Hot cocoa coffee, that is. And arting.
Elevator Machinery
There is a long-term elevator overhaul and repair project underway at work. One of the cars they’re fixing right now has been positioned on our floor today. For a while, the car interior was showing, but now the top of the car is visible, with all its workings.
I Have No Words
I walk by this every morning at work, on my way to my desk. I worry about people, sometimes.
#whatisthisijustdonteven
Family Tree Maker News
Ancestry has been hinting that there was a big announcement coming up. They did not disappoint. Well, they did disappoint, but that was a couple of months ago, when they announced they were discontinuing support for Family Tree Maker. This just about makes up for that nonsense.
In a nutshell, you will now have two options to sync with online Ancestry trees.
1. You can keep using Family Tree Maker, which was purchased by Software MacKiev. Huzzah! They are going to keep developing and supporting FTM.
2. Use RootsMagic. I’ve never used RM, but it has a loyal fan base in the genealogy groups. RM and Legacy seem to be the top two recommendations for folks who want to be serious about their research.
I’ve made the switch to Legacy, and am very pleased with it. I still am using FTM, though, and will continue to do so. I think my plan going forward will be to get branches of my tree to a point where I am comfortable making them public, port them to FTM, re-add the image files, and then upload them as separate chunks to Ancestry as public trees. (Right now, my trees there are private, but that’s because they’re working trees without all the documentation. Also at one point in time I suffered from “add all the people!” disease, so some branches go halfway back to Jesus and are obviously filled with a bunch of made-up crap. No one needs to see that. It’s embarrassing, but it’s a mistake just about everyone makes when they start out.)
I’m also hoping, since Ancestry has made an arrangement with RootsMagic, that a similar agreement is in the works to allow Legacy to sync with online Ancestry trees. That would be fabulous.
True Love
Frances says she has no problems to report. Pointy Thing loves her, and that’s all that matters.
Research
My life is all about Québec these days. I also have a request in for a historic atlas of Canada. Maps are always helpful.
Moments of Pleasure
Moments of Pleasure by Kate Bush
I’ve had this song stuck in my head for days.
Default
This image is making the rounds of Facebook. It’s kind of amusing, until you look closely. Likely an honest mistake. I doubt whoever made the image even realizes that male and female pelvises are anatomically different. But they are, and this is just one more example of how male bodies are the default.
In this case, it’s exasperating but harmless. It can be dangerous to women, though, when we only study men’s bodies and then assume that women’s bodies behave just like men’s. Sometimes they do, but often they don’t.
Pigtail
As I was trying to sort and pre-treat laundry this morning, Piglet decided he just had to plop himself right in the middle of my work space. There were very important birds to watch, through the window. You can always tell when he’s happy, because his tail curls up. Birds make Piglet very, very happy.
Rolly-poly
The TEEFS are killing me. Vicious, vicious Pit Bull.
red paper boat 