The Isolated Blurt Thread XXXVIII: Suffering Sappho!

[adrina]

I did too. I remember how excited I was that there was actually a website devoted to exploring abandoned buildings. We had email in college, and that was fascinating. I could communicate with my brother in Israel for free! Amazing. I was an English major, so it was all books and a typewriter for me.

Mine actually suggested I look something up "on Pinterest" a couple weeks ago. I snorted.

Huh. I thought that was a fairly common expression. I think this post is safe, unless you're naive to Pinterest...

History major here. So I spent a ton of time in the library doing research for papers. We had a decent sized library at the college and the main county branch not too far away. I probably spent more time in those two libraries than I did all of my classes.

Holy cow... the papers I did on the old typewriter. And I had one with autocorrect correction tape.... Fancy. I would have given my right arm damn near a word processor for all the papers I wrote. When I put them all into storage, the stack of paper was a good six inches high. Insanity. But then they like to have history majors write. A lot.

Your mother is cute.

One would think I would have... especially considering it's a turn of phrase. I'm thinking it may be a more regional colloquialism for the northeast? Or perhaps since it originates in baseball, I wouldn't be as inclined to know it. Regardless, it's a new one. (Truth be told, I may seem like I'm bitching, don't let me fool you... I actually like looking this stuff up... it feeds into my curiosities. )

 

[Wings]

I wanna see 'em!

They're chintzy but super nerd-cute:

https://handmado.com/products/red-w...PTKnwUEhFFPVf-GVkNsoDm2ADCku37hXFoaAo0V8P8HAQ

 

[Peregrinator]

History major here. So I spent a ton of time in the library doing research for papers. We had a decent sized library at the college and the main county branch not too far away. I probably spent more time in those two libraries than I did all of my classes.

Holy cow... the papers I did on the old typewriter. And I had one with autocorrect correction tape.... Fancy. I would have given my right arm damn near a word processor for all the papers I wrote. When I put them all into storage, the stack of paper was a good six inches high. Insanity. But then they like to have history majors write. A lot.

Your mother is cute.

One would think I would have... especially considering it's a turn of phrase. I'm thinking it may be a more regional colloquialism for the northeast? Or perhaps since it originates in baseball, I wouldn't be as inclined to know it. Regardless, it's a new one. (Truth be told, I may seem like I'm bitching, don't let me fool you... I actually like looking this stuff up... it feeds into my curiosities. )

Yeah, you had to do actual research. I just pretended to read stuff.

I know! White Out and shit. For most of my fiction-writing classes we had to type our stuff on ditto masters, of all things.

She can be hilarious. Did you get my email? Yes, mother, and replied. But the best was when she needed help with FB, because when she clicked "like" it said "you like this," and she wanted to know how to make it say "{her name} liked this."

Didn't seem at all like bitching to me. It's fun! Probably just the baseball thing. I guess it was trains, originally.

They're chintzy but super nerd-cute:

https://handmado.com/products/red-w...PTKnwUEhFFPVf-GVkNsoDm2ADCku37hXFoaAo0V8P8HAQ

I love it. I might have to look into getting the caffeine one.

 

[pink]

C'mon Cavs!!!!!

 

[adrina]

Yeah, you had to do actual research. I just pretended to read stuff.

I know! White Out and shit. For most of my fiction-writing classes we had to type our stuff on ditto masters, of all things.

She can be hilarious. Did you get my email? Yes, mother, and replied. But the best was when she needed help with FB, because when she clicked "like" it said "you like this," and she wanted to know how to make it say "{her name} liked this."

Didn't seem at all like bitching to me. It's fun! Probably just the baseball thing. I guess it was trains, originally.

Yes I spent hours upon hours doing research. I would have to say it is actually a talent of mine now - researching. I'm able to find just about anything when I put my mind to it. It's a bit crazy when I think on it. But it's a useful thing.

Ditto masters!! You're not that much older than me... wow. I thought those went out in the late 70s/early 80s. It's amazing how much has changed just in the 20 years or so since I was in college. (And on a side note, I'm not used to saying stuff like "over 20 years ago" and have it pertain to my 20s. )

Awwww that's adorable. A pain in the ass, but adorable. Hahaha... there's something excruciatingly painful about that generation and computers.

Good. Because it is fun. I like seeing new things and figuring them out. When I was looking at it, I saw references for baseball and boats, but not trains.

 

[Conager]

Queerbait's descent into mental illness seems to have begun with the JCPenney catalog

Oh NOOOOs. Rob is back to attempting to shame me about things I post openly about. Whatever should I do?

#WhyDoesntEveryoneThinkTalkOfSexualityIsIckyLikeRobDoes?

 

[Peregrinator]

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/06/the-clintons-had-slaves

One could almost respect the honesty with which Hillary spoke of her use of convict labor. She acknowledges that these men were black, and that she had a strict policy of sending them back to prison if they violated any rules. But Hillary Clinton isn’t like the Atlantic writer who dwelled on his upbringing as part of a family who held a woman in a state of slavery. Her forthrightness in It Takes a Village is not because she is attempting to grapple with the atrocity in which she was complicit, but because she doesn’t see anything wrong with what happened. Whereas many of us would be appalled at the idea of having our meals served by unpaid black servants, Clinton found the whole situation quaintly traditional, and was favorably impressed by the financial benefits of not paying her staff. What others might call “a crime against human dignity,” Clinton referred to in It Takes a Village as simply “an unusual aspect of living at the governor’s mansion.”

 

[hashtag69]

Oh NOOOOs. Rob is back to attempting to shame me about things I post openly about. Whatever should I do?

#DeflectorsOnFull

Time to get a new routine, douchebag.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

The Cavs are only gonna get this one through the grace of God alone.

 

[pink]

The Cavs are only gonna get this one through the grace of God alone.

They just seem sooo slow, transitions, rebounds.

 

[Peregrinator]

Yes I spent hours upon hours doing research. I would have to say it is actually a talent of mine now - researching. I'm able to find just about anything when I put my mind to it. It's a bit crazy when I think on it. But it's a useful thing.

Ditto masters!! You're not that much older than me... wow. I thought those went out in the late 70s/early 80s. It's amazing how much has changed just in the 20 years or so since I was in college. (And on a side note, I'm not used to saying stuff like "over 20 years ago" and have it pertain to my 20s. )

Awwww that's adorable. A pain in the ass, but adorable. Hahaha... there's something excruciatingly painful about that generation and computers.

Good. Because it is fun. I like seeing new things and figuring them out. When I was looking at it, I saw references for baseball and boats, but not trains.

Research is among the most joyous and satisfying things I can think of. Mom gave me that; whenever one of us kids had a question, she helped us look into it. Growing up with reference books in the living room was pretty neat.

Lol. I think my writing prof used them to save money. He'd ditto our stuff and then hand it out for class discussions.

She's pretty good, really. And my nephew, a 24-yo tech dork, lives really close to her, so he gets the brunt of it.

I might be thinking of "roundhouse," but I think a wheelhouse is a train thing, too.

 

[Peregrinator]

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[adrina]

Research is among the most joyous and satisfying things I can think of. Mom gave me that; whenever one of us kids had a question, she helped us look into it. Growing up with reference books in the living room was pretty neat.

Lol. I think my writing prof used them to save money. He'd ditto our stuff and then hand it out for class discussions.

She's pretty good, really. And my nephew, a 24-yo tech dork, lives really close to her, so he gets the brunt of it.

I might be thinking of "roundhouse," but I think a wheelhouse is a train thing, too.

It was love at first sight for me and the library. Mom and dad weren't much into schooling, but they wanted to make sure I got a good education. I've always had a mind for it. I think the first time I want to the library I was about 4. Come to remember, we had some very nice librarians at the local library. I even spent hours there as a young child finding books to read. Hehe!

The thing is, we laugh now at the dittos but think how revolutionary they were for their time. People twenty years prior to them would have given their eye teeth for that ability. The progress of technology and our adaptations to it...

I once wrote a computer manual for a very deal old lady. It was... a challenge. Every single step spelled out one by one. I really don't ever want to do anything like that ever again. Bless her heart.

Aha! It's all in the search terminology:

A railroad wheelhouse, or roundhouse, used to turn train cars around. Idiom: In one's wheelhouse. Definition: Conforming to one's area of expertise. Example: “As an alcoholic, a drinking contest is right in my wheelhouse.”

The terms are used synonymously for trains.

 

[Hashtag35]

Oh NOOOOs. Rob is back to attempting to shame me about things I post openly about. Whatever should I do?

#WhyDoesntEveryoneThinkTalkOfSexualityIsIckyLikeRobDoes?

Time to get a new routine, douchebag.

 

[adrina]

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It's wealthy-fare essentially. State money going to the companies owned by friends of the governor etc. Yay.

They wanted to do the same thing with abortion clinics in Texas.

 

[thør]

You need to get to scanning. Yanno, in your free time.

Printing from fiche and then scanning.

You can't take the stuff from the library.

 

[Peregrinator]

It was love at first sight for me and the library. Mom and dad weren't much into schooling, but they wanted to make sure I got a good education. I've always had a mind for it. I think the first time I want to the library I was about 4. Come to remember, we had some very nice librarians at the local library. I even spent hours there as a young child finding books to read. Hehe!

The thing is, we laugh now at the dittos but think how revolutionary they were for their time. People twenty years prior to them would have given their eye teeth for that ability. The progress of technology and our adaptations to it...

I once wrote a computer manual for a very deal old lady. It was... a challenge. Every single step spelled out one by one. I really don't ever want to do anything like that ever again. Bless her heart.

Aha! It's all in the search terminology:



The terms are used synonymously for trains.

I have some fond library memories, too. My favorite is playing D&D on a weekday afternoon and then walking to the pizza place to play Pac Man and wait for our parents to come pick us up. And borrowing James Bond movie soundtracks on vinyl. Crazy.

Yup. Even at the time, we thought it was quaint. I remember now that he did it to save money on copier paper or toner or whatever. We offered to take up a collection for a ream of paper.

Oh man, I hope you kept a copy! You could make millions on it, with that title: Computers For Dear Old Ladies. Better than the "For Dummies" series.

It's wealthy-fare essentially. State money going to the companies owned by friends of the governor etc. Yay.

They wanted to do the same thing with abortion clinics in Texas.

I heard that. Cretins.

 

[Peregrinator]

Printing from fiche and then scanning.

You can't take the stuff from the library.

Well, there you go. Print it, take it home, leave it in a box for your kids to deal with once you're gone. I believe it's the responsibility of all parents to leave rooms full of stuff their kids didn't want, but feel is too valuable to throw away. Lady P and I are staring down the barrel of a houseful of ancestral crap. She's an only child, but I'm hoping the cousins step up.

 

[Conager]

Trigger warning: this post is NSFY*

I was working in an 84 square mile mine. It included a company town and they owned the building that had been a "County" library since the sixties. the county have their name on it and they could do interlibrary loans with all the other County Libraries across the entire state but the company paid for the books the shelves, and the staff to run it.

Not a huge or very well updated selection but I was slowly working my way through the entire Library. I showed up one day and it was closed. For remodeling.

This used to be a union town, and back in the day they had all tge best of skilled trades you can imagine. They had block layers, plumbers, electricians, and master carpenters. The company houses (they have 10000) have hand built cabinets in them that 40 years later are still functional and neat. The library had site-built mahagoney bookcases.

3 months later, they had all the shelving out with sledgehamers and sawzalls.

When they reopened I walked in to find computer kiosks and I am not exaggerating two shelves of books approximately 15 feet long. A few random best sellers that I can get at any library I've ever walked into in for a dollar or two in there used book sales section.

I asked when they were bringing the books back in and they said you're looking at them. They were offering Kindle downloads to "borrow" (how the hell does that work?) but no actual books. No interlibrary loans either.

Without an exaggeration I told them that my home library of just the books that I acquired since I was working in that little town exceeded theirs.

I told them they needed to remove the library sign and put up a media center sign.

*Not safe for yossarian cats.

 

[pointless]

C'mon Cavs!!!!!

did they c'mon? i don't wanna check my phone. 'cause i'm lazy.

 

[adrina]

I have some fond library memories, too. My favorite is playing D&D on a weekday afternoon and then walking to the pizza place to play Pac Man and wait for our parents to come pick us up. And borrowing James Bond movie soundtracks on vinyl. Crazy.

Yup. Even at the time, we thought it was quaint. I remember now that he did it to save money on copier paper or toner or whatever. We offered to take up a collection for a ream of paper.

Oh man, I hope you kept a copy! You could make millions on it, with that title: Computers For Dear Old Ladies. Better than the "For Dummies" series.

D&D... I haven't played that... well in far more than 20 years. Wow. In college, I'd go from the library over to the pool hall below one of the buildings. That was always a good time. After pool, we'd head over to the pizza place before going home to hang out with the typewriter to push out yet another paper. It was a recurring theme. Haha!

I still play Mrs Pacman online sometimes. It's the Nintendo one with all the fun boards.

I should have... but I left it with her and didn't make copies or save it. It was a torturous labor of love. Dear 82 year old woman wanted to get a laptop for email. But she got so frustrated because... the same button turned it both on and off. Yes. That is correct. And that was just the beginning. It's a really good thing I liked her. She passed away a handful of years ago. Universe only knows where that book is now. Probably in some landfill.

I heard that. Cretins.

Hypocritical opportunistic wasteful cretins.

 

[pointless]

apparently they did not.

 

[Hard_Rom]

They're chintzy but super nerd-cute:

https://handmado.com/products/red-w...PTKnwUEhFFPVf-GVkNsoDm2ADCku37hXFoaAo0V8P8HAQ

https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/molecularmuse/items

Those are cool. the Etsy site has more and apparently for more money. They got THC and LSD! Chocolate would be cool too.

Liking the star stuff one (amino acid). That would make an ultra cool tattoo. They all would.

 

[adrina]

Trigger warning: this post is NSFY*

I was working in an 84 square mile mine. It included a company town and they owned the building that had been a "County" library since the sixties. the county have their name on it and they could do interlibrary loans with all the other County Libraries across the entire state but the company paid for the books the shelves, and the staff to run it.

Not a huge or very well updated selection but I was slowly working my way through the entire Library. I showed up one day and it was closed. For remodeling.

This used to be a union town, and back in the day they had all tge best of skilled trades you can imagine. They had block layers, plumbers, electricians, and master carpenters. The company houses (they have 10000) have hand built cabinets in them that 40 years later are still functional and neat. The library had site-built mahagoney bookcases.

3 months later, they had all the shelving out with sledgehamers and sawzalls.

When they reopened I walked in to find computer kiosks and I am not exaggerating two shelves of books approximately 15 feet long. A few random best sellers that I can get at any library I've ever walked into in for a dollar or two in there used book sales section.

I asked when they were bringing the books back in and they said you're looking at them. They were offering Kindle downloads to "borrow" (how the hell does that work?) but no actual books. No interlibrary loans either.

Without an exaggeration I told them that my home library of just the books that I acquired since I was working in that little town exceeded theirs.

I told them they needed to remove the library sign and put up a media center sign.

*Not safe for yossarian cats.

Hold it, hold it, hold it.... they destroyed mahogany shelving???

I don't know if I am crying more over that or the remodeled "library".

 

[thør]

Well, there you go. Print it, take it home, leave it in a box for your kids to deal with once you're gone. I believe it's the responsibility of all parents to leave rooms full of stuff their kids didn't want, but feel is too valuable to throw away. Lady P and I are staring down the barrel of a houseful of ancestral crap. She's an only child, but I'm hoping the cousins step up.

I already have too much shit.......