Not only does this CD have a *lot* of bands I like on it, but it's also for a good cause. Check it out.
Monthly Archive for July, 2004
Radiohead and The Flaming Lips have similar accessibility issues. Maybe I should do a usability study on them.
(Probably only Kevin is going to find that funny.)
Some Pelicans Mistaking Asphalt for Lakes
"They try to land on the water, but it's asphalt and it's `Bam! That doesn't feel so good,'"
'The heads of Monkeywire ... have called the Bush primate references "misguided and demeaning."' As in, demeaning TO CHIMPs. "A chimp would never do that."
Heh, I just printed this out, colored in the graph, and posted it on my cube wall.
It's really sad that most of my initial observations about San Francisco are about driving. But given that I had to drive to get here, I guess that's kind of understandable. Let's get them out of the way quick:
- San Francisco needs some pretty serious traffic sign infrastructure to get people where they need to go. And yet, there are still several classes of information that I'm having a really hard time finding when I need it:
- All way stops lack the "All Way" placard at the bottom of the stop sign, making me nervous about pretty much every stop sign I stop at. I'm gradually learning to look at the street for that information, though.
- Street names can be awfully hard to find, because they seem to vary in size, color, placement, and redundancy.
- As if the idea of parallel parking on 19th street weren't daunting enough, let's throw in the added complication of needing to pop the right side of your car up onto the sidewalk unless you want your car to get smeared.
- Parking in my neighborhood turns out to not be as impossible as I feared, but it can be still frustratingly difficult at times. Easily the most irritating thing is the spots between two driveways that are ever-so-slightly too small for my slightly longer than average car that I park in only to find I'm sticking over on both sides. Those're the worst, and only make me want a Mini that much more.