Until I read your comment, I thought it was just a strong wind.

My kid has always loved dinosaurs. One thing that always made me smile was that when they could barely enunciate anything, they would still say “pachycephalosaurus” perfectly every time.

That’s how I would have interpreted it, as well, but I’ve seen it used in situations where that didn’t seem fitting so I asked.

My co-workers tell me it’s either “that’s interesting,” i.e. it drew their attention; or just that they’re looking at something. For example, if I provide a link to a ticket, they’re indicating that they received the link and have clicked or will click it to look at it.

I have also seen one person use it like the Michael Jackson eating popcorn gif when using a messenger that did not support embedded images.

Excellent! I like it.

Is this a Futurama reference?

When I got my first phone with GPS and I think I just discovered IFTTT, I wanted to write a script that would detect via location when you walked through certain doors and do something like play the Imperial Death March. Never got around to doing it though since I keep location off.

Hello, fellow old nerd.

I don’t want to.

Also my five year old.

No love for pencils?

I prefer the Terry Pratchett approach.

I far prefer it when someone refers to themselves as the parent of a pet over when someone refers to the pet as a kid.

Ideally neither, but one is less off-putting than the other, IMHO.

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I still remember looking up alt codes on the character map.

I haven’t had to represent degrees in decades, but for some reason I remembered the code being 0961. According to this page it was 0176. What a classic blunder!

Here I thought that was the cleftal horizon.

I thought that was pretty typical.

This is how I feel any time I meet what might be either one or two people in disparate circumstances without context or preparation.

If it genuinely helped, I’m genuinely happy to have done so.

My shower door hasn’t shattered, but it has its own problems - I’m pretty sure the previous owner of the house tried to make it luxurious but had no idea what he was doing (as is tradition). Hoping I can learn some things about glass shower panes myself!

Excellent!