ever been in that library, and certainly the first time I've ever cared what books were in there.  Whee!