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I stood for about 30 minutes today. Thanks y’all.
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I stood chatting with someone at lunch for thirty minutes and when we’d finished I thought, “at least I don’t need to lift my desk again now I’ve got my standing done.”
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I just watched a movie where a man was standing for probably 30 minutes worth of the film. Ran for a lot of it, too. Does that count for anything?
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Most people whose desks I look at have their computer monitors too low. Standing makes this more obvious. When I got my first proper standing desk at work, we had to track down some monitor arms to that had a much higher lift to get them at the right height. (The general rule ergo people trot out is ‘top of monitor at eye level. I think that’s too low, especially for big monitors, I want it about three inches higher, which lets me look at the whole thing without moving my head, and keeps me standing straight, and not hunching forward.)
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I’ve seen “eye level about a third of the way down the screen” as a counsel of perfection.
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Somebody complaining about the dire probably-AI mural in Kingston-on-Thames: “It’s mixing up Christmas and religion!”
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Live feed of this year’s Gävle Goat, which has been surviving pretty well recently.
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Love this so much
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can someone explain to me what I am looking at?
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The “repeated destruction by fire” section is the most relevant
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lol … so the live stream is so everyone can watch it burn down, yes?
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And also to celebrate that it hasn’t been burned yet.
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That, pal, is a nest.
I’m not saying you should apply a stethoscope to that “sink” but it’s an option.
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Ha, from FB memories:
"Ben built a pretty tough pigpen.
He didn’t have the tough trough thought through though."
(That’s “tuff troff thort threw tho”.)
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Was making a cup of coffee this morning in the work kitchen when someone else appeared. I half heard a “Morning Tom” before I realised they were talking to me.
Pleasantries were exchanged and holiday plans were discussed.
Couldn’t tell you who the person was. Didn’t recognise them at all. They obviously thought they knew me.
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I think the tell was that they said “Morning, Tom,” instead of “Morning, Tomm.”
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I spotted where they were sitting and had a snoop on the desk booking system so I know their name now.
Don’t think we’d ever talked face to face before yesterday but we did exchange emails in 2021.
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I’ve read an article today that, if true, then the “”“really interesting”“” chain of events that is happening in the Caribbean will become a real deal. As in, it’s not a bluff at all.
And instead of talking about that, I have some interesting historical reads for today:
Theodore Roosevelt - Wikipedia
Foreign policy beliefs of Teddy Roosevelt
In the analysis by Henry Kissinger, Roosevelt was the first president to develop the guideline that it was the duty of the United States to make its enormous power and potential influence felt globally. The idea of being a passive “city on the hill” model that others could look up to, he rejected. Roosevelt, trained in biology, was a social Darwinist who believed in survival of the fittest. The international world in his view was a realm of violence and conflict. The United States had all the economic and geographical potential to be the fittest nation on the globe.[334] The United States had a duty to act decisively. For example, in terms of the Monroe Doctrine, the United States had to prevent European incursions in the Western Hemisphere. But there was more, as he expressed in his Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine: the U.S. had to be the policeman of the region because unruly, corrupt smaller nations had to be controlled, and if United States did not do it, European powers would in fact intervene and develop their own base of power in the hemisphere in contravention to the Monroe Doctrine.[335]
Roosevelt was a conservative realist in his foreign policy approach.[336] He deplored many of the increasingly popular idealistic liberal themes, such as were promoted by William Jennings Bryan, the anti-imperialists, and Woodrow Wilson. Kissinger says he rejected the efficacy of international law. Roosevelt argued that if a country could not protect its own interests, the international community could not help very much. He ridiculed disarmament proposals that were increasingly common. He saw no likelihood of an international power capable of checking wrongdoing on a major scale.
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