Excel and the Economics of Usability
Is Microsoft in cahoots with printer-toner manufacturers?
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Is Microsoft in cahoots with printer-toner manufacturers?
Sigh.
Since it is now three days after I started writing the post, it obviously hasn't worked out as planned, and is short. But it has headings!
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If you've also given up on getting anything done until Thursday, try contrasting Joshuah Bearman's stories from Florida with Common Cause's liveblogging of voter intimidation tactics. Then spin around in your chair until your head goes wubba-wubba-wubba.
* These were La Canada-Flintridge precincts, so it didn't take long.
Maybe I should've done one of those N-point safety inspections. Or paid more attention to my dashboard light, the one that says "brake" that's usually for the parking brake but was also on all yesterday, but you know how dashboard lights are, always wanting attention like a fucking whiny puppy.
Hell, snapped brake lines are what emergency brakes are meant for! And I cleverly used the parking brake to drive in to the nearest parking lot, which happened to also be my office. I bet it was the most exciting day in the parking brake's life!
AAA is really the best thing ever - unlike conventional insurance companies with tow insurance add-ons, they're too stupid to charge extra for shitty cars. And one free tow justifies a whole year's worth of dues! I'm expecting at least a 200% return on investment here, not even counting the maps.
My desk at work has two columns of drawers. No desk I have ever worked at, that had two columns of drawers, has ever had a sufficiently wide knee cubby. Do the same people design desks who design women's shoes? I'm not unusually fidgety but man am I ever sick of banging my knees.