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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)

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luckless pedestrian said:
STOP, PLEASE FOR ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND HOLY, STOP USING THE SPACE BAR TO FORMAT YOUR DOCUMENTS - IT'S 2024, PEOPLE - WTAF - MICROSOFT WORD WAS RELEASED IN 1983 - SERIOUSLY, JUST STOPPIT
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This is a huge pet peeve of mine. If somebody sends me an Excel document half the time it seems like they formatted it in Notepad. If they send me a Word document it often feels like they found an old version of Lotus Notes to type it up in.. even worse if they've attempted to embed some charts or graphs in it.

I'm going to start sending folks charts and tables crudely formatted in R and then saved as PNG files and just let them deal with that.
 
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WSU MUP Student said:
This is a huge pet peeve of mine. If somebody sends me an Excel document half the time it seems like they formatted it in Notepad. If they send me a Word document it often feels like they found an old version of Lotus Notes to type it up in.. even worse if they've attempted to embed some charts or graphs in it.

I'm going to start sending folks charts and tables crudely formatted in R and then saved as PNG files and just let them deal with that.
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I still use two spaces after a period. That went out of fashion at least a decade ago, but it's a hard habit to break.

Meanwhile, I once worked somewhere where the person in charge of making Excel documents didn't use formulas--she'd just use a calculator to add up the figures and put the total in the cell. That completely defeats the purpose of a spreadsheet.
 
jumbach said:
I still use two spaces after a period. That went out of fashion at least a decade ago, but it's a hard habit to break.
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Totally with you on this one. I learned how to type on an actual electric typewriter in a class in high school. It's just muscle memory for me to hit the space bar twice after a period. Somewhere I probably still have my "certificate" that said I could type 61 WPM without any errors. I was pretty proud of that back in the day.
 
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Remembering all those times we lost our Wiffleballs down the storm drain . . . we fashioned a hook out a clothes hanger to get them out, and the game would continue.

In the meantime, a batted ball that was fouled back onto the roof and rolling down was in play and could be caught by a fielder for an out. So was a batted fair ball that landed in a tree--it was in play, provided that it was somehow caught (either by it dropping, a fielder shaking the tree, or by climbing up to get it)--was an out if it caught by one of those methods within 30 seconds. Otherwise it counted a hit. (A tree'd foul ball was a foul ball, dead, and would be retreived eventually during the game or soon after.)

I could make an entire list of the rules we had governing our 108-game season each summer. Seems like a lot, but each game only took about 35-40 minutes to play so it wasn't really. Until playoff time, which had a format that was an "ahead by two" format, meaning the series would end when at least three games were played, and one team was ahead by two games. Could be 2-1, or it could be 14-12. You never knew. The season itself ended September 1, but sometimes the playoff series would drag until almost Halloween, with one team finally winning 37-35.
 
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Doohickie said:
I refuse to even consider changing. If two spaces after a period bothers someone, that's on them.
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Each boss I've had has insisted upon the double-space after periods for every document. I don't know whether this is good or bad: On the one hand, my work samples have a look that suggests I've been doing this for a minute and it makes my superiors happy; on the other hand, my work looks like I learned to type 30 years before I actually did.
 
Doohickie said:
Is the building not air conditioned? Or it has trouble keeping up?
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Oh it works very well.. to the point that people turn on space heaters when the humidity gets high. But a lot of staff is in and out of the building throughout the day.
 
luckless pedestrian said:
STOP, PLEASE FOR ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND HOLY, STOP USING THE SPACE BAR TO FORMAT YOUR DOCUMENTS - IT'S 2024, PEOPLE - WTAF - MICROSOFT WORD WAS RELEASED IN 1983 - SERIOUSLY, JUST STOPPIT
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I'm with this for sure, but there are times Word simply. will. not. let. me put. the f***ing. word. where. it. goes.

/Born to move the rulers, forced to use the spacebar
 
I learned two spaces after a period, but generally don't do it anymore. Probably my brain was more flexible around it since I never really learned to touch type.
 
MD Planner said:
Totally with you on this one. I learned how to type on an actual electric typewriter in a class in high school. It's just muscle memory for me to hit the space bar twice after a period. Somewhere I probably still have my "certificate" that said I could type 61 WPM without any errors. I was pretty proud of that back in the day.
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I did so much writing (keyboard) when I started grad school in 2013 that I did convert from two spaces to one space but took me a semester to get it down to where I did not think about it anymore.
 
Naval Message Format mandated one space after a period even back in the '90s so that's what was drilled into me pushing papers in the Marines. It's stuck with me these many years later.
 
Which version of the Andromeda Strain do you like -
Book (1969)
orginal movie (1971)
tv movie (2008)
 
Doohickie said:
I refuse to even consider changing. If two spaces after a period bothers someone, that's on them.
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It does two things -

1. Increases your character count when trying to hit a number for essays in high school. Great stuff.
2. Makes seeing the end of sentences easier. Also clearly great stuff.

I see nothing bad in either of the two things the double space does. I, too, will continue to double space it up.
 
Hink said:
It does two things -

1. Increases your character count when trying to hit a number for essays in high school. Great stuff.
2. Makes seeing the end of sentences easier. Also clearly great stuff.

I see nothing bad in either of the two things the double space does. I, too, will continue to double space it up.
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I forgot that we have a "tower fan" (or whatever they're called) stashed away in a closet so I plugged it in yesterday and was reminded how nice of a breeze it makes and how quiet it is. Perfect for use in our den which is always stuffy, has poor air circulation (with or without any windows open) and gets sweltering hot in the late afternoon.
 
Hink said:
I've heard people from Ohio are pretty great. They are humble and nice and like you know, cool. And hip.
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My father was from Cleveland. Never advertised that. He always said he "grew up in Southern California," which is true. Doesn't matter he spent more of his childhood in Ohio than California. :)
 
In honor of a wedding I am going to next week, I am reminded of the first words my father said to my mom after we left, after I brought my now-wife home for the first time: "That's our future daughter-in-law."

They were smart to have never shared that thought with me until years later, after we were married. It wasn't like I had never brought a girl home before though.

Jim
 
I've never been able to figure out if it's quiet around here in late June because:

a. People realize they have floating holidays and vacation that needs to be used or lost by the end of June, or
b. It's summer and people want to travel, or
c. some combination of the above.
 
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