'Trash'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
When I worked at Lotus, we each got our birthday off as a personal holiday.
I knew a woman who always took off the day after her birthday, so she could go out on her birthday and get trashed.
Companies need to have "hangover days" in addition to personal and sick days....
When I worked at Lotus, we each got our birthday off as a personal holiday.
Weird. I mean, it's great to get the birthday holiday (def. not true at all places), but most places I've seen that have it let you take your birthday or some other day within the month. After all, even those of us who don't have Christmas birthdays have them on weekends on a pretty regular basis...
And auto repair.
They may not be competitive enough, the Italians and British would dominate.
We could have a "dead reckoning" contest in sailing.
Unfortunately, my birthday is the day after Christmas, which we inevitably got off anyway. Just one more example of the Incredible Suckiness Of That Birthdate.
It's so funny -- I think of it as Yet Another Benefit to the day! I've never worked on my birthday, and don't ever plan to.
We could have a "dead reckoning" contest in sailing.
Random bit o' trivia: Some people say it's supposed to be "ded reckoning" (short for "deduced reckoning" or somesuch) but apparently that's a myth (which I just learned upon googling): [link]
What makes deduced reckoning and ded reckoning seem plausible is that dead reckoning doesn’t make sense, even though you might end up dead if you got your sums wrong. Writers are divided on which sense of dead the old-time mariners had in mind. Was it perhaps the idea of being as still as a corpse, so referring your position to a point that’s dead in the water? Or is it something completely or absolutely so, exact or precise, as in dead level, dead wrong, or dead ahead? The OED plumps for the latter.
I agree with the OED.
Eeep! You're right! I jumped the gun because I read facebook wrong.
Oh well, happy early birthday meara and Jen!
Profile of Hugh Dillon form today's Globe and Mail: [link]
When I worked at Lotus, we each got our birthday off as a personal holiday.
The company I'm with now does the same.