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How often do you change bedding and bath towels?
  • I’d also be interesting in knowing if people have in-unit laundry. Being in an apartment complex where there’s 3 washers for around 50 people, it’s not feasible to wash towels after every use. That also sounds very wasteful!

    I shower every other day, and change the towels after a couple of weeks. The schedule is based on when they can get washed (laundry gets done every two weeks for clothes, and so it’s based on the availability of doing extra loads), or at the first sign of a smell or stain.

    Bedding gets changed on a monthly basis for the same reasons, again, unless there’s a smell or stain.

  • How did marking corrections with the astrisk originate?
  • Noting a correction is part of a larger scope of annotating something. From Wikipedia:

    There is also a two-thousand-year-old character used by Aristarchus of Samothrace called the asteriskos, ※, which he used when proofreading Homeric poetry to mark lines that were duplicated. Origen is known to have also used the asteriskos to mark missing Hebrew lines from his Hexapla. The asterisk evolved in shape over time, but its meaning as a symbol used to correct defects remained.

    In the Middle Ages, the asterisk was used to emphasize a particular part of text, often linking those parts of the text to a marginal comment. However, an asterisk was not always used.

    Aristarchus of Samothrace was from c. 220 – c. 143 BC, so it’s been used for notation since at least then!

  • Japan Air Lines food poisoning incident
  • Vomiting and having diarrhea at the same time as 196 other people in a place with limited facilities sounds really awful. I can’t even imagine the chaos that would have ensued. What a logistical nightmare… those poor people!

  • Anon sees ghosts
  • Is this X-Men’s Cyclops’ origin story? Maybe they’re worried you’ll have laser eyes and will need to wear protective eye wear for the safety of everyone around you.

    Really, though, lots of eye flashes can be an issue with your retina. For me, I suddenly had a ton of flashes, like shooting stars, followed by a dimness that lasted for several minutes. It turned out to be an ocular migraine, which was kind of scary not knowing what was going on at the time.

  • What film does the wedding scene in Wayne’s World 2 depict?
  • Close! Mrs Robinson is the name of the song and the older woman in the movie. While the younger man is being seduced by the older woman (who happened to be a married family friend), her daughter who is around his age catches his eye.

    Tap for spoiler

    The movie is about the fallout of the affair and Dustin Hoffman attempting to date the daughter.

  • Question from an educator
  • Just spitballing an idea. Along the lines of airdrop, does the instructor have a machine that the kids can send their music to when they’re done? This would create a backup, which the instructor could then organize and upload to a server (google drive?) that can be shared with the iPads as read only, so the kids could redownload the file again if need be.

  • Sub Sampling

    cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/15042254

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