I made friends in my department at work today when out of frustration I googled how to convert all caps text into lower case text. We spend a lot of time copying large chunks of text from a goverment website where it's in all caps, and then editing bits and peices of it. It looks like shit in all caps, so we want to convert it to lower case to look nice for the clients.

Anyway, you just select the text and hit shift-F3. And you can keep doing it to toggle back and forth.

It sounds dumb but it's a nice trick when you need it.

Are you working in Word? There's a button you can select to convert text to all upper or lower case, sentence case, initial caps, etc.

https://imgur.com/9i2obHU

Yep that does the same thing. Except I seem to always be under the wrong tab and that button isn't visible until I click around to get to the correct tab.

Yep, you have to click on the Home tab to get to the font stuff. :)

Canada, you is fucked up, man. WTF you be selling milk in a bag for?!

Milk.

In a bag.

It's in a bag.

It's in a fucking bag.

Ima go to the sto.

Bring back a bag o' milk.

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The only time I wanna see milk in a bag is when I'm looking at a cow.

Or Hustler magazine.

we have milk in a bag here at Kwik Trip.

I do not drink milk fast enough to leave it in an open pitcher once I've opened the bag.


And I'm not into the excess packaging required for small bags, though I guess some research could be done into what goes into a half-gallon waxed cardboard container compared to 8 one-cup bags. The bags may well win out.

It would have to be a pretty heavy plastic bag because of the handing, a baggie won't cut it.

split milk is a pita! gets all stinky right quick

They have special holders for the bags. I visited my brother in Ottawa for Xmas last year and got to try these milk bags out.

To be honest, I prefer a plastic jug or cardboard carton.

This world is a strange and beautiful thing.

Strange, but, beautiful.

In descending preference:
Glass
Carton
Plastic
Baggie

Seriously, if it isn't glass you can taste it in the milk.

Could be same reason that coffee only tastes the best in a porcelain cup?

Milk. Kentucky Headhunters. My haid works like this sometimes:



Stay til the break.:D

Yuh left teat off the list for a reason?

no respect for the classics
 

I haz that CD in a box somewhere.

I knew my memory was going.

Poop molecule update.
https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/...098-8/fulltext

Poop molecules from flushing give us a regular low dose to keep our immune system polished and ready to fight a major immersion during some kinkier aspects of our sex lives.

The first time I clicked Griff's link, I got a Sorry That article/page doesn't exist. X'ed that page, clicked the link again, and got there w/no trouble.

Fourteen dollars will give me access to the article.

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Go figger.

For $14, someone better come to my house and read it to me.

Naked.

Ya can get the gist of the piece, though.

Today, Christmas if ya got lost;), I learned about Pancho Claus.

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Today I learned about Lester Wunderman.

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Ol' Les was an ad man. A great ad man, apparently.

He and two associates opened Wunderman, Ricotta & Kline in 1958 with no clients. They billed out $2 million in the first year. 1958 dollars.

Among the things they came up with were direct marketing (Les basically invented this, we know it as junk mail), the Columbia Record Club, the toll-free 1-800 number (?), the magazine subscription card, the postal ZIP Code system (?), and the customer rewards program.

Making me feel kinda, idk, less.<---See what I did there?:D

Ol' Les died January 9. At 98 years of age.

No Les, no more.

Well of course not, what with the government shutdown and all.

TIL Nickel Back is a thing in football, not just a band.

+5 for no soccer/football comment.:)

Today I learned:

From here. Yeah, Wiki, it ain't.

There’s some 63,000 licensed gun dealers, more than twice McDonald’s+Starbucks.

Burglaries of federal firearms licensees increased, from 377 in 2012, to 577 in 2017.

Between 2012 and 2017, burglars stole more than 33,000 guns from dealers.

Stolen firearms bring the highest price in CA, NJ, NY, and New England.

Only CA, CT, MN, and NJ laws require gun stores to use physical security measures. :eyebrow:

That's surprising.

Maybe gun shops in states that do not require physical security measures do have them to reduce possible break ins per insurance requirements?

Most often I see walk in safes with BIG bank style doors. These places are not in those blue states.

Must be the small shops skimp on the physical security? Or maybe Walter White types overcome the vaults.

Or maybe the whole thing is a kickback scam so they can sell to people they know they aren't supposed to.

Anyone can register to become a FFL dealer, in ten easy steps. You don't need an actual store.

Yes, the Insurance companies are putting the most pressure on them.
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Big outfits don't want to take the time and trouble to lock everything up when they're closed

Right, my ex-roommate sold out of his house until he got a DUI and the township yanked his licence.

Warning hearsay:
A little backwoods gunshop across the border had a suspicious fire. They had little security and terrible book-keeping. The book-keeping issue was previously exposed by a guy walking into the shop holding the door for a guy coming out having just bought the first guys rifle which was in for repairs...

That doesn't sound like a good business model.

I had a guy try to hire me to trim his neighbor's tree, which was clearly on the other side of the fence. The neighbor's fence, too.

I told him as long as the neighbor didn't mind, I didn't care who paid for it. Neighbor did not want the tree trimmed.

I made 300 bucks across the street, though.:jig:

Why not? The thief got a fully refurbished weapon for the cost of some small repair, maybe under $100--plus the shop now only has the rightful owner's ID, not the thief's.

No, they should have the ID of the guy they sold it to. He wasn't picking up a repair job he was buying a used rifle... at least that's what I got from the hearsay.

this

But then where's the bookkeeping issue? I guess he was attempting to buy a used rifle from the store's inventory, but the salesperson got confused and accidentally sold him a rifle that was only supposed to be there for repairs?

It was a one man operation, bookkeeping error is me not accusing the owner of larceny. The fire makes people suspicious.

So, I was reading about the gila monster...

Today I Learned:

~Wiki

Today I learned the words represented by the acronym YouTube channel title

AvE

Arduino versus Evil

Knit The Temperature, Precious!
 

I've been up ten minutes, and already I've learned something. Besides that I shouldn't have gotten up to begin with. Ow.


This morning I've already learned about The Tempestry Project. Ow.

To whet the appetite, the word tempestry is a portmanteau of the words temperature and tapestry. Ow.


Below are tempestries for Deception Pass, Washington, for the years 1950 - 2017 (left to right):

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Each day's high temp is represented by a different color, with January 1st at the bottom and December 31 at top.

Ow.

A few years are not represented in the above tempestry.

That word still sounds like 'the study of storms' to me.

Here's an interesting comparison between Utqiagvik, Alaska (on the left, L-R, 1925, 2010, 2016) and Death Valley, California (on the right L—R: 1950, 2016):

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[drift]
I'm camping at Deception Pass next month with my BIL, A.
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Take a scarf, and lookout for drifts.

a new word. Paronomasia. I can't believe I never came across this before....

I lost one of my Nomasias on 9/11. I no longer have a paro them.

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Today I learned about whiskey stones.

Chill the stones in your freezer, cool your drink without watering it down.

Gives new meaning to "On the rocks." :D

Today I also learned that the novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (that the movie was loosely based on) was written by Ian Fleming (I learned that watching Jay Leno's Garage on YouTube).

And that the name of the book was derived from a lewd/bawdy WWI barracks song. But I can find only mentions that there is a song, can't find the lyrics.

I did find that chitty bang bang referred to the paper pass (chit) you had to have to leave the barracks in order to visit the brothel.

We find scammers pretty quick on this site.

Move along, you won't do any business here.

Yesterday I learned that in The Breakfast Club, Carl the janitor was the high school's "Man of the Year 1969"... a fact which is slyly revealed during the film's opening montage.

The reveal happens for two seconds at 2:48 in this opening, do forward to near the spot



I captured the frame of it.

http://cellar.org/img/manoftheyear1969.jpg

Muh man CARL. Man of the Year.

I think I knew that.

How to vacuum a fish tank and change the filter. I should have learned ages ago, but today I did it.

Today, I learned...
 

...that after about a week of investigatin', professional car mechanics are no closer to identfying what ails my car than they were from the start.

Modern cars are awesome until they break.

yep