Onno (VK6FLAB)
Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
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These are job titles I’ve actually used:
- Brain for Hire
- Elephant header
- Janitor
- Troubleshooter
Over the past 25+ years I’ve worked for myself and whilst doing the exact same job, fixing complex ICT problems for my clients I’ve had to complete job title fields in countless corporate forms.
It’s fun to interact with colleagues who get the joke and hilarious when they don’t.
It’s interesting that the “worst” corporations mentioned by others here do not include any media companies.
Perhaps you might contemplate why it is that they appear to be “invisible” in a discussion about damage to society.
Is it possible that the narrative around “evil companies” is told by media companies?
There is research that shows that white coloured roofing causes increased heating elsewhere, so it’s not a fix-all solution.
I live in Australia and during summer use a lawn sprinkler on the roof. Using a tap timer, it runs for 10 to 30 seconds every 10 minutes.
Just enough to wet the roof, so that the water evaporates and cools it down.
Other things you can do is growing creeper vines over a wall where the sun hits in the afternoon to keep direct sunlight off the wall.
If you have sash windows, you can open it at the top and bottom, creating a thermal airflow that will cool the house.
Adding sunshades and building housing with awnings makes a massive difference.
Lots of research associated with passive solar temperature regulation.
Bookmarks within the browser just became too unwieldy, so for years I’ve emailed them to myself.
Between 2 February and today there are 251 such emails. 26 of them are marked as being read.
Most of them are generated when I’m frustrated reading a poorly formatted article on my phone. Some are to capture research or items I might require at some future point in time.
I rarely delete them.l, since often they help with determining timelines and the like.
I’m physically quite large, but most people will outrun me for medical reasons, but you can’t tell just by looking at me. It wasn’t until #metoo that I considered what it might be like to walk on the street and be afraid for your safety all the time.
My partner shared a few historic experiences which made me want to throw up.
I’ve read the responses here so far and I’ve done similar things for the same reasons, noise, humming, nodding, etc… I’ll also cross the road if I think my presence might make someone feel uncomfortable, or if I feel uncomfortable.
I have also walked off a footpath onto the verge to give the person coming towards me, space to move.
I’d be interested to hear what that feels like for people who are experiencing this kind of interaction.
If your partner dies before you do, consider what happens to your joint mortgage, your internet, email and phone accounts, your car repayments, if it’s coming out of a joint account that’s suddenly frozen because one account holder has died.
What happens if your partner sets up your home network and TV subscriptions and their email account is locked because you’re not the account holder.
For example, Netflix doesn’t have “multiple account holders” as an option, it belongs to one person, the one who pays the bill. Neither does Google, Facebook, Disney, Amazon, Apple, or anyone else.
This is repeated across every single aspect of modern life. Your robot vacuum cleaner is linked to a single person, as are your IoT lightbulbs. It’s absurd.
The list goes on, public transport payment system, car ownership, home ownership.
I know people who have had to borrow money from family and friends, just to eat food because the bank needed a death certificate after their partner died, but the process took weeks, some even months.
One person was an executor of their recently deceased parent who was required to produce the non-existent death certificate for the other parent who had died 40 years earlier. Took more than a year.
Dying during a holiday is a special form of torture for the family.
None of that is easy, convenient or handled.
Why not?
I write software for a living, an exception in software means something unexpected, out of the ordinary, it’s treated as a “special case”.
In a lifetime, death is not unexpected, it’s expected, even guaranteed. The only variable is time, but that’s true for many aspects of life.
Take for instance moving house, it’s got a high likelihood of happening during a lifetime, multiple times. There’s processes to update your address, tell your bank, the utility company, insurance, etc. There’s address change services, some even run by government that all but automate this.
Why is it that such a thing doesn’t exist for death?
The absurd amount of effort that family members after a death need to get through to deal with things like this is insane.
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Until reading the replies here, I had no idea what you were talking about. It did make me wonder which other words are banished with only their letter to show for it … and it made me wonder if there are multiple words referred to by the same letter, causing more confusion in communication, the X-word, you mean the X or the other X word?
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In 1989 I was one of the participants in the (then) Guinness World Record Endurance Computing held at the Hobby Computer Club days (HCC dagen) in the Netherlands.
The record was for 63.5 hours, but I had a two hour or so commute in each direction and the event started (from memory) at noon.
I’m guessing that I was awake in total for about 70 hours. I fell asleep on the way home.
We published a newsletter called “Elephant News” every few hours. Time keeping was managed by official time keepers and it was entered into the Guinness World Records in the 1990 book. I have a copy somewhere.
At some point not long after, Guinness abolished all world records that only had a time component and as far as I know it still stands :)
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