We love Meryl.
I’m going to get a piece of wood, paint it white, and mount it under the fridge so she doesn’t get caught underneath.
Leo finds her a bit frightening.
Just when he thinks he’s safe, she turns around and goes on the attack.
I got a Leatherman Wave years ago and it’s almost always on my hip.
Fantastic thing.
I’ve got another one:
Long before COVID, I would go to a barber shop for haircuts.
The place I went to had one short, old guy who had arthritis. I’m tall, and long in the torso. When he was cutting my hair, he couldn’t lower the chair enough to be able to cut my hair, so I’d have to scoot down in the chair so that I was sitting with my ass at the edge of the seat and my spine bent so my head was low enough.
When you entered the shop, you’d write your name on the board, and if you wanted someone specific to cut your hair, you’d put the barber’s name next to yours. So, I started picking one of the taller, younger guys to cut my hair.
One day I was in a rush, and there was a line, so I figured I’d just take whoever was available and scoot down if I had to. The old guy skipped over me two times. When someone pointed out that I was there before him, the barber got pissy and said, “he doesn’t want me cutting his hair”
One of the other barbers apologized and took me next. I gave that guy a $20 tip.
When I got home I went online and bought a Flowbee. I haven’t been to a barber shop since. It does a great job, there’s no line to wait in, it takes me about 10 minutes, leaves no mess behind, and I haven’t paid for anything but electricity and shop vac bags ever since.
Eufy 11S Max robot vacuum.
We had a Roomba back when they were new. It did ok, but it wasn’t really that impressive. My wife had a rechargeable upright vacuum after that. When that died, I argued for going back to a robot vacuum because her health problems were both making it hard for her to use the vacuum and also leaving me too busy to do it.
She resisted because she was never happy with the job the Roomba did. However from day 1, the Eufy vacuum did a visibly good job cleaning and won her over.
We have it set to run once a day. There’s one chair it occasionally gets stuck under, and we have to block the base of the fridge or it gets stuck there. Aside from that, it’s very independent. It does the vacuuming and then finds its base to recharge for the next day. It needs to be emptied out every day and cleaned more thoroughly once a week.
We’ve been very pleased with it.
We named it Meryl Sweep.
Yeah, even if you’re not a minority, if you’re one of the peasants, you’re gonna catch hell for murder.
If you’re rich, you can probably get away with it.
However, I was referring to corporations. If you’re a corporation, you can murder as much as you want, and when it comes time to pay for your crimes, well, you’re not really a person.
We mostly don’t treat murder like murder.
I don’t know if this would count as uncommon, but here are the guinea pigs,
Rose:
and Daisy:
You are saying I should have said:
“It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than me.”
The personal pronoun, “me” is used when it is the object. However, that’s not the case here. I’m not being held. Thoughts are the object. I’m comparing how well they hold onto thoughts with how well I hold onto thoughts.
The sentence, “It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I”, has an implied verb. This is common in informal conversation.
The meaning I would expect an English speaker to understand would be, “It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I can.”
We had one in an auditorium where I work. Only problem is it was underneath an MRI scanner. Every time they’d open the door to the MRI, the magnetic field would knock the projector tubes out of alignment.
The technician who came out to work on it said it was hopeless. He told us he had a customer whose projector would get out of alignment if he moved a speaker in the room.
I was so happy when we finally replaced it with an LCD projector.
No. It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I.
If you have a bit of memory retention
Ah. That’s my problem.
You guys can remember your thoughts long enough to post them after you get dried off?
I don’t know if anyone would agree with me, but the first thing I thought of was After Life.
While I appreciate the composting efficiency, I was thinking something like this for maximum gruesomeness:
If we’re going for gruesome, how about we build a huge version of one of those slicers that they feed vegetables in, and just feed the oligarchs into it.
Gives you the option to feed them head first if you want to show mercy, while still being able to feed them in feet first for someone like Musk.
Then they are cut up into small, easy to compost pieces.
But those numbers aren’t arbitrary. There are reasons they are set, and there are reasons you would remember them.
Do you have a reference to the particular definition you’re using?
All my searching indicates “offense” is either synonymous with “crime” or at the very least a subcategory of “crime”. I couldn’t find anything suggesting that an “offense” was not also a “crime”.
I’m there to work and earn money, not to make friends, not to fake a friendship with any manager.
That seems sad to me.
I managed a team for a few years. Another team in our organization made a pitch to take two of the people from my team into theirs. I ended up going along with the plan because it was a way to quickly get them a salary increase that I’d been trying to get for them for years. The rest of my team got absorbed into another team in our group and I transitioned to a non-management role.
We still chat constantly and we get together regularly for dinner. I consider them all close friends.
Edit: I wanted to add: if you were wrong, you should apologize. It doesn’t matter who the person you wronged is. All that matters is your integrity.
The vacuum has no capability for an Internet connection and no cameras or audio recorders.
The quality of the vacuum wouldn’t lead me to choose anything else from Eufy. It’s just a good robotic vacuum.