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1mo ago
inVent: My shale layer mix-up cost me a whole day
Eh, it's just one day though, right?
1mo ago
inUnpopular opinion: My chat with a pitmaster turned into a sauce disaster
That sauce bottle might cost a fortune, as @sean_stone pointed out. But does spilling it really make a celebrity seem more like us? I don't buy it because they live in a different world where messes are cleaned up by staff. We project our own feelings onto these moments, but it's just a minor accident. Most of the time, they're probably annoyed but hide it for the camera. It's not some big reveal of their true self.
1mo ago
inMy neighbor's silence made me think they hated me.
At my last job, notes like that made things awkward. A simple 'thinking of you' is less pressure. Honestly, just being normal helps most.
1mo ago
inShoutout to the time my ladder slipped on wet leaves and I almost fell off a roof. Scared me straight.
My buddy Mark was cleaning his gutters last fall and his ladder was set on a patch of wet grass. The feet just kicked out from under him without any warning at all. He was left hanging onto the gutter for dear life, his feet dangling in the air. He managed to swing himself onto the porch roof but he was white as a sheet. He told me he replayed that feeling of the ladder going loose over and over for weeks. Now he checks the ground and uses standoffs every single time, no exceptions.
1mo ago
inMemory tests that needed hours to finish
Remember when waiting was part of the test itself.