It's been a while since we had a happy things question, so...

What's something that's made you smile in the last few days?

Also, a few weeks ago Newsweek had an interview with an engineer from Honda's NA division. I have loved all Hondas I or my family have ever owned, but after reading the interview, I'm ready to say I'll never own another make.

To clarify, I mean any other make than Honda. The guy said something about when he was first working there, boss man had asked him to make the car more fuel efficient. He told the boss man that consumers weren't interested in fuel efficiency (this was a while back). Boss man said, "I know." The engineer said he's embarassed about it now.

The article is in the 6/27 issue, or at least that's what it said when I searched the archives. I'd paste it, but I'm not paying $2.95 to get a direct quote.

ETA: Ah hah! Here [link]

And the relevant quote.

I'll never forget it. I was a rookie leading this MDX team. We'd done the research and we had an efficient package. But when we pitched our business plan to the board of directors, Mr. [Koichi] Amemiya, who was in charge of North America, his No. 1 comment was: "It should be more green." I made the mistake of saying, "But sir, nobody cares about the green issues." And he just smiled and said "I know."

I went crazy at work last week and made them take the horrible lcd monitor away, for it was causing me to feel headachey.

They gave me back the old beast. Increasing resolution made everything too small and hurt my eyes and head. Decreasing it made everything blurry. When I called the help desk about it they asked if I couldn't just get used to it.

Which sent me into a rage and I demanded my old square monitor back. I said that when my job was to watch DVDs all day, I'd get the huge lcd. And not until.

But now my computer logs me off the net if i walk away from it after 15 minutes, and i dunno why.

Timelies all!

It's hot here. If walking from my car to the condo(with a stop to get the mail) can make my skin radiate heat like a furnace, you know it's hot.

From the Panda article --

Guo Guo appeared flustered by her crying cubs at first and reserve staff had to intervene when she accidentally dropped one of her babies the day they were born,

oh, like that's never happened to a human mom!

they asked if I couldn't just get used to it.

They need to be attacked by ergonomizers.

I've been offered an LCD monitor, but, frankly, replace 22" and 2048x1536 resolution? I don't know if that's on the LCD market, and if it is, they certainly can't afford it. So my beast is eating desk space and forcing me to sit in the hallway.

But I get just as many headaches with LCDs and lower res displays, so I know it's not that. I still wear my reading glasses, just in case.

My new desktop pic

What's something that's made you smile in the last few days?

In a sense-of-accomplishment way, getting my eight loads of laundry done on Saturday. In a oh-that's-so-cute way, watching my cat attack the leg of her condo last night (she was lying on her back, with the back feet clawing the top of the post and her front paws at the bottom, so she was balancing on the top part of her spine while her claws were feverishly scratching away). Better that than my couch.

Yes on hybrid convertibles.

A hybrid convertible would, sadly, be an absolute waste of money for me. It'd end up getting exactly the same gas mileage I get now.