Month: April 2024
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What’s Mine Is Yours
Ah, the satisfaction of being able to completely reverse someone’s argument and make it your own! UNO Reverse!
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Zero Extra Capacity
It’s times like these where my resolve really wavers between “doing the right thing” and “this would be so much easier if I just took care of it myself.”
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But It’s Too Difficult!
The real argument was somewhat more nuanced than this.
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That Story Fell Flat
The leg still acts up sometimes, so I now get the family referring to my “reindeer leg” as if I’ve got some sort of cool mutant reindeer power. Fun fact: reindeer have a cool mutant leg power where they make clicking sounds they can use to keep track of each other even in poor visibility…
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Canadian State of Mind
I tried to look it up, and (just like in American English) I believe you could technically use “state” to mean “country” in England as well. It just feels so wrong here.
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But Could You?
I’m sure the firefighters get these questions on their other fire station tours, too, right? It’s not just our girl scouts being…oddly specific.
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In-Vest-ed
My spouse heard the elementary schooler start the “would you rather die in a fire” exchange but unfortunately did not hear the rest of it. We may never know what the real alternative option was, we can only be certain that they were contemplating death.
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The Pits
I’m a big believer in the “pit of success”: make what you want to happen be the easiest thing to do. The opposite of this is the pit of despair: making wrong outcomes too easy or even inviting. Why even have the option there if you’re not supposed to use it?
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I Didn’t Ask For Your Password Yet
It doesn’t matter how clearly labeled they are – if you have 2 text entry fields next to each other someone out there is going to mix them up.