This was well before there was a cloud.
That’s what I do but I do it down low where nobody will see 
They missed out on the chance to call it the “Double Sixth-Pounder” and get everyone expecting a mountain of meat.
And where
“A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter”
Engineers are familiar with the right hand rule for vector multiplication. Since most screw threads are right-handed, the RHR is also useful for understanding which way to turn a nut or bolt:
- Point thumb of right hand in direction you want the nut or bolt to move.
- Clench other four fingers of right hand into a fist.
- Fingers indicate which way to rotate nut or bolt to achieve movement in direction indicated by thumb.
Exception is left-handed fasteners, which are sometimes used on rotating machinery (e.g. the left pedal of a bicycle).
Obligatory XKCD reference:
Also mentioned in the the Psychology Today article cited upthread:
Which is how Mrs Piper gives me driving instructions when she’s in charge of the map. Or “Your side” / “my side”. Much more effective than “left” or “right”.
My son is dyslexic, and he does this too.
Of course, we drive on the left side of the road, from the right-hand seat. But I guess that doesn’t make much difference?
If we had to give my dad immediate directions, left/right did no good. “Turn east now!” was better, or “Tack to starboard!” (ol’ WWII Navy man…)
Apparently sometimes “change” means " type in your old password as the new one" and then " type in your old password to confirm it’s the new one" - because using the same password has worked for me more than once
When I’m in a car, I remember:
Right turn = easy
Left turn = watch out you don’t get killed.
He’s turning left. Good luck everybody!
You usually are blocked from using the same password. It’s basic security, though some organizations don’t do security well.
I’ve had coworkers that often need to calculate pretty simple things like markups and discounts and can’t do it without a percent button on a calculator. Mark up a $250 item 35%? 250 x 1.35. They simply couldn’t see how it worked.
I am a teacher. My coworkers all have graduate degrees.
I once was discussing the barriers some of my students have and that many don’t know simple everyday things that we all take for granted. The example I used was a 17yo girl who did knot know how address an envelope for mailing, where to put the stamp, or how to write a return address.
One of my fellow teachers then said that he didn’t know that either.
Uh…
How old was the other teacher? Writing a letter is a lost art for the new crop of young adults. Bills are paid online.
I used to have a hard time knowing where to put the return address, but then I realized it was the part of the envelope that I usually ripped up when opening a letter.
I work building services, and unfortunately our work order software allows the tenants, who usually have a “facilities” person on their staff whose duty it is to report deficiencies to the building, to choose what category to put things under. Hence they’ll choose Security for a funny smell, fr’example. Or they’ll skip what should be obvious: they’ll scroll right past “Locksmith” in the pulldown menu and submit a request for keys under “Miscellaneous.”
One tenant kept putting burned out lights under “Electrical - No Power” which is the category that’s supposed to be used for tripped breakers. I called to tell him he could choose “Lights to be replaced” and he insisted “But these are electric lights!” Biting back some serious levels of sarcasm, I calmly told him, “I think you’ll find that all the lights in this building run off of electricity.”
I still don’t know how many of our tenants choose their facilities people, as few of them understand even rudimentary basics of simple office maintenance.
Sounds great at first, but then people get underwhelmed by what they thought would be a mountain of meat, bad word of mouth gets around and bad reviews flood the web, and A&W goes right back to square one.
We played “garage hockey,” and I naturally played left-handed even though I’m completely right-handed otherwise. I always wore my wristwatch on my right wrist, because I was copying my dad, and he was left-handed.