Pour the sugar, count:
One two three four - the perfect
coffee cup sweetness.
Alas! Malfunction!
Sugar chunks prevent pouring -
my count is thrown off.
The end result? My over-compensation lead to overly-sweetened coffee. Le sigh.
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
On Diswasher Affordances
Dishwashers can be
a tricky beast: how to tell
when clean or dirty?
At home it's easy -
red means "dirty, don't use me!"
Doesn't that make sense?
But at work, red means
"Dishes are clean! don't put in
any more dirties!"
Confused and baffled!
A cutlery explosion!
Poor Lisa panics!!
a tricky beast: how to tell
when clean or dirty?
At home it's easy -
red means "dirty, don't use me!"
Doesn't that make sense?
But at work, red means
"Dishes are clean! don't put in
any more dirties!"
Confused and baffled!
A cutlery explosion!
Poor Lisa panics!!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
More Google Griping II
A feed is feed,
Unless said feed is a friend's.
Those you cannot sort.
Google reader again. They made it automagically pick up when people in my GMail address book start using Reader, which is dandy. But the Shared Feeds so created don't go into the usual list. They go into another, special list, that displays in a totally different spot on the page. And you can't *move* them to a folder like you can with every other feed. Oh no. You can only "hide" them. But I want to read the items... I just want to read the items *in the right fucking place*.
The solution? Write an email to your friend asking them for a link to their shared items. Go ahead and include instructions, because there isn't any easy fucking way to get this information and it primarily involves a unique 20-odd digit number that only God and Google know. Once the friend figures out how to do it and responds to you, manually add their Shared Feed to your reader. Then move it to the right folder. Then Hide the original feed that was added automatically.
Sound like too much work to you? You're damn right it is.
Unless said feed is a friend's.
Those you cannot sort.
Google reader again. They made it automagically pick up when people in my GMail address book start using Reader, which is dandy. But the Shared Feeds so created don't go into the usual list. They go into another, special list, that displays in a totally different spot on the page. And you can't *move* them to a folder like you can with every other feed. Oh no. You can only "hide" them. But I want to read the items... I just want to read the items *in the right fucking place*.
The solution? Write an email to your friend asking them for a link to their shared items. Go ahead and include instructions, because there isn't any easy fucking way to get this information and it primarily involves a unique 20-odd digit number that only God and Google know. Once the friend figures out how to do it and responds to you, manually add their Shared Feed to your reader. Then move it to the right folder. Then Hide the original feed that was added automatically.
Sound like too much work to you? You're damn right it is.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
On the taskbar
Laughing, XP mocks.
As habitually I try
Drag-Dropping items
Maybe I've been using a tabbed browser too long, but I (and my pod-mates agree) would like the ability to move taskbar items around in windows. This seems like a simple enough thing, and I'm sure there's a crazy hack somewhere that lets me. But also I am lazy.
As habitually I try
Drag-Dropping items
Maybe I've been using a tabbed browser too long, but I (and my pod-mates agree) would like the ability to move taskbar items around in windows. This seems like a simple enough thing, and I'm sure there's a crazy hack somewhere that lets me. But also I am lazy.
Ah, the beauty of documentation.... in 3 seperate places
Could we please all learn
Designs are only useful
When we can find them?
Designs are only useful
When we can find them?
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