Wow, you’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas!
Ook the Librarian
My namesake is a human librarian that was turned into an orangutan. All he says is “Ook” and can traverse the library stacks with great ease. He is happy.
I have a pretty strange knowledge set. I’m not super friendly, but I like to get high and link people to stuff. Just pretend I said only “ook”
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I’ll happily supply the hacksaw to keep you occupied.
Is this seriously your takeaway from a well-thought out post? This the smugness of reddit that I really don’t miss.
edit: I am refering to the root comment, as that isn’t clear.
Ook the Librarian@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•You were disabled. You're stuck laying down most of the day. What do you do to earn a living and survive?11·1 year agoThis can’t help in the short term, I would consider learning steno. It used to cost thousands to rent specialized equipment to do it. Now with Plover (foss), the software component is free. You just need a keyboard with n-key rollover to do it.
I wouldn’t actually recommend learning on a standard keyboard. I personally use an ortholinear for typing, and that’s what got me into plover.
One way this would help one disabilities to make money is that with high-speed internet, you can caption internet broadcasts or remote company meetings. There are nonprofits that you would work for to find companies that need your service.
Ook the Librarian@lemmy.worldto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•Junior Dev VS Machine Learning31·1 year agoBut which consumes more energy? Like really. I’m betting AI does, but some tasks might be close.
Ook the Librarian@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Tucker Carlson interviews Putin and asks Zelenskyy for conversationEnglish1·1 year agoHow can you enjoy your tea without a window?
Ook the Librarian@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can someone help me understand this maths riddle?5·1 year agoExactly. More precisely, the wording is making the reader confuse assets and debts. Which side of the ledger does that sheep actually belong on?
Ook the Librarian@lemmy.worldto Moving to: m/AskMbin!@kbin.social•Do you use a serial (Oxford) comma?1·1 year agoYou, laz.y ba’stard;
Ook the Librarian@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Could plants/trees be an evil alien species that came to earth and made us dependent on them ?13·1 year ago“Daddy, why do people have to eat?”
[long pull from cig] “Plants… They came here. Now we are enslaved to eat them. It is their way.”
Ook the Librarian@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What's the best type of food to eat in a shower?2·1 year agoSome stores sell a little shelf for your shower crunchwraps. They have a little suction cup on them. It’s a really clever design.
Not quite homeless, Paul Erdős was a nomadic mathematician. He use to travel to universities, couch-surf with a mathematician, and solve a problem with them.
He would say, “another roof, another proof.” As a result, he has a huge number of collaborators. The stat Erdős number is like the six degrees from Kevin Bacon game.
People seemed glad to have this oddball stranger as a house guest.
Ook the Librarian@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What's the best type of food to eat in a shower?17·1 year agoCrunchwrap supreme. Next question.
Ook the Librarian@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•When people talk about returning the cart after shopping, does that include putting it in a corral, or do you have to take it all the way to the front of the store to be a good person?21·1 year agoSo I’ve live a few places around the US (all east of the Missisip. So it’s not like a good survey), but the place that is worst for this has been southern Louisiana (north shore). Everywhere kinda sucks, but it’s anarchy there.
Ook the Librarian@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•When people talk about returning the cart after shopping, does that include putting it in a corral, or do you have to take it all the way to the front of the store to be a good person?2·1 year agoWhy are you the judge of what conditions make it acceptable?
Ook the Librarian@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•‘Incredibly rare’ discovery reveals bedbugs came to Britain with the RomansEnglish43·1 year agoThis is just more propaganda from the People’s Front of Judea.
Ook the Librarian@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can someone explain to me what makes Taylor Swift so popular?2·1 year agoDon’t get me wrong, he is a folk singer. But listening to what he is singing over can catch you off-guard.
Ook the Librarian@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can someone explain to me what makes Taylor Swift so popular?6·1 year agoI’m not a music expert but here goes.
Paul Simon is most identified as folk. The act Simon and Garfunkel is basically pure folk if such a thing exists.
Listen to the opening of Late in the Evening. He’s singing folk, but there is no guitar (to my ear). Instead it’s a bass guitar playing funk. Later some horns come in. They sound like mambo to me.
There are two songs on Graceland that he recorded with a South African band. This was during apartheid. He heard a bootleg tape from this SA group, and had to travel to a part of South Africa that he was banned from doing business in.
Does he make it some powerful statement? No, that would be a stunt. He just wanted to make music with them. “I Know What I Know” is about the insipid-ness of show biz party-networking culture. It’s wild.
Ook the Librarian@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can someone explain to me what makes Taylor Swift so popular?191·1 year agoI’ll sum up some answers that made things click for me
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She writes songs spanning many emotions.
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Her albums span multiple genres. (I’ve only heard pop and country, but I’m not a fan.)
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She is hard working, prolific, and puts on a show.
So with that combination it seems she has something for everyone. Personally, I only know one TS song, but it’s catchy as hell. So there’s no song that I hate that happens to TS song either.
About point 2.: I’m a Paul Simon fan and he spans multiple genres, but I wouldn’t expect non-fans to know that.
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Ook the Librarian@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•I am 50 years old and I'm about to try Taco Bell for the first time. What should I try first?3·1 year agoI don’t think a person who has never had the Bell is qualified to be a toilet paper tester.
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