“There’s no flaw in the design,” Dave said. “It’s working exactly as I designed it to work based upon your specifications and the requirements that you gave me.”
“No flaw?” Craig said. “Here, look at this. The device receptacles are too close together to use multiple plugs-ins concurrently. That’s bad design.”
(Exactly 51 words)
Written for Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt, where the prompt is “design” in exactly 51 words.
For this week’s Blogging Insights prompt, Dr. Tanya has given us a quote about writing and asked us for our reactions to the quote.
This week’s quote is from American poet, author, and teacher, Gwendolyn Brooks.
“I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.”
I can relate to this quote. For whatever reason, I’m much better at expressing myself in writing than I am verbally. It’s not so much being tongue-tied, as it is that I don’t articulate as well verbally as I do in writing. I mean I’m okay verbally, especially if I know the subject matter well. I used to have to give speeches and product presentations as part of my job, and I was really good at it. Because I knew the material inside out and was very well prepared.
But when it comes to off-the-cuff conversations with individuals or in small groups with friends and even family, I am not nearly as articulate as I am in writing. I come away from a lot of such conversations thinking the old coulda, woulda, shoulda about what I said and how I said it.
On the other hand, when I write, I have more time to think. To review what I’ve written, to edit it, to reorganize it, to cut things out or add to it. I can wait until I feel that I’ve perfectly expressed my point. And it comes out way better than if I had tried to say it as part of a conversation.
Unlike Gwendolyn Brooks, who claims she’s not a talker, I am a talker. But I’m better at writing than I am at talking. Which is why I enjoy blogging so much. And why I won’t do podcasts or vlogs.
I read in my local newspaper — The San Francisco Chronicle — that thousands of Twitter users reported problems accessing their accounts on the social media giant’s website and app during the weekend as they were met with “Rate limit exceeded” messages.
I’m not a Twitter user, but the article piqued my interest so I read on. Elon Musk, Twitter’s owner, announced in a series of tweets that “temporary” limits were applied to address “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation.” Musk announced these reading limits:
So thousands of Twitter users are moaning about their inability to read 6,000 Twitter posts a day? Is that even possible? In order to read 6,000 posts in a 24-hour period, a person would have to average reading more than four tweets a minute over 24 hours. Assuming someone sleeps six hours a night and spends another two hours a day doing other things, that leaves 18 hours to actually spend reading tweets, or 5.55 per minute for every minute available in those 18 hours to reach 6,000.
Even unverified Twitter users would have to average reading one tweet every two minutes over 18 hours to reach the limit of 600.
Musk also said that he plans to make these read limits permanently, but at higher levels, like 10,000/day for verified users and 1,000/ day for unverified users.
I’m sorry, but is this really a problem for Twitter users? If you’re a Twitter user, do you come anywhere near any of those limits per day. Maybe because I’m not a Twitter users, these limits seem like much ado about nothing. But for those of you who are Twitter users, what do you think? Am I missing something or is this a big deal?
First let me say that I’ve never been a teacher and the only experience I have with what makes a teacher great is that as a student of some excellent teachers and a few horrid teachers. That said, i have an opinion about teaching, especially in these divided times with respect to not only how teachers should teach, but what they should teach.
In my opinion, a great teacher exposes his or her students to information and them asks them what they think and why.
A bad teacher limits the information he or she exposes to his or her students based upon religious or ideological factors and tells them what to think.
Again, I’m expressing my personal opinion. If your opinion is different, that’s fine. But if you choose to express your disagreement in a comment, please do so respectfully.
Di, at Pensitivity101, is our host for Share Your World each week. Here are her SYW questions for this week.
1. Do you own your own home, rent, or something else?
We own our own home free and clear (i.e., no mortgage).
2. What is your favorite ‘go to’ food when you’re feeling under par?
That depends upon the nature of the malady. Head cold? Upset stomach? Other? Also, it depends upon the season as well. A bowl of hot soup might be just what the doctor ordered in the winter, but not so much during the summer. So at the risk of sounding wishy-washy, I’m going to decline to answer because there are too many unspecified variables.
3. Do you indulge retail therapy?
Retail therapy? Is that when you go out on a shopping spree and spend a lot of money to make you feel better if you’re feeling down? If that’s what it is, then my answer is unequivocally no, I do not indulge in retail therapy.
4. How many pairs of shoes do you own?
Let’s see. I’ve got three pairs of sneakers but mostly wear my Kizik hands-free, step-in sneakers these days. I have one pair of leather dress shoes that I haven’t worn since my son’s wedding in 2020. I have a pair of hiking boots that I haven’t worn since 2019. And that, I think pretty much covers it.
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