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timeclonemike:

shanastoryteller:

I worked at a McDonald’s as a cashier in high school and it was during a time when they changed their POS system (point of sale, not piece of shit) so everything was now in a slightly different, less logical place, but I was working 20ish hours a week so I picked it up really quickly

Anyway I was out with my friend in the next town over and we went to a McDonald’s because she really wanted an ice tea and we go through the drive through. The man greets us out of the little speaker and asks for our order and she says “Hi! Could I get a large sweet ice tea please?”

Silence.

Longer silence.

And I knew in my heart what was happening.

So I leaned over and said, “It’s on page two of drinks, under juice, then the third one down.”

Another much shorter silence.

Then:

“What the – how the hell did… Uh. I mean. Thank you?”

And it’s been literally ten years but I’m still riding the high from that.

Ninety percent of most magic consists of knowing one extra fact.

-Terry Pratchett

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#I wonder if this is gonna be me someday #storytime #in which Brin has a job

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sandybuny:

whenever ur holding tongs and get the urge to clack them together thats the carcinization impulse rearing up in ur dna

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #crabs #(it occurs to me that I did in fact clack some tongs today)

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worldoptimization:

worldoptimization:

a maybe interesting question to ask is, “what’s your biggest constraint?”

three common ones I know of are time, energy, and money. idk what the other big ones are

I think people often have a hard time understanding each other when they’re constrained on different things

also moving from one to another is weird. I switched from “energy” to “time” a couple years ago and it took a long time to actually internalize that time was expensive

I think I’ve identified a fourth one: someone I know calls it “brainspace.” (these days I feel sometimes more time-constrained and sometimes more brainspace-constrained I think)

it feels a bit hard to describe, but some symptoms:

– feeling like you have so many things on your to-do list that half of your time is just spent remembering what all the things on your to-do list are
– feeling like you’ve hit a limit of “decisions per day” that takes time to reset
– feeling like time sleeping or away from work has a cost > 1, because of the additional time it takes to reset and load everything back into working memory when you start working again

I sort of feel like I don’t have that much responsibility, in the grand scheme of things, and am curious how other people handle it. Like what do CEOs of real companies do? Or presidents?

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#oh hey it’s this post #reblogging primarily on the grounds that #if I ever refer to a post as ”that one Tumblr post about X” and don’t already have a copy I should obtain a copy #I didn’t realise when I first read this post that I wanted to reblog it but #empirically I think about this post enough to include it in my collection of posts #kind of a percolating thing I guess #(I absolutely feel like I have so many things on my to-do list that half my time is just spent remembering what they all are) #(well not so much the remembering part–I have notepads and calendars for that–but it’s the *prioritising* that gets me) #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see

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rustingbridges:

brin-bellway:

https://brin-bellway.dreamwidth.org/104438.html

6bcc299041944699121bef25cc91760d7fe7a51e

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#a bespoke meme? for me? #aww <3 #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #protect your galaxy brain: wear a helmet #(though on a serious note: apparently spiked bike helmets are rather less effective because they can’t deal with skidding well) #(I came across a pro-bike-helmet interest-group website in my research and they were like) #(”look we know that those kids’ bike helmets with the mohawks or dinosaur shapes on them are cute but please don’t”)

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princehfg asked: how smart are you, frank?

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nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

Pretty smart. I was recently reading a book called “A Short History of Nearly Everything” which I liked a lot. I’m always reading and stuff like that makes me feel smarter than I am.

 

princehfg:

alright, what’s 2+2?

 

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

3

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#the much larger font size of the 3 really takes the joke to the next level #a shame it doesn’t appear in all viewing modes #I will have to make sure it shows up in the archival versions I control #computer generated text #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #(I know this is the second joke about Frank being bad at math I’ve reblogged) #(and it *almost* feels cruel‚ but here’s the thing) #((well‚ the thing *other* than Frank being non-sapient)) #(Frank is optimising for posts that get a lot of notes) #(and being amusingly terrible at basic arithmetic gets a lot more notes than being competent at basic arithmetic) #((see for example the 2001 notes this post has gotten in less than a day)) #(honestly I suspect that #–given the training data– #Frank *does* know what 2 + 2 equals and is essentially giving a wrong answer *on purpose* *as a joke*) #(the sense that Frank is in on the joke prevents a lot of the embarrassment-squicky stuff that would otherwise come up)

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jadagul:

memewhore:

Now I want a wine gun.

Fill a squeeze bottle with wine?

Hell, if you want to go further you probably *could* put wine in a water gun. Would probably be harder to get and keep that food-safe, though.

—

(Lacking the context of this post, if I heard someone refer to a “garlic thumper” I would just assume it was a more humourous synonym of “garlic press”.)

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#reply via reblog #food #unreality cw?

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argumate:

nostalgebraist said: look at this tumblr sjw saying there are more than 5 emotions

there have to be exactly seven, by the same logic that there are seven planets, seven apertures in the head, etc. etc.

 

argumate:

eternalfarnham said: joy, sadness, fear, rage, disgust, proprioception and umami

at least one seventh of your brain is dedicated to processing beef noodle soup

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #the wondrous variety of sapient life #(I guess) #food?

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asimovsideburns:

Sherlock Holmes modern adaptation but the main characters (Sherlock, Watson, Mrs. Hudson, Irene Adler, and maybe even Lestrade) are all vampires and they’ve just been doing their thing since the time period of the original books

Irene gets to be from New Jersey like she is in canon and she’ll occasionally show up and help Sherlock with a case but they don’t ever date or hook up or anything

 

asimovsideburns:

OR… Lestrade isn’t a vampire, but there’s been generations of Lestrades, and they all have to deal with this guy

 

asimovsideburns:

the latest one isn’t even a cop she works nights at the 7-11 and Sherlock keeps coming in at 2am to slam two gallons of Monster Energy and ask her what what the fuck an “amogus” is (it’s case related) and tell her how much better she is at lateral thinking than her tragically straightforward ancestor and also is her girlfriend still going to school to be a defense attorney, how’s she handling the workload

 

anais-ninja-bitch:

okay, but who turned them and when? bc there is a lot of delicious angst and goofiness to be exlored if say:

irene has kids before being turned and is invested in her descendants

john was already with mary and has to see her age and pass

mrs. hudson is the vampire queen

the lestrades are like. the opposite of the vanhelsings. generational disinterest in vampires, but the holmes enclave keeps roping them back in.

 

asimovsideburns:

1) Irene adopts and yes she is The Cool Grandma for generations of children forevermore

2) Mary is also a vampire, she got turned at the same time as John, she and Sherlock have Wine Wednesdays every third Saturday of the month

3) Mrs. Hudson is immortal but she’s not a vampire and nobody can figure out what her deal is

4) absolutely 100% correct

whenever anybody asks how they got turned the response is something along the lines of “that was like. Over five years ago. How do you expect me to even remember that.” or “idk man I just woke up like this” or “got bitten by a mosquito on a case” and it’s never the same twice

 

asimovsideburns:

Yes the Sherlock Holmes books exist and whenever they’re brought up Watson gets very upset that this dude stole his writing and considers him his archnemesis despite the fact that Doyle is a totally normal human and dead as hell

 

anais-ninja-bitch:

imagine Watson’s frothing rage at the Doyle estate insisting Holmes can never be shown having emotions. like he didn’t personally watch Sherlock weep during the moon landing.

 

asimovsideburns:

Holmes and Watson are embroiled in a legal battle against the Doyle estate and have been for almost 100 angry, angry years

this is only ever mentioned in passing for comedic effect

 

aveotardis:

Holy shit, I would 100000% watch this. Also, Moriarty is definitely the one who turned them into vampires. At least Holmes, probably at Reichenbach.

 

athenadark:

being contemporary they were turned by dracula after a case about someone opening family tombs to dismember the corpses

he is only ever referred to as that lovely foreign gentleman

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#Sherlock Holmes #vampires #story ideas I will never write #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #death tw?