David Croyle

#PhotoOfTheDay is a simple family selfie taken at Badwater Basin while spending several days camping, offroading and exploring in Death Valley, California back in 2012 I think. This is the lowest elevation in North America.

#photo #photography #DVNP #NationalPark #overland #RoadTrip #camping

Jan 26 at 5:50pmWeb
Show threadThat Dinkum ThinkumJan 26

@croyle Did someone make a multiplication instead of feet / 3 = meters calculation? And then engraved it into wood? No way it’s almost a km / 0.7 miles below sea level.

Lovely picture though, seems like a happy family day. I wish you many more.

Show threadDavid CroyleJan 26
@bigz The math looks ok to me. Did you miss seeing the decimal point in the 85.5m?
Show threadThat Dinkum ThinkumJan 26

@croyle Oh, there’s a tiny decimal point, yeah, I totally missed it.

And I’m biased by recent translation / engraving errors at my workplace: the sign from the image is meant to say “self service pickup”. How embarrassing 🫣

Show threadDavid CroyleJan 26

@bigz Haha, "self-employed" is pretty funny, but if it was at my workplace I'd be triggered too. :)

I could tell stories... Like the tech company I worked at that had an admin that sent an email to the whole company, complaining that the admins weren't consulted often enough on big business decisions, even though many of them were "collage" graduates.

I myself am guilty of a vast number of typos and such, but it's next-level to do it while inappropriately berating 500 co-workers...

Show threadThat Dinkum ThinkumJan 26
@croyle Yeah, unfortunate typos, tell me about it… once I printed a full workshop poster where one sentence said something like “Our lab made several testes before publishing the results”. It took some time until English speakers noticed it, everyone else simply saw “tests” as it was meant to be.
Show threadDavid CroyleJan 26
@bigz LOL!
Show threadfour.wheel.travel has moved!Jan 26

@croyle @bigz This reminds me of working at Electronic Arts in the UK in 1992. Email was just becoming a thing. Someone sent a message to the global company alias: "Keys found in the parking lot. Red keyring. Reply if yours."

It went to over 1,000 employees worldwide. The replies were hilarious.

Show threadDavid CroyleJan 26

@fourwheeltravel @bigz Same company, also in the 90s, a coworker had a slip that Repied All to a company-wide email that sent the message "R"... He endured the occasional joke (usually a pirate-like "ARRRRRR!") for years with good humor.

Good we can laugh about this sort of thing, especially when it's not actually our fault! 😆