Funny that a script designed to be pulled along a paper is very hard for a left-handed person to do!
... man I wish I could use fountain pens with all the flourish and calligraphy they provide.
Edit: I really should make a thread about left-handed microagressions. But I don't want to seem like I'm making fun of people who really do get shit on every day, as opposed to minor inconveniences.
microagressions is the wrong word, as that word is kinda reserved for a bunch of other stuff. But a OTOH-thread sounds good.
Yeah in high school it became an elective in my junior year so no one actually took it. (edit: I took the one in 8th grade in middle school)
Also we spent a few weeks learning to sew... I ain't sewing a button back on my $10 walmart dress shirt.
Having the basic confidence to fix things with your hands is super valuable though, no matter where it comes from. I'm constantly shocked how many people I've worked with who just...quit when something breaks.
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
We offer cooking classes but they are elective. Lots of kids take it because they get to eat more food and they might not have much at home. I believe personal finance is a one semester requirement though.
Good news: We're all getting a massive 2.5% pay increase with "discretionary" bonus awards for those who have achieved a Strong on their annual rating (Of course this is nothing to do with the now steady outflow of experienced colleagues to our competitors after last year's pay freeze, it's because the board wuv us sooooo much!)
Bad news: I just investigated a case where the call handler not only repeated the email address back phonetically (and correctly) but sent a test email to the correct address and yet somehow STILL fucking managed to send the actual email with confidential info to the wrong email address.
Would anyone like to take a wild guess about an obvious defining characteristic of the caller? Like maybe the first or second thing you might notice about them?
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
We had our Prom last weekend and it was Alice in Wonderland themed. They had face masks made up that say, "were' all mad here." And frankly you can just wear this whenever and have it apply right now.
Goose!That's me, honeyShow me the way home, honeyRegistered Userregular
Hey job thread. So I've been vaccinated for a few months, but still was wary of being at the office a bunch because of the small quarters (its a commercial townhouse with 3 floors and like between 5-9 other people depending on the day and time) so I didn't like going to the office still, but they started making me go 3 days/week post-innoculation, Wed-Fri.
I was off Monday for a personal thing (my mother had an appt that she needed a ride for bc she was being sedated) so Tuesday I get notice that I need to stay home until I get tested as I was exposed to a covid positive co-worker.
Do my coworkers wear their masks in the office? Sure don't!
So today I have a covid test scheduled for directly after my usual lunch time is up because fuck them I'm not using my time.
Would anyone like to take a wild guess about an obvious defining characteristic of the caller? Like maybe the first or second thing you might notice about them?
I was going to guess it was the fault of gmail and how they treat periods in addresses, but I guess not...
Good news: We're all getting a massive 2.5% pay increase with "discretionary" bonus awards for those who have achieved a Strong on their annual rating (Of course this is nothing to do with the now steady outflow of experienced colleagues to our competitors after last year's pay freeze, it's because the board wuv us sooooo much!)
Bad news: I just investigated a case where the call handler not only repeated the email address back phonetically (and correctly) but sent a test email to the correct address and yet somehow STILL fucking managed to send the actual email with confidential info to the wrong email address.
Would anyone like to take a wild guess about an obvious defining characteristic of the caller? Like maybe the first or second thing you might notice about them?
Funny that a script designed to be pulled along a paper is very hard for a left-handed person to do!
... man I wish I could use fountain pens with all the flourish and calligraphy they provide.
Edit: I really should make a thread about left-handed microagressions. But I don't want to seem like I'm making fun of people who really do get shit on every day, as opposed to minor inconveniences.
Read an article the other day that made a fairly convincing case that the switch to ballpoint pens over fountain was what dug cursive's grave, and the new techs we have now are just shoveling the dirt over the coffin.
Cursive writing is for signatures only and I will happily stab it in the skull if it tries to rise any further from that grave. Now if only people could stop writing with it so I can actually understand what a letter says.
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My natural handwriting alternates between cursive and print, to annoy everybody equally
Somewhere back around middle school I came to the conclusion that my mixed-case printing looked like crap, and switched to small caps. That's become my main form of handwriting, with my signature as a vestigial twitch of cursive; on the rare occasions I have to use the latter for some bizarre reason, it takes conscious effort to recall.
man i love how hard schools 40 years ago hammered cursive as the need to know skill and then gave like a week for the metric system
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
The most writing I've done at all recently is the notes I'm taking on the different coffee beans I'm trying from a local roaster I want to support, because I am a fucking nerd.
Good news: We're all getting a massive 2.5% pay increase with "discretionary" bonus awards for those who have achieved a Strong on their annual rating (Of course this is nothing to do with the now steady outflow of experienced colleagues to our competitors after last year's pay freeze, it's because the board wuv us sooooo much!)
Bad news: I just investigated a case where the call handler not only repeated the email address back phonetically (and correctly) but sent a test email to the correct address and yet somehow STILL fucking managed to send the actual email with confidential info to the wrong email address.
Would anyone like to take a wild guess about an obvious defining characteristic of the caller? Like maybe the first or second thing you might notice about them?
I grew up in a metric exclusive country and I don't think we spend more than a couple of lessons on it, it's a pretty straightforward idea.
jeeze we try to expose our chilluns to some of your debased euro culture and what do we get for it?
sass
also i'm sure they gave it a week because you were unlikely to ever see it even mentioned again until college or later and remember that was only like 30-60 mins a day
i just had to order another 100$ desk camera for some shmoe who doesn't want to use his perfectly functioning laptop camera because if he decides to use one of his three huge monitors then on-screen he's looking away
When I moved to the us one of the first things I remember needing to do in my job was measure something reasonably precisely and I looked around the lab and found a ruler or something and it was in inches only
And I just stared at it for five minutes because I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Then I struggled to actually use it because my base ten brain couldn't come to terms with the idea that the subnotches were not decimal intervals. "Ah, three little lines is 0.3!" *Ruler chuckles in 3/8*
When I moved to the us one of the first things I remember needing to do in my job was measure something reasonably precisely and I looked around the lab and found a ruler or something and it was in inches only
And I just stared at it for five minutes because I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Then I struggled to actually use it because my base ten brain couldn't come to terms with the idea that the subnotches were not decimal intervals. "Ah, three little lines is 0.3!" *Ruler chuckles in 3/8*
there really seem to be no other systems as hostile to each other as metric and imperial
You only need to spend a little bit of time learning metric system because it's so goddamned easy
I wish I could eyeball guestimate in metric they way I can in "imperial" feet and yards
i have never been able to eyeball estimate anything and it seems like a literal superpower
please Foots-Guess Man, save me
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One perk of living in an ex-imperial country that officially switched to metric but is full of gammons who refuse to get with the times is that both live pretty comfortably together in my head. I will switch between inches and centimetres in the same sentence depending one which is easiest to be accurate in.
These days I'll bet not even one kid in a thousand could melt the nails from their forefathers coffins to forge a dagger with which to stab the wights that terrorize the village each Michaelmas.
I used to work at a summer camp that did blacksmithing.
We also did lots of Dungeons & Dragons and other TTRPG. And LARPS. And welding, rock climbing, mountain biking, and archery.
It was an wonderfully weird place.
My buddy Tim met a dude in high school who had a smithy in his backyard. Tim use to go over for lessons. Now as an adult he has a smithy in his backyard and use to do workshops.
I hate the imperial system. I can tell you a foot is 12 inches and a yard is 3 feet and that's it. Anything else I'd have to look up. Metric on the other hand is just 10s. Shit, even bitwise is easier cause it's just 2^x.
I still write a lot on a daily basis but my handwriting, which is a mix of 90% print and 10% cursive, is somehow getting worse the older I get. I also write very small compared to pretty much anyone else which is likely due to me always using college ruled paper when I was growing up. Why college ruled I have no idea.
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microagressions is the wrong word, as that word is kinda reserved for a bunch of other stuff. But a OTOH-thread sounds good.
Having the basic confidence to fix things with your hands is super valuable though, no matter where it comes from. I'm constantly shocked how many people I've worked with who just...quit when something breaks.
Bad news: I just investigated a case where the call handler not only repeated the email address back phonetically (and correctly) but sent a test email to the correct address and yet somehow STILL fucking managed to send the actual email with confidential info to the wrong email address.
Would anyone like to take a wild guess about an obvious defining characteristic of the caller? Like maybe the first or second thing you might notice about them?
I was off Monday for a personal thing (my mother had an appt that she needed a ride for bc she was being sedated) so Tuesday I get notice that I need to stay home until I get tested as I was exposed to a covid positive co-worker.
Do my coworkers wear their masks in the office? Sure don't!
So today I have a covid test scheduled for directly after my usual lunch time is up because fuck them I'm not using my time.
I was going to guess it was the fault of gmail and how they treat periods in addresses, but I guess not...
Idk, they have a massive unibrow?
Read an article the other day that made a fairly convincing case that the switch to ballpoint pens over fountain was what dug cursive's grave, and the new techs we have now are just shoveling the dirt over the coffin.
Especially the elderly that use that particular brand of spidery, barely spaced cursive from the 50's.
What a lovely letter, Eunice too bad I can't read a fucking word of it.
Being able to read half a letter is better than being able to read none of it. I might even be able to intuit the actual meaning from context!
I gotta level with you Kayne, that isn't actually how bloody marys are made, we just told you that to mess with you.
I grew up in a metric exclusive country and I don't think we spend more than a couple of lessons on it, it's a pretty straightforward idea.
They're an executive?
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jeeze we try to expose our chilluns to some of your debased euro culture and what do we get for it?
sass
white corporate america, folks
And I just stared at it for five minutes because I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Then I struggled to actually use it because my base ten brain couldn't come to terms with the idea that the subnotches were not decimal intervals. "Ah, three little lines is 0.3!" *Ruler chuckles in 3/8*
there really seem to be no other systems as hostile to each other as metric and imperial
I wish I could eyeball guestimate in metric they way I can in "imperial" feet and yards
i have never been able to eyeball estimate anything and it seems like a literal superpower
please Foots-Guess Man, save me
My buddy Tim met a dude in high school who had a smithy in his backyard. Tim use to go over for lessons. Now as an adult he has a smithy in his backyard and use to do workshops.
Man I should see if he wants to hang out soon.
i thought link sealed him up
The trick is to have things that you definitely know the length of.
Length of your middle finger tip to first knuckle.
Length of your hand from base to middle finger tip.
Your height.
Length of a vehicle you are familiar with.
Height of a basketball hoop.
Distance from your house to the grocery store.
Diameter of UY Scuti.
Practical things like that.
And then you impose those measurements on the world around you.
"Riiight. What's a cubit?"
that sounds very rude!
but no that doesn't work, i can't do this imagination compare thing i just fail miserably
get thee hence, noah
Intellectual laziness.
Giga/mega/kilo etc etc
And milli/micro/nano and so on