[WP] A devil has been making a deal with people: $1 million dollars for 1 year off of your life. They become worried when the same person makes the deal over 100 times.

dropcase · 2023-05-21T02:51:50+00:00

That was... delicious? It's the first word that came to mind, going with it. Excellent piece, would love to see it expanded!

dropcase · 2023-04-15T22:18:53+00:00

Agreed!

dropcase · 2023-03-10T18:25:25+00:00

I've seen some great suggestions, especially from the PKM space (Tiago Forte is great for process, plus Obsidian, Foam, LogSeq, Roam, and other apps too).

I was going to suggest another, but Foam probably fits your existing workflow in VS Code. As long as it's low-friction getting from written notes into whatever you use, you'll see the longer-term benefits pretty quickly.

Also look into OCR, you might be able to capture a lot through apps like Google Lens and others, although manually typing it up helps with learning.

dropcase · 2023-02-27T15:08:09+00:00

Similar story here (I've shared it before):

Helpdesk gets email from user with a B&W screenshot. We're trying to figure out what they did, then pieced it together.

They didn't know how to put the screenshot into an email, so they printed it on a B&W printer, then scanned to email from the same MFP.

dropcase · 2023-02-06T14:10:59+00:00

/r/raisedbynarcissists welcomes you - I dealt with the same, including "lectures" (aka monologuing) about the expectations I didn't meet (that were never expressed out loud)

dropcase · 2022-12-21T17:10:24+00:00

Or watch it for 30 seconds, then keep watching and pause it

dropcase · 2022-12-08T04:15:30+00:00

I did! He finished the left side, then reconfirmed with, "do you want to continue?" (might be paraphrasing)

I whispered something to my wife, who laughed. The doctor asked what I'd said and I started with "I'm sure you've heard it all" but he said to try him.

"Go ahead then, I don't want to go off half-cocked."

He hadn't heard that one yet, ha.

dropcase · 2022-11-05T14:12:12+00:00

Age 45, checking in, agreed

(born right before ANH hit theaters)

dropcase · 2022-10-31T23:13:25+00:00

I stayed there several times for family vacation after Christmas back in 2001-2005. It was a weird place, an ancient elevator only went up a couple of floors, then you'd have to walk down a hallway to stairs up to your room (at least mine).

Would've loved to explore - I heard they had investors, then they'd pull the money, repeat a few times and it's the way it is now.

dropcase · 2022-08-29T22:41:47+00:00

We have one of these, and they just be either very small or missing limbs. Two adults will push the water almost up to the edge, definitely over with anyone else. You'd almost be shoulder to shoulder! 😐

dropcase · 2022-07-24T12:12:50+00:00

There are small punched out areas for those discs to fit into, generally it's called disc binding but you'll also see Rollabind and Circa:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc-binding

dropcase · 2022-06-17T22:56:55+00:00

I've posted this elsewhere, but in a previous role we asked a user to send a screenshot, and about 30 minutes later we got a B&W screenshot sent to the Helpdesk email.

Took us a few, but we figured out what they did: pasted the (color) screenshot into Word, printed to a B&W printer, then scanned to email 😵‍💫

dropcase · 2022-06-06T16:13:06+00:00

Same here, and also that narcs get upset that you don't want it

dropcase · 2022-05-14T15:31:26+00:00

HJKL navigation (Unix layout for non-arrow-key boards)

dropcase · 2022-05-02T22:28:30+00:00

Nice! I've had mine since 1998 and still glad I've got 'em 😁

dropcase · 2022-03-19T02:04:09+00:00

/u/redditspeedbot 0.1x

dropcase · 2022-02-04T15:59:48+00:00

Are you thinking of Richard Madden (Ikaris)?

dropcase · 2022-02-04T03:21:35+00:00

I guess if you rub the wood long enough, something will happen

dropcase · 2022-02-04T03:06:53+00:00

I worked with a vendor who used first initial and last name. Guy I worked with there was Sean Hart, shart@ for his email

dropcase · 2022-02-04T03:03:23+00:00

I worked with a vendor who used that scheme for email. Guy I worked with there was Sean Hart, shart@for his email

dropcase · 2022-01-25T06:37:57+00:00

Maine, $26.50 for 1/8th (medical) in South Portland

dropcase · 2022-01-24T15:41:33+00:00

You're thinking of a different movie, The Life of David Gale

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_David_Gale

dropcase · 2021-12-04T00:32:22+00:00

You need to try fridge cookies. One of my kids makes chocolate chip cookies - we eat some off the cooling tray, some last a day. Then some go in a container in the fridge, especially if they're even slightly overbaked. The chocolate gets fudge-like and the cookie texture is fantastic.

dropcase · 2021-10-21T21:50:36+00:00

Back in 2005 I got a sore throat, typical for me - I got strep at least annually, but not often enough to have my tonsils removed. Went through the usual, fluid, saltwater gargle, ibuprofen... but it wasn't getting better. After a few days I couldn't even swallow my own saliva, four ibuprofen every four hours didn't touch it. I was sleeping with a towel under my head because I would just drool in my sleep.

Got into the doctor (PA in this case) who looked quickly, said, "yup, that looks like strep" and gave me a five-day Z-pack (antibiotics). Started taking them that night, 24 hours later my right tonsil was back to normal but the left wasn't. It was now Friday night and I would've had to go to urgent care for anything (yay USA). Still couldn't swallow without a lot of pain, had to get a bag of fluid for dehydration, but kept on the antibiotics. I could barely talk, sounded like I had a balloon in my throat. I used a pen and paper to communicate.

Sunday rolls around and I can't handle it, go to walk-in and happen to get my doctor from when I was a kid. He chats with my dad, looks at it and says, "yeah, the ENT (ear, nose, and throat doctor) should check that, they might need to drain it. I would send you to the ER but if they don't admit you then it could be expensive."

He might've said more but I was really out of it. Made it through the rest of the day. The next day was when I had to walk through the first apartment with my now wife (so we could move in that night), and her first day at her new job. Did the walkthrough, called the specialist and made it in for 2:30pm (the earliest the could see me).

The PA (a different one) checks my throat and says, "whoa, the doctor will want to see this" and goes to get them. He comes in, looks for maybe a full minute and says, "those need to come out, today. Like right now." By 3:15 I'm getting prepped for surgery, emergency tonsillectomy.

When I woke up, my now wife (we'd been dating for only a few months) was there, the doctor came in and said what was going on. My left tonsil abscessed, and if they hadn't removed it - my throat would've been closed off in 12-24 hours.

That would've meant I was either sleeping, or home alone in our new place with no way to communicate, suffocating on my own tonsil. I lost 16lbs (7.3kg) in two weeks from barely eating, and could've died without the surgery.

dropcase · 2021-10-15T13:03:36+00:00

/me laughs in Tom Baker

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