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I can do all my work from home, but the boss likes me to go in a couple of days a week. Mostly to keep an eye on the staff I think. But I’m definitely more productive at home.
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I think a lot of people are more productive at home. I run a team of 12 and when we go into the office they spend an awful lot of time just talking to each other, either at their desks or in one of the staff kitchens. They also tend to do shorter days in the office with most leaving to avoid the rush hour. They are definitely more productive at home.
 
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AVBeatMan said:
I think a lot of people are more productive at home. I run a team of 12 and when we go into the office they spend an awful lot of time just talking to each other, either at their desks or in one of the staff kitchens. They also tend to do shorter days in the office with most leaving to avoid the rush hour. They are definitely more productive at home.
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Leave early to avoid rush hour? They could avoid it by working late as well! Obviously you’re too soft on them!
 
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I must be the only one here who prefers, for the most part, working in office. Granted that my job in university education study abroad requires my physical presence but I enjoy the commute by train to a smaller Swiss town near Geneva, and I live in a decent apartment but would rather keep my home life separate as well. That said, I do prefer working on my iMac at home but the fact my work Windows HP laptop running 8.1 is a factor here. Pretty sure plumbers and carpenters will be working outside for awhile yet until the robots take over.
 
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decafjava said:
I must be the only one here who prefers, for the most part, working in office. Granted that my job in university education study abroad requires my physical prescence but I enjoy the commute by train to a smaller Swiss town near Geneva, and I live in a decent apartment but would rather keep my home life seperate as well. That said, I do prefet workin g on my iMac at home but the fact my work Windows HP laptop running 8.1 is a factor here. Pretty sure plumbers and carpenters will be working outside for awhile yet until the robots take over.
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I don’t mind going into the office a day or two. But I find I’m a lot less tolerant of people than I used to be. I prefer my own space. Well apart from Mrs AFB.
 
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Oh happy spring! Mixed weather with a hailstorm and the advent of birch pollen making my eyes water, my ears and throat itch and a bit of sneezing to top it off.

Odd but my allergies have changed over the years as it is not quite as bad as say 20 years ago. I get symptoms when the pollen count is very high easily managed with antihistamine. I gladly pay the price for warmer temps and more light.

Oh and my laptop is due for a replacement once the semester is over.
 
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Daylight savings ends tonight!!! Oh frabjous day. I can sleep in for an extra hour tomorrow morning.
Then get up, check the time on the TV is correct, fix the time on the clock on the kitchen wall, fix the time on the oven clock, fix the time on the microwave, fix the time on the wall clock in the lounge room, fix the time on the Windows computer because, well, Windows, negotiate with the cat because breakfast is an hour late...

PS, I forgot about the clock beside the bed, and my wife's watch, and the car needs to be told that daylight savings has finished. Surprisingly the cat's tummy time seems to have reset itself automatically.
 
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VulchR said:
many people rely on science blogs and news reports rather than reading the original research reports. Sometimes these secondary sources don't even reference the original, and sometimes original source hasn't even been formally published or reviewed. The quality of scientific reporting is so crap now that generally I don't trust it until I confirm the original source.
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Right—and this was a science teacher who was saying that; I think you are making the same point. I'm not a scientist (or into science for that matter), but what I gather is that (and correct me if I'm wrong) the blogs/news articles are "out of context" and are missing tons of information that might be crucial for research purposes. So yeah, you're right, many of us "rely" on those sources rather than the original paper from which the information was taken.
VulchR said:
We listen to sound bites and read blogs, but not fully developed news stories or research reports. We look at little snippets of information from social media, including some platforms that literally the number of words one can write. This doesn't bode well for the future of our ability to process information about complex issues.
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Exactly—and this is also one of the reasons why I wish I was not growing up right now, because it feels to me that I've "learned" how to interpret those types of things, because they're easier to understand, and because I'm around them so much... but easier to understand, like you're saying, means missing context. It seems to me that 30 years ago (maybe even not that long ago, I have no idea), that students were reading more of the "original," because that was what was available—there were no sound bites and "microblogs."
 
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Right—and this was a science teacher who was saying that; I think you are making the same point. I'm not a scientist (or into science for that matter), but what I gather is that (and correct me if I'm wrong) the blogs/news articles are "out of context" and are missing tons of information that might be crucial for research purposes. So yeah, you're right, many of us "rely" on those sources rather than the original paper from which the information was taken.

Exactly—and this is also one of the reasons why I wish I was not growing up right now, because it feels to me that I've "learned" how to interpret those types of things, because they're easier to understand, and because I'm around them so much... but easier to understand, like you're saying, means missing context. It seems to me that 30 years ago (maybe even not that long ago, I have no idea), that students were reading more of the "original," because that was what was available—there were no sound bites and "microblogs."
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This is not confined to students of the natural sciences; in history, for example, one tries to teach students a respect for primary sources, (and how to identify respected secondary sources) and how to use them, and critically analyse them - and interrogate them - intelligently when researching and writing essays, and term papers.

Moreover, @VulchR has written about diminishing attention spans, and the difficulties of bringing sustained focus to a subject, and I would be in complete agreement with him.
 
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Life and death are on my mind.

This morning, I attended a funeral service for a close neighbour, whose family I have known all my life; almost 98, and sharp until a few months ago; he had buried his wife of almost 64 years (to whom he was close) at the end of last August, but the real decline (following a bad fall) only occurred around Christmas.

Well before the funeral service, (market gardeners keep early hours), a crate of vegetables (and some fruit) had been delivered at 7.30.

Following the funeral service, I paid a swift and fleeting visit to the market - I had run out of bread and cheese and other necessities, and also took in the library. Spring - blood oranges, wild garlic leaves and pesto, daffodils and tulips - were all visible.

Actually, I had attempted to phone the French bakery yesterday and earlier this morning to no avail; on my arrival, (thankfully, they still had the bread I wanted - rye bread and a baguette - in stock) they informed me that their phone has been out of order for the past day or two.

Easter is approaching; rather than risk phones not being repaired in time to place an order for my French bread next week, I simply requested them there and then to put the bread aside for me next week, and paid them in advance.

My dash to the city took in the library, where books awaited me, and also included shopping - in the farmers' market - for pesto (both standard pesto, and wild garlic pesto), Iberico chorizo, Italian fennel sausage, guanciale, cheese (in the cheesemonger's), some blood oranges, French bread (in the French bakery), black Moroccan olives, green anchovy stuffed olives, German pumpernickel bread, eggs (free range and organic)and organic brown sugar.
 
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Life and death are on my mind.

This morning, I attended a funeral service for a close neighbour, whose family I have known all my life; almost 98, and sharp until a few months ago, he buried his wife of almost 64 years (to whom he was close) at the end of last August.

Well before the funeral service, (market gardeners keep early hours), a crate of vegetables (and some fruit) had been delivered at 7.30.

Following the funeral service, I paid a swift and fleeting visit to the market - I had run out of bread and cheese and other necessities, and also took in the library. Spring - blood oranges, wild garlic leaves and pesto, daffodils and tulips - were all visible.

Actually, I had attempted to phone the French bakery yesterday and earlier this morning to no avail; on my arrival, (thankfully, they still had the bread I wanted - rye bread and a baguette - in stock) they informed me that their phone has been out of order for the past day or two.

Easter is approaching; rather than risk phones not being repaired in time to place an order for my French bread next week, I simply requested them there and then to put the bread aside for me next week, and paid them in advance.

My dash to the city took in the library, where books awaited me, and also included shopping - in the farmers' market - for pesto (standard pesto, wild garlic pesto), Iberico chorizo, Italian fennel sausage, guanciale, cheese (in the cheesemonger's), some blood oranges, French bread (in the French bakery), black Moroccan olives, green anchovy stuffed olives, German pumpernickel bread, eggs (free range and organic)and organic brown sugar.
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Dinner at your house sounds more interesting than ours.
We’re having chicken and rice with broccoli just for a change.

Here there was a walk this morning after a tradesman cancelled on us.
Mrs AFB brought a plant.

Then a bit of gardening this afternoon. It was too wet to do much.
Hopefully it dries up some more so I can mow tomorrow.

On my mind is how much more time will it take me to get rid of the tree stump in my garden.
 
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Well, given the vegetables (aubergines, courgettes, tomatoes, cucumber, onions, carrots, celery, garlic, spinach, plus herbs - parsley, basil rosemary, and thyme) bought and delivered this morning, plus grapefruit, blood oranges and lemons, and a few mangoes and some passion fruit, I think I am okay for something tasty for a while.

And yes, for immediate needs, there is cheese, French bread, and pesto, standard pesto and wild garlic pesto (the latter will only be around for another few weeks).

There will be pasta dishes, and perhaps, some rice dishes, over the coming days.
 
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Well, given the vegetables (aubergines, courgettes, tomatoes, cucumber, onions, carrots, celery, garlic, spinach, plus herbs - parsley, basil rosemary, and thyme) bought and delivered this morning, plus grapefruit, blood oranges and lemons, and a few mangoes and some passion fruit, I think I am okay for something tasty for a while.

And yes, for immediate needs, there is chese, Frenhc bread, and pesto, standard pesto and wild garlic pesto (the latter will only be around for another few weeks).

There will be pasta dishes, and perhaps, some rice dishes, over the coming days.
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Only two things out of all the things you listed Mrs AFB can eat (end then only in moderation). Carrots and cucumber.
 
contacos said:
We got Covid again after returning from Italy so F Covid. Feel like I have been run over by a car and hit by an asteroid on my head at the same time 🤧😩

Definitely worse than the first time I had it
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Quite common when people travel. Had it for the first time in December. 2-3 days were bad. The rest wasn’t so bad except my secondary condition that flared up at the same time.
Get well soon.
 
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contacos said:
We got Covid again after returning from Italy so F Covid. Feel like I have been run over by a car and hit by an asteroid on my head at the same time 🤧😩

Definitely worse than the first time I had it
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Gosh, I'm so sorry. I hope you get better soon!

I've managed to only have it once, last spring, when traveling to Ohio and Wisconsin. I was honestly surprised that I (or my other family members) didn't get it after returning from France last week. I made sure to wear a mask in the airport and on the plane, so I'm sure that helped somewhat...

Anyways, wishing you well, and a hopefully quick recovery.
 
I had a very nice time talking to a fellow musician on Discord (from a tech Discord server of all places) for almost three hours last night - we were helping each other on our current productions—it's always nice to have a second (or third) set of ears on these kinds of things! In plus, I don't get enough chances to just talk about music with someone, so that's always a pleasure to do—for both of us probably.

He had also just bought Logic Pro (upgrading from GarageBand), so I was able to help him learn the software, too. It was a lot of fun. Hopefully we can do the same tonight—that's the plan at least!

Also, since it sounds like we're on again tonight, I should join a little earlier than I usually do, because that's when all the techie folks are still on the voice channel—that's always nice to talk about technology, too!

Also on my mind—four very good musicians are coming over to my studio tomorrow for a rehearsal, which I am very much looking forward to.
 
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decafjava said:
It's really old, I have had the same work laptop since I started my current job in 2017. Stuck on Windows 8.1 and I think our work budget will allow a new one.
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If your work were nice they’d buy you a nice MBP! Glad I don’t have to use a PC these days.
I see the constant issues my colleagues have with their hardware.
 
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Apple fanboy said:
If your work were nice they’d buy you a nice MBP! Glad I don’t have to use a PC these days.
I see the constant issues my colleagues have with their hardware.
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My boss got a Mac Mini, well one can hope as long as our student enrolment increases. I agree about the issues, thing (HP Envy) is clunky.
 
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