Calamus Currentis

-the rightful heir is a baby and they can tell it’s the right baby because of a giant birthmark on his asscheek

-the main character’s only talent is singing and the rest of the pseudo robin-hood group just kinda tolerate him because he repeatedly fucks up

-he gets hypnotized into believing he is this amazing swashbuckling sword fighting hero along the lines of Wesley from the Princess Bride and ends up fighting the villain while snapping in and out of hypnosis

-the vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison, the chalice with the palace has the brew that is true “what”

-he stumbles his way through the entire plot and never knows what the hell is going on

-Danny Kaye is the funniest motherfucker you’ve never heard of

He chortled his way through it and pronounced you all correct and then lost his shit when I showed him my favorite backstage photograph:

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

You're gonna open up Resource Monitor (resmon.exe) using the start menu or the terminal, or you're gonna go to Task Manager and click on the Performance tab, where there may be a button to go to resmon.

You're gonna go to the CPU tab. You're gonna expand the Associated Handles section, enter the name of the file/folder/whatever you want to delete and hit enter.

AND THEN. Windows will show you a list of everything that's using the file, and you can either kill those processes manually, or right-click the handles within resmon and kill 'em from there.

You're welcome.

Signed, one very tired computer ghostbuster who has seen this problem way too many times on her own dumb work machine.

social ergonomics should mean looking at social structures and analyzing the outcomes they have re: human welfare, and then taking that information back to the design board and redesigning things to hurt people less.

Ageless Linux intends to force the issue before the California state supreme court, then ultimately (probably) the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). It's a stupid, dangerous law, voted into place by legislators who either don't understand the core issue OR knowingly voted for it because they're assholes.

California is an influential state in the US. Many laws & regulations passed there eventually trickle out to most states. That's why it's worrisome to see this kind of thing rammed through, and why it's important to fight it.

past perfect. please use it. sometimes I genuinely can't tell what's happening now vs in the past.

participle forms and when to use or not use them. "sank" vs "sunk" might be the most common one I've noticed.

similar words (like lay vs lie) and homonyms (like ball vs bawl). lay/lie I'm used to suffering through but if your editor doesn't know which way to spell certain homonyms and doesn't look it up, you're not getting your money's worth.

transitive verbs, the fiddly ways specific common phrases work, the implications of common idioms. this is vague but for example, I am enamoured of someone; they endear themself to me. I am woefully outnumbered by them. If I think that, I have another think coming (not another thing coming), and "where the sun don't shine" is generally a reference to up the asshole, not just literal not-sunny places.

like, I genuinely looked for one author's contact info to offer to do a free copy editing pass because I liked their books but there were sooo many typos and grammar and usage issues, and then I saw they had credited an editor in the front matter and... like... I hate to think they spent money for nothing.

past: happened once in the past. "i ate his ass"

present perfect: happened possibly more than once, or just recently finished happening. "i have eaten his ass"