Conversation

Replying to
I was once bored in a shitty roadrunner help desk position and they cut outside internet access for some reason. So I started writing down numbers at the beginning of my shift and by the end i had written out to 12,XXX, and used 1/4 of a pencil.
1
Replying to
When I was in kindergarten, I set myself the goal of counting to a thousand. Because my grasp of numbers was..... incomplete.... I >actually< counted to ten thousand. (Hundred-hundred.) ((After 999 came tenhundred. Tenhundred one, etc.)) Took me several days.
Replying to
Well I watched a factory worker in China manually performing a Highly Accelerated Life Test on cable connectors. These connectors were designed for 50,000 “mating cycles” before failure, so... fun to remember whenever I think my current job sucks.