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nerd rabbit holes
Oct. 8th, 2024 01:47 pmI love how diving into one nerd rabbit hole can lead you to discover entire other nerd rabbit holes you didn't know existed:
1. get fed up with an aspect of microsoft word's functionality
2. finally download a copy of libreoffice
3. play around with libreoffice to figure out what you can do
4. realise you need additional info on how to make something work
5. do a web search for documentation
6. discover that someone has written an entire self-published book about how to use libreoffice writer which can be downloaded for free from the author's blog
7. download it, discover that the publication date is written in a way you don't recognize, but the date includes a link to wikipedia explaining it
8. learn about the Holocene Calendar
1. get fed up with an aspect of microsoft word's functionality
2. finally download a copy of libreoffice
3. play around with libreoffice to figure out what you can do
4. realise you need additional info on how to make something work
5. do a web search for documentation
6. discover that someone has written an entire self-published book about how to use libreoffice writer which can be downloaded for free from the author's blog
7. download it, discover that the publication date is written in a way you don't recognize, but the date includes a link to wikipedia explaining it
8. learn about the Holocene Calendar
