Restroom Traffic Patterns

The men’s room in my section of the building has two sinks; each sink has a soap dispenser. The soap on the left is completely empty, and the soap on the right is almost totally full. What does this say? People use the sink on the left far more often. That’s not all that hard to understand; the water pressure on the right sink sucks. Given that each sink sees the same maintenance at the same time, it also says that either there’s only ever one person using the sinks at a time, or that people are so unhappy with the sink on the right that they’re willing to wait for the other sink to become available before washing their hands.

I don’t think it’s particularly likely that people would stand around and wait to use one sink given that the other was unoccupied. I can’t give a specific reason, aside from that it would be “weird” and maybe “creepy”, but whatever the case generally socially unacceptable. It stands to reason, then, that either we only ever have one person using the restroom at a time, or that people will deliberately stagger themselves as they depart from the urinal or the toilet to wash their hands.

We must all be embarrassed at the pure, concentrated evil that we’ve left behind.

Oh, Indy

It’s been a good month for movies. In fact, I’ve started people I meet a very important question before I allow them to be my friend: “Have you seen Iron Man?”

I haven’t seen Prince Caspian yet, but I kind of sort of mean to. I haven’t read the books in years and years, so I’m not as emotionally invested in the idea of a movie version as some people. That said, the first one was pretty good and I do remember enjoying the books. Maybe I’ll see it and be inspired to do some reading.

Tonight, I get to see the new Indiana Jones movie. I had really meant to watch (or re-watch, I don’t even know anymore) the first three movies, but somehow ran out of time. In anticipation, I offer you a most tautological statement: I hope it’s as good as I want it to be. Be good, Indy! Be good!

I’m not sure how I feel about this theme. One thing it absolutely has going for it is the inclusion of blue to go along with the green. More is better, right? We’ll see, I guess.

I think the problem I’ve had blogging before is that I have it in my head that blogs should be directed at one particular audience, but 1) my life isn’t interesting enough to justify blogging about it regularly, and 2) I’m not particularly good at trying to write with a single audience in mind. Apologies in advance if you read something and get the completely wrong impression of what I’m going for here.

This is for me. Get your own blog.

That said, I’m trying to get the wowhead tooltips working and I can’t find a straightforward way to do it.

Because everybody needs a blog

I haven’t ever really put a lot of time and effort into blogging, but sometimes I really want to write about things and I don’t really have an appropriate place to do it. I promise– if only to myself– that I’m not going to let this become yet another dead free blog, clogging up the internet and keeping perfectly good names tied up, making it harder and harder for people to sign up for this service (not that I’m bitter).

I have chosen a new theme. It doesn’t have sidebars so I can put off dealing with widgets, and also it’s green.