Happy Holidays and Rambly Thots

[feng_shui_house]

Mercutin on DW posits a need for English equivalents of two German words for improvements that make things worse, and repairing something to the point it breaks.

I thought I had once seen a word or phrase computer folk use to describe a program that's been upgraded to the point of losing useful features, but I can't find it.

So I think I'll coin new words. 'Updegrade' springs to mind as in 'LJ is updegrade without a paddle'.

And for 'fixing' something that wasn't broken until after you fixed it : 'deathtweak'.

In fabric rambles

A few days ago I got the last of the fabric tests I'd ordered from Spoonflower. The watercolor butterfly & watercolor autumn woods on silk fat quarters turned out *gorgeous* (a bit of hemming & they'll be nice little scarves/cravats to tuck into a coat collar). The Phoenix on upholstery type fabric (I want to make a large pillow) in two scales- one as large as I could expand the file and the other small enough to make a multi-repeat, also turned out fantastic. Shall have to get sewing once I finish with the backroom floor. The Color Zoo baby book was a bit disappointing because the blue/indigo/violet which were all chosen from Spoonflowers 'safe' colors all turned into very nearly the same dark blue. Oh, well... I'll still sew it up as an example, when I photograph it I can't show all the pages anyway so I'll just avoid those. I went back and edited the file using colors that DID work out well from the rainbow edging I put on it, so any future printings should be fine.

My eye is still a bit glittery/floaty, so am continuing the yoga moratorium, but will resume the floor work on Monday. Am going to take it v. v. slow.

Comments

[k-haldane.livejournal.com]

I rather like both of those. Neil laughed at "updegrade".

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

*grin* I quite like it, I fear I shall have occasion to use it often.

[nautile26.livejournal.com]

"deathtweak"
How very apt. :)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I've deathtweaked stories, art and quilts, myself. :^)

[luinielle.livejournal.com]

I hope your eye continues to get better. *hug*
And thank you so much for your wonderful card! :o)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

If it just doesn't get any worse, I'm ok. But I would love it to get back to normal. :^)

Glad you liked the card. I had fun doing them this year 'cheating' with a program called 'Print Explosion Deluxe' It's a massive space-eater, but loaded with great graphics.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

What are the two German words? Their post is locked.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry, I hadn't noticed. Here you go.

Verschlimmbesserung, noun [from Verbesserung (improvement) and Verschlimmerung (deterioration/worsening)]: intended improvements or upgrades that end up making everything worse. Verb form: verschlimmbessern

kaputtreparieren, verb ("kaputt" + "repair"): repair or tinker with a thing to the point that it becomes broken.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! German is fun the way you can put two words together to make another language Lego! The first is "worsen-improvement" and the second, well, pretty obvious. :-)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Language Lego! I like that. :^)

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Deathtweak - I like it! LJ, pay attention.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly sure LJ is deliberately driving off the fan-bloggers so the Powers That Be are probably happy to see that 107,645 Dreamwidth journals have been created since LJ did the 88 Deathtweak. (For comparison, I included the day before Deathtweak in the DW raw stats.)

newbyday 2011-12-20 2518
newbyday 2011-12-21 21903
newbyday 2011-12-22 34257
newbyday 2011-12-23 28672
newbyday 2011-12-24 22813

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Oh my, oh my, that autumn woods design of yours...*Drool* What a wallpaper this would be! Also the butterflies and Lantana are fantastic!
Ah, just take the floor easy, will you? Be careful!!!!