RE: The 6am thread
01-13-2018, 11:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-20-2018, 07:57 AM by BRPXQZME.)
It’s 0640 hours (1140 Zulu). I’ve decided to give Blizzard another chance.
To be fair, this time it should look a lot better on their end!
Some yonks back someone in Japan decided to invent a kanji for the word “blizzard”. Like, they slapped “fish” and “storm” together (usually fish on the left means it’s some species of aquatic animal; frankly, I think most people would have considered “ice” for the left side, admittedly the whitespace balance would be more difficult aesthetics-wise) and gave it a reading of the English word blizzard. IIRC it was graffiti about 50 years ago. It isn’t really used. This is just a thing where there’s no rule that says you can’t invent new letters, kind of like how in kindergarten you may have heard an argument about whether googolplex counts as a number. Anyhow, it made its way into trivia books and stuff so that was good enough to merit inclusion as Unicode point U+2B679 as part of CJK Supplement C.
I am not making this up, just misremembering some details maybe.
It is 1140 hours. The position is marked as closed mere days later. That was an alarming designation to me, but apparently in the field of applicant tracking software it is a more benign superposition of “it may in fact be closed closed, but only new applications are definitely closed for sure.” Doesn’t mean I have to like it!
It is 0240 hours (early to bed, early to rise). I hope that even if my application is destined for the reject pile, they appreciate my unusual sense of humor in ensuring that the explanation of the joke I sent them is available right here. Unfortunately, search engines appear to not even try indexing every little thing anymore. If it is to be “got”, I may not have laid down enough groundwork, and instead only gambled on curiosity being piqued.
To be fair, this time it should look a lot better on their end!
Some yonks back someone in Japan decided to invent a kanji for the word “blizzard”. Like, they slapped “fish” and “storm” together (usually fish on the left means it’s some species of aquatic animal; frankly, I think most people would have considered “ice” for the left side, admittedly the whitespace balance would be more difficult aesthetics-wise) and gave it a reading of the English word blizzard. IIRC it was graffiti about 50 years ago. It isn’t really used. This is just a thing where there’s no rule that says you can’t invent new letters, kind of like how in kindergarten you may have heard an argument about whether googolplex counts as a number. Anyhow, it made its way into trivia books and stuff so that was good enough to merit inclusion as Unicode point U+2B679 as part of CJK Supplement C.I am not making this up, just misremembering some details maybe.
It is 1140 hours. The position is marked as closed mere days later. That was an alarming designation to me, but apparently in the field of applicant tracking software it is a more benign superposition of “it may in fact be closed closed, but only new applications are definitely closed for sure.” Doesn’t mean I have to like it!
It is 0240 hours (early to bed, early to rise). I hope that even if my application is destined for the reject pile, they appreciate my unusual sense of humor in ensuring that the explanation of the joke I sent them is available right here. Unfortunately, search engines appear to not even try indexing every little thing anymore. If it is to be “got”, I may not have laid down enough groundwork, and instead only gambled on curiosity being piqued.
sea had swallowed all. A lazy curtain of dust was wafting out to sea