ValiantDust

Anne of Green Gables is one of my favourite comfort novels. It just instantly takes me to a happy place. Somewhere on the internet, I once saw Anne described as

a red-haired, freckle-faced orphan who faces the world with nothing but the sheer force of her personality

which summarises it very well.

If anyone is interested in checking it out, I cannot recommend this LibriVox recording by Karen Savage enough.

It’s missing the “No, but I get paid for this, so I should probably work on it anyway” option

In German, Teams used to show people as “kostenlos” which does mean “free” but in the sense of “free of charge”, not “available”. They fixed it eventually but it caused much confusion with people asking if there are times when the calls are not free of charge.

My personal Teams translation highlight was a hint explaining to me how I could reorder a list. It said “Nachbestellung hier”. Which again does mean “reorder here” but reorder as in the thing you do when you buy the same thing again, a repeat order.

And apparently the shortcut key r doesn’t stand for rechts (right) but for insert. Which is not only English but also the one thing all of those for options have in common.

For what it’s worth, while there certainly are public bathrooms with stalls from floor to ceiling, the most common design does have gaps between the floor and the stall (at least here in Germany). Just not as big as the gaps in the US. You’d have to get uncomfortably close to the floor of a public bathroom to see anything. And no gaps between the door and the walls.

Me: hits return.

Word: “Sure, here, a new line. I already indented it for you, same as the one before. Like a good IDE.”

Me: “That’s nice of you, Word, but I want this one to be indented one tab stop less than the line before.” Hits delete.

Word: “Delete, you say? Sure, back to the line before.”

Me: “No, no! Just delete one tab! Maybe, if I select the line and hit dele…”

Word: “Why of course!”

Me: “Shit, it’s gone. Undo! Hmm… Move the thingy here on top?”

Word: “Move all the lines you say? No problem!”

Me: “Nvm, I’ll just indent everything by hand with spaces.”

Having two possible outcomes does not mean it’s a 50:50 chance.

“So if I aim the arrow at the 1cm square from 100m away and shoot, I either hit it or I don’t. So basically I have a 50% chance of hitting it.”

As a developer I can freely admit that without the operations people the software I develop would not run anywhere but on my laptop.

I know as much about hardware as a cook knows about his stove and the plates the food is served on – more than the average person but waaaay less than the people producing and maintaining them.

You think Christians are against settlers stealing land? Oh boy, have I news for you…

I would never paste code into a Word document. I use Notepad++ for that.

You don’t get it, they are only sluts when they are giving other men attention. When they are giving OP attention, they are graceful, heavenly creatures (who should also give him some sex).

“LGTM”

Nice, done for today.