*raises fist* solidarity!
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There is a technical advantage - you seem to have a slight edge in terms of range and speed when using something light & thrusty vs. something heavier and cuttier. Also, my opponent kept tangling one dagger with his tomahawk and pulling me in, forgetting that I had a longish stabby boi in my other hand...Huzzah huzzah, someone else who studies rapier & dagger came along to Monday HEMA, so I actually got to do some rapier & dagger sparring, and solo rapier (and twin daggers vs. tomahawk & dagger, amongst other things. Twin daggers (me) had the better of it)Was there some kind of technical advantage to two daggers or were you simply better yourself?
So he got shanked? =)
Who is this "Seth" and what did he do to Big (Slow) Pete.
SEEEETH! *shakes fist*
I don't know what I'm doing today but I'm guessing I'm not digging, the ground is frozen a good four inches down.
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16 degrees this morning! It's a good thing I spent the extra five bucks and got boots rated for below zero, rather than get the slightly cheaper ones for 14 degrees. otherwise, temp drops another two degrees say goodbye to your feet.
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o_O But I like my feet. I use them almost everyday!
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I suppose we should have warned The Vagrant Erudite about frostbite too.
My uncle lost a toe.
I have a cousin who lost 3 toes well 2 and a half, but that was to a lawn mower. He said it took him forever to get his balance back.
You'd think teenagers would learn that they can't fool their parents.
Needless to say, Boyd won't be coming over any time soon.
she found the boyd guide, I see.
That uncle also lost another toe dropping a trailer on it.
When I worked at SVDP a lady accidentally cut her finger off trying to lift a bed frame.
OK now there are 65 mails in my inbox, a mess on my desk which I have to clear... No no, I mean I need to clear the mess on my desk, not my clothes!
*Puts on clothes*
but you are so much more agile without clothes!
I have a cousin who lost 3 toes well 2 and a half, but that was to a lawn mower. He said it took him forever to get his balance back.
I have heard that is a true torture.
I could only imagine. (hopefully)
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What do your collective minds know about vinyl flooring?
Considering having the floor lined with that.
I wanted wood, but I was worried on quality of workmanship and wood(insufficiently aged boards).
That uncle also lost another toe dropping a trailer on it.
When I worked at SVDP a lady accidentally cut her finger off trying to lift a bed frame.
jesus.
If I remember correctly the stuff can be a real pain if its not put in right. That's about all that's coming to me. I feel like there was something about it growing mold too but I'm not sure enough on that one.
jesus.That uncle also lost another toe dropping a trailer on it.
When I worked at SVDP a lady accidentally cut her finger off trying to lift a bed frame.
Must have been a crappy bed frame.
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What do your collective minds know about vinyl flooring?
Considering having the floor lined with that.
I wanted wood, but I was worried on quality of workmanship and wood(insufficiently aged boards).
When laid properly, vinyl lasts forever and is easy to keep clean.
Yeah I feel like all the bad things I heard about it involve it not being installed correctly.
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I bet, if I had kids, my kids could fool me. I have a neg wis modifier and have no ranks in sense motive.
You have to have kids to understand just how bad they are at it.
You might have a Sense Motive of -2.
Kids have a Bluff of -10.
Or... you get a +10 situational bonus against your own kids or something.
Seeing a lie is ridiculously easy. It's kind of scary.
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Ha! They are going to have us try to dig today.
Putting in drain tile, theoretically.
This is going to be hilarious!
I bet, if I had kids, my kids could fool me. I have a neg wis modifier and have no ranks in sense motive.You have to have kids to understand just how bad they are at it.
You might have a Sense Motive of -2.
Kids have a Bluff of -10.
Or... you get a +10 situational bonus against your own kids or something.Seeing a lie is ridiculously easy. It's kind of scary.
It's definitely easier with your own kids, but even other people's kids is pretty easy. It's not until the kids get in that 17-19 range when, one, they're finally getting better at it, but two, you start going "Ok, I'm not actually upset that they're lying to me, I just want to know what it is they think they can't tell me."
Aiymi approves. Running it by Zelda shortly.I'm really colorblind. Really. Colorblind. Blacks and greys are a staple of my clothing simply so I don't have to worry as much about matching.It's boring and you'd rather wear something else but no one seems bothered by it much so you own at least one black thing?Well My feelings on Black are the same as the rolling stones.Black is an over-the-hill color that should have retired years ago, and you marvel that it's still alive?I have almost no sense of smell.
We should have a show on public access show (or Amazon Prime) where I blind taste test and you can paint crafts thematic to the season.
I forgot to follow up on this one. Zelda also approves.
Yeah I feel like all the bad things I heard about it involve it not being installed correctly.
The thing ya have to know about vinyl is that it's not possible to install correctly.
Or at least it seems that way. Every vinyl floor I've ever seen has been either under five years old, or peeling up at the seams. Ugly and awful.
I'll take even unfinished splintery wood over vinyl any day.
What do your collective minds know about vinyl flooring?
Considering having the floor lined with that.
I wanted wood, but I was worried on quality of workmanship and wood(insufficiently aged boards).
*Usually* vinyl is going to be less expensive than hardwood - this varies with the quality of each, obviously.
A bad vinyl installation...you'll get bubbles in the floor, it will pull away from the edges, and you can get moisture underneath leading to mold. With Singapore's humidity, that's going to be a concern. If you're doing it yourself, do a lot of YouTube research before trying to install it. If you're not doing it yourself, choose the installer wisely.
Hardwood floors...I love a good wood floor...I really do...but it can be more maintenance over the life of the floor than what vinyl is going to be. Everything depends on the type of wood selected.
Alright! It's 18 degrees out!
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What do your collective minds know about vinyl flooring?
Considering having the floor lined with that.
I wanted wood, but I was worried on quality of workmanship and wood(insufficiently aged boards).
*Usually* vinyl is going to be less expensive than hardwood - this varies with the quality of each, obviously.
A bad vinyl installation...you'll get bubbles in the floor, it will pull away from the edges, and you can get moisture underneath leading to mold. With Singapore's humidity, that's going to be a concern. If you're doing it yourself, do a lot of YouTube research before trying to install it. If you're not doing it yourself, choose the installer wisely.
Hardwood floors...I love a good wood floor...I really do...but it can be more maintenance over the life of the floor than what vinyl is going to be. Everything depends on the type of wood selected.
I know if I had to install vinyl, it would magically coincide with captain yesterday's trip to ny.
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I'm lost when it comes to indoor projects.
However,if you let me bring my mini bobcat in with me I can make it work.
Not your floor though, that'll be a disaster.
Unless you want it made out of stone.
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I'm lost when it comes to indoor projects.
However,if you let me bring my mini bobcat in with me I can make it work.
Not your floor though, that'll be a disaster.
Unless you want it made out of stone.
my floor is made out of angry bears.
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I'm lost when it comes to indoor projects.
However,if you let me bring my mini bobcat in with me I can make it work.
Not your floor though, that'll be a disaster.
Unless you want it made out of stone.
I actually would like my floors made of stone with geothermal heating. Thank you.
That I would do.
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Dear internet,
Please stop making video tutorials for everything. I understand that the visual aid is sometimes helpful, but I would prefer you just give me a printed set of instructions as I can read faster than your video can teach. It's even more annoying when it's to use a Google template because I have to keep tabbing over from what I'm working on and derailing my train of thought.
Dear internet,
Please stop making video tutorials for everything. I understand that the visual aid is sometimes helpful, but I would prefer you just give me a printed set of instructions as I can read faster than your video can teach. It's even more annoying when it's to use a Google template because I have to keep tabbing over from what I'm working on and derailing my train of thought.
interesting.
People learn in different ways. It never fails to fascinate me.
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Dear internet,
Please stop making video tutorials for everything. I understand that the visual aid is sometimes helpful, but I would prefer you just give me a printed set of instructions as I can read faster than your video can teach. It's even more annoying when it's to use a Google template because I have to keep tabbing over from what I'm working on and derailing my train of thought.
interesting.
People learn in different ways. It never fails to fascinate me.
That in and of itself interests me -- if you prefer to watch the video first before seeing the written directions, you'd be the first person I've met who's like that.
Admittedly, I hang around with engineers. But their response is always, "Give me the written steps so I can scan through them quickly and see how complicated they are and how much I need them. THEN, if it looks like the process is complicated, I'll track down the video."
I share Scint's hate of everything being video-ized these days. Especially news articles. I prefer the printed word first so I can see just what I'm getting into. If it's complicated, then I appreciate the video.
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It's more that I'm multitasking. Last thing I need is to look up "How to make a digital breakout Google Form" and have to play the video while my kids are working on a project.
I can't print out video instructions, and often, it's for the, say, 5th or 6th step that I'm stuck. So if I have written instructions, I can just say "Oh, I've done that" and skip down to #5, but a video would force me to guess where to skip to and pray that I haven't missed my starting point. Written instructions with pictures are often the best of both worlds for me. I get my steps and a handy visual to make sure my thing looks as it should.
Video instructions are great if it's something I've never seen before and need to be walked through like an extreme beginner, but for most things? Not so much.
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It's more that I'm multitasking. Last thing I need is to look up "How to make a digital breakout Google Form" and have to play the video while my kids are working on a project.
I can't print out video instructions, and often, it's for the, say, 5th or 6th step that I'm stuck. So if I have written instructions, I can just say "Oh, I've done that" and skip down to #5, but a video would force me to guess where to skip to and pray that I haven't missed my starting point. Written instructions with pictures are often the best of both worlds for me. I get my steps and a handy visual to make sure my thing looks as it should.
Video instructions are great if it's something I've never seen before and need to be walked through like an extreme beginner, but for most things? Not so much.
All of that.
Dear internet,
Please stop making video tutorials for everything. I understand that the visual aid is sometimes helpful, but I would prefer you just give me a printed set of instructions as I can read faster than your video can teach. It's even more annoying when it's to use a Google template because I have to keep tabbing over from what I'm working on and derailing my train of thought.
interesting.
People learn in different ways. It never fails to fascinate me.
That in and of itself interests me -- if you prefer to watch the video first before seeing the written directions, you'd be the first person I've met who's like that.
Admittedly, I hang around with engineers. But their response is always, "Give me the written steps so I can scan through them quickly and see how complicated they are and how much I need them. THEN, if it looks like the process is complicated, I'll track down the video."
I share Scint's hate of everything being video-ized these days. Especially news articles. I prefer the printed word first so I can see just what I'm getting into. If it's complicated, then I appreciate the video.
this worries me, as you have an advanced degree in math. What is teaching someone how to solve equations real time if not literally showing someone how to do something? Especially given the number of times teachers have told me "forget what the book says, do this"(which is also something nearly EVERY engineer I have ever met says in between breaths and heartbeats), to say nothing of the number of times errors have been caught in workbooks and written notes and the revolutions had to be staged in order to get the someone to realize that.
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Dear internet,
Please stop making video tutorials for everything. I understand that the visual aid is sometimes helpful, but I would prefer you just give me a printed set of instructions as I can read faster than your video can teach. It's even more annoying when it's to use a Google template because I have to keep tabbing over from what I'm working on and derailing my train of thought.
interesting.
People learn in different ways. It never fails to fascinate me.
You won't look, but this is what comes to mind.
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I'm...not sure where the math degree comes into play here.
I brought up the tutorials because finding a 5-minute video of a mouse moving across a screen to click buttons is far less convenient and intuitive than three sentences of instruction to the effect of "click on this thing, then type this."
It's all about knowing the medium. For something complicated and not involving alt-tabbing (how to check/change your oil if you're car-illiterate), videos are great. For something simple (a specific excel formula), it's so much simpler to just say "type this into the box, then click the cells to select."
I dislike the trend of video tutorial as a go-to because it smacks of writer-audience tone-deafness and a movement away from technical literacy - why learn to write clear instructions when you can just slap a gif onto a website? It's similar to how PowerPoints have come to be viewed by many as a crutch. When done well, they're a great enhancement to the content within. When done poorly, they're a shoddily-put-together waste of everyone's time. Know your medium. Know your purpose.
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Dear internet,
Please stop making video tutorials for everything. I understand that the visual aid is sometimes helpful, but I would prefer you just give me a printed set of instructions as I can read faster than your video can teach. It's even more annoying when it's to use a Google template because I have to keep tabbing over from what I'm working on and derailing my train of thought.
interesting.
People learn in different ways. It never fails to fascinate me.
That in and of itself interests me -- if you prefer to watch the video first before seeing the written directions, you'd be the first person I've met who's like that.
Admittedly, I hang around with engineers. But their response is always, "Give me the written steps so I can scan through them quickly and see how complicated they are and how much I need them. THEN, if it looks like the process is complicated, I'll track down the video."
I share Scint's hate of everything being video-ized these days. Especially news articles. I prefer the printed word first so I can see just what I'm getting into. If it's complicated, then I appreciate the video.
this worries me, as you have an advanced degree in math. What is teaching someone how to solve equations real time if not literally showing someone how to do something? Especially given the number of times teachers have told me "forget what the book says, do this"(which is also something nearly EVERY engineer I have ever met says in between breaths and heartbeats), to say nothing of the number of times errors have been caught in workbooks and written notes and the revolutions had to be staged in order to get the someone to realize that.
The difference is being able to see the whole of the steps versus a video, where you only get to see what they're showing at that moment in time.
When it's written out you can go "Did 1, did that, did that, did that, oh, that's where I messed up." And it takes just a few seconds. With a video you don't know where they're moving from step 1 to 2 to 3 without physically watching through. If you go through the entire written directions and still don't see where things went wrong, then yes, go to a video.
It's very different if it's subject matter that you have zero familiarity with - as Scint said - the difference between an extreme beginner and someone who is able to apply previous knowledge/experience to the current problem.
One of the trends I've been noticing in our younger new employees - a definite lack of ability to use or build upon prior knowledge/experience, coupled with a seeming unwillingness to try.
You won't look, but this is what comes to mind.Dear internet,
Please stop making video tutorials for everything. I understand that the visual aid is sometimes helpful, but I would prefer you just give me a printed set of instructions as I can read faster than your video can teach. It's even more annoying when it's to use a Google template because I have to keep tabbing over from what I'm working on and derailing my train of thought.
interesting.
People learn in different ways. It never fails to fascinate me.
my eyes they burn
I'm...not sure where the math degree comes into play here.
I brought up the tutorials because finding a 5-minute video of a mouse moving across a screen to click buttons is far less convenient and intuitive than three sentences of instruction to the effect of "click on this thing, then type this."
It's all about knowing the medium. For something complicated and not involving alt-tabbing (how to check/change your oil if you're car-illiterate), videos are great. For something simple (a specific excel formula), it's so much simpler to just say "type this into the box, then click the cells to select."
I dislike the trend of video tutorial as a go-to because it smacks of writer-audience tone-deafness and a movement away from technical literacy - why learn to write clear instructions when you can just slap a gif onto a website? It's similar to how PowerPoints have come to be viewed by many as a crutch. When done well, they're a great enhancement to the content within. When done poorly, they're a shoddily-put-together waste of everyone's time. Know your medium. Know your purpose.
interestingly enough, Shadowrun warned us of this decades ago.
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One of the trends I've been noticing in our younger new employees - a definite lack of ability to use or build upon prior knowledge/experience, coupled with a seeming unwillingness to try.
Yep...it's pulling teeth to get some of these kids to extrapolate if an answer isn't explicitly laid out for them. Seems to be a lot of learned helplessness - if they don't figure it out, someone else will tell them what to do. Fun game, walking the line of figuring out whether I am forcing them to burst out of their comfort zones for critical thinking vs. straight-up not helping when they're honestly stuck.
So yeah, I've got a lot of essay anxiety because I'm making them figure their outlines out with very little input.
Congratulation on the job! (if I read things correctly ^^' )
and you shouldn't excuse yourself for being exhausted, we all got thought that once in while.
And if you ever feel like talking about things - good or bad - I'll venture that you could find someone here who's willing to listen.*Pats Woran on the shoulder and offers a hug*
*Stares angrily at his phone*
'Got thought'...isn't the same as 'go through' you high-tech piece of junk!
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I guess that what I get for not prof reading (and relying on auto-correct)…
*Grumbles*
You'd think teenagers would learn that they can't fool their parents.
Needless to say, Boyd won't be coming over any time soon.
Huh…
What happened? (if you don't mind me asking)Caught them in some hanky-panky?
It's a board game.
It's pretty good.
Play it once in a while on board-gaming nights and casual get togthers. We even have a set of house-rules that turn it into a drinking game ^^'I need to clear my 300 mails out of my mailbox before the company retreat…*pulls out fur while fretting*
*Sweeps up tufts of fur and meticulously attempt to glue them back onto Mort*
What do your collective minds know about vinyl flooring?
Considering having the floor lined with that.
I wanted wood, but I was worried on quality of workmanship and wood(insufficiently aged boards).
Easy to clean, pet and child friendly (see the previous point) and doesn't require any maintenance.
It doesn't have the feel and character of wooden floors though and it's finicky requiring care to lay down properly, but it seems a fair trade off.Hi, everyone.
Hello John.