My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife.
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My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. I assume it’s just their pride that’s traumatised, because they didn’t think of being this efficient themselves, and them an expert.
@CiaraNi They are jealous! @TwoClownsEating
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It’s the same kind of stare my friend the librarian gets when she’s reminded that I alphabetise my books by first name.
@CiaraNi It's hard being such a genius.
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@CiaraNi
Jeg sorterer bøger i farver for tiden - på trods af at have arbejdet 4 år på Odense Centralbibliotek og udmærket sågar ville kunne sortere dem korrekt. Men det er jo ikke sjovt
@MThaastrup @CiaraNi Det ser også flot ud.
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My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. I assume it’s just their pride that’s traumatised, because they didn’t think of being this efficient themselves, and them an expert.
@CiaraNi min svigermor skærer kylling ud med en sløv brødkniv og jeg lige ved at besvime hver gang.
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It’s the same kind of stare my friend the librarian gets when she’s reminded that I alphabetise my books by first name.
@CiaraNi As long as it's not color. I used to do mine by height, just for a nice look on my shelves.
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It’s the same kind of stare my friend the librarian gets when she’s reminded that I alphabetise my books by first name.
@CiaraNi But do you file authors named Bill under B for Bill (next to B for Bob) or W for William (or R for Robert)? 🤨🤪
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@CiaraNi Uuuuum… Say, what, now?
@fgraver You know it's right. So does the librarian, secretly. No more working out where to look for the Icelandic authors and hyphenated authors and authors with multiple names so you're not sure which one is the actual last one, especially if they're from a different linguistic culture. Every book filed by the first letter of the first name in the author credit. I switched to this system years ago and I can't believe they still haven't awarded me The Nobel Prize in Shelving Literature.
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@tantramar @MThaastrup "by colour AND by function" - ooh, fancy filing!
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@CiaraNi But do you file authors named Bill under B for Bill (next to B for Bob) or W for William (or R for Robert)? 🤨🤪
@tantramar Not even remotely a challenge. Bob, Robert, Margaret, Peggy, Ned, Edward - first letter of whichever name they've used on the cover.
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@tantramar @MThaastrup "by colour AND by function" - ooh, fancy filing!
@CiaraNi @MThaastrup Hahaha
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@CiaraNi Jeg har det sjovt med det i hvert fald
@MThaastrup Det lyder sjovt, og er sikkert et flot syn også.
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@CiaraNi yes, please!
@snowgaze It's so simple. Rarely any names that make me stop and think.
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@CiaraNi @MThaastrup Min 4k-Blu-ray samling står ikke i nogen som helst form for orden. Nogle af dem står sammen med dem de lidt hører sammen med. nogle af dem står i den rækkefølge de er købt, men jeg startede ikke fra toppen af reolen. Almindelige blu.rays er bare losset hulter til bulter ind i et skab.
@Eg0nJN @MThaastrup Det gør livet og samlingen spændende, sikkert. Så falder man nok over en titel, man har glemt, når man er på skattejagt efter noget andet.
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@CiaraNi They are jealous! @TwoClownsEating
@squaremoon That's what I think too. They're sad they didn't think of it themselves, all those inefficient years of inefficient chopping with knives.
@TwoClownsEating -
@CiaraNi It's hard being such a genius.
@liebach It is, it is. I thank you for recognising this, for seeing how hard it is to be an unsung book-shelving genius. They'd better make me look pretty in that statue they erect of me after I'm gone, sculpted in remorse when my first-name alphabetic system is used in every library in the world.
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@fgraver You know it's right. So does the librarian, secretly. No more working out where to look for the Icelandic authors and hyphenated authors and authors with multiple names so you're not sure which one is the actual last one, especially if they're from a different linguistic culture. Every book filed by the first letter of the first name in the author credit. I switched to this system years ago and I can't believe they still haven't awarded me The Nobel Prize in Shelving Literature.
@CiaraNi I think I understand the stare you refer to from your librarian friend. I believe I may have mirrored that stare.
I organise by genre - author’s last name, and you can pry my system from my cold, dead hands. Assuming you’re able to pry the book I’m holding from them first, of course…
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@CiaraNi min svigermor skærer kylling ud med en sløv brødkniv og jeg lige ved at besvime hver gang.
@CarstenBoll Haha - det lyder osgå som en Thousand-mile Stare situation. Jeg har en høj tærksel for autodidatiske køkkenvaner, men selv jeg synes ikke, at en sløv brødkniv er oplagt til at skære kylling med. Ræk hende en saks næste gang!
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@CarstenBoll Haha - det lyder osgå som en Thousand-mile Stare situation. Jeg har en høj tærksel for autodidatiske køkkenvaner, men selv jeg synes ikke, at en sløv brødkniv er oplagt til at skære kylling med. Ræk hende en saks næste gang!
@CiaraNi grundlæggende synes jeg man skal blande sig uden om andres vaner, men det undrer mig når folk ikke vil prøve at bruge de rigtige værktøjer til noget.
Tænk på, at der er gået 100.000 års omtanke ind I den lille krumme kniv, fx, og de ting lige præcis den er god til.
Er da næsten respektløst overfor ens forfædre at ignorere det
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@CiaraNi As long as it's not color. I used to do mine by height, just for a nice look on my shelves.
@kimlockhartga Height is another fine system. I used to shelve by geography. It was fine when I was a teenager, but as my reading broadened year by year, decade by decade, there was too much ad hoc decision-making involved. So many authors with mixed cultural and actual backgrounds, books in different translations, authors with books at different stages in different places in their migrant lives. So I finally switched to forenames. First names and height: far less uncertainty!
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@kimlockhartga Height is another fine system. I used to shelve by geography. It was fine when I was a teenager, but as my reading broadened year by year, decade by decade, there was too much ad hoc decision-making involved. So many authors with mixed cultural and actual backgrounds, books in different translations, authors with books at different stages in different places in their migrant lives. So I finally switched to forenames. First names and height: far less uncertainty!
But do you know the height of every author that you read?
