I understand that museums have to be dark because light can destroy fragile artifacts. That said, I’m always afraid to walk around the blind corners because what if there is a skeleton
Okay yes sometimes there’s a skeleton, I understand how museums work. But I mean what if it gets me
spookiest things in museums, number 15: the skeleton that understands you on an emotional level
So the Crunchyroll newsroom isn’t a “room” so much as a Slack channel. We have news writers all over the US, in Australia, and in Japan. This means we have something akin to ‘round-the-clock coverage, but it also means that our schedules respective to each other are skewed. For example, when the East Coast contingent is starting their day, the Japan contingent is shutting down for the evening.
Because of that, we started experimenting with greetings that could apply when Party A was coming in for the morning and Party B was leaving for the night. One person came up with “konbarning”: a combination of “good morning” and “konban wa” (“good evening” in Japanese). It stuck.
Over the following months, “konbarning” got shortened to “barning” and other permutations. Now, a year or some later, this is how we announce our arrival:
What I love about this, though, is that the little nails will become an outline of where the water was. It will trace the shape, show someone later what was there once upon a time. It will be a testament to how much this guy wanted to capture the amazing things he saw and experienced, and though it will never truly keep it, it will hold a memory, something that in itself is beautiful and worthy of experience. We cannot describe the indescribable, but we can trace its outline, give some idea of what we experienced.
