Heh, more than enough to keep me away!
It did occur to me that that might not exactly be an attractant!
– if you’ve got kids, though, “oh good, there’s still a clean onesie” has probably still affected you, though.
The last couple of baby showers i went to were all baby books. It was kind of fun to see what everyone’s favorite books for little kids were
When I spent my summer weekends working at the Renaissance Faire in the ‘90s, we hung out with a lot of the musicians, and sang a lot of songs that were commonly performed there (a mix of Irish and Scottish folk songs, and modern “rennie” music). "The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond" was one of the songs we often sang, so I recognized the “high road/low road” reference immediately.
What happened this week that more people have heard of slack?
I read about it for the first time in the twitter thread. Apparently twitter turned off slack. I had to google to figure out what they were talking about, and it seems like it’s a thing I should have known.
In what Twitter thread? I have used slack, and it’s my husband’s primary chat tool at work. But i still have no idea why it was in the news.
This is what I was referring to. It’s from a “Now that Musk owns Twitter” thread in the pit.
My gf uses Slack for work (advertising). We have identical iPhones. Sometimes I’ll pick hers up accidentally and the entire screen is filled with Slack notifications.
So far the poll results are confirming my worst fears. I’m once again the last person to have heard of something fairly commonplace.
FWIW, we use “Teams” for what appears to be a similar function.
Same here at our ad agency. I know of Slack, but have never been in an organization which used it.
A few years ago the company I was working for introduced Slack. It seemed like most of the younger engineers, whose lives revolved around social media, liked it, while the older engineers who were used to communication by email, hated it. I was in the latter camp, and I actually refused to use it. I told people if they wanted to contact me, send me an email. With email, I can answer it when I’m free to do so, not interrupt my train of thought in the middle of a debugging session, and I can spend the time to do the necessary research to give you a complete answer, not just whatever I can come up with off the top of my head at this moment.
As for the movie question - depends on how many points I have. If I have a ton of points in the movie, I’ll go for the box office smash that everyone hates. Pecunia non olet. My artistic soul will just have to be salved by buttloads of filthy lucre.
If all I get is my up front pay, then I’d go for the critic’s darling.
Two “it depends” re the movie poll:
Do I think they’re right to hate the movie, or do I think it’s a really good movie?
How much does this affect my finances? If it doesn’t succeed at the box office, is that going to mean that I’ll wind up homeless and unable to make any more movies? Or is it just ‘oh well, this one bombed financially but a lot of people loved it; on to the next one’?
In retrospect I should have said “box office hit but lacks artistic merit”, which is really the sort of thing I was thinking of (art-versus-commerce). But you can’t edit the options in a poll.
Yeah, that. You can recover.
The data scientists working for me used Slack, and I dipped in from time to time to see what was shaking. But not a persistent user.
Thanks. Have voted accordingly (I’ll take the good movie people didn’t want to pay for.)
– I have a vague idea who some of them are, but no idea how they originally became famous. Didn’t vote.
Just to be clearer on Joyce Brothers, contestants were allowed to know in advance what their topic would be, so she and a producer agreed that it would be fun to have her do the hypermasculine sport of boxing. She had great memory, and studied her brains out, and won the $64,000.
I picked a box office smash that everyone hated, because that’s not really what’s going to happen.
Despite what some posters assume, you can’t have a box office smash if it is universally disliked. You can have a box office smash that “everyone I know” hates, which you may want to define as “everyone”. But I don’t.
You can however have a box office failure that is universally loved by everyone who sees it. (Currently, an example is The Quiet Girl, 97% Critics, 91% Audience at Rotten Tomatoes, and is Oscar nominated)
I picked it for a different reason. I’m not a movie maker. I have no talent or passion to make a great movie. If I make one, it’s for the money. It wouldn’t hurt my feelings one bit if everyone hated it.