Category: facebook

Listening to a podcast from Libo Libo, the episode about schizophrenia. In medical terms, hallucinations and delusions are considered positive syndromes, as qualitatively new features that were not present before the illness.

Recommend a vector editor for MacOS that is a) free and b) fast.

UPDATE: The latest Inkscape is very snappy, especially if you switch the UI theme to Minwaita. Eventually, I do everything in it.

For raster graphics, I barely found Krita, which is great. GIMP (raster) and Inkscape (vector) are ridiculously slow, making them unusable (this is on an i9 32Gb). From a vector program, I need nothing more than smooth operation and most basic features – lines, splines, ellipses, layers, guides. Specifically, I would like to have a simple way to perform perspective transformation of arbitrary shapes. Like, create a drawing of a tile on a plane, and stretch it into a trapezoid. Inkscape would be suitable if it weren’t so sluggish. Maybe someone knows a magic way to make it faster (and GIMP too). Although it’s clear that the slowdown is due to GTK/Cairo, which traditionally lags on Mac.

Watched The Banshees of Inisherin. A powerful movie.

P.S. Sorry, but Brendan Gleeson has some alien-like ears that stretch down to his lower lip

my 19th painting and the 2nd in portraiture. Don’t really like the result, so I have finalized the painting earlier than it needed to be done due to the loss of interest

, but let it stay here for consistency

I’m delving into portraits. I was told to choose anyone except relatives, otherwise I’ll get beaten up 😉

Rain until the end of the day

my 18th attempt at oil painting

Why don’t they make a notch for the nose in absolutely every such cup? No attention to details at all!

Yesterday I had to specifically go to the store to buy this tool for $15, because nothing was working without it, but with it, it took just five minutes. I had never encountered such a tool before, I found slightly advanced versions on Yandex Market for 6-10 thousand rubles. Scary, what they don’t make.

Decided to add some variety to my life and switched the interfaces of my phone and computer to French, from the operating system to all the programs from Facebook and browser to Telegram and Microsoft Office. It’s been a week already, so far so good.

Among the interesting “finds” — it amused me that memories in French turns out to be souvenirs. I somehow didn’t know that. So, Facebook tells me that I have souvenirs with various people.

Also, PowerPoint suggests adding diapositives – that’s what “slides” are called in French. You would think it’s nothing surprising, but for some reason, slides don’t associate with diapositives to me.