I saw this somewhere on Usenet not too long ago.
On 10/18/10 3:48 AM, Jean Nathan wrote:
1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to
immediately clear your computer history if you die.
Everything on my computer will disappear when the next user
reformats it -- and everything I've published on the Web
will disappear when I don't make the next rent payment.
I've really got to get some of this stuff into hardcopy.
4. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
Fold in half crosswise. Turn each corner on one end inside
out and tuck it into the corresponding corner on the other
end. Pat flat and fold.
But I just use flat sheets for both top and bottom -- it
makes *everything* much easier. I wash half as many sheets,
for example, because the top sheet is nearly always clean
enough to serve another week as a bottom sheet. So my
sheets are not only easier to fold, I fold half as many.
5. Was learning cursive really necessary?
Italic would have been much better, even though it requires
a special pen. The printing style invented by "brass
pounders" should be a part of every elementary curriculum:
it's quick, easy, and very readable. I'm not sure it does
mixed case, but I rarely bother with capitals when writing fast.
11. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after
Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my
collection...again.
I also ignored what came before Blue Ray.
12. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word
and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my
ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any
changes to.
I've stopped having flashbacks whenever anyone mentions
Word, but I still won't touch it with a ten-foot pole.
13. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just
so I know not to answer when they call.
Since pay phones are extinct, it's time I quit waiting for
cell phones to be invented -- i.e., for one as convenient
and reliable as the dime I used to carry -- and bought one
anyway. But I keep putting off selecting the least horrible
of those available. DH wants a picturephone; perhaps I
should just wait until he gets one and take his old one.
I won't worry about phone spam, because I won't turn
"receive calls" on.
14. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing
option.
When riding our bikes through Detroit, we stopped at a gas
station and the passers-by were so friendly that we worried
that they'd feel hurt when we left.
An hour or two later we stopped again, and someone asked
where we'd come from; when told, he said "Oh, that's a tough
neighborhood, you must have been scared."
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