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Tell Me Something You Learned Today
Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Maybe it’s dumb, maybe it’s something everyone else already knew, or maybe it’s something extremely technical that only you and your colleagues will understand.
Today I learned
The difference between a cemetery and a graveyard.
Cemeteries are attached to churches. I had always thought the words were interchangeable.
Well systems can get 'waterlogged' which apparently means there is a leak somewhere in the tank that allows air in as water is pumped through the service line. This air pressure prevents the tank from refilling from the pump and cuts off water service to your house and three of your neighbors.
I will learn in the next few days if the fix was a worn out valve or if there's a hole in the tank.
Maybe it’s dumb, maybe it’s something everyone else already knew, or maybe it’s something extremely technical that only you and your colleagues will understand.
Today I learned
The difference between a cemetery and a graveyard.
Cemeteries are attached to churches. I had always thought the words were interchangeable.
Your turn!
Graveyards are the attached one. Cemeteries don't require a church.
Now you learned two things!
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LasbrookIt takes a lot to make a stewWhen it comes to me and youRegistered Userregular
The double decker taco is back for like two weeks.
Maybe it’s dumb, maybe it’s something everyone else already knew, or maybe it’s something extremely technical that only you and your colleagues will understand.
Today I learned
The difference between a cemetery and a graveyard.
Cemeteries are attached to churches. I had always thought the words were interchangeable.
Your turn!
Graveyards are the attached one. Cemeteries don't require a church.
Now you learned two things!
I do everything backwards. To keep people on their toes
Today I learned my weather stripping on the door to the garage from the mudroom is leaking cold air in at a very steady clip and also that there's a little slit in your doorframe for jamming it in there.
Tomorrow i hope to learn that I can successfully replace that stuff.
i learned from the comments that when you're releasing a larger fish into the water, doing the fish-swish maneuver helps dislodge air bubbles in the gills and get water flowing through them again
I learned that Joan of Arc in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is also the woman who sings the telegram in Clue, is a successful musician in her own right and apparently wore bondage pants on Jeopardy.
I learned in another thread that Tom Nook is named that because he's a tanuki and honestly I'm going to be shook for at least the rest of the day.
Yeah that one dawned on me as I was making a shitpost about what the plural of tanuki is and started saying my dumb variations out loud and one sounded like “Tom nook”
I learned that Joan of Arc in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is also the woman who sings the telegram in Clue, is a successful musician in her own right and apparently wore bondage pants on Jeopardy.
My learning today was I spent too long reading tedious accounting standards, to see what regulations there are for accounting for cloud software licenses, whether they can be capitalized or have to be fully expensed.
The most recent standards update, which came around in large part because people kept asking for standards for cloud computing, there was - after way too many damn words - a single paragraph saying "We know people have been asking for this, we'll examine it at a later time, I guess keep expensing it for now".
First I learned a lot because after watching hbomberguy’s latest video last night I watched his 2021 and 2022 opuses (Andrew Wakefield and Tommy Tallarico) today so I learned a lot about some really big con artist shitbags
And then when I picked my youngest daughter up from school I finally learned how they inform the parents of kids who bite and scratch that their kids bite and scratch (……)
Captain Inertia on
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
Today I learned my weather stripping on the door to the garage from the mudroom is leaking cold air in at a very steady clip and also that there's a little slit in your doorframe for jamming it in there.
Tomorrow i hope to learn that I can successfully replace that stuff.
Honestly pretty easy. That slit is called a "kerf" and you can pull the stuff that's in there right out (hopefully in as few pieces as possible, weather can cause it to crumble as the stuff loses elasticity).
Kerf mounted weather strip has a flange with rubber channels that compress into the kerf and hold it in place without fasteners.
There are too many. I had a chart printed out at my last job because for reasons beyond my understanding Lowe's decided not to post one on the lightbulb aisle themselves. And then they got rid of the fashion lighting desk and threw my chart out.
Today I have learned that maybe I have progressed to the final stage of the hiring process for the job that I applied to, which I actually want.
the kitten petting factory???
Oh fuck if only.
EDIT: Working for the county as a "Customer Information Specialist" basically telling people how to use transit which I have done for free at bus stops all over the city already for free. My favorite so far was when I was getting coffee and a dude walked up and asked how to get to Pine street and i gestures west and said "well you got that way" and then gestured east and said "or go that way" because we were on Pine street. I am very helpful.
RingoHe/Hima distinct lack of substanceRegistered Userregular
Today in things I already knew about astrological signs:
The symbol of Gemini is the Twins
Taurus is the Bull
Cancer is the Crab
Libra is the Scales
The thing I learned today:
The symbol of Virgo is the Virgin
That's dumb! Astrology is dumb!
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Astrology is legit science!
I have proof!!
I just…can’t show you
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PwnanObrienHe's right, life sucks.Registered Userregular
For weeks I've been learning Blender which is great because it's open-source and in a lot of ways it's built by the people who use it for the things you would want to use it for.
...it's also awful because it's open-source software documented by the kind of people who make open-source software. So I've been trying to find out what somebody on a forum post a few years ago meant by "profile curves" then later this year "control curves with profiles assigned." There are no "control curves" in Blender. You can create Bezier, NURBS and Path curves which are a type of NURBS curve. What they meant to say is that they use the Profile bevel in the Geometry section of the Data tab of a curve's outliner window. It pops open a little line graph you can tweak after giving the curve some depth to bevel out a shape to whatever tube thing you're making. The thing that actually cracked this code for me is a video of somebody making an abstract deer.
...which has nothing to do with making hair like I was trying to.
So basically learning things is a frustrating and borderline pointless experience. I don't recommend it. I would say know things if you can do that instead. Seems like it's a lot easier to be productive when you don't have to pick through a bunch of antisocial nerds with poor communication skills trying to describe a deeply complex piece of software mostly using terms from other software.
Today I learned that bato is an obscure Latin word for yawn, which only seems to be in one glossary translating Old English in the 8th century (most dictionaries seen to translate yawn to oscito)
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Does he wear a bow tie?
I will learn in the next few days if the fix was a worn out valve or if there's a hole in the tank.
i'm not sure if there are bow ties in the Forgotten Realms, but there ought to be.
https://www.inventricity.com/blonsky-birthing-table
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
First thing that popped in my head was the centrifuge(?) scene from The Pest and now I can't stop laughing.
One dollar sign my ass
Graveyards are the attached one. Cemeteries don't require a church.
Now you learned two things!
Steam
I do everything backwards. To keep people on their toes
The Isabelle one threw me.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
Tomorrow i hope to learn that I can successfully replace that stuff.
i learned from the comments that when you're releasing a larger fish into the water, doing the fish-swish maneuver helps dislodge air bubbles in the gills and get water flowing through them again
https://youtu.be/Zxf2MgYCOm0
(Jane Wiedlin)
Yeah that one dawned on me as I was making a shitpost about what the plural of tanuki is and started saying my dumb variations out loud and one sounded like “Tom nook”
I swore so loud at home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-i4N6ty31w
roma maffia: not actually italian
The most recent standards update, which came around in large part because people kept asking for standards for cloud computing, there was - after way too many damn words - a single paragraph saying "We know people have been asking for this, we'll examine it at a later time, I guess keep expensing it for now".
-_-
And then when I picked my youngest daughter up from school I finally learned how they inform the parents of kids who bite and scratch that their kids bite and scratch (……)
the kitten petting factory???
Honestly pretty easy. That slit is called a "kerf" and you can pull the stuff that's in there right out (hopefully in as few pieces as possible, weather can cause it to crumble as the stuff loses elasticity).
Kerf mounted weather strip has a flange with rubber channels that compress into the kerf and hold it in place without fasteners.
I also learned that I'm fairly fucked tomorrow.
I may have already known these things.
Edit - I actually did learn something new. It costs $70;for a new driver's license in Oregon.
Tomorrow I expect I will learn a few more.
Oh fuck if only.
EDIT: Working for the county as a "Customer Information Specialist" basically telling people how to use transit which I have done for free at bus stops all over the city already for free. My favorite so far was when I was getting coffee and a dude walked up and asked how to get to Pine street and i gestures west and said "well you got that way" and then gestured east and said "or go that way" because we were on Pine street. I am very helpful.
The symbol of Gemini is the Twins
Taurus is the Bull
Cancer is the Crab
Libra is the Scales
The thing I learned today:
The symbol of Virgo is the Virgin
That's dumb! Astrology is dumb!
I have proof!!
I just…can’t show you
...it's also awful because it's open-source software documented by the kind of people who make open-source software. So I've been trying to find out what somebody on a forum post a few years ago meant by "profile curves" then later this year "control curves with profiles assigned." There are no "control curves" in Blender. You can create Bezier, NURBS and Path curves which are a type of NURBS curve. What they meant to say is that they use the Profile bevel in the Geometry section of the Data tab of a curve's outliner window. It pops open a little line graph you can tweak after giving the curve some depth to bevel out a shape to whatever tube thing you're making. The thing that actually cracked this code for me is a video of somebody making an abstract deer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWllWoclaqY
...which has nothing to do with making hair like I was trying to.
So basically learning things is a frustrating and borderline pointless experience. I don't recommend it. I would say know things if you can do that instead. Seems like it's a lot easier to be productive when you don't have to pick through a bunch of antisocial nerds with poor communication skills trying to describe a deeply complex piece of software mostly using terms from other software.
Scorpio!
The double decker taco never left! You can order one and they ring up a regular taco and add beans and a tortilla for an upcharge