@matigo "We'll get it to you at all costs!*"
*Even if that means dragging you away from dinner.
@matigo Apparently there's a strike today, so the office was running on ~1/3 power.
At best, it's slow. Today was quite unbearable. I would have been very annoyed if I'd wasted an hour of a sunny day. That's why I decided to do it on a rainy day.
@height8 I worry mainly because I risk getting dragged into that kind of mentality as well, what with there being a general fear of .txt files and everyone expecting to receive things in .doc(x). If I didn't know about pandoc, for example…
8 policemen sitting in a van eating lunch.
Would be normal, but it's one of 2 vans (of about 10, all parked together on the side of the road) that has its siren lights on.
Sigh.
@matigo yes, because sunny days are for long walks and photos, not being inside waiting for models of incompetence to sort their lives out.
Oh, huh, could pick up my renewed visa today. It's a rainy day and I have lots of work to do, and the rest of the week is predicted to be very sunny. So I really might.
Translation homework: translate a literary extract. 2 sentences, 190 words.
Sigh.
@height8 I could, but I sent him a PDF once and he asked if I could send it in Word, totally unaware that PDFs support annotations as well.
Given that Word is the one format I try to avoid even as an intermediate…
I just don't get how academics like him — he's not even that old, he's in his late 30s or early 40s from what I've deduced from our conversations, and he only defended his PhD in 2011 — can have such workflows.
Prof: Do you have it in a format easier to read than a txt file?
This data is a collection of 75 Facebook posts with Markdown headers containing date and name for each post.
This hours after he sent me an email saying that that data would probably be useless for my dissertation.
I don't get it. I really don't. Headers aside — and those can very safely be ignored without consequence — none of it is my own content. What formatting can I possibly do?
Replied and told him to open it in Word if that made it easier for him to read.
I suspect it opened in a text editor with a monospace font and he got…confused. The poor soul.
Sigh.