Chris

I got a survey about the experience PAYING MY POWER BILL. What the heck? You billed, I paid. What am I supposed to say about that?

Driving school buses, teaching piano, watching a working mother's kids along with their own, maybe some part-time admin job or substituting at the public school if they were fancy. Oh, and I was forgetting Avon Lady or Tupperware hostess.

You'd make sure your thumbnail had sufficient pixels to scale, though

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@britain.bsky.social At first I thought this was going to be YOUR website

Same! I wouldn't even call the apartment dumpy. It just has acquired an appropriate patina.

I live near a college campus. As I walk through the Rental Zone to and from work, I swear Those Kids Today throw a whole box of the most heavily scented dryer sheets you can buy in with the load of laundry they are drying. I hate that smell and I bet I'm not alone and yet, it's legal.

Question for my archival research people -- do you have a favorite finding aid, or at least one you keep coming back to? How do you use it? Scroll through top to bottom? Search it? Use any series menus to focus in on what you know you are looking for? Does that change when you get more familiar?

My example -- a stupidly expensive pair of nail clippers I ordered during lockdown. Amazing. I also would hate to look and see what they cost now with all the tariffs and other BS.

The 1938 is a top ten movie for me ever since I saw it in a double feature with Topper 40 years ago.

I am impressed she's smart enough to know she shouldn't perjure herself.

Watching my parents pay bills.

We were talking about that this morning! Doesn’t he know what his base drives?

As a parent of a kid who would not listen to us when he was too hungry to make a decision, hearing it from someone else is so useful. Nice team work!

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Our son is an undergrad out of state an 11-hour drive away from home (and an hour drive to the airport when he flies home). I always suggest he let the professor know he'll be out if he will be missing class (and there are classes he won't miss for travel). Do students still do that? Am I just old?

Hypnotizing chickens

If I saw someone in a T-shirt espousing some of the things they say, I’d pass them by so why let them follow me?

I block people I don't know who follow me and have profiles/replies that I don't like the look of.

Yes! I work in a university library and I have to sometimes tell people that we cannot give them/help them/do for them what they want. Over the years I have learned that you have to walk a fine line between blunt and polite (and that it helps when they think they are talking to a guy).

I’m not sure Big Gretch can get past the paternalism either

Oh no!

Another time, then. It’s a good idea!

We used family surnames as middles for our kids and saddled the youngest with an apostrophe. He also grumps about it intermittently because some databases do weird things with punctuation.

Did you?

I was 100% in this camp and complained to a colleague who told me that if I searched our library catalog there would be a proxied link that would gives access without creating a new individual account. Maybe your institution has the same? It does suck I can't pass links along to others outside tho.

They’ve been doing it at Michigan since 2016. Google says it started for the Bills in 2023, but of course that could be wrong.

Unless we get lucky….

How can that have been 20 years ago? How did I get this old?

Put this in the Louvre

On his birthday, no less!