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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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13 February 2001 - 10:21 pm
Small things that shouldn't bother me have been really getting under my skin recently. For example, the webpage for my Econ class is just about the worst site I've ever seen that was designed for an actual audience. I mean, it has real, honest-to-God, useful content, but it is designed in such a way as to make that content as hard as possible to find. What the hell does "The Answer Man" (displayed, of course, in a size 7 font) mean? Of course, the real kicker is the fact that every graphic is a local link to the TA's HDD.
Something else that has been bothering me is my calendar. Every year WashU gives out free calendars that cover August through May (the "school year"). The problem is that this year's calendar is incorrect. The entire month of February has an off-by-one error. By this I mean that every single date on the February page is one below what the correct day is. This is causing me all kinds of trouble, as I think I have more time to finish homework than I really do, all because I think it is one day earlier than it really is. I even marked out all of the dates and wrote the correct ones in, but the original dates are darker than the ones I wrote in, so sitting at my desk, a good 8 feet from the calendar., I only see the original days. I could go and mark out the dates more vigorously, but like I said, I'm getting annoyed by small things, and the corollary to that is that I am resisting all efforts to fix the things that annoy me. I don't really know why, so don't ask.
Posted by on 13 February 2001 at 10:21 PM
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