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This game is craaazzzzzy.

It is LOUD in the neighborhood right now. LOUD.

This game is craaazzzzzy.

#all of this sportsball makes me miss the golden age of twitter.#I don’t like it when it feels like officiating is playing such a big role in the outcome

That right there is why having a larger tournament was a good decision.

A little mola mola for my HLM @texnessa on Voldemort Day.

This guy was actually a lot bigger, he was just on the other side of the tank.

Miss you, boo.

#mola no mola #the tank’s a lot bigger on the inside #monterey bay aquarium #texnessa

Why is family so hard. I sincerely like a lot of my family but the group dynamic is sometimes just way too much.

At what point do you stop worrying about whether your kid makes it to their destination. Is this a forever thing?

#I know she’s a good driver #but there’s a lot that’s not in your control on the road

It's my 16 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

Whoa.

I miss you guys!

#remember when tumblr was mainly skarsgardlandmarkdessert?#I miss those times

Work without email is bliss. (Microsoft 365 has been down for a couple hours and it’s amazing).

chongoblog

*gathers all of the people in the world who write the number 7 with a little dash in the center of it so I can study them like little critters and find out what makes them do that*

audpaints

There’s actually a lot of history regarding the development writing systems and why there are different visual representations of numerals, but the short answer is: it’s regional, and you probably picked up how to make your numbers look based on your parents or your primary school teachers

ruusverd

I do it out of spite because in grade school a kids detective story identified the culprit by saying NO American wrote their sevens with a line and I thought that was super flimsy evidence and it made me so mad I started putting a line through my sevens so the fictional detective would be wrong and then kept doing it for several decades since.

mikkeneko

I do feel one can’t underestimate the “elementary school child taught themselves how to do this Out Of Spite” crowd

printedsoot

I started when I got an independent study helping my neuropsych prof research pain medication as part of a gigantic grant, and it was part of the style guide and requirements to ensure that 7s looked like 7s and not anything else.

Hand written notes and notations were also only able to be written in blue or black ink.

If any corrections needed to be made, you needed to make ONE line through the offending bit of text or numbers.

Any deviation from these three rules for hand written notations had the risk of losing the grant. He was dead serious about it and watched me write stuff down for the first few weeks and stopped me every time I wrote a 7 with no cross, and made me cross it. And now i will cross my 7s for the rest of time.

All of this was especially hilarious to me bc my handwriting is. Ah. Very Bad. Which I demonstrated to him.

He just said that a lot of researchers have bad handwriting and is probably why the rules were instituted in the first place.

As long as he could read the NUMBERS, and I did not violate any of the above riles and could read any text-based notes for the eventual paper, bad handwriting was just a hazard if the job.

leebrontide

Similarly I was required to take up this habit because of paper medication charts and tracking. It makes the 7s clearly not badly written twos, even if you’re writing very small or very fast.

oldladynerd

GDP, good documentation practice. Required in my line of work (pharma, medical devices). You may get audit nonconformities for it, and if sufficiently grave, lose your license to market your products. It’s serious business.

thehardveneer

7 without the dash looks naked. Give them their fancy clothes!

sallydoodle

My mom was a high school math teacher and she was pro-dash so that’s how I learned it. When I was in middle school I used to help her grade homework and that’s when it became really clear why. If you want credit for your work make sure the person looking at it knows it’s a seven.

#I also cross my z’s because of my French teacher #it bugs me that so few fonts have crossed sevens #firmly pro dash

There are little police robots roaming the sidewalks in Irvine now?

#cool cool cool #ugh