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Stephen Miller. Marc Miller.

What is it with Millers??

Somehow I don’t even notice it until it’s that long. It’s always white too. Happened to me like five times so far.

Occasionally I’ll have an eyelash grow this long.

With live chat? That’s why I like to watch them on Twitch.

It’s where I go to watch speedruns of Super Metroid and reruns of MST3K.

I’m really annoyed how little consistency there is in sizing terminology. One brand’s ‘XL’ might be too tight for me while another brand’s ‘XL’ could fit me like a garbage bag. Makes shopping online a real hassle for me. I always have to check measurement tables and even then it still might not fit right.

I don’t understand why the inconsistency exists. If brands all agreed with each other on what exactly their sizing terms mean, wouldn’t that cut down on returns?

I may have experienced this. A couple years ago I was getting over a cold. I blew my nose and instantly experienced severe vertigo. The room looked like it was spinning and it felt like I was on a boat in the middle of a rough storm. I nearly fell over. It took about 15 minutes for the sensation to fully expire.

You’re not alone

https://youtu.be/X34ZmkeZDos

From my experience, touch typing and using all fingers (home row technique I think it’s called) is less common among boomers, especially men. Even in professional settings I’ve seen men peck at their keyboards with just their pointer fingers. The slowness of this technique might explain the use of abbreviations at the desktop?

fun fact: the length to width ratio of ISO 216, √2:1, is the same ratio as the tritone in an equal tempered 12-tone musical scale. If you fold A4 paper in half, you get a piece of paper with the same length to width ratio as before; analogously, if you invert a tritone, you get another tritone.

I use the TouchID on my MacBook several times a day because it unlocks the password manager and wallet.

On Mac and iPad it’s option-shift-hyphen.

Also there’s the en-dash (option-hypen on Mac/iPad), which is slightly shorter: –

The en-dash is meant for ranges of numbers, e.g., 1990–2023, although some use it like an em-dash.

What about three, four, or more independent clauses? Is that allowed?

Apple Podcasts app on any platform. If you subscribe to like more than few dozen podcasts it runs at a snail’s pace even on the latest M1 and M2 devices from my experience. I turned off automatic downloads and it still ran slow. I don’t know why because a podcast app should be little different than an rss reader in theory, no?

Anyway I switched to Overcast last year and haven’t looked back.

Granted this is anecdotal but I was homeschooled k-12 and it messed me up in a lot of ways. I had to spend most of my twenties learning things that your average person would have learned in their teens if not earlier.

Ronald Reagan: https://youtu.be/ZbBZRnWoPbY

Trump alongside Giuliani in drag: https://youtu.be/Guve7Y856kY

Let’s just go full circle and revive chain emails.

“FW: FW: FW: me_irl”