Oh Jesus. I forgot about that.

I choose that one too for “almost ruptured a spleen” laughing.

What are you most basic principles for life?

Spell check

“AFK, Bio

This is all you needed to type. Kids are too lazy to type the rest.

I’ve never heard it in a business environment. Even as a IT engineer.

My friend manages a team of engineers and TAMs for massive companies that do stuff like make airplanes and manage phone networks and you know the names. They specifically produce a toolsuite and rent out pro-serv nerds to go to mammoth DCs and show people where they fucked up their cabling and double the throughput. Like, SO nerdy.

‘bio break’ is used a few times a day.

Bio break.

My friend uses that all the time.

It means a pee break, a tea break, sometimes a ‘walk rover’ break. When meetings cross that 44-min mark, it’s break time.

When did ‘ask’ become a noun?

The question is more ‘where’. Be sure to tease whomever about the car lot they obviously worked at.

“Good catch!”

We ‘nice catch’ each other all day. We celebrate when people find dumb shit, especially when it’s our dumb shit. We positively reinforce that natural code review and checking one another in the name of safety.

But I work with a bunch of pros on some private-possum shit, and that’s culture they’ve preserved from before the 2005 dark ages began. If you don’t know what positive reinforcement sounds like, I get it. Learning’s fun.

Just the recent used-car lot trash

• the ask
• the spend
• action this
• effort the task

… fighting for hate space with the recent shit jargon

• literally
• cap
• based

… and people who can’t write English

• the above list
• the below list
• setup vs set up
• shutdown vs shut down
• start up vs startup
• pluralizing support, e-mail, deer, effort, and other ‘non-countable’ style nouns with an S. I was raised rural and I still know the error there.

… and a special fuck you to people who join words together where normally they need a space

• opensource
• incase
• aswell

… because that last part is just cheap indolence.

The only defence is “I’m a dickwad”. And I’d accept that if they owned it and we could verbally abuse them for being a dick, for only like 10 minutes after every episode.

I like that scale, but Ottawa exists: can you give us the various levels of lament from 0 down to -40 or -50?

And is there a bonus wind scale to add to the suck?

I loved that film as it was a good film. Even Mel’s baggage can’t wreck it. Sam Elliott’s character was brilliant especially.

My wife’s siblings and her all have the same weird trait: when things get stressful, they clam up and do this “shut up and let me save the world” thing. Her sister’s worked on it a lot because #fireman, but it’s a strong compulsion.

The “hmm, maybe if you’d talked to anyone instead of going missing-person” is extra fun when it’s a tech thing, as after the stress and the teeth-pulling contextual questions, it’s two mouse clicks and an object lesson.

And, when THAT fight’s over…