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[kaberett]

I spent a significant chunk of today catching up with all the Miscellaneous that had showed up in my work e-mail since I last felt up to paying attention to it, amounting to approximately four hundred unread e-mails, none of which needed action from me but all of which I wanted to check--

-- to find this glorious frustration about how we talk about time elapsed linked to. I am charmed by the ratings. I have giggled a lot.

Comments

[tei]

I am intruiged by "calibrated kiloyears before present." Calibrated... to or by what?

[kaberett]

Specified in the individual papers! Probably. :)

[alexwlchan]

amounting to approximately four hundred unread e-mails

I have Reviewer 2 on the phone, apparently the preferred term is “four centi-unread emails”.

[davidgillon]

snigger.

[kaberett]

ptttttttb

<3

[redbird]

Even knowing why, I continue to be amused by "where present is 1950 AD."

[kaberett]

I know! I am so CHARMED by it.

[cesy]

Delightful!

[jeshyr]

That was surprisingly interesting! ❤️ Thank you

[lokifan]

LOLLLL my fave was "millennia" getting "okay" and then "millenia" getting "no".

[kaberett]

RIGHT. :D

[silveradept]

That is a delightful paper, and seems like the sort of thing that everyone laughs at and then starts using, like "thagomizer".

[wolby]

I loved how it went increasingly ranty and incoherent as the page went on. Thank you for linking this.

[kaberett]

You are very welcome! I felt a great affinity with the Ranting About Something Pointless And Ultimately Harmless train. ;)