An anonymous correspondent writes:
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Ooh, a Tumblr-based unsolicited password generation service? I like this idea! Can you give me one with accented Greek characters, though? The IT guys are getting more and more anal with their security rules…
And this we call “Bollywood Has Declined.”
An extra scene that was left out of Crunchyroll’s release of Humanity Has Declined episode 4, and thus a large number of CR rips. (YouTube subtitles; load the Flash player if you don’t normally.) Subs by… some anonymous fellow. So much for attribution.
Dear Tumblr,
Can we get support for alpha values in custom theme colors? Pretty
please? Abusing text
fields
just to use rgba() feels dirty.
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For years I employed the “Final Suggestion Maneuver” in meetings in which I knew that opinions would vary and that only my own opinion has any value. In other words, I used it in every meeting I ever attended. The success rate of this approach is nothing short of astonishing… It works like this.
Let everybody else make moronic suggestions.
Stay uninvolved while the participants shred each other’s suggestions like crisp cabbage in a Cuisinart. Watch as they develop intense personal dislikes that will last their entire careers.
Toward the end of the allotted meeting time, when patience is thin and bladders are full, offer your suggestion. Describe it as a logical result of the good thoughts you’ve heard at the meeting, no matter how ridiculous that might be.
If you time it right, all the participants will be feeling a sense of incredible frustration and physical discomfort and will realize that your suggestion is the fastest way to end the horror of the meeting. By disguising your suggestion as a composite of the participants’ thoughts you minimize their need to attack you to defend their hard-argued positions.
You’ll look like the rational deal-maker while the other participants look like partisan whiners. The only downside is that you won’t be singularly identified with the idea if it works. But that’s typically not a problem, since most ideas don’t work. And your boss takes credit for the ones that do.
– Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle, pp. 125-126