Aunt: Do you still make furniture
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
when you set the table for dinner call it "normalization"
it's important for your aunt to learn table normalization
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
@futurebird that’s a very cute story and it made me think about how our jobs might have confused people easily in the past: installing Windows, sorting folders and files, infrastructure architecture, routing packets and something with penguins.
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
@futurebird I worked for the State of Minnesota for nearly a decade. One of my grandmothers was telling people I was the governor of Minnesota.
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@futurebird
the hard part is getting the bottoms of the feet co-planar and equally distributed around the center. And on that topic, it seems a geometry teacher like you would have an unfair advantage.@llewelly @futurebird
I made a bookcase once and that was my problem. Granted I had no cutting tools and did no measuring... just bought 4 slabs of wood the same size and used nails to make 2 of them shelves. It was quite wobbly but I was 25 and quite proud
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
@futurebird I bet you could make a table.
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@futurebird that’s a very cute story and it made me think about how our jobs might have confused people easily in the past: installing Windows, sorting folders and files, infrastructure architecture, routing packets and something with penguins.
@lordkhan@social.cologne @futurebird@sauropods.win have you examined your logs today
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@lordkhan@social.cologne @futurebird@sauropods.win have you examined your logs today
@u0421793 @futurebird ay, ay captain!
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@lordkhan@social.cologne @futurebird@sauropods.win have you examined your logs today
@u0421793 @lordkhan @futurebird examined and rotated!
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
@futurebird This is like John Zogby’s grandma thinking he was an upholsterer.
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
@futurebird Kinda sweet really, give your auntie a 🫂 from me when you see her
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To be fair to her I was also into theatre and loved helping with set design and know a smattering of chaotic carpentry. But IDK if I could just post up and make a table.
@futurebird It's really not that different.
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Attaching legs to things is not at all trivial. Not all table-shaped objects are sturdy tables I'd trust to climb on and fix the curtains.
@futurebird @gbargoud Add columns; merge cells. Voila!
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@futurebird that’s a very cute story and it made me think about how our jobs might have confused people easily in the past: installing Windows, sorting folders and files, infrastructure architecture, routing packets and something with penguins.
@lordkhan @futurebird I mean the thing is though, going to school for mathy computery stuff and immediately getting a job in the city designing furniture sounds so normal to me because my friends are hipsters?
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@futurebird that’s a very cute story and it made me think about how our jobs might have confused people easily in the past: installing Windows, sorting folders and files, infrastructure architecture, routing packets and something with penguins.
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
Way back, my father was always slightly disappointed I never learned a proper trade, and was very happy to hand me all his old agricultural engineering books when I allowed as how I'd helped a friend weld up a bed.
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
@futurebird at one point I worked for a software company and my mid 80s grandmother asked, "textiles?"
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Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.
I LOVE THIS
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@beemoh @lordkhan @futurebird Context! This sketch is 10 times funnier if you've seen the one it riffs on (The Two Ronnies: 4 Candles).
It's still funny on its own, but really, Treat yourself.
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@futurebird that’s a very cute story and it made me think about how our jobs might have confused people easily in the past: installing Windows, sorting folders and files, infrastructure architecture, routing packets and something with penguins.
@lordkhan @futurebird This reminds me of, way back, when I worked in a university library, when the only computer systems on campus were for finance and course enrollment and they used punchcards.
Me: What does your wife do?
Coworker: She installs software packages.
Me, with no clue: So, … so, she refills the toilet paper rolls? -
@lordkhan @futurebird This reminds me of, way back, when I worked in a university library, when the only computer systems on campus were for finance and course enrollment and they used punchcards.
Me: What does your wife do?
Coworker: She installs software packages.
Me, with no clue: So, … so, she refills the toilet paper rolls?@lordkhan @futurebird She actually worked for one of the Silicon Necklace companies around Boston - DEC maybe? - and she made close to three times as much as he was making working in the library. We all had a good laugh, and she did too when he told her about it!
