The Happy Topic

5 screens for directX 9.0 games, 3 screens for DX10/11 games.

What are those outer monitors? Portrait 768x1024?

How many of those screens do you use when you’re playing games?

yes

yes

How does that even work? Do you have them all in portrait mode or something?

Thanks :slight_smile:

1x 768x1024 portrait, 3x 1680x1050 landscape, 1x 768x1024 portrait

I got a job! 3-ish month contract gig integrating a new service into the website of a local tech startup. Should be interesting work, good money, and a good way to add some experience to my resume, which is kind of lacking in real-world development experience at the moment.

Congrats!

New Mastodon album comes out tomorrow!

I passed my CNA state boards :slight_smile: I was worried I’d fail those things, but I got a perfect score on both sections.

Because dicks?

[b]Father’s heart-breaking Internet plea spurs strangers to help

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This combination photo of two images shows a family photo of Sophia Steffel, left, and a retouched version by Jillian Johnston of Mountain View, Calif.[/align]

FROM WIRE REPORTS
Published: 16 July 2014 07:50 PM
Updated: 16 July 2014 07:51 PM[/SIZE]

TOLEDO, Ohio — Just days after his infant daughter’s death, Nathen Steffel asked strangers on the Internet for only one thing: He and his wife wanted a photo of their daughter without the breathing tubes and tape that masked her little face.

The response has been overwhelming.

Hundreds of photos, sketches and paintings have poured into the family’s northwestern Ohio home and their inbox.

“I’m getting messages in languages from all over the world,” Steffel said Wednesday. “It’s more than I can count.”

His daughter, Sophia, died last Thursday at a Cincinnati hospital from complications of a tumor in her liver, six weeks after she was born in Columbus. She was awaiting a transplant when she died.

Her father posted a message on Reddit asking if anyone could use their photo of Sophia in the hospital and remove the tubes attached to her face and wrist. “Since she was in the hospital her whole life we never were able to get a photo without all her tubes,” he wrote.

“It started because I just wanted one picture,” said Steffel, who lives in the village of Kalida with his wife, Emily, and their two sons.

He initially was not sure about posting the request online because he was worried someone might respond rudely. “I guess the best has outweighed the negative,” he said.

So far, they have received thousands of messages expressing support and hundreds of photos. Someone else is sending a woven blanket with Sophia’s picture.

David Valdez, who has been painting portraits for several years, made a digital painting of Sophia within a few hours of seeing her father’s message.
“I was having a bad day when I saw this guy asking for a photo. I just started painting,” said Valdez, a college student from New Braunfels, Texas. “It brought me some sort of sense of relief to help someone out.”

Jillian Johnston, an illustrator from Mountain View, California, said she felt pulled to create her own image of Sophia. She posted it online and then woke up the next morning to a flood of compliments and several requests from other parents who lost their children in similar situations.

“I have at least a dozen more babies to paint,” she said. “There are so many beautiful babies. It’s heartbreaking.”

Steffel said his family now has more memories of their daughter than they could have imagined, he said.

“It’s kept me and my wife occupied reading all these messages,” Steffel said. “Keeping our minds off things.”

John Seewer,
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https://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20140716-father-s-heart-breaking-internet-plea-spurs-strangers-to-help.ece[/SIZE]

wow…how beautiful

God damnit that is amazing even if I’ve seen it before but that is not happy this is the happy topic that is the bright side of a horrible sad situation

So apparently Windows 8 supports ISO mounting by default. I’m liking this OS more and more.

I only found out about that after trying in vain for 2 hours to install magic disc, daemon tools and alcohol 120%, so to me it was like a slap in the face for my efforts…

“fuck you, you can only use our software”

I have no idea what that means…

an ISO is basically a zipped CD, “mounting” it is like putting it into a (virtual) CD drive

No… That didn’t help…

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