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I'm not saying it's designed to annoy me specifically, but somehow my library's acoustics are piping somebody's earphone overflow into my office just loud enough to irk but not loud enough outside it for me to track down who it is.
September 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I'm not saying it's designed to annoy me specifically, but somehow my library's acoustics are piping somebody's earphone overflow into my office just loud enough to irk but not loud enough outside it for me to track down who it is.
On one hand, good for cleveland.com to admit the use of AI. on other hand, why is this buried at the bottom of the article and not in the byline? Also what assistance? What model? These things matter!
September 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
On one hand, good for cleveland.com to admit the use of AI. on other hand, why is this buried at the bottom of the article and not in the byline? Also what assistance? What model? These things matter!
Oh, cool, EBSCO, your new platform doesn't list volume or issue number in results page or item record. Super nice. Very useful. Not at all annoying.
September 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Oh, cool, EBSCO, your new platform doesn't list volume or issue number in results page or item record. Super nice. Very useful. Not at all annoying.
The context for this is a LDS theological stance that your ancestors are waiting the proxy ordinances you can submit their names for. But honestly, this ad sorta makes it sound like they are ghosts caught in your house. Also "Time is short. We are waiting" could be the tagline of a horror film.
August 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The context for this is a LDS theological stance that your ancestors are waiting the proxy ordinances you can submit their names for. But honestly, this ad sorta makes it sound like they are ghosts caught in your house. Also "Time is short. We are waiting" could be the tagline of a horror film.
If you want to see how dumb ChatGPT is and what people are saying is cool about it, check out these people awed by "secrets" told to them by models that read mostly like really, really bad self-help nonsense: www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...
I asked ChatGPT to tell me a secret that only it knows
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June 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If you want to see how dumb ChatGPT is and what people are saying is cool about it, check out these people awed by "secrets" told to them by models that read mostly like really, really bad self-help nonsense: www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...
We all know recipe writers lie about time for carmelizing onions, but why must they also lie about how much a serving of soup is? Every recipe that serves four makes like 5 quarts of soup.
June 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
We all know recipe writers lie about time for carmelizing onions, but why must they also lie about how much a serving of soup is? Every recipe that serves four makes like 5 quarts of soup.
This 1937 Time profile of a lady bank president is amazing. First of all what does "no gusher, she" even mean? It calls her "the prettiest" and comments on the color of her eyes. But the best bit is when you can practically hear her sigh when she says there are 75 other women bank presidents.
May 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This 1937 Time profile of a lady bank president is amazing. First of all what does "no gusher, she" even mean? It calls her "the prettiest" and comments on the color of her eyes. But the best bit is when you can practically hear her sigh when she says there are 75 other women bank presidents.
For a second I was confused about the upcoming biopic starring Eddie Redmayne and Tina Fey!
May 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
For a second I was confused about the upcoming biopic starring Eddie Redmayne and Tina Fey!
Bring back reporting like this!
May 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Bring back reporting like this!
Sure you all say you're going to flee to Canada as refugees, but is it a family tradition for you? Arza Judd, my 4th great-grandpa hopped across from Vermont in 1793 to "obtain His Majesties Protection".
May 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Sure you all say you're going to flee to Canada as refugees, but is it a family tradition for you? Arza Judd, my 4th great-grandpa hopped across from Vermont in 1793 to "obtain His Majesties Protection".
One slightly disarming thing about reviewing books is when they actually publish, it seems like it should have happened long ago--books I reviewed in January are just now appearing out in the wild.
May 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
One slightly disarming thing about reviewing books is when they actually publish, it seems like it should have happened long ago--books I reviewed in January are just now appearing out in the wild.
I had a joke about Penelope, but it didn't really suit her.
I had a joke about a fairy but she asked me for it
I had a joke about Ariadne and Theseus, but I lost the thread.
April 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I had a joke about Penelope, but it didn't really suit her.
In 1936, marketers really thought this is what "an ageless thirty-two" looked like. Just in case you're feeling like you're aging poorly!
March 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
In 1936, marketers really thought this is what "an ageless thirty-two" looked like. Just in case you're feeling like you're aging poorly!
Reading a book where the main character is in deep danger all the time, hiding a huge part of her identity and discovery means death. But she's also very hot to trot for get biggest threat. I have a hard time understanding this. Like, how much danger would it take for her to just chill out about it?
February 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Reading a book where the main character is in deep danger all the time, hiding a huge part of her identity and discovery means death. But she's also very hot to trot for get biggest threat. I have a hard time understanding this. Like, how much danger would it take for her to just chill out about it?
Growing up Mormon, I was taught that at the end of time, the US and Israel would face off against all the world in battle. The implication was that the US and Israel were the good guys. But, like, looking at things now: what if this is true but the US and Israel are actually the baddies?
February 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Growing up Mormon, I was taught that at the end of time, the US and Israel would face off against all the world in battle. The implication was that the US and Israel were the good guys. But, like, looking at things now: what if this is true but the US and Israel are actually the baddies?
The ways in which students shun splitting their responses into paragraphs makes me wonder how exactly a paragraph has hurt them in the past.
January 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The ways in which students shun splitting their responses into paragraphs makes me wonder how exactly a paragraph has hurt them in the past.
One thing I find annoying in fiction is not knowing when something is intentionally wrong to say something about a character or the author just made a mistake. Like, does this author think that Dylan Thomas was Irish or is he playing up the character not knowing he's Welsh.
January 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
One thing I find annoying in fiction is not knowing when something is intentionally wrong to say something about a character or the author just made a mistake. Like, does this author think that Dylan Thomas was Irish or is he playing up the character not knowing he's Welsh.
Banger of a closing line from Glorious Exploits: "For his master was ever in love with misfortune and believed the world a wounded thing that could only be healed by story".
December 31, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Banger of a closing line from Glorious Exploits: "For his master was ever in love with misfortune and believed the world a wounded thing that could only be healed by story".
I'm generally fairly open to differing opinions but am absolutely a fundamentalist about the muddle through line being the only right on in Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
December 23, 2024 at 10:53 PM
I'm generally fairly open to differing opinions but am absolutely a fundamentalist about the muddle through line being the only right on in Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
There is a real special kind of anguish of being both a student and a teacher during finals week. Annoyances and technical errors on both ends!
December 10, 2024 at 7:45 PM
There is a real special kind of anguish of being both a student and a teacher during finals week. Annoyances and technical errors on both ends!