I refuse to wear red shirts because of Star Trek TOS.
Whenever I get out of my car with lights still on and it dings to warn me, I thank it for reminding me. I just know the day I don’t do that is the last day that ding will happen!
It’s always best to be polite. I like to thank automatic doors for opening for me
I feel like bad things will happen to me if I eat a broken butterfinger bar.
If three good things happen to me in a relatively short period of time, something bad is gonna happen next.
If three bad thing happen to me in a relatively short period of time, somethig good is gonna happen next.
If I see my initials in a car rego plate I take it as a good sign.
I never saw a Unicorn before I believed in them. I guess they have a magical defense against being seen by people who don’t believe in them.
Now that I do believe in them…I still haven’t seen one. I guess they’re not local to my area.
I intend to continue to believe in them for the foreseeable future while I do some travel… just in case.
I must clench and unclench my toes a few times on a carpet at the next available opportunity after landing from a flight
If you hand someone a sharp object like a knife or scissors you will soon get into an argument. Gotta set it on the table for them to retrieve instead.
I heard a similar idea; you should never gift someone you like a knife because it will sever the friendship.
I do a monthly newsletter at work. I collect the stuff for the newsletter in an Excel sheet. I normally end up with around 12 items or so. But that makes my Excel sheet stop on line 13 because of the header row. So I’ll add 2 more things. Because if I just add 1 then it will be 13 entries. So my newsletter will have less than 11 or more than 14 entries. I don’t know why, I don’t care about the number 13 anywhere else in my life.
I’m still not convinces platypus are real
Thou shalt not deploy anything to production on a Friday.
The queue/phones/inbox/whatever sure is quiet today.
Back when I was in the helpdesk trenches, the phone system did go out during business hours one time. Most relaxing day of my professional career.
Years ago I worked for Target’s support call center and we had monitors with the call queues displayed throughout the floor.
New people would get quickly corrected if they commented on the status of the queues. There was an unspoken look but don’t comment rule.
Wow, we had totally different (but probably otherwise very similar) experiences lol. The big queue monitor was all our floor manager would talk about. Ever.
Same with making quality or engineering changes in a friday. It’s just dumb.
Nothing better than coming in Monday only to have to perform containment of all the bad parts produced over the weekend.
Actually, in some industries this is actually a good thing
If you can have a bumpy first day on Friday, and e.g. the warehouse is closed on the weekend, you can fix all the things you’ve seen on Friday during the weekend. And don’t have to suffer through a real rough week with in-production patching
True, and I’ve worked in corp IT for retail and we did actually do updates to the system on Fridays (or sometimes Saturdays) for exactly that reason.
So it’s more a rule-of-thumb than a prime directive, I guess lol.
you can fix all the things you’ve seen on Friday during the weekend
Just how I love spending my weekends.
Well, that’s how my business trips usually look like.
Work outside of usual production, but still somehow watch and verify your changes during production the next day, maybe producing hot-fixes, and trying to get some sleep until you can do your tests of changes at night, after you hopefully have swallowed all the fucking log data with a beer - and sometimes 2 and something stronger.
Then you go to bed with an unresolved issue, wake up during the night with some kind of wacky dreamed up solution.
Without any other option you hack it in, and it miraculously works.Then you go home and sleep - until some support call disturbs your Zen and you’re helplessly confused again …
Good one!
The absolute first non-food thing I ever bought in China was a jade “bi” pendant. This is what they look like:
(To be clear, this is not mine for reasons which will become obvious in a moment.)
I was told by the seller that you should never take it off as she strung it on red silk for me, because it’s to “protect your health”.
Since 2001 I’ve taken this off only five times, all but one of which was because the string frayed through and it had to be restrung. I don’t believe in the slightest that it has any impact on my health, but as a minor, neurotic superstition it stays on. (Which is why I couldn’t share a photograph of mine: I’d have to take it off.)
I have a ram pendant so Satan protects me.
I do not believe in Satan.
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If I’ve been a good boy my poop session will go smoothly. If I think I was a good boy, but then my poop is awful, I think “damn I must have done something…”. If I have been an asshole, but my poop goes well, I think “wow, I’m gonna have to pay this back tenfold tomorrow!”
The overwhelming majority of people are paid actors whose job is to stand in my way when I want to go home after work.
It’s about harmless beliefs, not not being crazy.
Maybe they’re not even paid, they enjoy standing in your way so much they come back and do it for free 😱
That might make it more Truman show /fun to interact with them.
IMO there are no harmless ones (by that I mean dictionary definition superstitions - not just things like traditions and adages that have a logical reason or basis), if a person truly believes in actual magical thinking no matter how silly it’s a doorway to accepting the rest.
Like letting in bullshit like horoscopes, homeopathy, faith healing, yearning for eschatological prophecies…
That’s as much a superstition as anything else.
Have you got a shred of empirical evidence to back it up?
That’s what I’m saying, it’s all bullshit
Where’s the emoji of Chief pinching the bridge of his nose after 86 speaks when you need it?
Damn, you must be fun at parties.
Flexible thinking where you can have silly beliefs but know to trust what can be verified is more resilient than embracing fear of the unknown.
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