Not even The Haunting of Hill House?
I'll run that by her tonight to see. It was last night's final Jeopardy, and she was like, "Shirley Jackson, who's that??"
Oh, no, oh, no! Spontaneous poetic exclamations. Lord, spare me college boys in love.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jul 16, 2019 8:31:09 am PDT #9574 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Calli - Jul 16, 2019 8:57:07 am PDT #9575 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
We've got one of those systems now where you tell it what floor and it tells you what elevator to go to.
BBC Scotland made a video where a couple of Scottish men were stuck in that kind of elevator because it didn't understand their accents. [link]
It does seem like it could be an accessibility issue. What if you can't speak?
Jessica - Jul 16, 2019 9:09:47 am PDT #9576 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It does seem like it could be an accessibility issue. What if you can't speak?
Ours has kind of the opposite problem - you select a floor via a touchscreen in the wall, which for sight-impaired folks seems fairly impossible to use.
Connie Neil - Jul 16, 2019 9:31:15 am PDT #9577 of 30019
brillig
But it's hip, it's hot, it's now. Clean interface, uncluttered, and all the new buzzwords.
Laura - Jul 16, 2019 10:10:01 am PDT #9578 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
The solution is clearly a lift attendant.
-t - Jul 16, 2019 10:43:41 am PDT #9579 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
::Googles to see what "lift attendant" means in the context of Twitter and/or GUI::
Sheryl - Jul 16, 2019 10:48:20 am PDT #9580 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Laura, everything old is new again?
Theodosia - Jul 16, 2019 11:11:41 am PDT #9581 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I bet wheelchair users can't reach the touchscreens, either.
Toddson - Jul 16, 2019 11:28:02 am PDT #9582 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I work in a building with two towers (not THOSE two towers, although we do have our own version of Sauron). The one my office is in has three elevators, one of which has been out of commission for "modernization" for, oh, six months or so ... the workmen seem to have given up (or been tossed into Mount Doom). The other tower has completed its modernization; out of the eight elevators, we're doing well to have four operating and it has one of those touch screen things where you touch/press the display on the floor you want ... but it keeps taking me to the wrong floor, so now I have to check the display to make sure it's going to my floor and the other day, I pressed for the floor I wanted and it gave me a message that I wasn't authorized.
Beverly - Jul 16, 2019 1:01:55 pm PDT #9583 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
note: enter only one-story buildings (not climbing stairs with a cane)