when you have a fond memory with someone but when you bring it up with them they dont remember it
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mira | melbourne, australia
she likes the magic chords in the ELO.
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history meme | 3 inventions [1/3] → "QWERTY keyboard"
The first practical typewriter was patented in the United States in 1868 by Christopher Latham Sholes. His machine was known as the type-writer. It had a movable carriage, a lever for turning paper from line to line, and a keyboard on which the letters were arranged in alphabetical order. But Sholes had a problem. On his first model, his “ABC” key arrangement caused the keys to jam when the typist worked quickly. Sholes didn’t know how to keep the keys from sticking, so his solution was to keep the typist from typing too fast. He did this using a study of letter-pair frequency prepared by educator Amos Densmore, brother of James Densmore, who was Sholes’ chief financial backer. The QWERTY keyboard itself was determined by the existing mechanical linkages of the typebars inside the machine to the keys on the outside. Sholes’ solution did not eliminate the problem completely, but it was greatly reduced. . The keyboard arrangement was considered important enough to be included on Sholes’ patent granted in 1878, some years after the machine was into production. QWERTY’s effect, by reducing those annoying clashes, was to speed up typing rather than slow it down. The new arrangement was the “QWERTY” arrangement that typists use today. Of course, Sholes claimed that the new arrangement was scientific and would add speed and efficiency. The only efficiency it added was to slow the typist down, since almost any word in the English language required the typist’s fingers to cover more distance on the keyboard. The advantages of the typewriter outweighed the disadvantages of the keyboard. Typists memorized the crazy letter arrangement, and the typewriter became a huge success.
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makes me think of the dutch kids tv show with the boat & canal I used to watch. except there’s no boat and it’s no canal. #latergram #vscocam (at Windmill Gardens Receptions)
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getting lost sometimes brings pleasant surprises such as this place. #latergram #vscocam (at Windmill Gardens Receptions)
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send me a symbol
send me a: "✎" and i'll handwrite your url send me a: "♔" and i'll draw you/your character send me a: "✉" and i'll handwrite a little story for you send me a: "✈" and i'll handwrite the one place I most want to go send me a: "★" and i'll handwrite my favorite color send me a: "♥" and i'll draw you a picture send me a: "☀" and i'll handwrite my favorite season send me a: "✦" and i'll handwrite my favorite animal send me a: "☮" and i'll handwrite my tumblr crushes send me a: "♪" and i'll handwrite my favorite genre of music send me a: "♫" and i'll handwrite my favorite singer or group send me a: "✂" and i'll handwrite something I find attractive send me a: "✔" and i'll handwrite my favorite movie send me a: "✮" and i'll handwrite my favorite food send me a: "☾" and i'll draw something of your choice send me a: "☁" and i'll write something of your choice -
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(I am working late at night in a 24-hour pharmacy. There are only three customers in the store: a scruffy but clean young couple and another gentleman. The woman in the young couple is very heavily pregnant, and her partner is picking up the range of baby hats we carry and holding them up against her stomach, then looking at the prices and sadly putting them back. They pick up a packet of the cheapest pain medication we carry and bring it to the counter.) Female Customer: “I’m sorry, but can you please ask the pharmacist if these are safe for me to take?” Me: “Of course!” (While we’re waiting for the pharmacist to come out, they tell me they’re expecting their daughter any day now. The pharmacist has been watching the young couple since they came in.) Pharmacist: “These are fine, but can I ask why you need them?” Female Customer: “Oh, I have a horrible cough that’s making my back ache even worse. I can’t get to sleep.” (The pharmacist goes through a list of cough medicines safe for her to take, before the young man shakes his head with tears in his eyes.) Male Customer: “I’m sorry, I’ve just lost my job and we really can’t afford any of those. Sorry for wasting your time.” Pharmacist: “That’s okay, but this packet is damaged, and legally I can’t let you take it. Seeing as it was the last one, let me and [my name] go look in the back for some more.” (The pharmacist takes me out the back, where he puts three packets of name brand painkillers, four bottles of name brand cough syrup, a wheat bag for her back, a tin of formula, a packet of newborn nappies and a few of the hats the couple was looking at into a box. He hands me the box and tells me to take it out to them. I do and they both burst into tears, thanking us over and over again. They leave with huge smiles on their faces.) Female Customer: “Thank you again!” Other Customer: “I’m sorry, I couldn’t help but over hear. Did you say you just lost your job at [local company]?” Male Customer: “Yes, I was an IT tech.” Other Customer: “I own [other computer store in the area], and I’m looking for a new tech. Can you start tomorrow?” (There were tears all round that night. A week later, the young woman brought in her beautiful daughter and a giant batch of cupcakes for the pharmacy staff. Best night at work ever!) -
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