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shalafi, to asklemmy in What's your weird physical habit?

I stand on my left foot when I’m holding still. Had a coworker ask me, “I don’t mean to be weird, but why do you stand like a girl?”

Had no idea what he meant, so he demonstrated. Yeah, I do the tippy-toe thing. (Girls do it to make their thighs look slimmer, same as they sit in chairs.)

Broke my femur in 4 places back in 2000. Still don’t want weight on that leg, hellish pain does that to you. I’m quite physically active, but standing still? Yeah, en pointe, like a ballerina.

shalafi, to science_memes in Roots of Mother Appalachia

LOVE this song, got it in a couple of lists. Never understood that lyric. Mr. Denver was ahead of us all.

shalafi, to science_memes in Roots of Mother Appalachia

Almost heaven, West Virginia

Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River

Life is old there, older than the trees

Younger than the mountains, growin’ like a breeze

shalafi, to comicstrips in Out of sight, out of mind [ADHDinos]

It’s life changing. Unfortunately, how are you going to remember to remember?! I use mnemonics mainly when I don’t want to leave the house without something, but it’s worth practicing for any event. 5 seconds imagining something stupid is all I ask. Try it!

It’s hilarious when you walk up to the door and think, “Oh yeah, you’re going to camp, grab the .22 rifle mag.”, and you have no idea how that happened. LOL, sometimes you don’t see the pic, but somehow your brain does.

shalafi, to comicstrips in Out of sight, out of mind [ADHDinos]

This is easy! I got this one. Use mnemonics.

Say you want to remember to take a particular bag with you when you leave. Close your eyes for 5 seconds and imagine something outrageous, surreal, balls out crazy. Only takes 5 seconds, but the crazier the image you make up the better.

For this one I might imagine my postman or UPS standing there when I open my door, with the bag covering his head. Or I might imagine that bag as a giant bag full of rabid weasels blocking the door.

You might not even see the image again, but you will remember the bag. Shit’s like magic.

shalafi, to asklemmy in So how much "bad" debt are you in?

$27K in cc debt. Disgusting. Been dialing it in the last many months and paying off $2-3K a month.

OTOH, I may have my house paid off soon, so I got that going for me.

shalafi, to asklemmy in What is an musical instrument would you like to know how to play?

Harmonica. You can carry it anywhere and bust a jam anywhere.

shalafi, to archaeology in Early Europeans Ate Seaweed for Thousands of Years

I’ve got 2.5 acres of swamp in NW Florida and I’d LOVE to learn more about growing forage. Help a brother get his feet wet?

shalafi, to asklemmy in What are some modern bullshit jobs?

Mine rocks out with his cock out. I get a little annoyed with him constantly pressing us to find better ways of working, when we’re already the #1 team.

But still, the man really knows his shit and has turned a lot of things around for the company. He’s a good person to approach when you’re having a problem, of just about any sort.

OTOH, before we had him, we were floundering around trying to play agile and not actually accomplishing anything.

shalafi, to asklemmy in Which organism would you most like to be able to conduct an extended translated interview with?

My mini (not really) pig. I’d kill or die to know just exactly how smart he is.

shalafi, to piracy in Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs.

^ This is exactly what I meant.

shalafi, to piracy in Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs.

And they are free to do so! Why do I want small-time, bitchy customers who won’t, or can’t, pay? Let someone else coming up in the world take them on. I did my time, they can do theirs.

Pick one:

  • A restaurant that charges $10 per burger, at a cost of $3 per burger.
  • A restaurant that charges $5 per burger, at a cost of $3 per burger.

Capitalism is common sense!

CAVEAT: When decoupled from a sense of the greater good. Which is sometimes called morality.

shalafi, to piracy in Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs.

You’re both right.

shalafi, to piracy in Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs.

Meh, might not hurt them, obviously their suits don’t think so.

What they’re trying to do is convert or lose low-value customers and make high-value customers and save bandwidth at the same time. Fewer high-value customers also has an impact on support costs.

I did the same with my little computer support business. Doubled prices and kept the solid customers.

I straight steal my media, so I don’t have a dog in this fight. Actually, I’m a little stunned that anyone pays for this bullshit in the first place.

shalafi, to asklemmy in What do you use to backup all your photos and documents, cloud or external drive or both?

2TB Google Drive, ~$100/yr.

VEEAM makes a local backup every night, but all my Windows libraries are mapped to a Google drive. Anything saved there automatically syncs to the cloud.

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