Bonus: When you become a teacher you start having nightmares about being asked to teach classes in which you have no knowledge, with very little or no prep time.

Oh, wait, no, that ACTUALLY HAPPENS, ALL THE TIME.

I once was given 15 minutes to prep a 1 hour lecture on how 401Ks work. I was a computer instructor.

They said it was the best presentation they ever had.

🤷

So manufacturers can bill you monthly for the same features…

“The last guy nearly ruined this place
he didn’t know what to do with it.
If you think this country’s bad off now,
just wait 'til I get through with it.”

- Groucho Marx, Duck Soup, 1933

I actually kind of like winter? Much better than Summer!

Always use the indefinite article… “a”, never “your”. 😉

“TADA!” for short…

So you had the Shazam! TV show based on the Captain Marvel comic book character…

https://youtu.be/9NLuRZ3A76U

Which spun off the Isis TV show…

https://youtu.be/FdBRLV6PGro

Which then turned into a new comic character…

“But on the flip side, my family and friends will see a scary looking command and immediately be put off.”

More to that… these are exactly the people we have all been telling “If you see someone on the internet telling you ‘type this!’ DON’T DO IT!”

ALT-F4 being the benign one.

rm -rf / --no-preserve-root - not so benign.

I remember a story of someone getting the recursive tag wrong on the chmod command and managed to chmod 000 themselves out of everything on the system… including chmod.

For years and years the barrier to entry was mom or gramma buying a clipart CD for $4.99 at the grocery store, bringing it home, and expecting it to work.

Now that’s not a thing anymore, but they still aren’t using it. So I guess the barrier to entry now is they see that ad for the casino app that “pays you real money” and they expect to download it and expect it to work.

Until mom and grandmom can load up the computer with all sorts of malware that breaks everything, they really aren’t interested.

Who defines “valueless”? In my opinion, anyone who says something like that has no value and so…

People hear about cloud seeding, which is very much a thing, and go “See! See! I TOLD YOU!” When it very much is not the same thing as “chemtrails”.

https://www.dri.edu/cloud-seeding-program/what-is-cloud-seeding/

Freestyle Libre was my first CGM and as soon as I had the opportunity to switch to Dexcom, I did.

Each new sensor was wildly low or wildly high, with no option to calibrate. It was really only good for measuring changes, not the actual glucose reading itself.

So "Oh, it’s going up, +5, +10, +20… probably accurate, but is it 80, 180, or 240? Use a finger stick to know for sure.

What about the voltages and the hz?

Yup, like butter. Salted vs. Unsalted. You need both for different purposes, but just looking at it, no way to know.

Eh, I’ll give them a pass. You can’t tell just by looking at it so it makes sense to mark “Smoked” vs. “Not Smoked” otherwise people are going to ask… “Is this smoked?”

He was prosecuted and convicted, just never actually sentenced.

Yeah, this is an old problem with PDFs and some forms of Word documents. You could always go “Hey, show me the revisions!” and POOF! OG Document!

I had the benefit of running that on a business contract. “Hey, I wonder what all they changed on this before they sent it to us?”

It gave a fascinating insight into the things they WANTED in the contract but had to remove.