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varve Jan 11, 2023

@kinetix someone who's worried about using all their paid sick days for the year in January...

varve Jan 10, 2023

@burdock I always got my best bokeh at max zoom, min focus length, regardless of aperture :) had some fun with a 200mm telezoom, taking a photo of a bumblebee 10 ft away, and getting it in focus by leaning forward and back.

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varve Jan 10, 2023

@kinetix I think it was a recommendation, not an order. Also the supervisor doesn't really have power, he's just out contact for coordinating work. The manager above him is the one with power.

varve Jan 10, 2023

A couple of coworkers are sick. At work. And while they're wearing a mask while actually working, they are taking the mask off to eat.

I have no idea if it's covid or not, but covid went around work back in May and everyone came to work sick until they got a positive covid test, at which point they'd infected a bunch of people already. And I would have caught it in the lunchroom, because we all have to take the masks off to eat.

The supervisor told them to go home, but they won't. We do have paid sick days. Not a lot, but some. So instead of them using a few of their sick days they'd rather make other people sick.

Argh.

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varve Jan 8, 2023

@secret_tomi yeah I'm not fast either, hehe

The triathlon I did had its swim in a pool, so I have no idea about open water. I saw someone mention ages ago how their strategy for open water races was to start on the outside edge of the group - slightly longer swim, in exchange for less chance of being kicked in the face in a mass start. That description made a mass start open water swim distinctly unappealing to me...

The most memorable part of transitions for me was going from swim, to walking to the bikes. I almost fell over. It apparently is normal for legs to take a minute to get used to walking again. (By the time I got to the bikes, my legs were fine.) But I literally got out of the pool, started walking towards the exit, and almost fell back in the pool.

varve Jan 8, 2023

@secret_tomi I did a sprint triathlon once! I found the hardest part to be the swimming. But I also found that the other two got faster, faster than I expected, when my swimming improved. Swimming is an amazing workout, even if laps are super boring.

I signed up for a training workshop though, so we had a swim coach and also were taught a bit about transitions between modes.

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varve Jan 8, 2023

@cleonyc @prehensile

Ooh! the combination lock magic is something I ran across years ago. Let me dig it up...

https://woodgears.ca/combolock/

This woodworker built a single dial combination lock mechanism out of wood, oversized, and with exposed mechanism to show how it works. The page and photos show how turning the dial only in a certain way unlocks the lock.

Wooden combination lock

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varve Jan 8, 2023

@elialeth honestly with only the context of the transcript that you posted, it sounded to me like he was using it in the derogatory sense, entirely. Not in the pretending to be inclusive sense.

I have no idea if there is more context to the podcast where the speaker tries to establish that he's leftist or inclusive or anything.

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varve Jan 8, 2023

@cinebox @rinidisc ahhh, might explain why I haven't seen it. My mac is almost 13 years old now and can't run anywhere close to the latest version.

varve Jan 8, 2023

What's happening over there?

#caturday

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