I'm so used to the Android swiping keyboard that I can barely use Apple things.
Huh. I sometimes have to fix mistakes introduced by accidentally learned words, but they've never been prominent enough to outweigh the fact that I can match the keyboard and get a third to a half of the letters wrong and it still knows what I was trying to type.
Also, I alternate with dictation now. I dictated this comment.
I inherited my son's old iPad and I barely use it because I can't get used to the keyboard. Nobody likes me enough to have bought me one back when they were new, so it's too late for me now.
My latest pet peeve with text input is that my phone takes dictation worlds better than Windows 10.
I turn auto correct off but keep auto suggest on.
How about a used Honda Civic?
I'd just like to register my appreciation for the post title.
My auto suggest went away on my phone the other day. I have a vague memory that this happened before, and that I eventually figured out how to restore it, but in the mean time I've gotten older so I doubt that I now have the mental toughness to achieve this again.
12. may I suf=ggest "mental whateverness" instead
Also I'd like to register not exactly nostalgia, but kind of an appreciation for the classified ad section in alternative weeklies that tirelessly and in a variety of fonts extolled the virtues of phone lines like 1-800-HOT-DUCK . Who wrote and set those ads, I guess staff of the papers?
(only slightly bitter chuckle...)
autocorrect goes mental on me bc I think of switching btwn languages also I'm a super shitty phone typist. I attempt to turn it off to max poss but never seem to fully succeed, basically unending low intensity conflict btwn me & phone. Am trying to learn dictation software at work bc of elbow issues, aaargh painful to draft briefs this way but will adjust i suppose. Grumble.
I'm so used to working in silence, I get annoyed at the noise of my own voice if I try to use voice typing.
Asthma-induced wheeze & croak every single fucking afternoon a challenge for software, so i guess we're even!
Most of the stuff I type here would probably get me funny looks if said aloud anyway.
My worry is that with autocorrect turned off it would become less plausible to blame autocorrect for one's typos.
11: It is dismaying to me sometimes how much more clever the Unfoggetariat is than I am. I would have never caught that without the assist.
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Holy shit.
A work friend just told me that when she had her third kid, he was breach, and she wanted to deliver naturally. Her doc was super old and had done plenty of breach deliveries, so he was fine with it. (This would have been late 90s.)
They asked her to sign some form saying it was okay for people to watch, and she said sure, since most doctors hadn't seen a breach delivery before.
They put her in the operating ampitheater to give birth. It was packed with people. She said the stands were packed, and the floor itself was packed with curious medical people.
She tells it like "ain't it crazy?" but I am furious on her behalf, and she does admit it was really, really awful.
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Was she able to undo this, or did the birth proceed there?
She got a percentage of the gate, I hope.
23: ... I can understand why she wouldn't enjoy that - giving birth is normally a private and stressful experience, giving breach birth is more stressful, and doing it on display would be both more stressful and not private at all - but was she coerced into signing that form? Alone when she signed it, as opposed to having her husband or other family with her? Pressured in any way, e.g. "we'll reduce your bill if you do"?
Or was it just "oh well, if you're very sure you want to do it naturally. In that case, mind if some students watch? It would be very educational for them." If the latter, the difference between a few students and an amphitheater full of students seems academic, no pun intended.
Hey, that was me with Ellie nineteen years back, pretty much, except I didn't sign a form giving consent. The breachness of the situation became apparent while I was transitioning, and then more and more spectating doctors just kept appearing. By the end there must have been a dozen.
Didn't bother me, I was busy, but I could see how it might have.
Not an amphitheater, though. Regular operating room with people just standing around.
And, you know, letting doctors watch was a mitzvah. Breech babies can be delivered safely under the right circumstances (I think the term is frank breech? Butt rather than feet presenting, and no other contraindications) but most doctors won't do it. Giving an amphitheater full of doctors experience of a safe, successful breech delivery probably spared some women unnecessary and unwanted c-sections later on.
It's too bad it wasn't covered in the books, but I'm pretty sure wizards just apperate and leave the baby behind.
If the latter, the difference between a few students and an amphitheater full of students seems academic, no pun intended.
I strongly disagree. It might be describable using the same words, but a few observers in the same room as you is very emotionally different from a crowd of people watching as if you're a stage performer, making this a bait-and-switch, maybe justifiable legally, but not compassionately. A good doctor would at a minimum have been more specific about what they meant by "can some people watch".
By way of comparison, delivering women now have absolute say over which and how many family/friends are admitted (well, up to some maximum, of course), and hospital staff are at least supposed to enforce their previously-stated wishes when they aren't physically capable. I feel they ought to enjoy a similar not-to-be-questioned veto power over presence and number of observers not helping with the delivery.
33 is exactly my opinion, too.
She signed the form thinking that a few strangers would be drifting in and out, not that she would be the center of a surgical ampitheater.
I mean, LB is right that it's a generous, good thing to do, but the idea of it makes my skin crawl.
(To be fair, there were a few stray people in and out during my deliveries, and it did not impact me in any way.) Also this was a natural childbirth. I was way chiller with my 2 epidurals than I was with my 2 natural births.
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Also: a senior faculty member when I was in grad school just received a really fancy award and I'm trying to think of something to say for a collection of tributes. I knew the person fairly well but I'm having trouble retrieving specifics. Would anyone care to read what I've written and give me pointers?
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Well, I think they probably do, it's just a matter of how greased the skids are for enforcing it. That is, I'm pretty sure that if I'd said "Get all these rubberneckers out of here," it would have happened, and if Heebie's friend hadn't signed the release form she wouldn't have been in the amphitheater. Given the training value of unusual deliveries, I can see good reason for defaults not to be too strongly in favor of keeping observers out.
It is generous. There's presumably a small but very real chance someone learned a skill that they could use to save a life or prevent a surgery.
37 to 34.
(And my experience was strongly shaped by the whole thing being super fast, so it was just one big pile of overwhelming weirdness, and the dozen residents gawking didn't add much to it. And I had a terrifying Czech midwife bodyguarding me and making sure no one got in the way -- she'd had to call in an OB when the breech situation became apparent, but she was still maintaining order.)
36: I'll read anything! Post here, or email?
33, 34: Heh, fair enough. I hesitated to speak up. Atossa's birth was hard but not as hard as a breach birth. I can imagine a lot of details that would have made it a lot better or worse.
36: If they're getting a big award, they'll probably have lots of people saying specific things they did worthy of commentating. You can coast by on something brief and vague.
Although my typo in 3 was exactly what it looked like - a dictation typo I missed - I actually make the same typos using a conventional keyboard, I guess as a result of subvocalizing what I type. Just now I caught myself writing "rose" for "rows".
The one that infuriates me is that my phone always changes "its" to "it's", as if someone programmed this "correction" without realizing that these are two different words.
" if Heebie's friend hadn't signed the release form she wouldn't have been in the amphitheater"
The amphitheatre??
Clearly the thing to do is to wait until the cord is clamped and then turn to the spectators and yell "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?"
The bookie taking bets on an episiotomy can never be tactful.
i was immunized from everything and still came down with most of 'em - measles, mumps, chicken pox, etc., and when the measles broke out all over me and my mother took me to the doctor they rounded up all the young 'un doctors to troop through and get a look bc this was supposed to be their once-in-a-professional-lifetime chance to see the veritable measles (bitter laugh in tribute to lost innocence) and my mother eventually had to say hey dudes this sick kid is going hooooome. also there was some thing where i had to be kept in total darkness for some hideous length of time bc of potential damage to eyes, although to be fair all these nasty bugs landed within a short space of years so i'm not totally sure i can peg that one on measles. and then i started having absurdly huge reactions to the dtp vaccine (upper arm swelling up precipitously so that shirt sleeve had to be cut off, raging fever, inability to maintain consciousness) so they've refused to give it to me for decades now - hey everyone please please please get vaccinated bc some of us have truly screwed up immune systems and either can't get the damn things *or* they don't work properly on us. luckily, the flu vaccine seems to be fine thus far! yay!
44: I type homophones fairly frequently. An interesting but annoying failure.
45: I'd like to imagine it was programmed by someone whose pet peeve is that "its" is a horrible orthographic inconsistency, and that both words should be spelled "it's."
I've been vaccinated for everything, but I think I got the flu this winter. I still don't feel 100%.
Breeching is what babies do. Breaching is what siege engines do. Hypertension is what I do.
You should probably get that taken care of then.
At least my doctor says it's a big deal.
I also type homophones sometimes, but I've never dictated for anything. Maybe a deeper neuro-linguistic thing?
51: If you figure the cervix is kind of a wall, babies do both.
both words should be spelled "it's."
This sounds like a very reasonable resolution to an unreasonable problem.
I think we should switch so that the possessive is "it's" and the contraction is "its".
I'm annoyed that auto-suggest often favors "i'm" over "I'm".
hi I am super intoxicated right now. I just need a place to say I dressed up super slutty to my unsynagogue's purim party (when someone asked me what I was I said "aspects of my personality I felt more comfortable expressing ten years ago but have since gone dormant" -- she was "sexy Ruth Bader Ginsburg") and there was an onstage hamentaschen eating contests and I said to the guy next to me (wearing a dress and a femme wig) let's share and made it into a very funny erotic performance and we clearly won the who could be the sexiest while eating hamentaschen contest and lots of people I didn't know saw me and told me i was great up there and then I got really drunk and this other guy was trying to take advantage of that while I was actually trying to express interest in this six foot tall woman i was dancing with but my hamentaschen eating partner rescued me from that guy and danced me over to the woman I was interested in but in the end we shared a cab home and it turns out he knows the lyrics to Les Miz and Into the Woods better than I do and we also sang Follies in the cab and I gave him all my information and I hope he writes me because we ate hamentaschen together in a spontaneous erotic Purim performance would be a great meet cute.
You may think autocorrect has problems. Earlier this week I interviewed a rather robotic politician about an extremely boring technical story. I dropped the transcript off on an internet service which is obviously using some kind of AI, to test whether it worked. Here is some of what I got back.
[Note that they don't seem to have programmed in any distinction between speaker's voices.]
Needless to say that's one little bit . Would you turn the tide for . Fun . Oh . Yes I did . Chick's nemesis Take your time . 00.21 - 00.28 Honestly as well . What did I miss . Everything's fine . I went . To . Were . 00.28 - 00.32 Too close . Unflattering . Yeah . I give . 00.35 - 00.38 You sunlight . You think that's a big red . 00.38 - 00.45 Official . Well no . People were supposed to be heroes .
Later in the transcript, the term "non technical" appears as "Guilty." but I don't think I'd go as far as that myself.
Even when the transcription is accurate I am struck by the thought that here is a machine which has no knowledge of what words mean attempting to reproduce the words of a politician who labours under the same disability. eg (correctly transcribed) "I think the bigger wins are not so much to do with speed but to do with the instantaneous transmission both ways ..."
The sense that there are two malfunctioning robots involved in this process is disconcerting. Still, I need the money.
And sometimes there is a glimpse of the Tory master plan: "I firmly believe that once this revolution is once the Cuban people employed to service the are to disappear .
Jeremy warned us. He tried to warn us. But we didn't listen. And now, the Cuban people are to .... disappear!!!!
...had it then been invented at last, some automaton to supply the place of such poor creatures as herself to turn out books and articles? Alas! the machine was only one for holding volumes conveniently, that the work of literary manufacture might be physically lightened. But surely before long some Edison would make the true automaton; the problem must be comparatively such a simple one. Only to throw in a given number of old books, and have them reduced, blended, modernised into a single one for to-day's consumption.
60 is indeed great, a revival of the cock joke era Unfogged.
we ate hamentaschen together in a spontaneous erotic Purim performance
This may be the greatest moment in Judaism since Richard Gere danced naked before the Ark of the Covenant.
60 is great even if you have to google "hamentaschen".
I know what hamentaschen are but I always have to remind myself they aren't "ham pockets".
Are Napoleon and Haman the only people with famous dessert foods named after them?
I was thinking about this and had this incredibly horrible idea -- that there could be a new Jewish tradition on Holocaust Day of eating a candy called Hitler's Mustache (a black gummy worm?).
Dame Nellie Melba -- Peach Melba. Also Pavlova (fruit on meringue) is after a ballerina.
Using things that actually exist is cheating.
Also: Bethmännchen, Charlotte, probably Crêpes Suzette... I'm just going through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pastries.
We have both Bourbon and Garibaldi biscuits in the UK, if those count. Not really desserts I suppose.
As well as Victoria sponge there is Battenberg cake and apple charlotte.
Wiki of course has a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foods_named_after_people
The worst seems to be scrambled eggs a la Columbus.
Is there a brand of Garibaldi biscuits sold in the US? They used to be sold as Sunshine Golden Fruit Bars when I was a kid, but not anymore, and I loved them.
79: I work at, as a recent viral tweet claimed, one of those math companies that made up Pi Day to sell more math. I intend to bring both Fig Newtons and Choco Liebniz on Pi Approximation Day. (Clearly, neither are pies, but if you take the appropriate limit..)
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I was just moved to look up the actual hour of Brexit Friday after next. 11pm GMT - no idea why not midnight, but there you have it.
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How about the Clark Bar, obviously named for James Clerk Maxwell (Americanized spelling of course)
Garibaldi biscuits are properly known as squashed flies, though. Perhaps you should google them instead.
84. Yes. Even are ultimata are dictated by foreigners these days. I can't wait till everything is run on Beijing time.
82: I think it should. But it's not entirely clear who it's name after.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Ruth
So, Boeing has announced that it will include a backup angle-of-attack sensor connected to the anti-stall MCAS system in all new 737 Max 8s, to address the problem that a single faulty AoA sensor will activate the MCAS and send the aircraft diving into the ground.
UK prime minister Theresa May, however, criticised the news, saying that the first AoA sensor had already made its opinion known and that accepting input from a second sensor would be undemocratic. "It's up to all of us to make this total hull and crew loss a success," she concluded. "CFIT means CFIT."
The candy maker, located on the same street as Wrigley Field, named the bar "Baby Ruth" in 1921, as Babe Ruth's fame was on the rise, 24 years after Cleveland had left the White House, and 17 years after his daughter, Ruth, had died. The company did not negotiate an endorsement deal with Ruth, and many saw the company's story about the origin of the name to be a devious way to avoid having to pay the baseball player any royalties.
I think it's pretty clear who it was named after.
Regarding biscuits/cookies there are also, of course Fig Newtons and Leibnitz-Keks (Choco-Leibnitz). If serving both on the same plate, the wise host steers the conversation away from the question of priority in developing calculus.
93: Similarly, you can relive the Battle of Borodino by serving a Napoleon and an Alexandertorte. Except there seems to be controversy over whether the Alexandertorte is named after Alexander I or Alexander III.
midnight in Brussels
The hour that Brussels sprouts.
I'm gonna wait til the midnight hour
When my brussels spouts all over
With a Brexit yell, she cried "More, more, more."
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NMM2 Mary Warnock. There were giants in those days.
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Now I'm looking at buying a 12-pack of boxes of Garibaldi biscuits on Amazon. I do not need that many cookies, and they'll probably be disappointing because they're the wrong brand. (The ones I'm looking at are Crawfords, but I would prefer that the Sunshine Biscuit Company start making them again.)
lb is it just me or did d davies provide a spectacular example on tw*tter of alllllmost getting the point re the factors leading to the susceptibility of and industry to (young, white, just-so conventionally attractive) women fraudsters being connected to that same industry's inability to recognize/hostility towards actually capable women? was such a lame, unreflective reply by which he ended his back-and-forth with you. almost said something bc my god he has daughters but then over the last week i've had more than my share of policing-femininity weird incidents indeed enough to last a good many months so no thanks!
That did seem like a slightly talking-past-each-other interaction.
you are a generous woman! ha!
re: eponymous sweets, i recommend to all the making of battenburg cake - v high ratio of satisfaction to effort when you get those pulcinello cross sections. and it usually leads to rewatching cold comfort farm so how could it be wrong?
Harlequin! Meant harlequin many apologies to comm dell arte gods.
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There is a person who I ought to like - on paper we match up great, and her kids and our kids match up and get along strangely well.
I keep thinking that I ought to be friends with her, and then she posts the dumbest shit to FB. Like an eyechart where she wrote, "Eye exams are so fascinating! What is it all for!? How do the different letter identification/color, shape tests help? I'm really curious."
(Maybe I'm the dumb one, and eye exams are more subtle than I ever guessed.)(But other times she's invited me to MLM ponzi scheme parties, so I stand by my inability to befriend her.)
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I feel bad for making fun of her. General curiosity and enthusiasm about the world is a good thing.
105. Especially when paired with an attention span
Would have expected something more reptilian in 27.
alllllmost getting the point re the factors leading to the susceptibility of and industry to (young, white, just-so conventionally attractive) women fraudsters being connected to that same industry's inability to recognize/hostility towards actually capable women?
You have to admit the total inanity of these viral blurbs going around saying "Uhhhh it's not that complicated or confusing how she pulled off the fraud, she was a woman and Henry Kissinger was horny" . Oh yes, that's why this has happened 1 time in history. Just gotta be a good looking woman who also claims to be the brains of the operation, and investors go nuts.
104: Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and Amway distributors so far away you can't even hear them.
Henry Kissinger AND Jim Mattis. The bifecta.
110: How can you leave me out? I was Secretary of State too! And I was so hypnotized I chose to believe Elizabeth Holmes over my own grandson!
Why are local police shooting teachers with pellet guns when that could be a private industry start-up?
There used to be a candy brand named Alexander the Grape. Apparently, they were tart hard candies like Lemonheads, but grape-flavored. Fake-grape-flavored.
111: Sorry, just dignifiedly maintaining US hegemony isn't enough to lodge you in the memory.
111 Gil Scott-Heron did you in, man: A dead ringer for the Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz, and we keep expecting to hear him say: "We're off to see the Arabs. Off to see the Arabs. Off to see the Arabs." Or just off and up the yellow brick road . . .
dignified? maybe not so much. several male professional brass musicians i knew in my music-mad-bay-area-youth volunteered on independent occasions that they had been permanently scarred by the sight of schulz gamboling nude amongst the redwoods at the b*hemi*an evorg.
The only never-nude secretary of state since Reconstruction was Alexander Haig.
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