FAT table

Nothing you ever learn is wasted, even if it’s originally trivia and over time becomes pointless. I’m not selling this very well. But I did a thing this week and without any conceivably connection to anything I happen to have picked up before, there was a connection and I’ve been fixating on it. All I did was have a week off. Mostly. Actually, pretty close to entirely. And I quickly found myself having to check what day was which, I was quickly living at odd hours of the day. I had a bad night’s sleep early on in the week, so I just had a lie-in. Cooking for one is tedious and I’d keep putting that off, so I’d end up eating at even odder hours, which might have contributed to the sleeping. But overall, I had this week, it was wide open, and the very first thing I thought of was a FAT table. That’s an example of RAS, the Redundant Acronym Syndrome, as the T in FAT is Table. Just as you don’t need to say “ISBN number” because the N is number. I only learned of RAS while thinking of how…