Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Stupid Signs
I went to an ATM today and was surprised to see a sign on it that said "There's a talking ATM available at this location". I had to think it through for a second but then I wondered who this was for? Talking ATM's would be needed by people who couldn't see the regular ATM and therefore they couldn't see the sign. Now I know the reason that the drive-thru ATM's have braille on the keypads is because of standardized parts. It would be more expensive to buy keypads that didn't have the braille. But this sign is clearly extra. Do they expect people to tell their blind friends about this?
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