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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I don’t like wearing pants much, usually only when it’s really cold or something formal. At my previous job I was the only person who wore shorts. Some people from the sales department were jealous because they weren’t allowed to wear them.

    I had planned that if they tried to enforce it with us that I’d swap to kilts, and if that was a problem I’d have demanded that the ladies not wear skirts or dresses as that would be sexist.

    I quit before it came to that, but a few more people started wearing shorts before I’d left, and that was enough.


  • From Wikipedia:

    In Hinduism, the right-facing symbol (clockwise) (卐) is called swastika, symbolizing surya (‘sun’), prosperity and good luck, while the left-facing symbol (counter-clockwise) (卍) is called sauvastika, symbolising night or tantric aspects of Kali.

    I thought the big difference came down to the direction it was facing, but turns out both directions are the Hindu way with different meaning. And depending which side of the cake or the slice you look at it will be both ways. The other distinction between the two is that the Nazi one is usually tilted to 45 degrees.














  • Huh, I never knew the word for it. Thank you.

    My wife has said many times, to me and others, that she thinks I have a form of face blindness. I don’t think I do.

    It came up because every time someone said something like “doesn’t X look like Y when they were little?”, and I’d respond that I don’t see it. So many people say my kids are a splitting image of me… Nope, I don’t see that.

    I recognise people I know in photos, new or old photos, usually without issue.

    I do however often think an actor is someone they aren’t. “Hey, is that the person from this other movie”, my wife: “what?! No! They don’t even look alike”. And sometimes I’ll ask her if a random person looks like this or that person, usually with the same response, sometimes a strange look and “are you feeling ok?”.

    Anyway, these guys should team up on a project. /s