@height8 txtfobia, surely, with roots in txtspeak? :P

"We'll get it to you at all costs!*"

*Even if that means dragging you away from dinner.

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.

and they were beautifully crafted.

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.