Ook the Librarian

I actually love that we have resourses like this.

My gripe is that they miss the mark by targeting new dads. The reason dad jokes are great is they are the first jokes your kid understands. So I would think dads of 4 to 9 year-olds would be a better target.

The high you feel when your kid cracks up at some offhand dumb joke can’t be bottled.

But the reason I love this as a resourse is that explaining jokes to a curious child develops connections in their head in a way that only a parenting rolemodel can really do. So even if it’s not laugh-out-loud funny to explain a joke, if your child tells you that they do not get a joke, first and foremost realize that is a vunerable admission. Buddies will rag on you for not getting it. Parents see a gap in their kids’ world experience that they can fill.

This can’t help in the short term, I would consider learning steno. It used to cost thousands to rent specialized equipment to do it. Now with Plover (foss), the software component is free. You just need a keyboard with n-key rollover to do it.

I wouldn’t actually recommend learning on a standard keyboard. I personally use an ortholinear for typing, and that’s what got me into plover.

One way this would help one disabilities to make money is that with high-speed internet, you can caption internet broadcasts or remote company meetings. There are nonprofits that you would work for to find companies that need your service.

How can you enjoy your tea without a window?

Exactly. More precisely, the wording is making the reader confuse assests and debts. Which side of the ledger does that sheep actually belong on?

“Daddy, why do people have to eat?”

[long pull from cig] “Plants… They came here. Now we are enslaved to eat them. It is their way.”

Some stores sell a little shelf for your shower crunchwraps. They have a little suction cup on them. It’s a really clever design.

Not quite homeless, Paul Erdős was a nomadic mathematician. He use to travel to universities, couch-surf with a mathematician, and solve a problem with them.

He would say, “another roof, another proof.” As a result, he has a huge number of collaborators. The stat Erdős number is like the six degrees from Kevin Bacon game.

People seemed glad to have this oddball stranger as a house guest.

Crunchwrap supreme. Next question.

So I’ve live a few places around the US (all east of the Missisip. So it’s not like a good survey), but the place that is worst for this has been southern Louisiana (north shore). Everywhere kinda sucks, but it’s anarchy there.

Why are you the judge of what conditions make it acceptable?

This is just more propaganda from the People’s Front of Judea.

Don’t get me wrong, he is a folk singer. But listening to what he is singing over can catch you off-guard.

I’m not a music expert but here goes.

Paul Simon is most identified as folk. The act Simon and Garfunkel is basically pure folk if such a thing exists.

Listen to the opening of Late in the Evening. He’s singing folk, but there is no guitar (to my ear). Instead it’s a bass guitar playing funk. Later some horns come in. They sound like mambo to me.

There are two songs on Graceland that he recorded with a South African band. This was during apartheid. He heard a bootleg tape from this SA group, and had to travel to a part of South Africa that he was banned from doing business in.

Does he make it some powerful statement? No, that would be a stunt. He just wanted to make music with them. “I Know What I Know” is about the insipid-ness of show biz party-networking culture. It’s wild.

I’ll sum up some answers that made things click for me

1. She writes songs spanning many emotions.

2. Her albums span multiple genres. (I’ve only heard pop and country, but I’m not a fan.)

3. She is hard working, prolific, and puts on a show.

So with that combination it seems she has something for everyone. Personally, I only know one TS song, but it’s catchy as hell. So there’s no song that I hate that happens to TS song either.

About point 2.: I’m a Paul Simon fan and he spans multiple genres, but I wouldn’t expect non-fans to know that.

I don’t think a person who has never had the Bell is qualified to be a toilet paper tester.

You have an order of operations problem.

The lyric “I’m not angry/ I’m just saying” struck me the same way. It’s weird to be nonchalant in song form.

I will claim that an orang-utan is often mistaken to be an orangutan, but is in fact a cousin of Gorilla gorilla called Gorilla otang-utan.

That’s because I have found that I was wrong, there is a character limit, orangutan is a long word, and I’m a retconning wanker.

I’m not sure if you mean for me to take that personally. But I did take that personally. I laughed anyway, totally agree.

Are we all just too proud to start identifying first and foremost as a masturbator?