#mildrant

Besides the sad things happening, I’d like to take my time to write about the good things that I’ve improved on. I’ve gotten better at thinking before I blurt out anything I want. I’ve been better at controlling my self-insecurities and my emotions instead of saying something passive-aggressive or spiteful. Working out is still tough haha. I’m still pretty bad at taking criticism and wanting to run away from my problems when they get difficult. But I’m working on it. And so on.

I had a quarter-life crisis a few weeks ago. I was so excited to graduate and get out of school, but not in the major that I’m currently in. I’m an architectural engineering major, but I think I should’ve went straight to studying architecture. I always felt unsure about what I wanted to do, because everyone in my life said that being an architect would be competitive and I wouldn’t find a job. (Back in 2014.) I thought being an architect meant that you were one of the extremely creative people who thought of, “this is how I’m going build this house and this is how it’s going to look like.” I mean that’s really cool. I LOVE structures. But I’m not particularly too keen on being competitive. I just want to be on the design or planning team of how to make this building come to life. But since I’m on the engineering side of it, I’m doing tons of math calculations and I don’t think this is right for me. Everyone states that the principles seems similar and it’ll be ok. I’m sorry, it feels like such a petty complaint. But it’s ok. I know everything will work out in time.

I’m super paranoid about the COVID-19. It’s actually terrifying. I don’t have any Lysol, but I carry a ziplock bag around with paper napkins and alcohol that has 90% Isopropyl. I hope they find the cure for it soon. I’m in a different state and I’m terrified about flying back. I live in Texas and isn’t it crazy that our state allows alcohol curbside pick-up for restaurants? Thank you to everyone who is working to try to keep this country working. I’m not too worried about myself, but I wouldn’t want to be the person spreading it. I hope everyone stays safe out there. There are tons of people who hasn’t been as cautious as they should be. Any who, have a great day today. I hope you learn a new hobby while you are quarantined. (I’m still taking my courses online and I stocked up on some yarn so I can crochet when I’m bored.)

Alright guys, half the phandom will hate me after this but I feel it’s worth it just because I’m worried about what will happen to Dan if it is fake. So in case you didn’t know, earlier a video on twitter surfaced of Dan’s twitter name being “Daniel Lester” rather than “Daniel Howell”. Since a moving text is extremely hard to edit, it’s really believable but I just want to go over a possibility. First step, go to Dan’s twitter page. Next, right click anywhere on the screen (that isn’t a link/interactive for your cursor). Click Inspect Element. 

All this HTML will come up. I’ve had some experience with it, and anybody with any basic experience can mess around with it.

You’ll notice as you hover over the different inputs and lines, that some highlight certain places on the page in blue. These are the areas effected when you edit the HTML. The box above highlights Dan’s display name tweets/replies/media etc. 

Right clicking the second input from the drop down menu and selecting “Edit as HTML” will bring you to more HTML in a small box, and scroll down until you see “Daniel Howell” in black text. This is Dan’s display name. You can freely delete and write whatever you want here (as long as you don’t delete the surrounding symbols). 

I just decided to put “DJ-Danny-Fire” because of my blog. As you can see it changed his actual display name, but it only changed for me on my own screen. This however doesn’t change the tweets screen name, which is where we run into an issue because there was a screen shot of one of his own tweets with the name being “Daniel Lester” beside it. 

Here it is without the HTML window, and until you refresh the page (I mean refresh not go to a new page and come back, stay on his twitter page and click refresh. It’ll go back.)

Isn’t more people finding a good song a positive thing regardless of how they found it? Aside from other people being able to enjoy it, generally more clicks are better for the artist and in turn better for the fans.

To be clear, this isn’t about people bragging about how they found a song when it wasn’t well known, or people getting annoyed by repetitive “Like if you’re from x” comments. This is about people who are legitimately upset that new listeners are suddenly popping up.