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miscellaneous nothings
Thursday, August 30th, 2018 12:42 amThat thing where a familiar word all of a sudden looks unfamiliar and wrong. Today it happened with the word "school".
I was reading the "sch" as pronounced in German, "sh". And thinking to myself, surely that's not how the word [school] is spelled? No way, it looks too odd, it couldn't be. (Even now it looked weird again for a moment.) Little school kids shouldn't be subjected to such an odd word right off the bat.
I am. I am. Not superman. sigh ditty boom boom.
I feel. Like there's no one else who shares my mindset. I know there are people out there. Maybe not sharing all the same bits & pieces of it, but at least a subset. Yet they seem harder to find than in the past. Doing a search on DW interests, and only a few matches are returned, and most of them haven't updated in years. People aren't as active on YouTube anymore; I know I'm not either. Tumblr; I've never been able to get comfortable with that site. Forums, bah. No time. No fun.
boom ditty boom.
The gate was going ka chunk ka chunk for a few months ka chunk ka chunk every time I walked on by, ka chunk ka chunk ka chunk I'm stuck I'm stuck I'm stuck I'm trying trying trying to switch back to switch ka chunk ka chunk.
Every time I thought to myself, I should report that; it should be fixed. It's wasting electricity. Every time for more than a month. When I walked by, or drove by with my car windows open.
But it was one of those things which wouldn't stay in my mind long enough for me to actually do something about it. It slipped out of my mind, until the next time I passed it again. ka chunk ka chunk ka chunk. I should report that, I thought. I need to remember this time. When I get to the bench I will write a reminder note to myself. But by the time I got to the bench, it had slipped away away. Until this morning I finally ... I thought about it on the way to work, before even passing by it, and I wrote myself a note then, while stopped at a stop light. So I finally reported it. And they must have fixed it right away. No more ka chunk as I walked by today at lunch.
Thumb guides. Like the scooped out curves of paper on the side of a big dictionary. I was reading something today about print books versus web media, which described thumb guides as "expensive", in terms of producing books. I hadn't considered that before. But yeah, I guess they are rare, and probably even more so now in this age of fewer paper books.
I was reading the "sch" as pronounced in German, "sh". And thinking to myself, surely that's not how the word [school] is spelled? No way, it looks too odd, it couldn't be. (Even now it looked weird again for a moment.) Little school kids shouldn't be subjected to such an odd word right off the bat.
I am. I am. Not superman. sigh ditty boom boom.
I feel. Like there's no one else who shares my mindset. I know there are people out there. Maybe not sharing all the same bits & pieces of it, but at least a subset. Yet they seem harder to find than in the past. Doing a search on DW interests, and only a few matches are returned, and most of them haven't updated in years. People aren't as active on YouTube anymore; I know I'm not either. Tumblr; I've never been able to get comfortable with that site. Forums, bah. No time. No fun.
boom ditty boom.
The gate was going ka chunk ka chunk for a few months ka chunk ka chunk every time I walked on by, ka chunk ka chunk ka chunk I'm stuck I'm stuck I'm stuck I'm trying trying trying to switch back to switch ka chunk ka chunk.
Every time I thought to myself, I should report that; it should be fixed. It's wasting electricity. Every time for more than a month. When I walked by, or drove by with my car windows open.
But it was one of those things which wouldn't stay in my mind long enough for me to actually do something about it. It slipped out of my mind, until the next time I passed it again. ka chunk ka chunk ka chunk. I should report that, I thought. I need to remember this time. When I get to the bench I will write a reminder note to myself. But by the time I got to the bench, it had slipped away away. Until this morning I finally ... I thought about it on the way to work, before even passing by it, and I wrote myself a note then, while stopped at a stop light. So I finally reported it. And they must have fixed it right away. No more ka chunk as I walked by today at lunch.
Thumb guides. Like the scooped out curves of paper on the side of a big dictionary. I was reading something today about print books versus web media, which described thumb guides as "expensive", in terms of producing books. I hadn't considered that before. But yeah, I guess they are rare, and probably even more so now in this age of fewer paper books.