random bits

[cellio]

Seen on the way home from work: a bright-yellow pickup truck with a huge Steelers decal on the rear window and "The Terrible Truck" painted on the back panel. Makes me wonder what the owner does in years when they aren't doing well. :-) (I also wonder whether those window decals are translucent. If not, it obscured at least a quarter of the rear view, which sounds like a bad idea to me.)

We have the capacity for fresh-baked doughnuts at work. Neat! And they're pretty good, too -- cake-style, which is the kind I prefer, and they're tasty when they're hot out of the oven counter-top cooking gadget. (A coworker found the appliance at Goodwill and brought it in; another coworker then brought in basic ingredients. Next time we make some we need to take a piping-hot doughnut to the person who orders our supplies, along with a request for flour, sugar, eggs... :-) )

I wonder why my cell phone, which I've had for almost a year, has, in the last day, begun displaing the text "Verizon wireless" continuously. (Or, at least, it's there every time I've looked.) I'd never seen it before yesterday, and I haven't changed anything with the phone or the plan. Dani (same plan, same phone) has been seeing it for a while. Weird.

This business with the floaters in my eye is allowed to stop now. Really. Sheesh. I'm glad my boss is understanding, but I'd be happier if he didn't have to demonstrate that on this particular point.

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I work for a sign company, so I'm really getting a kick out of most of these replies.

[laid.livejournal.com]

Next time you see one of these decals on someone's rear window, or on the side of a transit bus, take a close look. The vinyl is opaque white, which is printed, then perforated. On the other side it is a solid color and is just a little more difficult to see thru than a screen door.

Re: I work for a sign company, so I'm really getting a kick out of most of these replies.

[cellio]

Thanks for cluing me in. I was assuming they were translucent and hadn't considered the perforation option. I figured there had to be some way for people to see through them, or placement like I saw would be ticket-bait. It would certainly have been unsafe if it had been truly opaque.