They were not on the side of the partisans who are considered heroes around here.
What made me happy today?
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I'm more of a Vikings fan.... one day..... I hope to see them in the Super Bowl.
ironically a lot of the jews in yugoslavia were descended from sephardic jews who were expelled from spain in the 1492 pogroms and moved to the other end of the med for a better life. During the ottoman period sarajevo was known for its religious tollerance compared to nearly anywhere else at the time.
They say this is the European Jerusalem, there are churches and mosques in the old part of the town and some atheists all over the generations. I don't agree that the religion or ethnicity talk starts the wars but it is complicated. Sephards are very much introverted and stay away from the spotlight around here, I don't know too many of them aside from some distant family relations.
Well, if we're talking about history and happiness...
Charles de Gaulle was attending a post-war dinner in an English speaking country after the war with his wife. Mme De Gaulle was asked by a journalist what she wanted the most.
"A penis," she answered.
Everyone looked at her, aghast.
"A penis," she repeated.
President De Gaulle leant over to her and said, quietly, "Non, my dear, it is pronounced "'appiness."
We now return you to your regular service.
Charles de Gaulle was attending a post-war dinner in an English speaking country after the war with his wife. Mme De Gaulle was asked by a journalist what she wanted the most.
"A penis," she answered.
Everyone looked at her, aghast.
"A penis," she repeated.
President De Gaulle leant over to her and said, quietly, "Non, my dear, it is pronounced "'appiness."
We now return you to your regular service.
Mrs D needs the D, too.
Warm puppy. Happiness is a warm puppy. Charles Schultz said so.
Since October 29, 96 years to the day after Black Tuesday in 1929, AI stocks have lost $1.4 trillion dollars. Black Tuesday saw a loss of about $14 billion, or about $300 billion in today's tissue paper money.
AI has lost five times what disappeared on Black Tuesday. For some reason, I'm un-sad.
I think AI itself must be concerned. Check out this headline I assume written either by AI, or by a newswriter out of practice from all the vibe reporting he's been filing.
Or, maybe investors' backsides are where AI gets it's momentum. I'm not an economist. I can't be expected to understand advanced subjects like finance.
AI has lost five times what disappeared on Black Tuesday. For some reason, I'm un-sad.
I think AI itself must be concerned. Check out this headline I assume written either by AI, or by a newswriter out of practice from all the vibe reporting he's been filing.
Or, maybe investors' backsides are where AI gets it's momentum. I'm not an economist. I can't be expected to understand advanced subjects like finance.
... and then there are these:
Enronism: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by your CFO who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on six more.
Bureaucracy: You have two cows. The state takes both, shoots one for beefsteaks, milks the other, and pours the milk down the drain.
Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
Since the stated goal of AI is to learn from humanity, perhaps we may consider its mission to be accomplished. Unintentional typos are more common than you might think. For instance:
"To call a broad from France, first dial 00" (Paris guidebook)
"The Soviet Government has been recognized by Great Britain as the awful government of Russia" (Birmingham newspaper, 1924)
A BBC announcement of the speaking clock's birthday, July 2011: "THE SPEAKING COCK TURNS 75 ON SUNDAY".
A January 1971 Bicentennial Commission in Washington, DC, sent out a newsletter referring to the approaching 200th anniversary of 'the Untied States'.
And my favourite? when Mitt Romney ran for President in 2012, his campaign's smartphone app released this in Washington, DC:
So let us celebrate and applaud the creative spirit of those who make unintentional mistakes. To err is humour.
Submitted all the stuff for publishing my summer project that became a late autumn project. Just waiting for approval from Beezy boy.
It's somehow comforting that even 12 years ago, this was a meme.
I GET AN ACTUAL BREAK FROM SCHOOL! In online school, breaks are rare, because some teachers will have them and others are like, 'what break? get this done'. But NO! For Thanksgiving, I get like the WHOLE WEEK OFF! I still have things I need to do/read but I am 100% going to take a whole day off.
After five months on a rewrite, I’m finally done!
Kinda don’t know what to do with myself now, since it’s consumed so much of my time and mental focus for a massive chunk of the year.
Kinda don’t know what to do with myself now, since it’s consumed so much of my time and mental focus for a massive chunk of the year.
I've been struggling with the same novel since May 2024. Just the redrafts of the beat sheet and outline took me a few months. Plus, I'm constantly drafting and redrafting every chapter at least 5-6 times, to keep up with critiques from my partner.
You did the entire thing in five months? Lucky.
On the plus side, what made me happy today? Well, in about 4 weeks, I finally get a break from work. Two whole weeks of sleeping in and not dealing with customers. Yay. *waves a little flag*
You did the entire thing in five months? Lucky.
On the plus side, what made me happy today? Well, in about 4 weeks, I finally get a break from work. Two whole weeks of sleeping in and not dealing with customers. Yay. *waves a little flag*
Well, this was an almost total rewrite of a short story, which ended up growing into a novelette by the time all was said and done.You did the entire thing in five months? Lucky.
I first wrote it way back in 2017, but I’ve come really far as an author since then, and the prose just wouldn’t stand up beside my more modern work. Since I’m putting together a collection of my stories featuring a recurring character, and the events of this story are absolutely essential to who she becomes and where life leads her, that was a real problem.
Ultimately, I decided to do a total rewrite. The broad series of events is the same until the end, and I reused the occasional line, but it’s a very different story now. Almost three times as long?
I’m glad I did it, because the old ending in particular was rushed due to an anthology deadline, but after tearing my hair out over this story for months on end, I have no desire to read it ever again
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Not so much happy today as relieved. My workload at present is on the brink of unmanageable. Like, 8 hours contact time per day, plus planning, marking and other duties leading to c.14 hours of work per day needing doing. So thank goodness for AI on this one. Need to generate a worksheet on very specific parameters and feeling too burnt out to draft one from scratch? We have two in-house applications that we can pop a description into, and off we go. Hours saved so I can do some of that marking. Need to quickly check work is present and correct before embarking on a colossal line-by-line marking jobbie? Feed in the specification and tell it to check all is present and highlight areas not present for quick feedback rather than needing to go through every single piece of student work multiple times. For all AI's a bloody pain, ethically dubious in many areas, and a matter of concern, it can be very useful and is just about keeping work managable at the moment.
Still too burnt out to write, but that's the 'tism in operation.
Still too burnt out to write, but that's the 'tism in operation.
I miss the days when teachers could write what they liked about a student. I recall reading that Dame Judi Dench's report from her headmaster (at
The Mount School, York) read: "Judi would be a very good pupil if she lived in this world."
Need I say more?
The Mount School, York) read: "Judi would be a very good pupil if she lived in this world."
Need I say more?
