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This is why I HATE US-style dates, especially the numeric form; the rest of the world uses either DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY/MM/DD which is logical, ascending or descending order of magnitude.
When reading the above meme date, "the rest of the world" assumes 7 APR 1996 (7/4/1996 Events) UNLESS they know that the author is from the US.
I'm a software engineer by trade so US-style dates make no sense at all, they ALWAYS need to be translated into a more sensible format.
I used to have a LOT of issues when "carded" in the US, the bouncers initially thought my South Australian drivers license was fake because the DOB was 17/10/YYYY (at least they were bright enough to recognise that there weren't 17 months in the year).
QLD drivers licenses now show DOB as "DD MMM YYYY", where MMM is the first 3 letters of the month (probably for the above reason and absolute clarity).
Curiously the license start/end periods are in format "DD.MM.YY", where the DD,MM,YY values are numbers.
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Location: Detroit (the part with no rules or laws)
Posts: 5,680
Total Cats: 804
Sitting here drinking a complementary beer while doing laundry in a random hotel in middle America.
Reflecting on the last 2 months. I've spent only a couple of nights in my own bed. I've got 1 more week on the road, then home for a few week, and back on the road.
Started by breaking the boat. Blew a hole in the bottom. Got it back together for a week only to have a race cancelled. Following weekend took a first place both Saturday and Sunday. Broke the gas tank and battery box. And my ankle. Got back in town and immediately flew out again, right into a plant down situation. Then they caught the building & boiler on fire. Been trying to temp in a new boiler for a week.
Over the course of his decades-long career, the late photographer Walter Chandoha created over 90,000 images of cats.
It was this cat named Loco that got him started.
Walter was a World War II battle photographer who had transitioned into advertising. One day he picked up a gray kitten on the streets of New York City in 1949. Inspired by the cat's late-night antics, Chandoha and his wife Maria named him Loco—and it was by photographing Loco that Chandoha began a 70-year career as one of the world's most famous cat photographers.
07-07-2024, 07:49 PM
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