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Brynne:
Quote from: rainbow on 2005 October 22, 20:45:34
Dang! When I was a kid, I was only allowed two sheets of paper to draw on, and I had to use them both front and back. My mother was very frugal with paper. But I've seen kids take a tablet, scribble once on every page, then say the needed a new one.
Oh, yeah, me too! My son has that artistic/autistic creates-like-a-madman thing going. No time for silly erasers. He works in pen, anyway. I can't tell what the mistakes actually are, they all look the same to me. Some sheets of paper will have a circle or line or something, then be discarded. He'll then draw a new circle or line on a new sheet of paper and it will satisfy him. I have tried to get him to be a little less wasteful, but no go. I, however, put his "mistakes" to good use. I use the scrap paper for my shopping lists, sim notes, etc.
witch:
Quote from: Pegasys on 2005 October 22, 21:04:20
I was hoping to have it up by yesterday evening, and then I realized I had to find a place to host the darn thing, because Geocities Free won't cut it. (It's not a really big file, about 4 MB zipped, but obviously I can't upload it to the official Sims site, etc.) No worries... my plan is by this evening!
If you get stuck, I could put it up on my home page for about a week or so till you get it sorted. I have a 10MB limit. My webpage is not current but am thinking of resurrecting it in the next few weeks.
Zeljka:
I love the idea of this database and will be eager to try it. I thought I'd posted earlier but can't seem to find my thread.
I wonder if there would be a way in SimPe to export useful info from the N00X_Neighbourhood file to it. I've considered trying it with Access, as some of my neighbourhoods have over 90 families, and I am still a little crazy with twoJeffs trips/quads mod, so none are small families.
I wonder if even running Clean Installer and trying to convert the character list to a text file which could be imported... bah, I talk too much.
I would be delighted to test this. I seem to have a lot of time on my hands lately and will do anything to further procrastinate cleaning out my neighbourhoods to install the EPs.
Quote from: Brynne on 2005 October 22, 22:12:30
Oh, yeah, me too! My son has that artistic/autistic creates-like-a-madman thing going. No time for silly erasers. He works in pen, anyway. I can't tell what the mistakes actually are, they all look the same to me. Some sheets of paper will have a circle or line or something, then be discarded. He'll then draw a new circle or line on a new sheet of paper and it will satisfy him. I have tried to get him to be a little less wasteful, but no go. I, however, put his "mistakes" to good use. I use the scrap paper for my shopping lists, sim notes, etc.
A coworker has 5 kids under the age of 10 and keeps a crate beside our 'to be shredded' bin. Anything not confidential goes there so she can take it home for them to draw or colour on. It's no any special effort to throw it in her box vs. the one we pay to have removed, so it's working well for her.
I am a bit jealous though, my mom never bought paper and my sister used to snag her pantyhose so we could draw on the cardboard from the new pair. We weren't extraordinarily poor, just not something she bought, never occured to us to ask.
Must have scarred me because in college I bought a box of computer paper. It wasn't very expensive, and though I give my nephew packs to colour on, it's been over 10 years and I still have over half left. ::)
lauraglenn:
Quote from: Pegasys on 2005 October 21, 15:21:11
In reply to Lauraglenn: yes there will be printable reports available....
I think the way I'll personally use the database is to print the reports and use these also as a form to add more data. Or just review it before I start playing.
Pegasys, thanks so much for the reply. I am really excited about your database. I will probably use the reports just as you mentioned, to keep notes while playing and update the database regularly. I can't wait!
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