I thought Portland was one of those cities where everyone lives on the dole
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i was showering and thought, thank god it’s saturday, i’m not ready for it to be monday in the morning. but it’s sunday. this is how i feel:
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Me, deleting a word from memory: “What drug has become so popular in Portland that it was named after 1996 presidential candidate Bob Dole?”
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i would love to be gone off that dole
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I occasionally do editing work. One of the biggest things I have to fix is people who try to work against the affordances of a program and get something that looks almost right but finicky.
For example, when researchers create tables, often they manually jigger the format with line breaks (hitting enter) or spaces, rather than using the tools in the program (usually Word) to create that spacing. The result is a slight misalignment or some other tell that I must fix. I have to go in, delete lots of spaces (often 50+ per table), and then select all and adjust the paragraph or cell properties to do what they want. The last step is 5% of the work; most of the work is deformatting the overformatting.
I’ve also learned that doing that deformatting saves work over trying to make things work around the formatting. Occasionally I think, “Oh, this is minor stuff I can work around.” No. Like building on someone else’s foundation of sand, something always fails to meet my fastidious standards, and I end up dredging out the extra spacing anyway.
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