I’m in a nice hotel room, except that the bathroom lights stopped working. There’s a very nice coffee maker but the cups they have are too small so the coffee overflows when you brew it. And they bang on your door at 9 PM to give you your free water bottles.
love when you're on a retailer's web site and trying to search for a product just gives you a list of their blog articles they've put there for SEO purposes. Super helpful!
Arc browser - so many cool ideas all in one infuriatingly opaque interface. Now and then I read about it again and think "this sounds interesting” and then i try using it. I think it was designed by aliens whose brains work in some weird nonlinear way.
@68d507df I did this and realized I’d taken less than two weeks off all year, at which point I put in for all of Thanksgiving week and the first part of our 2.5 week 3 country holiday trip. I haven’t taken so little time off in 15 years. Yikes.
@340b83fb silliness. My company has taken a small step - if you live near one of our offices they’re asking you to come in once a month for “office day” and for teams to arrange schedules around interactive work activities so it’s valuable. Plus free lunch. It seems popular so far.
I am totally remote so nobody’s asking me anything but I do drive 2.5 hours to the nearest office about once a month for working sessions with my boss, which I enjoy.
There’s a smart middle way in all this.
@e528fa39 So a little googling suggests that yes, this is an Irish thing, which I did not know. Now wondering if it's a result of a lot of food insecurity in relatively recent history (it's gross, but it is nutritionally dense). Not that lots of other countries have had their own food issues though.
Weird.
@e528fa39 There was a lot of "kids must drink milk or their bones will break!" stuff going on but I am unsure if this was common in Ireland. Also wonder if it was a signifier of economic stability (mom grew up in WWII Belfast with a single mom, her dad died very young). No idea is it's common in Ireland though.
@e528fa39 I don’t remember from when I was very little but definitely didn’t do this later on. But then, my parents were from Ireland. And yes, disgusting.
Pet peeve: all food writing now refers to restaurants as “concepts” and it’s so fucking dumb and pretentious. “Restaurant” makes me think of good times with food and friends. “Concept” makes me think “an asshole runs this place.”
Love buying something online and getting a post-purchase survey that starts with "what did you buy" HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW THIS. It's 2023 and so many companies are so still so bad at this.
The most exciting thing about iOS 17 is that the photo app can now tell two yellow dogs apart. Which is important because it’s the difference between “oh, that’s cute” and “I miss that dog so much” for me.
@fd981c01 that little voice in your head telling you can’t have a lazy day should pounded into silence. But that’s a lot work so just take a nap instead.
@ae43a286 I had a friend with an office mate who did this all time, right up until he said “I’m so sorry about your yeast infection!” I think people are just a bit clueless.
@c6f37363 I don’t understand the fear about TikTok (or the appeal of TikTok)- if China wants personal info about Americans it would be easier to just buy it from data brokers, since there is no meaningful privacy protection here.
@c6f37363 some things are better (I was born in 1965). Many other things are not. A lot of bills are about to come due. I don’t really envy people who will still be around in 2065.
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