Shai Norton

Shai is a data mechanic somewhere between 'once upon a time' and 'they killed it with fire'. That somewhere is only occasionally here. Y’all have fun!

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@SamSykesSwears How to become a bullshit artist on any subject for thirty minutes, in exchange for getting lost at least three times driving anywhere. GPS won’t help.

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@rdonoghue Mine is full of paint advertisements and “interior design resources”. I wonder if the Internet was listening to our conversations yesterday.

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@snidegrrl OMD, “Dreaming”. It’s still semi-stuck. :(

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@morganc14 @rdonoghue I loved it! My only complaint is that I should have waited a little longer after finishing Last Exit before I read Terry Miles’ Rabbits.

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@rfrancis Sure! Absolutely normal.

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@vjkehr @shannonstacey Or a writing shed with heat and AC?

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@jonrog1 RWW Greene’s 25 to Life. It’s closer to 20 years out, scoped local (US) to the runaway protagonist, and focused on societal response to climate change. It is full of small-scale despair and the hope isn’t grand, but I found it a decent brain cleaner between heavy science books.

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@humanworkplace @LisaTsering I also ran into Strengths Finder in a university management communications class. The assignment was to take it, review the results, and report on I could leverage the findings into improving my communications skills. Is that a common practice?

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@LisaTsering @humanworkplace I have been asked to take the Myers-Briggs and the Clifton Strengths Finder tests multiple times. No one has yet to ask for my natal data so they can plot my star chart, but it would not surprise me.

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@ce_murphy Flogged! (At least that’s how we described rooster attacks when I was a kid.)

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@shannonstacey I just read this and thought “Bad Idea Rodeo”.

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@StobiesGalaxy Xenobotany with a minor in Planetary Systems Engineering so I can slide into a sweet contractor job once I have had too many ship-eating psychic plant related adventures.

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@PrinceJvstin Oooh, shiny. Book 3, you say? Alright, time to wander off and pick up Books 1 and 2. Thanks for the rec!

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@Julie_Kovash @humanworkplace So it’s not just me. I’ve gotten pitches for age-capped internships (top limit: 30) and nuclear engineering roles. I’m not 30. The only radioactive materials I have experience handling are IT system outage reports.

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@tomlommel @rdonoghue Would modifying a rocket launcher to shoot books at people be considered “hitting”? Asking for a friend.

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@NBoekel @KathyApplebaum @LRistau117 @yrfatfriend @UnderArmour @pearlizumi Huh. I didn’t know UA made sports bras in extended sizes. Thanks for the tip, @NBoekel ! (My current go-to is the Brooks Maia, which kinda fits me like armor.)

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@boymonster We eat around a table pretty much three times a day. Lunch and breakfast aren’t always together, but dinner usually is.

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@garethlpowell The Thieves’ World anthology/game/comic universe.

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@poetastrologers Can’t say yet. Experiment’s still running. We’re in year 27, and while the preliminary results are amazing, neither one of us understands why. It will require more study.

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@megelison I bow down. And take notes.