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Why NobodysHome Isn't Invited to Write Inspirational Posters:
When "i" is replaced with "we", even illness becomes wellness.Yeah, but "idiocy" becomes "wedweocy", which really makes no sense at all. In fact, once I get started replacing i's, my writing just goes to shwet.
It's as challenging to be a curriculum developer in a world full of technical writers as it is to be a unicorn in a sea of horses.Nice to throw all our colleagues under the bus there, buddy. Yeah, tech writers and CDs do two fundamentally different things, but calling the tech writers "horses" while we're "unicorns" isn't going to help us get along one bit...
Or you should write them. As badly as possible to make people reread them and go "wait..."
"There's no 'I' in failure!"
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I was tempted to point to him, that he can laugh at those "dark themes" and not treat them with utter dread thanks to a certain massive safe space surrounding him called "civilization"...
Now you're just going to get me in trouble with Fritzy. I get SO sick of all the people who say, "Why should *I* have to care about/do anything for anyone else?!?!? It's an 'every man for himself' world out there!"
And it's like, "Er, OK. Let's take away your roads, your power grid, your network, your phones, your medical support, and your food supply, because those were all provided for by 'people doing things for other people', a.k.a. the government taking everyone's money in order to build roads or power grids or phone grids or... Oh, now you're a hunter-gatherer living in the wild with a life expectancy in the 20s! Welcome to what things were like BEFORE civilization; a.k.a. sacrificing some personal wealth for the good of the many."
Yes, over the years EVERY government overreaches and needs a good hedge trimming. But the alternative (no government) is SO much worse as to be unimaginable to most people who think that way...
"Lord of the Flies" was a great book. The error most people make is assuming it only applies to children.
Um, no. We went from the coldest April on record for Illinois to the second hottest May on record. We've been in low-upper 90's and high humidity for the 5th month in a row. Last year we were still hitting 94 in late September.
Sure, it's going to end sooner and start later than Florida, but that's only because we also have to deal with an actual winter (let alone what Iowa/Wisconsin/Minnesota get), which you conveniently skip for temps in the 60's-70's. Then again, if a Florida motorist sees 4 snowflakes they're going to cause a 47 car pileup, so I'm probably still safer in the frozen north.
...what?! How?!?
Um, no. We went from the coldest April on record for Illinois to the second hottest May on record. We've been in low-upper 90's and high humidity for the 5th month in a row. Last year we were still hitting 94 in late September.
Sure, it's going to end sooner and start later than Florida, but that's only because we also have to deal with an actual winter (let alone what Iowa/Wisconsin/Minnesota get), which you conveniently skip for temps in the 60's-70's. Then again, if a Florida motorist sees 4 snowflakes they're going to cause a 47 car pileup, so I'm probably still safer in the frozen north.
On the plus side, through a combination of working and sweating this spring and summer I'm totally ripped!
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I was tempted to point to him, that he can laugh at those "dark themes" and not treat them with utter dread thanks to a certain massive safe space surrounding him called "civilization"...Now you're just going to get me in trouble with Fritzy. I get SO sick of all the people who say, "Why should *I* have to care about/do anything for anyone else?!?!? It's an 'every man for himself' world out there!"
And it's like, "Er, OK. Let's take away your roads, your power grid, your network, your phones, your medical support, and your food supply, because those were all provided for by 'people doing things for other people', a.k.a. the government taking everyone's money in order to build roads or power grids or phone grids or... Oh, now you're a hunter-gatherer living in the wild with a life expectancy in the 20s! Welcome to what things were like BEFORE civilization; a.k.a. sacrificing some personal wealth for the good of the many."
Yes, over the years EVERY government overreaches and needs a good hedge trimming. But the alternative (no government) is SO much worse as to be unimaginable to most people who think that way...
"Lord of the Flies" was a great book. The error most people make is assuming it only applies to children.
I always assumed Flies was about kids to play off the idea that people carry of children being innocent...and destroying the illusion with the turdbucket that is human nature.
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Why NobodysHome Isn't Invited to Write Inspirational Posters:
When "i" is replaced with "we", even illness becomes wellness.Yeah, but "idiocy" becomes "wedweocy", which really makes no sense at all. In fact, once I get started replacing i's, my writing just goes to shwet.
It's as challenging to be a curriculum developer in a world full of technical writers as it is to be a unicorn in a sea of horses.Nice to throw all our colleagues under the bus there, buddy. Yeah, tech writers and CDs do two fundamentally different things, but calling the tech writers "horses" while we're "unicorns" isn't going to help us get along one bit...
Or you should write them. As badly as possible to make people reread them and go "wait..."
"There's no 'I' in failure!"
or clothes on scint!
You kinda set me up for that one.
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I was tempted to point to him, that he can laugh at those "dark themes" and not treat them with utter dread thanks to a certain massive safe space surrounding him called "civilization"...Now you're just going to get me in trouble with Fritzy. I get SO sick of all the people who say, "Why should *I* have to care about/do anything for anyone else?!?!? It's an 'every man for himself' world out there!"
And it's like, "Er, OK. Let's take away your roads, your power grid, your network, your phones, your medical support, and your food supply, because those were all provided for by 'people doing things for other people', a.k.a. the government taking everyone's money in order to build roads or power grids or phone grids or... Oh, now you're a hunter-gatherer living in the wild with a life expectancy in the 20s! Welcome to what things were like BEFORE civilization; a.k.a. sacrificing some personal wealth for the good of the many."
Yes, over the years EVERY government overreaches and needs a good hedge trimming. But the alternative (no government) is SO much worse as to be unimaginable to most people who think that way...
"Lord of the Flies" was a great book. The error most people make is assuming it only applies to children.
fritzy, fire bikes, but not flaming ones, add 7th grade english lit curriculums instead, I think they will do extra damage this one!
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I was tempted to point to him, that he can laugh at those "dark themes" and not treat them with utter dread thanks to a certain massive safe space surrounding him called "civilization"...Now you're just going to get me in trouble with Fritzy. I get SO sick of all the people who say, "Why should *I* have to care about/do anything for anyone else?!?!? It's an 'every man for himself' world out there!"
And it's like, "Er, OK. Let's take away your roads, your power grid, your network, your phones, your medical support, and your food supply, because those were all provided for by 'people doing things for other people', a.k.a. the government taking everyone's money in order to build roads or power grids or phone grids or... Oh, now you're a hunter-gatherer living in the wild with a life expectancy in the 20s! Welcome to what things were like BEFORE civilization; a.k.a. sacrificing some personal wealth for the good of the many."
Yes, over the years EVERY government overreaches and needs a good hedge trimming. But the alternative (no government) is SO much worse as to be unimaginable to most people who think that way...
"Lord of the Flies" was a great book. The error most people make is assuming it only applies to children.
I am tired of folks who proclaim their absolute self-sufficiency* that they got where they are without any help from others whatsoever...
Yeah, tell us, o mighty self-sufficient survivalist-entrepreneur how did you invented speech, money, roads, how did you discovered fire, how did you learned how to make stone knives, how did you died thousands of times to test which food are safe to eat and how to purify water, how you established trade and cloned yourself to build advanced economy that allows for specialization and scientific research...
*I do consider self-sufficiency based on advanced technology a civilization ideal (where each person gets own swarm of fully programmable nanotech, a share of raw matter and an allocation of fraction of available energy that can sustain all the needs - maybe in the form of Dyson swarm orbiting the Sun. This supplement with library of digitized experience of all the human creations, access to solar-system wide network, right to privacy, and the right to take your asteroid-home and leave the solar system for another system or to live in the dark space between). Still, it would be future self-sufficiency based on work of many generations, that would allow each individual to be free from pressure from others but allow voluntary interaction for those who would like it.
EDIT: Don't get me wrong. I respect self-sufficiency and skills it requires. I just want honesty about reaching it.
Why NobodysHome Isn't Invited to Write Inspirational Posters:
When "i" is replaced with "we", even illness becomes wellness.Yeah, but "idiocy" becomes "wedweocy", which really makes no sense at all. In fact, once I get started replacing i's, my writing just goes to shwet.
It's as challenging to be a curriculum developer in a world full of technical writers as it is to be a unicorn in a sea of horses.Nice to throw all our colleagues under the bus there, buddy. Yeah, tech writers and CDs do two fundamentally different things, but calling the tech writers "horses" while we're "unicorns" isn't going to help us get along one bit...
what's the difference?
Oh, and having own asteroid haven drifting through the void means immunity to flaming bikes.
But, you still need Gravity.
Stable orbit around Sun with proper spin will solve that. Or steady acceleration away from Sol.
Or, with proper nano, I can rewrite my organism to not need one on biological level and adjust my neurology to feel fine without one.
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what's the difference?Why NobodysHome Isn't Invited to Write Inspirational Posters:
When "i" is replaced with "we", even illness becomes wellness.Yeah, but "idiocy" becomes "wedweocy", which really makes no sense at all. In fact, once I get started replacing i's, my writing just goes to shwet.
It's as challenging to be a curriculum developer in a world full of technical writers as it is to be a unicorn in a sea of horses.Nice to throw all our colleagues under the bus there, buddy. Yeah, tech writers and CDs do two fundamentally different things, but calling the tech writers "horses" while we're "unicorns" isn't going to help us get along one bit...
Unicorns have a single horn each.
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Oh, and having own asteroid haven drifting through the void means immunity to flaming bikes.
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Unicorns have a single horn each.what's the difference?Why NobodysHome Isn't Invited to Write Inspirational Posters:
When "i" is replaced with "we", even illness becomes wellness.Yeah, but "idiocy" becomes "wedweocy", which really makes no sense at all. In fact, once I get started replacing i's, my writing just goes to shwet.
It's as challenging to be a curriculum developer in a world full of technical writers as it is to be a unicorn in a sea of horses.Nice to throw all our colleagues under the bus there, buddy. Yeah, tech writers and CDs do two fundamentally different things, but calling the tech writers "horses" while we're "unicorns" isn't going to help us get along one bit...
really? that's interesting.
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Yeah but you deal with that for...what, two weeks? We have maybe two weeks a year without it.
Florida is the underside of the devil's sweaty genitalia, microwaved, boiled, microwaved again, and then thrown in a steamer.
Wait, in your analogy, that would make most Floridians the equivalent of humanoid crabs.*
As a native Floridian, I strongly object to this characterization- {looks around} ...yeah, ok, that actually fits.
* By that logic, retirees/snowbirds from New England and New York are probably bedbugs.
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what's the difference?Why NobodysHome Isn't Invited to Write Inspirational Posters:
When "i" is replaced with "we", even illness becomes wellness.Yeah, but "idiocy" becomes "wedweocy", which really makes no sense at all. In fact, once I get started replacing i's, my writing just goes to shwet.
It's as challenging to be a curriculum developer in a world full of technical writers as it is to be a unicorn in a sea of horses.Nice to throw all our colleagues under the bus there, buddy. Yeah, tech writers and CDs do two fundamentally different things, but calling the tech writers "horses" while we're "unicorns" isn't going to help us get along one bit...
What's the difference between a dictionary author and a sci fi writer, and are they interchangeable? Or even more important, is one better/worse than the other?
Tech writers have an unenviable job: They are handed mountains of documentation from engineering and product managers, and they have to try to turn it into a coherent whole, and it has to be a complete, easy-to-search reference manual for the entire product.
No one says that technical manuals suck because they're hard to read; everyone assumes they will be. Everyone complains that technical manuals suck because they're incomplete, or the content isn't searchable, or isn't in any coherent order.
So a tech writer is producing a reference manual. Unfortunately, this is typically considered a "low-skill" position, so much of the time the tech writers produce entire manuals without once ever touching the product.
Needless to say, the "good" tech writers I know are the ones who are more technical, and who actually ask, "Well, WHY would a customer want to do this? What's a good use case? What related information would the customer need to know?"
A "bad" tech writer just accepts the mountains of docs, cleans 'em up, and publishes 'em. And there are far, far too many "bad" tech writers, so all tech writers get a bad rap.
Curriculum Developers are at the opposite end of the spectrum: "What is the minimum amount of information I can provide to you in order to get you up, running, and able to figure out how to use the execrable documentation to do your job?"
We have to produce content that is coherent, written in the order that they would do it, with functioning labs so the students can do hands-on work as they learn, and with labs that are in-depth enough that the students learn something. "Go here and look at this setting," is a crappy lab. "You've been given a business requirement that the application should do xxx. Your research tells you that setting yyy influences this behavior. Fix it and test it," is a good lab.
So a tech writer has to provide 100% of the application functionality in a reference that is searchable and provides the information in succinct chunks. A curriculum developer has to provide only maybe 80% of the application functionality, but it has to be in a coherent story with working labs throughout.
As I said, most tech writers I know never actually log in to the application. I've never met a curriculum developer who isn't intimately familiar with the application and all its eccentricities.
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Oh, goodness! Looks like there's a chance it'll hit 65°F today! Oh, WHY didn't I listen to that sales guy and buy air conditioning!
Oh, and having own asteroid haven drifting through the void means immunity to flaming bikes.
Have you taken into account the difference in position of nearby planets between their location when I flew across their orbits and when your projectile followed?
And the slingshoting I done around Jupiter just three months ago?
Yew jus' getcher @$$-tro-fizziks th' heck outta here, dray-gun. 'Sides! Ain't chew on sum' floaty space-rock gettin' away? Take 'at math-o-mad-ticks wit'cha!!!
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Oh, goodness! Looks like there's a chance it'll hit 65°F today! Oh, WHY didn't I listen to that sales guy and buy air conditioning!
I hate you. :P
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Having a 'tantrums' sub-folder is an important part of anyone's workplace email setup.
Oh, and having own asteroid haven drifting through the void means immunity to flaming bikes.
Have you taken into account the difference in position of nearby planets between their location when I flew across their orbits and when your projectile followed?
And the slingshoting I done around Jupiter just three months ago?
yes. I vomited didn't I?
See, here's the thing: 98? That's an average Wednesday in early October here. Our summers have always hit triple digit heat index. I could handle two weeks of hot weather standing on my head. It's when you have to go long, week after week, month after month...over, and over, the heat beating down on you, constantly...it's just horrible.
Every day is like walking into a locker room after EVERYONE took a hot, steamy shower. It's awful.
Which is why I'm leaving. Because bugger this mess. No matter how cold you get, you can always put on more layers, but when I'm in my skivvies and it is still absolutely unbearable, well...what more can you do? Fire is easy to find and make, but air conditioning? I guess you can custom-make some sort of backpack air conditioner with a solar-panel shade above you, but I imagine that rig would be extremely expensive to produce, and probably rather heavy.
As I said, northeast Nevada is currently in my scope, but I'm open to other places. Anyone from somewhere awesome that I could/should emigrate to? Bonus - I'll play a life oracle in your group! Everyone loves having a life oracle in the group!
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* By that logic, retirees/snowbirds from New England and New York are probably bedbugs.
Nope, just a%&*@$!s*.
Actually, if we follow the analogy, they're more like dingle-berries!
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One day into high school and Crookshanks is already running for president! There's that signature Yesterday confidence and boldness in action!
Which is awesome because those are traits neither of our extended families have.
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See, here's the thing: 98? That's an average Wednesday in early October here. Our summers have always hit triple digit heat index. I could handle two weeks of hot weather standing on my head. It's when you have to go long, week after week, month after month...over, and over, the heat beating down on you, constantly...it's just horrible.
Every day is like walking into a locker room after EVERYONE took a hot, steamy shower. It's awful.
Which is why I'm leaving. Because bugger this mess. No matter how cold you get, you can always put on more layers, but when I'm in my skivvies and it is still absolutely unbearable, well...what more can you do?
this is why I do not live in Florida.
Oh, goodness! Looks like there's a chance it'll hit 65°F today! Oh, WHY didn't I listen to that sales guy and buy air conditioning!
Good god man! Where's your coat!! Aren't you worried about hypothermia!!!
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One day into high school and Crookshanks is already running for president! There's that signature Yesterday confidence and boldness in action!
VOTE CROOKSHANKS!
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I do not look forward to the day that 65 degrees is our highest temperature, it means snow is imminent and building season is almost over, and then it's shoveling snow for 6-7 f&$+ing months.
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this is why I do not live in Florida.See, here's the thing: 98? That's an average Wednesday in early October here. Our summers have always hit triple digit heat index. I could handle two weeks of hot weather standing on my head. It's when you have to go long, week after week, month after month...over, and over, the heat beating down on you, constantly...it's just horrible.
Every day is like walking into a locker room after EVERYONE took a hot, steamy shower. It's awful.
Which is why I'm leaving. Because bugger this mess. No matter how cold you get, you can always put on more layers, but when I'm in my skivvies and it is still absolutely unbearable, well...what more can you do?
Actually, that's not the average high in Florida in October, but whatever. It's 84. Also, the high in Chicago today was 90 with 85% humidity, and when I do the same Google search for Miami...oh...look at that...90 with 77% humidity.
Look, I get it, you hate being in Florida. I'm not a huge fan of Florida either, but at least attack my state (IL) on a factual basis.
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My state is awesome...
...except for the people who live in it...
...or keep moving here, even though we're already grossly overpopulated...
So just get rid of all the people, and California would be the best state in the Union by far!
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No one does government corruption like Illinois! Except for Florida.
Dang it!
No one steals an election like Ill... D'oh!
Just face it, there is no bigger s+!~hole then Florida.
I'd say Wisconsin is the Beezneez but our cow chip festival was rained out, now I don't know what to believe...
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One day into high school and Crookshanks is already running for president! There's that signature Yesterday confidence and boldness in action!
Which is awesome because those are traits neither of our extended families have.
Go Crookshanks! Although...maybe change her name first? Eh. Kids like pirates, and Crookshanks sounds piratey to me. Go Crookshanks!
yes. I vomited didn't I?Oh, and having own asteroid haven drifting through the void means immunity to flaming bikes.
Have you taken into account the difference in position of nearby planets between their location when I flew across their orbits and when your projectile followed?
And the slingshoting I done around Jupiter just three months ago?
Oye kopeng, if you see any felota extraterrestrial rings out there, don't be nakangepensa; fly to kapawu clear of im. To pochuye ke?
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Oh, goodness! Looks like there's a chance it'll hit 65°F today! Oh, WHY didn't I listen to that sales guy and buy air conditioning!
[OOC]has weather dominator take readings, verifies it can duplicate such conditions
I do not look forward to the day that 65 degrees is our highest temperature, it means snow is imminent and building season is almost over, and then it's shoveling snow for 6-7 f%&&ing months.
but...
That sounds awesome!
Boyd can shovel your snow for you, you know.
No one does government corruption like Illinois! Except for Florida.
Dang it!
No one steals an election like Ill... D'oh!
Just face it, there is no bigger s%@%hole then Florida.
Fritzy, open fire on...on the Captain!
Oye kopeng, if you see any felota extraterrestrial rings out there, don't be nakangepensa; fly to kapawu clear of im. To pochuye ke?yes. I vomited didn't I?Oh, and having own asteroid haven drifting through the void means immunity to flaming bikes.
Have you taken into account the difference in position of nearby planets between their location when I flew across their orbits and when your projectile followed?
And the slingshoting I done around Jupiter just three months ago?
I only know shadowspeak chummer, what the frag kinda speak is this omae?
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I do not look forward to the day that 65 degrees is our highest temperature, it means snow is imminent and building season is almost over, and then it's shoveling snow for 6-7 f%&&ing months.but...
That sounds awesome!
Boyd can shovel your snow for you, you know.
Big (Slow) Pete or no one.
My snow run ten years ago I had 4 commercial properties (including a movieplex) and 24-31 residential properties.
*SIGH*. Aaaand, there's no end in sight.
My house cleaner just told me her landlord is raising her rent by $400/month (close to a 20% increase), there's no rent control to stop him, so they're out of their house... again.
Can someone please stop the insanity around here? Maybe a nice 8.0 quake? Or two?
I only know shadowspeak chummer, what the frag kinda speak is this omae?Oye kopeng, if you see any felota extraterrestrial rings out there, don't be nakangepensa; fly to kapawu clear of im. To pochuye ke?And the slingshoting I done around Jupiter just three months ago?yes. I vomited didn't I?
You seriously need to watch all three seasons of The Expanse before season 4 starts. They're out on DVD & BluRay; even my underfunded local library system has them.
If nothing else, you can watch them and then mock Firefly even more brutally for all the things it got wrong.
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No; no. Red Dwarf for the win!
How many other series can claim that they brought together the original cast and writers 30 years later to make another few seasons?
We binge watched Season X (2012) on Sunday, and we're hoping to do Season XI (2016) soon.
So they take 5-10 years between seasons! What's that between friends?
And man, they're still awesome!
Second day of school and already an argument over a missing assignment.
*sigh*
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Unicorns have a single horn each.what's the difference?Why NobodysHome Isn't Invited to Write Inspirational Posters:
When "i" is replaced with "we", even illness becomes wellness.Yeah, but "idiocy" becomes "wedweocy", which really makes no sense at all. In fact, once I get started replacing i's, my writing just goes to shwet.
It's as challenging to be a curriculum developer in a world full of technical writers as it is to be a unicorn in a sea of horses.Nice to throw all our colleagues under the bus there, buddy. Yeah, tech writers and CDs do two fundamentally different things, but calling the tech writers "horses" while we're "unicorns" isn't going to help us get along one bit...
Look, I get it, you hate being in Florida. I'm not a huge fan of Florida either, but at least attack my state (IL) on a factual basis.
It was more of a joke than attack. And the modified Bane speech got a ton of laughs tonight.
Oh yeah, guess who's moved from open mics to free shows I'm actually invited to? And crashed a show, was tagged with 5 mins at the end, and got more laugha than anyone?
Seriously I killed. :-)
In other news my friend says he's sick AF. I told him I was too, but he's like "nah man, I'm serious"
"Me too. I beat off to a clown once." You laugh, but my best friend's mom is a clown, I was 13, and the opportunity presented itself. An ass in yellow parachute pants is still an ass...
Also I loved Illinois when I visited. Beautiful state.