From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2007-01-13:
"I should be able to do tasks without learning a complex technology. Right now my clock tells me the time. Maybe it should also tell me the weather. And where my kids are. Today we have to learn tools; I want to make that necessity disappear." -- Donald A. Norman, cognitive scientist, quoted in Wired (issue 6.05). Norman is the author of The Design of Everyday Things.
(submitted to the mailing list by Terry Labach)
[To my friends celebrating it tonight and tomorrow, blessed Shavuot!]
Dear Spider In My Bedroom,
Thank you for confirming my suspicion than you are a spider-who-hunts-by-leaping, rather than a spider-who-traps-prey-in-webs, but I do have a complaint.
Leaping onto the barrel of my lens while I am trying to take your photograph is cheating. Get your eight hairy legs back out in front of the lens where you belong, you obstinate arachnid!
Hmph!
-- the operator of that big flashy thing
( photo (not for arachniphobes) ) [I put the photo somewhere other than Flickr so as to not poison my Flickr photostream for anyone likely to be uncomfortably startled by an unexpected spider photo.]No clear photos yet. I'm working on it.
Yesterday, partly to distract myself from the frustration of not feeling well enough to go out anywhere, I took a lot of photos. I'm still going through yesterday's shots, deciding what needs to be edited and possibly shared, and what needs to be tossed out. I'm editing by category. So far I've gotten through the birds.
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