Month: November 2010

you may have some problems with your eyesight

LG

I just got a new TV (after going without one for 2 years) and decided to go whole-hog and go for the 3D.

The TV is pretty awesome, but the manual is pretty entertaining in it’s own right… particularly the part where they blame you and your eyesight if it doesn’t work.

 LG4

Or that you shouldn’t use wear your 3D glasses near the kitchen counter (but since they don’t mention the bathroom, I assume that’s okay).

LG2

I really don’t know why pregnant women or people with other disabilities cannot use their 3D glasses.

LG8 

Be careful, because our 3D is so awesome you may flail about in pure excitement and hurt yourself and others.

level set

It turns out I’m hard to please… at least at work. I’ve realized that over the course of the last year I’ve gotten in the habit of responding to most proposals with the phrase “I don’t hate it”. That’s about the most praise I can muster for most ideas – not because they’re bad ideas, but because they’re incredibly hard problems with no bright, shiny solutions. And only bright, shiny solutions truly deserve more praise than that.

 IMAG0271

That led to a conversation with Matt today about how to level set those statements against other less common phrases that I also use:

  • “love”
  • “like”
  • “not bad”
  • “I’d buy that”
  • “I don’t hate it”
  • “I don’t love it”
  • “are you sure?”
  • “hate”
  • “loath”

This was all brought on by an idea to which I responded “not bad”… I think it surprised him that I didn’t hate it. :)