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notalwaysright_feedRead That’s Nacho Pasta
Customer: "I want the spaghetti noodles."
Me: "The… what?"
Customer: "The spaghetti noodles."
He points at the shredded cheese.
Read That’s Nacho Pasta
unsung_feedThe search for the strangest Adobe setting continues in Lightroom, where the first option in the Interface section is… end marks:
Presently, only one option is there…
…but at least back in 2012 there were many more:
What does it do? It adds an old-time’y glyph at the end of either left or right panel.
The internet is rife with people perplexed by this option and I cannot deny – I’m one of them. (The title of this post is a reaction of one of the users.) It feels like such a peculiar way to add delight.
You are not limited to the pre-existing (one) flourish, as you can upload your own. Some people add a logo of their production studio, but John Beardsworth found a more creative use:
Alternatively, with a tiny bit of imagination you can exploit an often-forgotten detail of Lightroom’s interface – the “panel end marks”. These decorations at the bottom of Lightroom’s panels have often been derided as a waste of programming time, but in fact they can be made to serve more than their somewhat-trivial purpose. And as you can see in the examples on this page, they can serve as a reminder of star ratings, colour labels and even keyboard shortcuts for flags.
This is a fascinating hack, and an example of William Gibson’s famous “the street finds its own uses for things.” It made me curious why didn’t onscreen interfaces ever evolve to allow you to annotate them easily? You see stuff like this a lot in real life…
…but the Lightroom end mark hack is the only thing that comes to my mind where an onscreen UI got this kind of a treatment – and the feature wasn’t even intended for that use.
unsung_feedI linked to this opaquely on Thursday, but it deserves its own entry. Michael Bierut’s 2005 essay called “On (design) bullshit” is one of my favourite design essays:
It follows that every design presentation is inevitably, at least in part, an exercise in bullshit. The design process always combines the pursuit of functional goals with countless intuitive, even irrational decisions. The functional requirements — the house needs a bathroom, the headlines have to be legible, the toothbrush has to fit in your mouth — are concrete and often measurable. The intuitive decisions, on the other hand, are more or less beyond honest explanation. These might be: I just like to set my headlines in Bodoni, or I just like to make my products blobby, or I just like to cover my buildings in gridded white porcelain panels. In discussing design work with their clients, designers are direct about the functional parts of their solutions and obfuscate like mad about the intuitive parts, having learned early on that telling the simple truth — “I don’t know, I just like it that way” — simply won’t do.
So into this vacuum rushes the bullshit: theories about the symbolic qualities of colors or typefaces; unprovable claims about the historical inevitability of certain shapes, fanciful forced marriages of arbitrary design elements to hard-headed business goals. As [Harry G.] Frankfurt points out, it’s beside the point whether bullshit is true or false: “It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.” There must only be the desire to conceal one’s private intentions in the service of a larger goal: getting your client it to do it the way you like it.
“I don’t know, I just like it that way” is such a tricky part of craft.
notalwaysright_feedRead Proving Your Point In A Roundabout Way
Me: "And I hate roundabouts. I know they’re supposed to be easier than a regular intersection, but I’ve never been able to use one without someone cutting me off to get in."
Instructor: "Really? But it’s so simple. You just wait your turn."
Me: "Yeah, I know, but apparently, I attract people who don’t want to wait."
rogueslayer452
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addme_fandomnotalwaysright_feedI’m a hotel cleaner, and male. One of my coworkers is another man who is an “undercover creep” towards women. He’s always careful not to say or do anything when a woman is present, but when he’s with other men, myself included, he says some truly awful things. I’ve reported him to our manager several […]
rmc28This time a week ago I was on the ice with fellow Cambridge alumni for "Alumni game 1", kicking off Varsity. Photos (from one of my Warbirds teammates!) that actually make me look good are over at my hockey insta but here's my personal favourite, capturing a moment in motion:
After about an hour on the ice (2 periods running clock, 4 lines), I had a quick shower, and then spent the next ten or so hours mostly on my feet, doing music and announcements for my Huskies teammates, and scoresheet and in-game announcements for Women's Blues and Men's Blues. Final scores were:
The alumni games were a great vibe: we cared, but it wasn't that intense. A whole load of the women I played with in 2022-23 came back, and for me that was really joyful, plus I got to make some new friends. A couple of the older guys in game 1 had played with my old work colleague Brian Omotani back in the day. Although he didn't play, he was there to watch, and he made time to come and find me for a brief catchup later in the day.
The rest of the day though was a different gear. The Huskies game was especially tough to watch, and I felt every goal against my teammates. The Women's Blues game was incredible, the team worked so hard and it was probably the best I've seen them play. And the Men's Blues winning so decisively was delightful, especially as the first goal came from one of the two ex-Huskies (and they both got an assist each later). The whole day was incredibly intense. And then I took my kit home to hang it up, changed, met up with everyone at Mash, danced until the club closed, went to Maccies (and realised just how much my feet hurt) until that closed, and sat on a bench gossiping with two of my favourite people in the club while one of them finished his burger. Eventually we all cycled home. I didn't want the day to end, but I had things to do on Sunday.
That is, very nearly, the end of the season with just the Nationals weekends in Sheffield to go. We've finished the league games, we've had Varsity, we're shifting to "summer ice" open practices, and even had the very last "S&C" gym session on Thursday this week. Some people will graduate and leave soon, and I will miss them so much, but I am so grateful for this university season and the time I've had with these wonderful people.
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notalwaysright_feedI call [Health Insurance]. I tell them I have sleep apnea and need a mandibular advancement device, or MAD. They give me the number of a local in-network dentist. I call the dentist. They’re not in-network, and they’re sick of [Health Insurance] saying they are. I call [Health Insurance]. They say they don’t even cover […]
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notalwaysright_feedA coworker of mine disappeared for a while. This being retail, it’s not uncommon for workers to ghost, but we liked this coworker, and she liked us, and the job wasn’t bad. We wondered what had happened, and were surprised when she finally returned…but not as shocked as when she relayed her story, sweating the […]
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notalwaysright_feedRead Deal Or No Deal
Customer: "$11.50?!? The deal outside says any two sandwiches for $12!"
Me: "Uh, yeah, but one of the sandwiches you got had a regular price of $5.50 and the other is only $6, so it was cheaper without the deal—"
Customer: "That's ridiculous! You're advertising a deal outside and then denying it to paying customers!"
Read Deal Or No Deal
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This was my first completed shrine for any challenge, and honestly the first shrine I've ever completed at all. I've been designing for the web since I was a teenager, so finally finishing one in my late 30's and having it be the first shrine to grace the Resonant Threshold Network feels a little surreal, but very right. It took longer than I expected and I restarted the approach more than once, but I'm genuinely happy with where it landed.
Would love to hear what you think. ♡shadowkatfreyjaw
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