Also today I have spent some time - Don Quixote style - shouting "It's a railway station" at "This way to the train station" signs. #grammarpolice #rearguardaction #tiltingatwindmills

#tiltingatwindmills

Of course, no one else but me probably wants/needs this.

I'm trying to build a graphics device compatible with the latest #RStats graphics engine (v15) which supports things like patterns, groups, luminance masks etc.

#RStats #TiltingAtWindmills

So just a warning I guess. I didn't need my Twitter account for work or outreach or for important stuff but if you do, please work on alternatives if you can. It can just be locked one day and you may not know why. Of course no one on Twitter can see this as my account is banned #TiltingAtWindmills

Have you seen that "France is bacon" post knocking around the internet? I have a similar personal experience I'd like to share with you.

As a child I had often heard the phrase "tilting at windmills", and quickly understood that it sort of meant "lost the plot". The thing is, I never knew what "tilting" actually meant, other than something leaning at a jaunty angle.

Skip forward to my mid-to-late twenties while I'm playing Final Fantasy XIII and I encounter an enemy called a "Tilter", a large machine thing that looks a bit like a lance welding centaur, ish. So, there I was wondering why it was called a Tilter when it clearly wasn't tilting, so I looked it up and discovered Don Quixote (something that I spent a long time pronouncing very wrong), and suddenly everything made sense

However, I still like the image I have of people leaning towards windmills and falling flat on their face as a metaphor for definitely having lost the plot. The only difference now is that they don't angrily and in defiance of the existence of windmills.

#learningisfun #englishlanguage #tiltingatwindmills #childlogic