He worked in IT. Pagers would beep when different systems ran into problems.

My dad at one point needed to wear three pagers on his belt at all times.

I’ve seen blue sunset pictures from Mars before, but I suspect someone pumped up the saturation on this picture.

I’ve never had a therapist provide a chaise lounge. Is that not a thing anymore?

where grammar?

It was the scariest shit I ever saw at age 5. Watched it several times as a kid. I would hide under the pillows during the clown scene. The AC blowing up at the beginning also freaked me out.

I actually like the ribbon UI compared to what came before. Jensen Harris from the office design team way back in 2008 gave this talk about how they invented the ribbon:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tl9kD693ie4

I know that workflow style is good for like dissertations and academic journal articles, but the sort of templates I have to design and work in are more splashy and dramatic. The look and structure is more akin to what you see in artsy magazines and books—pages with dark background colors, decorative stock images, vector shapes, etc. Can Latex be used for that?

I consider myself a Word power user. I’ve spent 1000s of hours in it and I know just about every obscure feature and quirk. I’ve designed professional corporate template suites in it.

I hate it so much. It is so fucking archaic and janky. It has so many modal dialogs. There are features I need to get to regularly that are like 6 modal dialogs deep, and I have to close them all to see if the change I made was good; if not I have to go through them all over again.

It has a sort of stylesheet, but it has built in styles that you can’t delete if you don’t need, and the inheritance hierarchy among them is a mess. Then there are “font themes” which are conceptually separate from the styles but can impact them.

I could go on. All the Word alternatives aren’t much better because they imitate Word too closely in my opinion. I think the approach to word processors needs to be rethought at fundamental level.

I’m out of the loop. What’s wrong with PeerTube?

Before I installed blockers, I only remember one time ever clicking a targeted advertisement and making a purchase (it was for a ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ t-shirt). That was after browsing the web everyday with no blockers for like 15 years.

Based on the latest image, Ebenezer Scrooge.

It seems intuitive but also 2000 years ago people thought that for example the eye emitting some sort of substance that interacts with the surrounding environment to be an intuitive explanation for how vision works, so intuitions need to be tested.

L is silent: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P9x0o-qOCcM

If the person is directly behind me, I’ll keep the door open while simultaneously walking through the doorway (I don’t stop and wait) so that the door at least doesn’t close in their face. They still have to grab the door to prevent it from closing though.

I really don’t like standing still and holding the door open and making the people who were behind me go ahead of me. And I hate when someone does that to me. It feels like a very antiquated and patronizing gesture.

It could be worse. He could have been collecting Funko Pops.

Looks like he has some spare ribs.

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Not to be confused with the British comedian and former host of Fool Us.

For similar reasons, I feel like Gameboy Advanced cartridges were the optimal size for handheld consoles. Switch cartridges are so tiny and fragile.