General
Presumptuous microwaves
What is it with the designers of microwave interfaces? I don’t really get their need to try and tell me what to do next, given the small amount of available space and character display limitations on the microwave touchpad/LCD. For example, if I open the door on the microwave at work to check on how the reheating is going, the display kindly tell me to “close the door.” Gee, thanks.
Of course, the best messages are the ones displayed when the time you selected is up; the one at my old job displayed “enjoy your meal” and the one at the Zymeta offices takes the cake for presumptuousness: “your meal is ready” … how the heck does it know that my meal is ready? I’m pretty sure that it actually has no idea because I put some soup in there for one minute last week and it was far from “ready” … it needed another minute before it was warm.
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CBC continues to educate me
I love watching CBC Television, mostly for Hockey Night in Canada, The National and Canadian content stuff like The Red Green Show. And even better than CBC on the television is CBC on the radio. CBC Radio One is hands down the only radio station worth listening to consistently.
I am constantly learning thanks to the CBC, and not just by listening to the programs which are designed to teach. Anyway, yesterday, thanks to the CBC I learned that Regina (the provincial capital of Saskatchewan) is the Latin word meaning Queen. I actually may have learned that fact years and years ago but if that’s the case, I’d long since forgotten.
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Thursday is blog day?
I haven’t gotten in the habit of blogging daily yet… partially because I only just installed Roller as a trial, partially because the CEO hasn’t approved opening this up to the whole world yet, and partially because I’m so busy with other stuff. However, for whatever reason I seem to always end up blogging on Thursdays.
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So much to talk about, so little time
There is so much that I desire to write here, but there’s so very little time to do it in. And even less time is available because you really need to think things through before you put them down in print. Why? Because it’s ever so easy (and typical of human nature) to interpret something the wrong way or in a manner along the lines of how you are.
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