nerd rabbit holes

[sophia_sol]

I 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

Comments

[china_shop]

learn about the Holocene Calendar

Oh, cool! That makes sense!

[sophia_sol]

yeah, it's fun!

[pauraque]

The calendar I currently have on my wall is a Holocene (or Human Era, same thing) calendar! It's from the Kurzgesagt Youtube channel. Next year's calendar just went on sale today, in fact.

[sophia_sol]

omg that's so cool, I love that that's your calendar!

[chestnut_pod]

It's like when you used to think you could dig a hole all the way to the other end of the Earth, but this time, it works!

[sophia_sol]

hahaha yes!!

[lokifan]

Oh, I like the Holocene Calendar! Very cool and makes sense. Calendars do tend to start from the most important thing, and I like that pick for what we should consider the most important!

[sophia_sol]

yes, agreed!