I remember getting my Texas instruments financial calculator circa 2009 for probably fifty dollars or so.

The professor told us that at the time, production costs for my fifty dollar calculator were roughly a dollar.

On the bright side, I’ll bring that thing in whenever I buy a car and it truly fucks with the whole “what kind of payment are you looking for” routine they do. (Though these days, I’m more likely to bring a laptop with Excel. Same idea, but faster and better visuals)

I didn’t believe this was real. Looked it up. Here’s a cool video. Don’t worry, the chevrotain wins this one.

https://youtu.be/A4ovD1z-7LQ

I know it’s wrong and that I’m going to Internet hell for admitting to it, but there’s a smell when Grandma would light her cigarette in the hot box car with the windows up that I find nostalgic to this day even though I find the concept of smoking in a car repugnant

The crazy thing is that it was so prevalent, I don’t really remember the world smelling smoky unless I went into a small room like my grandparents living room.

I didn’t notice it in places like restaurants and bars until after the bans came.

I would guess that my generation has a diminished sense of smell because of it.

It’s not me and I have an office. It doesn’t get to me.

But I can definitely see that it would bother a whole lot of people.

On that, I’m old enough to have begun my working life when people smoked cigarettes at their desks. This is a much, much better alternative.

People bring their dogs to work all the time in my office. Fortunately, all of us are dog lovers, so we all enjoy it.

The other trend that doesn’t bother me, but surprises me is that I’d estimate about two thirds of the people in my office vape at their desks.

We also have bean to cup espresso, which is nice. People will go find high end beans and contribute them. It works out nicely.

We’re highly educated professionals, damnit!

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Now I feel like the marketing department for the fashion industry back in the sixties missed an opportunity. It could’ve been a foxen coat or a foxen wrap.

Should I let it sink in just like the sea lions do with their nipples?

Also, the platypus doesn’t have nipples. It sweats milk.

Schrodinger’s biology?

I was thinking of this video as soon as I saw the post. She’s really an interesting person.

As a long time teacher of ESL back in the day, I’d say that depends heavily on the native language.

European languages generally do well

Asian languages generally struggle

Middle Eastern languages, well, things don’t translate well on paper

Conversely, I found the middle Eastern students to have excellent speaking abilities.

The difference in how the mind processes speaking vs writing was truly fascinating to me.

My daughter came home from middle school once.

She plopped down in a chair, let out a sigh, and said, “Math is the only thing in the world that makes sense.”

I’m surprised I still have a tongue after biting down so hard to suppress the laughter.

I’ve had really good luck with archive.md

Considering that you’re probably making something like $1,500/mo in some place where rent is $3,000/mo I’d say take every discount you can get.

I briefly looked into doing a doctorate. The economics of it turned me away right quick.

This is 1874! You’ll be able to sue HER!

On the trust thing - every once in a while I’ll go to a concert by myself, stand in the back, and enjoy the moment and remember the old times.

More often than not, three or four young ladies will come up over the course of the evening and start giving me their life stories and their relationship struggles and whatnot.

This isn’t a flirting or drunk thing on either end of the equation. In that moment, they just seem to need somebody to listen to them.

I went to non-Euclidian space and all I got was this lousy username.

I got that treatment in Thailand. Got all cocky and said extra spicy. Guy took it as a personal challenge. It pierced my soul and I soaked my clothes sweating but damnit I finished it and it was delicious.

I can’t do the hyper hot stuff anymore. I got old and my stomach gets very jaded.