Ten Things That Occurred to Me #28
Things occur to me. I write them down.
I am currently sitting in a fast food restaurant, and the ambient temperature in here is not that which one normally finds in a butcher's meat locker. This is mind-blowing.
I always see those “Don’t throw stuff in the toilet that shouldn’t go in a toilet” signs and think “Of course,” and then pay them no further attention. But today, I realized that there is apparently a non-trivial percentage of the general population who need to be told this, and it made me sad.
I’m in Canada this week for personal reasons. I love the Canadian accent -- it sounds so friendly. And that made me wonder why I think that, and I suspect it’s the expected reason -- Canadians are just really friendly.
I wonder how much productivity is lost, in dollars, if you add up all the time the world spends clicking on all those utterly useless and profoundly irritating GDRP-required cookie-use notifications. On second thought, I don’t want to know. It’s probably depressing.
“People who actually don't care about a thing usually don't care enough to spend any time talking about how they don't care.” -- Megan McArdle
Lesson of the Week: It is a complete waste of time to try to persuade unpersuadable people.
I’ve been listening to a lot of audiobooks, and wonder two things. First, I’m not sure whether I like the narrator changing his or her voice on a per character basis. Then, I wonder, why they don’t “act out” the book like a radio play along with a narrator.
I don’t understand why people aren’t more outraged about things falling down into the space between your car seat and the middle console. Why is this even allowed?
A truism that many, many people fail to realize is that every public policy decision -- every single one -- has downsides. In my experience, people either tend to only see the upsides and utterly ignore then downsides, or only see the downsides and utterly ignore the upsides.
I find it both mildly amusing and mildly irritating when you unsubscribe from an email list and then they send you an email telling you that you unsubscribed.