I inherited my grandfather's letter opener. He made it, that's why we hung on to it.
It really does make opening envelopes easier and more satisfying. Plus it keep the envelope mostly intact to it makes a good storage sleeve. Given that most things that come in envelopes (that aren't junk) are things we have to hang on to (like tax records), it's handy. Also my grandfather put a good edge on it, so it's our best package opener too.
I always think of a teacher I had in the 90's who had very strong opinions on the matter and wanted us all to abide by them. He was very soft-spoken but he would raise his voice a bit if we pronounced it wrong: "Day-ta is a name, dah-ta is information!"
The other time he raised his voice was to yell at a student, "Fire is not an element!!!" (we were talking about the periodic table at the time)
That's how I felt for the first half of TNG and the first couple episodes of DS9. But Armin Shimerman, Aron Eisenberg, and Max Grodenchik brought so much depth to the Ferengi that it became a real joy to see plots focus on them.
What do you do when courts start to decide that you actively and willingly give children PTSD to make them psychologically addicted to a your trauma feed? Hire Momfluencers, of course.
I degoogled as a Covid project. Mostly it just made me feel a little bit better... and then GenAI hit. Hopefully I'll go my whole life without ever having used Gemini. And hopefully, if they ingested any of my pre-pandemic emails, photos, docs, etc to train with, pulling it out of cold storage will at least have cost them extra time and money.
I inherited my grandfather's letter opener. He made it, that's why we hung on to it.
It really does make opening envelopes easier and more satisfying. Plus it keep the envelope mostly intact to it makes a good storage sleeve. Given that most things that come in envelopes (that aren't junk) are things we have to hang on to (like tax records), it's handy. Also my grandfather put a good edge on it, so it's our best package opener too.