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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    "Oh! The humanity!" - Herb Morrison Hindenburg Disaster, 1937
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    "Just because they make it in your size, it doesn't mean you should wear it." - me
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    You're not in a medical profession, but you have a sphygmomanometer.
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Ninety-five percent of statistics are made up on the spot. (That's plus or minus two standard deviations from the mean for those of you keeping score at home.)
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Thanks for the link. Even using the most generous interpretation of "utilize", in the situation I'm seeing, the tools/techniques/algorithms the instructor describes are being used exactly in the way they were created to be used. So, his use of utilize is bizspeak. My thought is that such lingo...
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Can anyone tell me what meaning "utilize" has that isn't sufficiently expressed by "use"? I've been listening to a recording of a trainer who has been repeating "we're going to utilize this or that technique/tool/algorithm" for days now. The material covered is well organized and well presented...
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    To be fair, it probably feels like December more of the year in Finland than in most places. It always strikes me when I see English text in countries where English isn't the mother tongue.
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    Who is the most famous person you have met?

    One night while working at the pipe shop I mentioned in another thread, Tommy Smothers walked in an bought some smallish Don Diego cigars. The brothers were appearing at a venue call The Cellar Door a few blocks west. I was a big fan, but too reserved to gush. So, I just started grinning while I...
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Many decades back I used to work at a pipe and cigar shop. This store was in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. This neighborhood is the oldest part of the city. It contained the houses of the powerful and famous (Jackie Kennedy, anyone?) and draws a large crowd of tourists walking...
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Before I retired I was earning what I thought of as an excellent salary. Looking at the estimated monthly mortgage payment of nearly $15K, it would have taken several simultaneous jobs earning that salary to afford such a house. And that would require that I didn't eat, pay electric and water...
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Until I removed to Florida in 2022 I lived in this town in suburban Washington, DC. The town expanded rapidly in the 1950's with street after street of one-story brick rambler houses having three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Those houses were selling lately for $700K to $800K. Someone bought such...
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Introduction from a vintage Boot enthusiast from Germany

    Speaking of Germans and boots, this is my German immigrant great-grandfather's cobbler's bench.
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Here's a bit of bizspeak a ran across this week while reading a book on data collection and analysis, "preplanning". I realized that I'd heard this same term in connection with preparing for the disposition of my remains and chattels when I die, as well as in other contexts in recent years, but...
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    There all all kinds of computer programs. Ones that are intended for use by the public are application programs. Web browsers, word processors, spreadsheets are some examples of these. There are others that keep the wheels on that don't have snappy names. Programs that test systems, programs...
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    I know what you mean. To me, a "new" band is Dave Matthews or Counting Crows, both formed in 1991! While I can't possibly have avoided knowing who Taylor Swift is, I can honestly say I don't remember ever hearing one of her tunes.
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    I know of "Spaghetti Westerns" (they made Clint Eastwood's career), but "Swedish Western movies" is a new term for me. Should I infer that Sven and Ilsa made appearances in these wearing wide-brimmed felt hats, or maybe something less?
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    "A friend presented me with a vintage screw-it-to-the-wall pencil sharpener several years ago." Ah, the acoustic pencil sharpener!
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The pencil sharpener, once ubiquitous in classrooms and offices, anyone seen one lately? I was watching a Perry Mason episode the other day when a man snooping at another man's desk saw a pad of paper with indentations from a now-torn-off sheet above. He emptied the pencil sharpener (a high-tech...
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    "This new-fangled thing called 'writing' and cuneiform! What's the world coming to?" - Ada of Sumeria, 3200 BC
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And the ones that hold the phone horizontally with the bottom of the phone pointing towards their mouth while the party at the other end is heard through the phone's speaker! Then you're treated to both ends of the call.

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