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soph ([personal profile] sophia_sol) wrote2024-10-08 01:47 pm

nerd rabbit holes

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
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[personal profile] chestnut_pod 2024-10-09 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
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!