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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 245 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Are you dating a spreadsheet?

[–] [email protected] 132 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Gotta remain positive and see the glass half full, or January 2nd depending on the cell format.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

She's so perfect. Literally not a single flaw. She's a 1.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Excel would say Oct. 10

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

He’s got all access to that one

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

If your mind goes to "spreadsheet" instead of "calendar," that says more about your... proclivities... than it does his!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's really more of a DataFrame I've mismanaged. Which might be why I'm struggling to handle my relationships.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe it’s time to upgrade to a relational database.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't think I'm ready for that. In fact, I think I'm just going back to individual delimited text files to store every record separately using a custom encoding I made up.

I'll add arbitrary folders to split them up based on inconsistent logic and never make backups.

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Now that's quality showerthinking

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

This is what it's all about right here.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 weeks ago

First post here that kind of fucked me up for a moment.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 weeks ago

this hit me like a mental flashbang. your wisdom is beyond all of us

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, and if we're playing my connect 4 rules, you can also aim for a Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday diagonal.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

You can also go 3D. January 8, February 5, March 4, April 8 would be 4 in a stack.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

thank goodness i can see time in 3d now. this wont end badly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Seeing time in 3D, mayhaps like a Time Cube?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Holy shit, what an opener, and then the second paragraph is the perfect punchline. I think the wiki editors knew exactly what they were doing.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

What if we add a 4th dimension with years?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure. That would be 4 days in a… well stack is already taken, so what do we call that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe a box, or a jumbo stack

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s the third dimension of time. You playing 6D chess over here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

If you include multiple years, you can add one more dimension.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

If you see someone on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, that counts as only three days in a row, since Monday is on another row. If you see somebody on four consecutive Tuesdays, that would be four days in a column.

Like this

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What if the Mondays span different months?

Like 8/19, 8/26, 9/2, 9/9?

Now the Mondays are on another page or they're a swipe to the right

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Maybe!

Bonus!! Love this concept:

Some context:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The bonus is absolutely terrifying

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you can, hope you make today a great day 🌈

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Looking at my life calendar every day for a few months really kicked my life into gear.

My advice is just open it up and look at it once per day. You don’t have to do anything else. Make sure it’s one where the current week is marked.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

You got me there!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago

This what a calendar does to a mf

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

Are you perchance Bobby Tables?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I see where this question is leading, and I don't think I like the implications

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

... Where is it leading?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Get your ducks in a column.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

No, it's boating related. Four days in a sail.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I'm going to make the executive choice of saying that yes. Yes it does mean that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

I absolutely love this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Like... deep, man.... cough

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Life is row-order; suck it, FORTRAN

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So whats first day of the year 4 years in a row?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

In a three dimensional calendar that could work, 4 days deep ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is no human entity, just human Cubics - as in 4 different people in a 4 corner stage metamorphic rotation.

4 corner quadrants compose Earth sphere, as 4corner room with 4corner dimensions, with 4corner perspectives and the 4seasons. Earth's 4corners rotate 4corners of TIME, creating 4simultaneous day Earth rotation, as if 4 different Worlds with their own day, for 4separate races with 4corner life stages, with outer limits of 4x4 great-grandparents.

(sorry, I couldn't resist!)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Evil Ass Educators Suppress Time Cube, and dumb ass students condone such evil. Cubeless institutions are spreaders of evil, and students lack mentality to challenge it.


I bestow upon myself the "Doctorate of Cubicism", for educators are ignorant of Nature's Harmonic Time Cube Principle and cannot bestow the prestigious honor of wisdom upon the wisest human ever.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'd say so.

Although I still think it's weird that "consecutive" became a requirement.

Edit: Not implying blame for OP about the requirement. But colloquially it does mean consecutive, and I think that's a little strange. Probably a weird etymology rabbit hole to look at sometime.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If I see someone Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday all in the same week, is it still 4 days in a row?

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