Filling out this form, I was presented with a list of pronoun sets to choose from.
Should I choose “he/him,” or “he/him/his”?
What’s the difference?
Does the former imply that I don’t have a possessive pronoun because I don’t possess anything?
At a recent event at the new Arlington (Mass.) High School, when I asked where the restrooms were, someone pointed down the hall and said “by the blue wall.” What a great design! By “color-coding” the restrooms, you can tell from far away where to go. And where “to go.”
At first glance, this looks like six boxes of Dunkin’ coffee. It’s not. The two on the right are hot chocolate. But the only way to know that was in a tiny printed font on a sticker.
So someone (OK, me) wrote “Hot Chocolate” on the two that weren’t coffee. I wish I’d had a Sharpie to make it stand out more, but your use the tools you got!
First off, let me say how much I love this restaurant, so I have masked out the name & address.
Four things I’d like to point out.
#1) I took these screenshots this morning. Christmas Day. Thanksgiving was over a month ago. Obviously, they took the time & effort to update their page FOR Thanksgiving, why not after?
#2) “We accept reservations by phone only,” but …
#3) There is a “Table Reservation” button.
#4) If you click the “Table Reservation” button, you get taken to a page that says “We are not currently taking reservations.”
FYI: They could fix #2, #3, & #4 by simply hiding the “Table Reservation” button.
These two elevators are side-by-side in the same building. Note that only Elevator 1 goes to the Cellar (C) or the Roof (R). I have two complaints about this.
1: If you want to go to the Roof or the Cellar, there is no way to specify which elevator you want. So half the time, you will get Elevator 2 and have to send it away & call again for Elevator 1.
Exception: If you are on the Ground Floor & press the DOWN button, or on Floor 12 and press the UP button, only Elevator 1 will respond. Whew!
2: The two sets of buttons are arranged very differently. One has three columns, one has two.
This is a residential building. So whether you live there or you’re visiting, chances are there is one floor you go to most of the time. Let’s say it’s 6. In one elevator, your button is three down from the top of the left side, and in the other, it is four down from the top of the right side. Every time you get in the elevator, you have to expend some mental energy to find your button. If they were arranged the same way (with the addition of two buttons in Elevator 1), your finger would head to the same location for the six button with no thought at all.
Suggested button arrangement:
I was recently backstage at the Colonial Chorus Players in Reading, Mass., and noticed this stack of supplies. There are many things I like about this, but the Number One thing that caught my attention was that each box was labeled with both the text AND a picture. Left brain or right brain, you’re gonna find what you need.
Bravo, CCP!
I’m just gonna leave this here.
Many of the ads for mobile phone games say stupid things like “How old is your brain?” or “What’s your IQ?”, implying you can either learn this or improve it playing heir game. But this one pushed me over the edge to post it here.
Just for context, Stephen Hawking’s & Albert Einstein’s IQ have been estimated at 160:
“The maximum IQ score assigned by the WAIS-IV, a commonly-used test today, is 160. A score of 135 or above puts a person in the 99th percentile of the population. News articles often put Einstein’s IQ at 160, though it’s unclear what that estimate is based upon.”
– https://www.biography.com/scientists/albert-einstein-iq
“Eleven-year-old Yusuf Shah’ Mensa intelligence test score of 162 beats those of physicists Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein, who were both estimated to have IQs around 160.”
– https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/11-year-old-british-boy-beats-einstein-hawking-mensa-iq-test-rcna58551
Purple Australian comedian Randy Feltface on having a bad user experience with a motel lamp.
This link will take you the start of that bit, which lasts until 1:42, but feel free to keep watching.
CAVEAT FOR SMALL CHILDREN: It contains the F-word AND the S-word. Also “pubes.”