On Ask a Manager: Great reply-all email catastrophes.
Ask a Manager is a website where I can get lost even worse than on TV Tropes.
When I get stuck on a reply-all chain, I perpetuate the catastrophe with feigned innocence.
On Reddit:
I had to make a tough decision today and need someplace private to let my emotions out. Is there a good place to do so with having little chance of stumbling upon other people? Home is not an option.
Explained further here.
My previous post was a subtweet (sub-Thread?) to a Threads friend who frequently posts about their generational identity. But it’s a friendly sub-Thread, because I like this person, though I don’t know them well. I enjoy their posts. I don’t want to be argumentative.
It seems odd to me to identify tribally with a particular generation. Boomers, GenX, Millennials — it all seems random.
However, I am on the cusp between Gen X and the Boomers, and some generational researchers say that people born on the cusp of generations tend to be outliers. We outliers tend not to identify with the generation we technically belong to, and we are also skeptical of generational differences.
So maybe my skepticism about generations is just typical of my generation.
Purdue University gives itself a Wi-Fi glow-up — CIO Ian Hyatt describes how the IT department revamped Purdue’s outdated Wi-Fi, turning tech troubles into top-tier connectivity and quieting Reddit complaints. My latest on Fierce Network.
“Farewell, My Lovely” is the best movie we’ve seen in a while. Released 1975, set in LA 30 years earlier, and dripping with noir. Robert Mitchum is a perfect Philip Marlowe. Also featuring Jack O’Halloran, best known as the giant dimwitted criminal henchman of General Zod in “Superman II,” as the giant dimwitted criminal Moose Malloy. Also featuring Charlotte Rampling, who recently played the Reverend Mother in “Dune Part 2,” Sylvia Miles, Harry Dean Stanton, and Sylvester Stallone, before “Rocky” and before bulking up. I don’t think Stallone has any lines; he has a small but important role.
The IMDB trivia page is worth reading, as is Wikipedia, starting here.
Thanks, @bitdepth!
Things that don’t work: 31. “Waiting…. if you really want to do something, don’t wait for some unspecified time when it’s more convenient and then watch that time recede before you.”