I walked by a vending machine today, and saw a dollar sticking out of the dollar slot with no one in sight. I left it there, but I’m kind of curious what my readers would do. Take it and leave a note? Leave it like I did? Get a snack? This seems to be an uncommon predicament… who leaves a dollar bill sticking out of a vending machine, anyway?
Archive for July 2005
Yeah, what’s with that title anyway?
With a new wave of MHCI students moving to Pittsburgh in the next month, I’ve been trying to think whether I should recommend Comcast or Verizon for internet service. The truth is, I hate them both for different reasons, so if you’re asking, I recommend Choice C, whatever that may be.
For the past few months, I’ve been afraid to go into places like Barnes & Noble, Target, and the CMU Bookstore. What’s the common element? Well, yes, they all sell books, but that’s not what I’m getting at. The issue is that their theft deterrent gates always go off because of something in my wallet.
Over the past month, I’ve been playing a game that consists of leaving things out of my wallet and walking through the gates, in the hopes that one day, I would walk through beep free. Alas, my efforts seemed to be in vain; another gate, another beep.. Such was the case today. I went ot the CMU bookstore, closed my eyes, said a prayer, and walked through the theft deterrent gates. Beep.
It’s 7:00 AM, and I’m awake and blogging. This is the earliest I’ve woken up in the past few weeks, which is ironic, because my alarm didn’t go off this morning. Nor was it going to go off eventually. I just happened to wake myself up, which is a first and likely the last occurrence I’ll see before August 2nd.
Backing up a little… I have my alarm clock on my computer. I made this transition a few years ago when my old alarm clock (one of those that sets itself from some control tower in the middle of Colorado) kept losing it’s signal and reseting to midnight while I was asleep. I was late a lot that semester. This alarm pulls music from my computer AND pulls up news websites. I mean, I wouldn’t do it on my own that early in the morning. Are you kidding?
I mentioned in an earlier post that I had been working on my online portfolio. I kicked it into gear last weekend, and therefore haven’t had a lot of time to post on here lately.
One of the tricky things about creating a website is choosing a color pallet, as my fellow HCIers well know. So why did I go with green? I’ve been asking myself that ever since I realized how difficult it was to work with. But at the same time, if you can’t experiment with your own stuff, then when can you really experiment?
I’ve made quite a bit of progress; you might say, “It is almost ready. For… a diet.” (Sorry, Big Bunny reference.) Anyway, please check it out! It’s at zszaiss.com. I of course welcome any comments you have (just leave a comment here).
Last night, i was watching What Not To Wear on TLC (yes, a guilty pleasure of mine…) and they were showing video of a bunch of people who were trying to convince the hosts that they needed a style makeover. And I swear that one of them was wearing the yellow CMU HCII shirt from last year!! Can anyone verify? Is there an HCIer out there in need of some fashion advice? I thought we were all so stylish!
