Wait, all these baby hippo posts have been a single baby hippo? I thought people were just posting cute baby hippos.

Despite new evidence to the contrary, I will continue to hold this false belief 🦛

And in the precise moment I saw this, I realized both of my monitors were displaying Excel on full screen. Sigh.

Holy frijoles

Me and my gf way back in the day trapped a stray kitten once.

It was living under a car. We put little piles of dry food out for it for a few days, gradually moving the pile further and further away from his hiding place. Then one day we made a little trail of food leading to a carry box that we filled with food. Once we heard it chomping away inside, we crept up and slammed the door shut. It felt like a scene out of a cartoon lol

Little thing freaked out and clawed at the door and cried for a while. But once we took it into the house and out of the summer heat, it was very happy.

Note, I am neither an experienced pet owner nor a trapper. I just like telling this story hehe

Edit: ...what pronouns do you use for a kitten from decades ago whose sex you don't remember?

Once the "weird" label took off, I thought it would lose some of its power because it was being used so much.

But damn. There's no other way to put it. This is weird.

My sense is it's getting at "what's an overated candy flavor"

I've been enjoying it. I'd recommend a try, but not for the full sticker price. I'm pretty sure there's a free demo available.

A simple start-to-finish (any%) run is super duper easy, but some of the mechanics are pretty fun and the cinematic element makes me smile a lot. But you could prolly get a good feel for the latter just watching videos of playthroughs.

However... A 100% run can be VERY frustrating. The cute cinematics are mostly unskippable -- you can't even button-mash to speed up the dialog. Also, the stages don't really allow for backtracking. So if you miss something, you have to start all the way back at the beginning. I got stuck on one stage and put off playing for weeks cuz it was so annoying. "Welcome to the Spooky Party", grrr...

Once I got past that though, it got fun again (and inspired this post hehe). The post-game challenges have been pretty neat so far.

7/10 new, 8/10 used, 9/10 borrowed from a friend for a weekend

I'm gonna make some hedgehog stew today

WHO IS THIS PERSON

I really wish the nomenclature was consistent. If you say "shreds", it'd better be documents in a literal paper shredder, perhaps in service of obstruction of justice.

If you're just referring to people saying "Trump bad", please use "slam" or "blast" so I know to ignore it.

Cornholio Paradox

I thought most hoes would be quite easy to plow

When referring to a difficult task: "That's a tough road to hold", or "a tough road to hoe", or "a tough road to [travel on]" or "a tough road to... [trails off awkwardly...]", or just "a tough road".

It's a tough row to hoe.

It's an agricultural metaphor. The row is a line of dirt in a field where you plant seeds. You use a hoe to dig the lines, remove weeds, and create little holes where you drop the seeds. Hoeing may be difficult if the soil is too hard or too full of rocks and weeds. Such a row would be a tough one to hoe.

They look like they'll glow and make a soft bell noise if I stand next to them and press "A".

To me, this says that your workplace has acknowledged and accepted that the way they do business is leading to burnout, at least for some people. But rather than using that as evidence that their business practices need to change, they've instead opted to individualize the problem. Our growth projections aren't unreasonably ambitious, you just need to do more deep breathing.

It's like how I'm told to take a vacation to relax, only to return to the same (or an even larger) pile of to-dos that I left behind.

Edit: If this resonates with you, check out the book "McMindfulness" by Ronald Purser.

Whatever it was, I forgot what it was today

Me, looking for technical writing jobs after writing a highly fucking technical dissertation: I have a PhD but I'm pretty burned out on being a try-hard so I'm just looking for a straightforward 9-to-5.

Them: We're worried you'll be bored.

Me: Anyone would get bored doing this, at least I'll be good at it.

Them: No.

He was a terrific athlete

That's fair. I won't dispute that sometimes they're helpful. If I spend more time typing the message than it'd take to just talk it out, then meeting up is a viable option.

But gosh, the number of meetings I've had where I send the email, we meet anyway, and I simply read the email to them and they go "Ohhhh"... Sigh.