toynbee

joined 2 years ago
[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

I have a great big bushy beard now, but at the time I believe I was just sporting a goatee. Not sure if that makes it better or worse.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I once accidentally shaved my head. That is how I learned I won't look good if I ever go bald.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Gotcha - thank you for the answer!

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (13 children)

What is a gravelbike?

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

One of my co-workers is very fond of his Kei truck.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I have had that happen using the Connect client. Not really sure how it happened then, either.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Happy to spread the joy (courtesy of my wife)!

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Scooter has a song called "Maria (I Like It Loud)." I once worked with a lady named Maria and played the song for her, but she was an older conservative lady who, it turned out, did not like it loud.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago

My second grade teacher told me that negative numbers don't exist.

She was trying to communicate that you can't have a negative quantity of something (pencils in this case) but I had just learned about negative numbers in my own time and her words indicated that the concept wasn't real, even if that wasn't her intent. At the time, I found the exchange very upsetting.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Insomnia was pretty good, too.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I haven't in a while, but back when I generated passwords for users, I would use the openssl command.

 

Now it's a genre.

 

So they made their own fixes.

 

I've only bought a few...

 

I feel like I used to have a satisfactory layout for years but haven't since found a consistently comfortable arrangement. I like to have a fairly thick pillow or two under my head to accommodate my bad shoulder, a pillow between my thighs to avoid chafed skin, and a pillow for hugging - also mostly for my shoulder.

The head ones tend to get distorted really quickly and it's really difficult to find a good hugging pillow.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by toynbee@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
 

Yesterday I hurt myself sufficiently that I wasn't really able to leave my bed. As such, I did three things: work, sleep and read. I did technically eat, but I couldn't sit up long enough to finish my meal. I did not shower, sadly.

Anyway, because that's not the first time this has happened, I keep a cache of books in my bed to read when I'm immobilized. Most recently it was these two. The one on the right is the one I started last night and the one on the left is the sequel.

Out of the corner of my eye, I keep thinking they're the same book. They're both from 2019, so it's not impossible AI was involved, but it's not terribly likely.

edit: Visuals aside, it's a pretty good series. The books pictured are numbers eleven and twelve and I like the characters enough to have made it this far into the series.

 

But there's something about them I find distracting.

 

I mean, just look at it.

edit: For anyone wondering, it's from the first few seconds of HARDY - Sold Out.

 

Later in the day, the water flow collapsed the culvert under 50% of my driveway and made a pretty cool waterfall. Fortunately it turns out the town is responsible for repairs! Culvert destroyed and subsequent small waterfall

 
 

Pretty much the title. It's really weird to scratch my chin and not run my fingers through hair. As a plus, my five year old keeps telling me "you look like a completely different person. But I still know you're my daddy!"

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by toynbee@lemmy.world to c/parenting@lemmy.world
 

Them: Knock knock!
Me: Who's there?
Them: Boo!
Me: Boo who?
Them: Boo! I'm a ghost!

 

My wife pronounces it three different ways, each of which she can support. I pronounce it one, but other than that it's the way I've heard it I can't support my pronunciation even after some searches. What's yours and why?

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