I love Obvious Plant.
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This would have been able to happen at a convention. Thereās not a lot of time for each panel and a lot of people that want to ask questions. The informal setting and the encouragement of the people around him helped one person ask a very meaningful question.
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Call me crazy, but ā¦ strange women in ponds distributing swords is starting to look like a pretty decent method for determining who will be in charge right now.
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I think you may have something going thereā¦
Anyone who wants it really shouldnāt have it. I think that was a major driver towards the comparative weakness of the Executive Branch of the US federal government. Itās just over 200 years to finally break the position.
Ah, those lovely Welsh vowels. 
Real cute, Not Always Right. When your site changes the ads on the page, it steals the focus of whatās happening so that if you are in the middle of typing something, it yanks you out of the text entry box.
If a TV network is showing Beetlejuice nonstop, does it count as summoning him the third time the movie plays?
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I finally got off my ass and got my library card hooked up with Libby for ebooks but of the 20 or so items on my reading list, maybe 4 are actually available from my library.
Are my reading intentions that odd, or is my libraryās catalogue just that weak?
Check to see if your library is associated with others. The Dragonlady used to work at the library and knows the ins/outs of Libby and I overheard her telling someone that if there is a connected branch that they do inter-library loans with, there is a way to peruse THEIR content as well, including e-books.
Itās part of a 3-county network of libraries and AFAICT, I can get ebooks from any of them the same as I can do an inter-library loan.
The wider catalog is just really lacking.
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If thereās something I want to work on and I need to consider things carefully, I write it out with pen and paper. Doing it that way seems to be more meaningful and make things stick better. It wasnāt until last week I got the answer why.
Iām looking at the message activity on a wiki and I see a couple people who leave a message and then edit it multiple times. Maybe theyāre teenagers or thereabouts and itās a case of they remember something they forgot to put in.
But I also sometimes have to edit a message multiple times, too, and Iām long past a teenager and hopefully not advancing yet to the point of forgetfulness. What gives?
I realized itās the speed at which the words appear.
Even if Iām doing my normal sloppy handwriting that no one else needs to see, the longer amount of time it takes for my hand to move as the pen applies ink to the paper in the motions needed means my hand is synced to my thoughts. Mistakes are spotted faster, different word choices may present themselves in real time.
Computers are great. I can move words, sentences and paragraphs as needed, even into different documents, that would take a lot of lines and arrows on paper or multiple sheets of paper to show where theyāre supposed to go. I havenāt tested my typing speed in decades, but letās just guestimate it at 40 wpm or more. A computer is my final destination for everything I write.
With the higher speed and flexibility a computer gives me with making words appear, mistakes slip in. Muscle memory and words Iām familiar with may lead me to typing āhaveningā instead of āhavingā, not that thatās a bad thing, unless I donāt see it until much later after Iāve hit save or post or reply. Or a is missing. Did it dissappear as I moved things about or was it never there? If I didnāt have the red squiggly line showing up, would I spot the typo I just made fifteen seconds ago, or has my mind raced ahead as my fingers dance to their own tune, just slightly out of sync with my thoughts?
Electronic ink and liquid ink each have their place in my life, mediums sometimes at odds with each other, and sometimes taking turns as thoughts become words.
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Yup, science agrees with you.
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I do my design work on pencil and paper. Even though Iām trying to learn some basic CAD, I still do better filling a couple pages with rough math and design dimensions.
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You know that is often used for āCardboard aided designā right? 
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Oddly enough, yeah. And ive done that too.
In fact I took it to inception levels by 3d printing workshop furniture to double check my layout in my shop.
A good reason for myself to start writing down and logging all my standby and overtime work done so far.
If SHTF happens, I can submit a claim to the DoL.
WORDS MATTER.
If you speak another language, have you noticed that how you think changes depending on the language you think in? When I think in English, I tend to be pretty independent in my actions and thoughts. When I think in Japanese, my benaviour and thoughts become much more aware of and responsive to social hierarchy. My body language becomes a lot more contained. When I think in French, my thoughts change and my body language becomes a lot more expressive and my hands become part of my speech.
So many people seem to think that āItās just a jokeā, or, āYou shouldnāt take what I said seriouslyā means that itās okay to say things that belittle or demean entire segments of the population. This could be a political group, another race, another gender, or any group of people that isnāt āusā or āthemā.
The problem is, when we repeat something often enough, we internalize it. We begin to believe it subconsciously, then consciously. For example, I knew a young man once who referred to every woman as the word for a female dog. He thought it was just words and was completely shocked when he was called out on it. He didnāt even know he was doing it, but you could watch his actions to see that he considered women to be beneath him. After being called out on it, he began to use the B word less, and his actions towards women began to be less dismissive as well.
If we donāt have a word for a concept, we have a hard time wrapping our heads around it. Once we have a word for it, we begin to internalize the concept. Linguists worry about languages dying, not because a culture might be lost, but because a concept might be.
Think about the words you use. Think about how they affect the people around you. Think about what they say about you.
WORDS MATTER.
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I canāt say Iāve noticed any changes when thinkin in Spanish but I also wasnāt really paying attention. But yes words definitely matter.
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āItāll be great coming into the office on Friday; no oneāll be here so Iāll get a ton done.ā says TM. Usually if I come in on a Friday itās me and the desktop support guy, whoās halfway down the office, and itās great.
Get in, and the only two other people in the office are the colleague who sits next to me and my manager, whoās sitting next to her. Sigh.
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