I never thought about it, but I wonder if it's partly all the institutions that operate on non-calendar fiscal years.
I think replacing every year makes sense, because otherwise you have to remember to make every single change in the overlap period twice, whether addition, edit, or deletion.
They sell calendars on the academic year and fiscal years.
But your second paragraph is off, because with that option there is no overlap - you have to have two calendars available, but you don't have to double-record anything.
Back when I had a paper calendar, I just got a note card and stuck it in the back for events that were after the period covered in the calendar.
So everyone has switched to electronic calendars? I just really like it to open up big. Also it has pockets for stray paperwork or business cards.
Also, I don't have any business cards. I've only been at this job 9 years, so maybe I have to stick around longer before I get some.
I'm starting to get dates for 2016
Yes, it's a good idea to wait until they're barely legal.
If you like the feel of a physical calendar but are struggling with the inefficiencies of a paper calendar, why not just write your appointments on your phone with a sharpie?
There's no uniform "fiscal year" - maybe there are some standards depending on industry, but it can vary a lot. Didn't some big financial firm change their fiscal year during the crisis so as to have a couple of months of limbo they could hide losses in?
Anyway, I don't think I follow your reasoning in 2.2, but if it helps to clarify, what I mean is with a 15-16 calendar, during 2015 put 2016 entries in its second year, then, at the beginning of 2016, transfer everything there to the first year of the new 16-17 calendar. That way you never have two calendars to consult across, and you only have to do one round of copying.
Because sharpies are permanent!
Like the marks of Sharpies on a Princess Trimline, so are the days of our lives.
10: I think you're right. Plus, it looks like they don't yet sell 2016-2017 yet from my very particular brand I must have, which means they're intending one big copy, not two calendars in use.
I wonder if there's an optimal way to alternate two year calendars with one year academic calendars for optimal something.
A two year academic calendar would truly be priceless, but there's just no way.
13: Still on the air! 50-year anniversary coming up! November 8! Mark your calendar, heebie!
So everyone has switched to electronic calendars? I just really like it to open up big. Also it has pockets for stray paperwork or business cards.
Business cards can be put on your phone. You can even just take a photo of one and it will automatically be added to your contacts.
But, yes, electronic calendars are way better. Simply being able to search for things is a huge improvement. Also. It's in your pocket when you need it.
We have projects with four different fiscal/planning years- calendar year, June-May (government, of course, has to be the one that can't even align with a goddamn quarter), July-June, and Oct-Sept.
If you buy two year calendars every year, then don't you have to copy everything from the second year to your new two year calendar? That seems annoying and likely to cause you to miss something.
You can never mark the same iPhone twice.
Wouldn't one of those binder-based calendar systems solve this all neatly? Have two years of calendar in the binder at all times, and each year take out the past year and add the new blank future year.
Gmail is trying to get me to use there funky new email inbox and I'm still not convinced. I don't understand why it makes it so hard to delete emails. I know I don't have to delete emails, but I really like deleting emails and resent that it takes so many more steps to delete a message than to archive it.
22: Right, I'm not switching then. I get a ton of basically spamy emails that I do want to glance at but then immediately delete if I'm not interested, not save.
I may still switch. I really like the idea of hitting "snooze" on an email.
Or even monthly! The flow of time!
I basically never kept a paper calendar, then I got a phone.
Come to think of it, I did keep an e-calendar for several years before getting a phone. But for ~6 years after college, I mostly kept track of appointments and such in my head.
Even now, I need the calendar as much for intrafamily scheduling as for remembering appointments.
Yeargh, I've been having gmail trouble where it archives when I don't want to then I lose/forget conversations. If I read on my phone but don't do anything I think it still archives on the desktop interface. The only way to find is to search (can't if I forgot) or look in all mail which has all crap like chats and sent mail. When will people learn to not change default behaviors?
26: clearly you need to move all communication to Slack.
24: Many things in life could be improved with the addition of a "snooze" button.
When I delete emails in Gmail, I just click on delete.* What's everyone else doing?
*I turned off their enhanced or whatever inbox immediately. Also replaced "archive" with "delete" on my phone notification settings.
Oh, never mind. I thought you were talking about switching from another service to gmail, not succumbing to the false idea that Google's engineers know your email priorities better than you do.
I think Google's engineers are right that I want to be able to swipe left to get rid of emails, but I want that to delete the messages, not archive them.
Gmail is trying to get me to use there funky new email inbox and I'm still not convinced. I don't understand why it makes it so hard to delete emails. I know I don't have to delete emails, but I really like deleting emails and resent that it takes so many more steps to delete a message than to archive it.
I like Inbox, precisely (though not only) because I like getting emails out of my face but not deleting them permanently. I basically never delete emails, and usually regret it when I do unless they're actual spam.
Not sure why SP's emails are being archived when they're only being read on the phone. The standard behaviour in Inbox is only to archive when click on the tick mark. Reading and then exiting the email doesn't do anything but mark it as read. Maybe you turned on an archive when read setting? But I can't find such a thing in the ordinary settings, so you'd have to have manually created a filter to do it.
31: If you're on Android, you can change the default action to delete in the gmail app settings.
I don't see that in my google settings.
why not just write your appointments on your phone with a sharpie?
Like Winky Dink and You!
A calendar may be the only thing in my life in which switching completely to a digital version was a highly significant, unambiguous and painless improvement.
35: Maybe your phone is different. Or are you looking at gmail in a browser on the phone?
I see the setting in gmail app--settings--general settings.
There is it. But all I can do is swipe actions on or off.
On the whole, my attempt to my completion times for all the Mahjong puzzles to match the order in which the puzzles are presented has been more useful than playing with the settings.
If we're just asking things, should I buy a pair of overalls? I've never had any and there are several kinds for sale at Target, which means I wouldn't have to invest much to try. I promise I'd try them on first to see if they're entirely ridiculous. I guess this is a cool thing or something? Mara looks adorable in hers, but she's 7 and we have very different body types for a lot of reasons.
The last pair of overalls I wore were maternity clothes, but I was told that they were cute as a button. Possibly the same effect works even if you're not pregnant.
Nobody ever got pregnant while wearing overalls.
I figured. Just saying that's my entire experience of wearing overalls as an adult, so take it for what it's worth.
Swiping archives? Maybe I'm doing that without realizing it. Which is exactly the behavior you want in a UI.
44: What about immediately after having worn overalls? Seems like a possibility.
For local color, aren't you supposed to wear them shirtless?
Please post to the flickr group if you do.
33: oh if you go down the french fetish paper goods hole you are lost forever... next stop, fountain pens, then perdition!
Actually, I quite like fountain pens.
A THREE YEAR CALENDAR? Is this too crazy?
My dad's overalls from wartime service in the RCN were my first pair. He'd worn them when doing heavy work when I was a little boy. I wore them years later working on my car.
They fell apart because they were then thirty years old. The ones I replaced them with, which I'd wear doing street repairs on my VW in Hyde Park would be considerably older now.
Definitely get them. They protect your clothes and put you in a different frame of mind.
That's what Denver Pyle always said.
All right, then, overalls! I'm all set already on perdition and fountain pens, but could probably get interested in French paper goods. I've probably maxed out my flickr pool contributions, too.
39: Continuing down this exciting subthread, do you see a setting for "gmail default action?" That's the one to change from archive to delete. Not the setting that directly relates to swipe actions.
Thanks. Now I need to wait for somebody to mail me shit.
I'll send you a bill. Via Slack.
I'll find you on LinkedIn, if you're the yoga instructor on the "People you may know" list.
I suspect Idp in 53 is referring to what I would normally call coveralls. In my dialect, coveralls are what mechanics wear, and they have sleeves and cover all of your clothes. Overalls are what children, extras on Hee Haw, and presumably actual farmers at some point in the past wear, and they are pants leading up to a bib with shoulder straps, exposing the shoulders and shirtsleeves (or mostly naked upper body, as JMcQ suggests).
"Straw in the mouth or get out" is the rule for how to rock a pair of overalls.
AISIMHB re: overalls and shirtlessness.
Also we should all be psyched that Thorn will be appearing in Buckwild: Interracial Laundry Lesbians of Kentucky Edition.
I can't find a screenshot, but the opening scene of Friday the 13th Part 2 features what must be the most awesome pair of overalls ever worn non-ironically by an actress.
I guess fashion was still going through an awkward 70s to 80s transition in 1981.
I have them too. Black Carhartts. I can't believe knecht would settle for anything less.
66: The girls will love the Edible Arrangement!
I think I've always used the same term for both kinds, leaving distinctions to context.
I've worn the other kind, in the "painter" version, in restaurant work in the 70s, when they were common wear for all sorts of people. Didn't fancy them outside that context.
68 triggered some kind of Proustian memory, but I have to say these teenage fashions from Friday 13 Part 2 look weirdly contemporary to me, and not in a trendy-retro way.
Fashion hasn't changed since then.
73: The awesome overalls are in a much earlier scene.
Think over sized and very very green. I think the striped turtle necked long sleeved shirt she wears under them enhances the effect.
I've just spent the past 10 minutes searching on YouTube for these goddamn green overalls and am coming up short. I vaguely remember them too!
If you're remembering shorts, that probably Catherine Bach you're thinking of.
I was complimented on my overalls twice by strangers on Sunday. I guess they're back. These are thrifted Calvin Klein linen overalls, probably from the dead end of the trend last time, wonderfully drapy to dance in. On the street I was walking into a headwind.
I also have plain old cotton ones and oiled canvas ones, which garner different compliments, e.g. I bet you could get the flagging out of those brambles.
, e.g. I bet you could get the flagging out of those brambles.
Incomprehensible, but compelling. Are you extracting paving stones from a thornbush, or something entirely different?
One of my English professor friends regularly wears overalls to teach in.
He also has a grownup size tricycle that he occasionally rides to campus.
I knew a Dave Matthew frat boy type who favored overalls cut off into shorts. Sometimes rolled up like Huck Finn. What a ridiculous looking dude he was.
81: flagging tape is the fluorescent plastic ribbons that temporary surveying leaves all over.
I had overalls that I loved terribly terribly much, in college. They were blue and white pinstriped Carhartts, like 8 sizes too big for me, that a friend gave me for some unknown reason.
Also in college, I had a life-sized, distressingly realistic fake person that I made. He had leather skin and white fake fur for hair. His name was Art and he mostly sat around in my car.
Then somebody broke in to my car. They stole my ski rack, and Art. Art was wearing my overalls and a really good pair of cowboy boots. I never saw any of them again. Altogether a devastating loss.
Wow. Making a person out of leather and fake fur is hard core. You don't have any pictures you could put in the Flickr group, do you?
someone may have given Art a decent Burial or indeed pyre
whenever I need to project salt-of-the-earth credibility
This drought means I may actually get out into the field, and if I do, I will definitely, definitely be wearing my CalPoly shirts. I will need all the good associations I can get.
Dammit clew did you steal my stuff?
a not-very-good picture is up. I think I have a better one somewhere; if I remember it later I'll do that one too
Everyone must look at Art immediately. Art is disturbing yet wonderful.
Whoa. Did he just hang out in the car, or would he go into like restaurants and sporting events and whatnot?
And, while I agree that stealing is wrong, if I had an opportunity to steal what appeared to be an effigy of the mummified corpse of Andy Warhol in railroad overalls and cowboy boots, I might not have been able to resist it.
Or it was like Amélie's gnome but perhaps slightly creepier
Messily, that's an awful lot of effort just to drive in the HOV lanes.
I would never! Also it didn't occur to me.
I didn't take him to restaurants but he got invited to some parties. At one of them he spent the night in the elevator making everyone uncomfortable. Mostly he hung out in the car though. Sometimes I made people sit on his lap if we were in a hurry and I didn't feel like getting him crammed into the trunk.
Cramming him into the trunk in public was also an interesting thing to do.
How does one get to the flickr group, anyway?
I'm so disappointed that this post isn't about keeping one's clothes neat and trim.
33: the quovadis septa note is great, and they make an academic version. I prefer that, because I don't like changing stuff over the holidays. I did prefer that, because now I use google calendar.
I think, however, that LB is right about what heebie wants. It has a name too: Filofax.
Wasn't losing one of those the plot device of a very bad Jim Belushi movie?
Filofax or a set of the big wall-calendar sheets that aren't specific to date.
Wearing overalls over, or instead of, ones clothes keeps the clothes tidy. Second best virtue of overalls.
I don't use a calendar anymore. I just keep a big text file with a list of dates that functions as a calendar/to-do list/place where I can jot down random things I might want to refer to later.
That's a very good start. But you don't need to convince us you deserve tenure. Save it for the committee.
There's not much plain about org-mode.
Catching up: zomg! Messily! That's amazing.
Was this paper mentioned here before? My 30 second search of the archives didn't turn it up, but I'm pretty sure it was recently mentioned.
The abstract of that paper sounds interesting! It's a relief to be told that I'm not unusual in how context-dependent my 'core network' has been.
I had a dream that while following some traces of vandalism (I think they were chalking WEEZEE everywhere, with arrrows) I found E. Messily's stolen Art and snagged him muself and was working on places to hide him securely in cas the original thieves came back when I woke up. Clearly he is inspiring!
You always wake up before you hit the ground/get attacked by the original thieves.
I used to have such vivid dreams when I was quitting smoking and wore a nicotine patch. Especially if I forgot to take the patch off before going to bed.
Before I stopped using snuff, I kept having dreams about my teeth falling out. It's why I stopped using snuff.
Okay, Thorn's dream is a great idea. Everyone be on the lookout. He was last seen in Portland in early 1999.
He's probably working as a barista now.
I found E. Messily's stolen Art and snagged him muself and was working on places to hide him securely in cas the original thieves came back when I woke up.
Art thieves, stealing Art and reselling it at fancy auctionhouses.