You didn't pay for "tidy"

If you're working on a drawing in AutoCAD and you close the drawing, then go into the Windows folder and try to rename that file, you get an error. Windows thinks the file is still in use because AutoCAD doesn't tidy up properly.

Orion is setting

For the longest time I didn't know why I only see the constellation Orion in winter. Where is it in the summer? Below the horizon??

Finally figured it out. I was out with the dog just now, an hour or so after sunset, and Orion was setting in the western sky. That means it was up in the sky in the daytime. It didn't go anywhere. It was right there. But I couldn't see it because of the daylight.

So, that question is finally answered.

Doesn't do anything for me

I started the computer the other day and got this surprise:

I clicked the "Click Here", but nothing happened. I waited, to be sure, and nothing happened. I guess that's just an example of what they mean by "End of Support".

Forward slash

If you have one that you call a back slash, do you really have to identify which way the other one goes?

What did we pay for AutoCAD? What did we pay for AutoCAD?

The left pane of the AutoCAD Help window for the REGION command:

Assemblies that fit together in sequence

At my work, we build stuff that connects together, one after the other, in a particular order. We build the stuff in the same order. And we -- the AutoCAD users -- draw them in the same order. We don't have to draw them in that order, but it often creates confusion when we don't.

Simple minds.

Anyway, sometimes in AutoCAD I want to open three or four drawings at once. I click FILE:OPEN and then select the drawings in order, one after the other, the same order described above, and then click the OPEN button.

Used to be okay to select the files and then just slam the ENTER key to open them, but that doesn't work any more. AutoCAD fixed that a couple years back, and now I have to click the OPEN button to open multiple files. That was an "improvement".

Anyway, I select the drawings in the order I want them, and click the damn OPEN button, and the files open for me. But one of them is always out of order. I think it's the first one I select. Always out of order.

In the free Blogger program I use to write my economics blog, I just selected 8 graphs at once and loaded them all into the post I'm writing. I like to number my graphs when I write. And in this case, since there were so many, I just identified them by number when I named the files.

I selected them in order, one through eight, and clicked the button to upload them. And you know what? Blogger kept them in order.

Blogger kept them in order, for free. Too bad AutoCAD can't do that.

Don't ask, don't ask

From some snake-oil commercial:

"Ask your doctor if you live in or have been to a region where certain fungal infections are common."

In that context, what does the word "certain" mean? Definite? Particular??

And how does it work?

1. Doc, do I live in -- or have I been to -- a region where definite fungal infections are common?

Are doctors often sure that infections are fungal?

Or

2. Doc, do I live in -- or have I been to -- a region where particular fungal infections are common?

Do any fungal infections occur often in the region?