some light questions

[cellio]

I learned today that there is a full-service gas station on my way to/from work. I didn't know we had any of those locally. It's been years (probably decades); what is the conventional tip?

As I pulled up to an intersction (all-way stop), someone from the cross street was backing through the intersection. After backing into the space in front of my car, he immediately popped into drive and went through the intersection. Whose turn was that, the cross-street or mine? :-)

I have occasionally noticed (because of tracking/RSS feeds or because I viewed the journals directly) posts to LJ that did not show up on my friends page. Is this happening to anyone else? I haven't detected a pattern yet.

Why does Hebrew have two words for "open" that differ only (apparently) in what objects they take? It's peh-kuf-chet when talking about eyes and ears, and peh-taf-chet for anything else.

Comments

[dvarin.livejournal.com]

I think there's an option for making entries not show up on friends' pages. It used to be called backdating, not sure what it's called now.

Is the verb tied to the idea of perception? Which one is used for opening the mind/heart?

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

There is no tip for full service at a gas station. You can pay one (10%, maybe), but I've never heard of anyone doing so.

[talvinamarich.livejournal.com]

Some posts use "filters". I do very occasionally. That's like a different friends list, of sorts. "I want only X, Y, and Z to see my chicken soup recipes", so you make a filter called "Chicken Soup" and decide who is on that list.

I once used it because a friend's email host (a university!) went belly-up and I HAD to contact him. The funny thing: he answered a post locked to him and him only faster than he ever answered any of my emails. :P

[dr4b]

Dude. You should see how Japanese has two main words for "open" and I totally can't figure out how to use a bunch of them (but one seems to have to do with pulling something open like a drawer, and one seems to have to do with opening by uncovering or revealing).

[cjsherwood.livejournal.com]

Conventional TIP?

Erm. Nothing, I would imagine. They are doing their job, especially here in NJ where there is only full-serve; self-serve is against the law. Seriously.

I can't imagine tipping someone for filling my gas tank. Even tipping the guy who now knows me, remembers my car and that I always fill up with cash, at the gas station up near PresbyChurch has never occurred to me, though if I keep going there maybe a card at Christmas would be in order.

YMMV, of course.

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

A1: Nothing.

A2: From the context, I get the impression that Other Guy was entering the intersection from your right. If he had been going forward, and you both arrived at the intersection at the same time, he would have had the right of way. I don't know (a) if his being in reverse changes anything or (b) if the basic regulation differs between MA where I learned it asnd PA where you are.

A3: Duh?

A4: Why? 'Cause it does. It can be argued that everything is an idiom: in Hebrew the notion of "open" is simply semantically different from "open-eyes/ears". Many Native American languages have separate genders for flat things, round things, tall skinny things, things that move, live animals, dead things, dangerous things, invisible things, and on and on. Some of these may be combined in odd ways: this is discussed in a recent popular book entitled (something like) "Women, Fire, and Other Dangerous Things". The point is that languages often represent very different ways of looking at the world.

[woodwindy.livejournal.com]

I have occasionally noticed (because of tracking/RSS feeds or because I viewed the journals directly) posts to LJ that did not show up on my friends page. Is this happening to anyone else? I haven't detected a pattern yet.

Yes, and it makes me crazy. I note that at least one of your previous respondents has sort of missed the point about locked/filtered posts, if I understand you correctly -- you're talking about unlocked posts that you can see if you visit the person's LJ directly, but that don't show up on your friends page, right?

I have noticed that there are two people on my f-list who seem particularly prone to that phenomenon, but like you I haven't been able to find any other pattern to it.

[multislackerkim.livejournal.com]

They only have full-serve gas stations in Jersey, and when I asked a buddy what I should have tipped, he made fun of me. Full serve rocks.

Hebrew verbs

[zevabe.livejournal.com]

The two verbs פקח פתח are unrelated (ignoring for the moment some Kabbalistic connection that can be made). פתח (Patach) is the usual opening verb. פקח (pakach) usually means other things, and I would classify opening of one's eyes or ears as a side/unusual meaning. That root usually relates to things being either:
*1* especially clever (several mishnayot point out how to be tricky using this word. For example, two nazirites who agree to be nazirites and bring sacrifices for a nazirite other than themselves (basically one says he'll do that and the other says 'me too') should bring the sacrifices for each other if they are clever)
or *2* free of handicap (by comparison to those with some handicap. See mishnayot at the end of Yevamot regarding two siblings, one of whom is deaf and one of whom is 'pikeach'-not deaf).

the tipping point

[brokengoose.livejournal.com]

I often fill up at a they-pump-for-you station. I usually don't tip. In talking with the employees, only a small minority of people tip. Apparently, the station is full service because insurance rates are lower if they don't let the users pump their own gas and the station is small enough that the single attendant can keep up with the flow of customers.

When I was younger, my parents would tip if the station was really "full service". If they checked the tires, oil, wipers, etc., my parents would tip. If such places existed any more, so would I. Basically, if they go above and beyond "just doing their job", I'd call it tip-worthy.

(An aside: why do the people who serve coffee to go think that they deserve tips? That'd be like tipping at McDonald's or the deli counter of the grocery store.)

[annaeisenkopf.livejournal.com]

Usually full serve costs more per gallon. It won't be on the outside sign but would be on the pumps. Check on that first, just so you know. Gas attendants are paid minimum wage and do not require tipping. It can be nice though if hey give the extra services that go along with it like washing your windows and checking your fluids.