Note, of course, that this “Yesterday” was back in February 2010. Nothing about search engines has really changed, though.
To me, this is the profound message in this thread. Who determines when a behavior transitions into “no longer needed”, and how is it communicated to the greater world? If you are not in-the-loop, so to speak, you would have no way of knowing you may/can/should/must change.
To me, this is the profound message in this thread. Who determines when a behavior transitions into “no longer needed”, and how is it communicated to the greater world? If you are not in-the-loop, so to speak, you would have no way of knowing you may/can/should/must change.
I continue to do it because the bacon half-slices are easier to control and cause less twisting/curling and a more even doneness. Although I always use thick cut, which also helps with that.
This is what we have the Dope and these threads for :).
I’m a double spacer after a period. It was how I learned in what must have been one of the last typing-on-typewriters classes ever taught in about 1995. I’m also inconsistent on the Oxford comma, usually without. First, second and third.
I’ve got to tell my kids all their derision is paying off!
Now that they’re grown and gone, this place helps, too… the trick is changing habits when you learn they’re unneeded.
The Dope: Improving Your Life by Mocking Your Behaviors!
In some systems you still have to.
And you know what? It’s still Ok, and totally harmless.
On I5, The Grapevine, Caltrans has signs suggesting this.
Spelling the word “behavior” with a ‘u’. 
I managed to improve a lot processes at where I started worked a few years ago simply because I was new and questioned absolutely everything they did that I thought didn’t make sense; they simply had been doing certain things some ways for so long they didn’t think about why they were still doing it. Obviously nothing that would make sense to anyone outside the office, so it’s hard to describe specifics other than a lot of files were being shuffled around many more times than necessary, and I came up with a plan to stop most of the shuffling that led to things taking longer.
Double spacing after sentences is just instinctive if that’s how you’ve always done things, and because it doesn’t matter one bit, there’s nothing pushing anyone to change. I would have to concentrate really hard not to do it.
I recall there was someone I was acquainted with that also said “Gesundheit” when people sneezed, since it made much more sense to generically wish someone good health than say “Bless you”, and I don’t think they knew much more German.
If you are American, you may spell “behavior” without the ‘u’
If you are ANYWHERE ELSE in the universe, “behaviour” should be spelt with the ‘u’.
And note that is “spelt”, not “spelled”. Again, unless you are American in which case you are allowed to cast spells on words as you like.
It’s just typed with a Lawn Gisland accent, that’s all.
I decided to check whether Canadians spell words like “behavior/behavior” and “spelled/spelt” in the American way or the British way. Actually, Canadians spell the first one in the British way and the second one in the American way. So it is not true that anywhere outside of the U.S. the British spelling of words is used. Here’s a guide to Canadian, British, and American spelling:
But it does matter. As I pointed out before, it’s the only way we have to distinguish between the end of a sentence and an abbreviation. The biggest effect it has for me is without the second space it becomes impossible to get an accurate sentence count.
For publishing adherence to the two space convention would make it easier for the software to determine how much space between two words. There are numerous Wikipedia articles, like Dwight D. Eisenhower, where readability could be much improved by making that distinction.
Not on Thongat Prime, where it is spelled with a ~. 
Since when are we talking about wheat?
Same here in Arizona. I-17 just out of town has a grade gentler and shorter than The Grapevine but thanks to the hotter climate there are big, yellow signs at the foot of the grade,
AIR CONDITIONING
OFF
At the top of the grade is a rest stop with water available and you always see people patiently putting water in so they can continue their journey. I don’t know how many of them paid no attention to the sign and paid the price.
We almost paid the price. Last summer we were touring by car leaving Death Valley and I ignored the signs … hopelessly, old fashioned … signs must be left over from the 70s.
Well, part way out, the car flashed warnings on my dash indicating that it was cutting power to avoid over heating etc. We rolled the windows down, turned off the AC, took the first turn off we could find. I was terrified I’d wrecked the car 1500 miles from home.
There were other signs after that which I scrupulously obeyed … and I will in the future.
Two things:
- I think it is probable the car’s computer saved us.
- I’m guess cars with a higher power-to-weight ratio can get on fine. I saw several sports cars cruising by with their windows up. I’m guessing a mustang with, say, 500 HP can easily pull this off over a Ford Escape with 200 HP.
Our newest vehicle has a 17,000* mile oil change cycle. The dealer’s service department strongly disagrees and insists on 7,000. I split the difference and change it at 10,000. We’ll see what happens I guess.
*This is when the oil change light comes on.
As far as old behaviors, I went waaay out on a limb and made scrambled eggs without adding milk to the mixing bowl. They tasted exactly the same to me, yet my parents would be horrified at this.