Author: Alex Heberling

Alex Heberling here. I own the place.

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humansofnewyork:

“I’m getting my PhD in Mechanical Engineering.”

“And what does a Mechanical Engineer do?”

“Well, when a company wants something new, we take some old things and squish them together. There’s a few more bits and bobs to it, but that’s the general gist.”

(San Francisco, CA)

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atopfourthwall:

student: can i borrow a pencil
teacher: i don’t know, CAN you?
student: yes, also colloquial irregularities occur frequently in any language and since you and the rest of our present company understood my intended meaning being particular about the distinctions between “can” and “may” is purely pedantic and arguably pretentious

May was always the month when my elementary teachers were particularly militant about “may I” vs. “can I”.

“IT’S MAY, YOU GUYS, MAY MAY MAY MAY.”

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So my entire online store fell into a Time Hole last week. (That is what I am calling it.  Somewhere, in a parallel dimension, someone is browsing my perfectly functional store.)  At some point, during my fiddling with things, the database disappeared completely, and the problem necessitated a complete uninstall-reinstall, so I had to start completely over.  My apologies to anyone who was trying to browse in the last week and got PHP errors instead.

All my products are now back up, though they were entered in a totally different order, so links to things in my older posts may now point to completely different things. :[

The thing I’m most upset about, other than not backing up my database like a doofus, is that I lost all my product descriptions, and I KNOW I had a lot more cleverness about it two months ago than I do now.