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Pyperkub wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 8:50 pm Stepped into a co-workers office today to borrow something and noticed he had brought in a personal laptop and was watching porn on it.

I'm only posting because I'm a bit miffed and had to vent- he makes over 20k/year more than me and does about half the work for effectively the same job.

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 8:50 pm Stepped into a co-workers office today to borrow something and noticed he had brought in a personal laptop and was watching porn on it.

I'm only posting because I'm a bit miffed and had to vent- he makes over 20k/year more than me and does about half the work for effectively the same job.

stimpy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 11:50 pm

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 8:50 pm Stepped into a co-workers office today to borrow something and noticed he had brought in a personal laptop and was watching porn on it.

I'm only posting because I'm a bit miffed and had to vent- he makes over 20k/year more than me and does about half the work for effectively the same job.

Maybe he was mourning the loss of Raquel Welch....

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 2:09 am I've been seeing kids on TV about a year olde who are wearing glasses. How in the world can adults tell if a kid that young can see better?

One of the questions that you run in to a lot when you have a very little one in glasses is how an eye doctor can determine the prescription of kids who can’t read letters yet — and in many cases, aren’t verbal yet. It was one of the things I wondered about when we took Zoe in at 9 months old. It turns out that eye doctors (optometrists and ophthalmologists) have a number of tools to help them do this. At Zoe’s early appointments, they used Teller Cards (grey cards with black and white lines on them) as well as dilating her eyes and using the retinoscope to look at the shape of her eye. The Teller cards are an example of a subjective measurement of her acuity – it requires some response from her, in this case, it was whether or not she looked at the black and white squares. Other examples of subjective measurements include eye charts, which can use letters or symbols. The retinoscopy was an objective refraction. That is, it looked at the shape of her eye to see how well she could focus without requiring a response from her.

Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 2:31 pm and then drive my motorcar

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 11:14 am I realized recently that not only am I pedantic (I've known for years), but I LIKE being pedantic. I like when others are too, especially around language usage. It's fun.

Words mean things! Say what you mean, damn it!

wonderpug wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 9:26 am

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 11:14 am I realized recently that not only am I pedantic (I've known for years), but I LIKE being pedantic. I like when others are too, especially around language usage. It's fun.

Words mean things! Say what you mean, damn it!

Since you’re choosing to use parentheses to insert that extra information, the parentheses alone are enough to do it. You don’t put a comma after the closing parentheses.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 10:43 pm I'm glad you got them early and they helped you so well but this sort of thing is brand new to me!

Holman wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 10:12 am

wonderpug wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 9:26 am

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 11:14 am I realized recently that not only am I pedantic (I've known for years), but I LIKE being pedantic. I like when others are too, especially around language usage. It's fun.

Words mean things! Say what you mean, damn it!

Since you’re choosing to use parentheses to insert that extra information, the parentheses alone are enough to do it. You don’t put a comma after the closing parentheses.

You do, however, need a comma before a coordinating conjunction (in this case, "but").

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 3:31 pm Today's interesting observation regarding generational communication styles came as I was submitting my expense report for the phone bill. I happened to look at the usage from my phone vs Little B 13.11.

- My phone: 160 text messages and 1,520 talk minutes (I use my cell as my work phone)
- Little B's usage: 4,513 text messages and...6 talk minutes

Skinypupy wrote:Today's interesting observation regarding generational communication styles came as I was submitting my expense report for the phone bill. I happened to look at the usage from my phone vs Little B 13.11.

- My phone: 160 text messages and 1,520 talk minutes (I use my cell as my work phone)
- Little B's usage: 4,513 text messages and...6 talk minutes

Unagi wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 12:35 am I don't think the metal we know as aluminum was 'discovered' until well after the middle ages.

And I grill my corn still in its original husk wrapper.

Unagi wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 12:35 am I don't think the metal we know as aluminum was 'discovered' until well after the middle ages.

And I grill my corn still in its original husk wrapper.

stessier wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 12:18 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 10:12 am

wonderpug wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 9:26 am

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 11:14 am I realized recently that not only am I pedantic (I've known for years), but I LIKE being pedantic. I like when others are too, especially around language usage. It's fun.

Words mean things! Say what you mean, damn it!

Since you’re choosing to use parentheses to insert that extra information, the parentheses alone are enough to do it. You don’t put a comma after the closing parentheses.

You do, however, need a comma before a coordinating conjunction (in this case, "but").

As I recall, only if it separates two independent clauses. The first clause, as written, is not independent.

Max Peck wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 11:36 pm I was curious about how they determine the prescription for an infant's eyeglasses, so I went looking and found this article that provides some basic information.

Frequently Asked Questions: how do eye doctors determine the prescription when a child can’t talk or read an eye chart

One of the questions that you run in to a lot when you have a very little one in glasses is how an eye doctor can determine the prescription of kids who can’t read letters yet — and in many cases, aren’t verbal yet. It was one of the things I wondered about when we took Zoe in at 9 months old. It turns out that eye doctors (optometrists and ophthalmologists) have a number of tools to help them do this. At Zoe’s early appointments, they used Teller Cards (grey cards with black and white lines on them) as well as dilating her eyes and using the retinoscope to look at the shape of her eye. The Teller cards are an example of a subjective measurement of her acuity – it requires some response from her, in this case, it was whether or not she looked at the black and white squares. Other examples of subjective measurements include eye charts, which can use letters or symbols. The retinoscopy was an objective refraction. That is, it looked at the shape of her eye to see how well she could focus without requiring a response from her.

Jaymann wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 12:26 am There was a time when aluminum was considered more valuable than gold. Now we use it to wrap ears of corn on the barbecue.

Attempts to produce aluminium metal date back to 1760. The first successful attempt, however, was completed in 1824 by Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted. He reacted anhydrous aluminium chloride with potassium amalgam, yielding a lump of metal looking similar to tin. He presented his results and demonstrated a sample of the new metal in 1825. In 1827, German chemist Friedrich Wöhler repeated Ørsted's experiments but did not identify any aluminium. (The reason for this inconsistency was only discovered in 1921.) He conducted a similar experiment in the same year by mixing anhydrous aluminium chloride with potassium and produced a powder of aluminium. In 1845, he was able to produce small pieces of the metal and described some physical properties of this metal. For many years thereafter, Wöhler was credited as the discoverer of aluminium.

As Wöhler's method could not yield great quantities of aluminium, the metal remained rare; its cost exceeded that of gold. The first industrial production of aluminium was established in 1856 by French chemist Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville and companions. Deville had discovered that aluminium trichloride could be reduced by sodium, which was more convenient and less expensive than potassium, which Wöhler had used. Even then, aluminium was still not of great purity and produced aluminium differed in properties by sample. Because of its electricity-conducting capacity, aluminium was used as the cap of the Washington Monument, completed in 1885. The tallest building in the world at the time, the non-corroding metal cap was intended to serve as a lightning rod peak.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 8:47 am

Unagi wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 12:35 am I don't think the metal we know as aluminum was 'discovered' until well after the middle ages.

And I grill my corn still in its original husk wrapper.

That's how I microwave it. I pretty much stopped eating corn on the cob until I discovered microwaving it. Oddly, I almost never use the microwave, as it seems to ruin most foods with uneven cooking. But CotC? Easy peasy and awesome. Come July, when I can get 16 ears of corn for $3 straight from the field, CotC becomes a staple for the next two months.