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I’m slightly offended
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LOL me.
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Today is the day, I’m submitting my application for the astronaut selection at ESA. It also heralds the first time where I have emphasized my poker experience on my CV, rather than kinda ignoring it. I’m extremely excited, so the inevitable disappointment when I’m not one of the four to be selected from a pool of 15.000 candidates, is going to be equally immeasurable. I’m kidding, I just hope I make it to the second round!
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I look at my mum’s old house on Google maps street view, the house where I grew up. It says ‘Image captured May 2009’. There is a light on in her bedroom. It is still her house, she is still alive, I am still visiting every few months on the train to Bodmin Parkway, her little pink car will still be in the garage, but I will have taken a taxi from the station and when it arrives she will be standing in that doorway, smiling and waving, smaller than the last time I saw her. We will play Scrabble and watch Tipping Point and there will have been no pandemic, no other deaths, no as-yet-undiscovered illnesses. And I won’t know how perfect it is and I wouldn’t go back and say, even if I could, because sometimes it’s best not to know.
I take a Screen Print of the house, with the light on, because it won’t last forever, and one day the Google van will go back down that street and replace her house with someone else’s and though there may be a light on in the window it won’t be her.
https://twitter.com/STurner4077/status/1405152351112077317
https://twitter.com/PackersHokage/status/1405787824952119300
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If you’re ever uncertain about whether to write something negative in an email, the answer is ALWAYS no. And if you’re certain it’s the right play to write something negative in an email, you should sleep on it as many times as it takes to realize that it’s a mistake.
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how old are you? I think this is a pretty big generational difference, there have been more than a few cases of older genx/boomer professors in the US complaining that their petulant students don’t address them as “dear professor” or whatever in their emails.
I would just chalk it up to lol old people and move on
this is good. I heard some really good advice that was basically, "if you’re thinking about a career move or something simliar, and it’s not clear which way is better, you should tend to pick the path that involves change (the idea being that people overestimate how hard it will be to undo if it’s the wrong decision and underestimate the upsides).
In this case, it’s the opposite. If it’s not clear that being a total shitbag is the right move, don’t fucking be a shitbag. And being a shitbag is basically never the clear winning move.
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So many movies are trying to be Mandy now, and none of them have the balls to give us the full Nic Cage.
So the opposite of forum posting guidelines?
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I had no idea. After googling what it was, I had to google to find out what it is. Still not sure I can imagine what it tastes like but then I’m a philistine.
https://twitter.com/JamesGleick/status/1406003483849940992?s=20
It tastes like whatever you put on it.
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Excellent advice. I’m living it as we speak.
There is a real scorcher of an email that I’ve been contemplating sending out for a month. I cycle between “I have to do this”, “I really shouldn’t; no good will come of it”, and “Boy am I glad I didn’t send it”. I’m gonna have to sleep on it for another month at least to get it out of my system. Or circumstances will deteriorate and I won’t be able to contain myself.
As good as this advice is, there are exceptions. I once pulled of a mass email that was extremely negative about a specific individual. I slept on that for only one night and then fired it off. It was received even better than I hoped.
But there have been way more times in my life that it backfired. I’d be way ahead if I just never did it.
I’ve sent some regretful emails but none that cost me anything. I’ve also sent some that I was uneasy sending but came to realize definitely needed to be sent.
Writing letters even if you never send them can be very therapeutic. It’s also really helpful when dealing with grief to write a letter to the deceased.
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