Things I learned today:
1. Douglas Adams was right - one should always, ALWAYS, know where one’s towel is.
2. Towels left in the women’s showers on Level 3, even for a short time, are apparently fair game for anyone:-
a) who forget theirs;
b) are not be bothered to bring one in;
c) underestimates their surface area and needs a back-up towel;
d) has a low regard for their own hygiene, and/or
e) considers their own comfort more important than others
3. Being caught in the act of using someone else’s towel is apparently not as embarrassing as one might expect.
4. Simply handing over a wet towel to the rightful owner with a lame “Sorry… it’s not that damp” is pathetic.
5. I repeat. Pathetic.
6. Few people will willingly rub their bodies with a personal item already used by a stranger . Today I discovered that includes me.
7. The paper towels in the basin area are somewhat absorbent. Those without sufficient wiping equipment should try this FIRST.
Should anyone else be in need of a towel, there will now be a blue, daggy towel in the change room. Share it at your peril. I will not be laundering it.
An instant, elegant test to see if you are a left brain thinker or a right brain thinker
Forget naff multiple choice questions, this little animation on news.com.au’s Perth Now site is immediate, fascinating and doubtless driving lots of traffic as friends and colleagues share the link (thanks Nina!).
Look at the dancer first, then read the explanation and you’ll know what side of the brain you favour.
I’m more of a visual thinker, so no surprise to see the dancer turning clockwise. That is, until I noticed the article had a list of qualities for each side.
Some of the items listed are not that clear. Out of habit, I started to edit the list in my head and think about how it might have been better expressed, and as slipped into ‘editor mode’ I noticed the dancer now appeared to be turning anti-clockwise.
Hello left brain, so you exist after all!. Well, nice to meet you.
“I don’t understand what all the fuss is about Macs, now that Microsoft owns Apple” - a friend who (after my laughing fit subsided) asked to remain nameless.
There’s no reason to have a land line these days, if all you want is a broadband connection, but unless you can get a ‘naked dsl’ product from your telco, a land line you must have.
Such was the dilemma facing Producer Pete who, after a blissful year and a half without a land line, has had to get one reconnected in order to work from home occasionally.
“There are only two things I use this phone for now,” Pete says:
1) to call his mobile when he’s misplaced it, and
2) to call AAPT and ask them when the ADSL is actually going to be connected.
One month and still waiting… although it’s not AAPT’s fault, he adds, they’re waiting on Telstra just like everyone else.
