Shakespeare quote

Tomorrow, April 24, 1564, we commemorate William Shakespeare's 460th birthday. 

Shakespeare quote of the day...

"An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made."

This was from the extended cut of Shakespeare's director commentary. 
He was really ahead of his time. Above is the modern English version. Here is what he actually said...

An ssl 'rr'r hast did occur and a secureth connection to the s'rv'r cannot beest madeth.  fie! cometh h're and englut mine own coxcomb thee distemperate blinking idiot

Translate modern English to Shakespearean on LingoJam

 

Feelings wheel (emotions)

If we are aware of our emotions and feelings that is great. 

Most of the time we might only be aware of the core feeling. 

To really get an understanding of what you are feeling, you can view the next 2 rings. 

For example, 

Anger > Frustrated > Infuriated / Irratated

Happy > Joyful > Liberated / Ecstatic

By identifying the deeper level emotion you can be more self-aware. You can also use this tool in the other direction. If you are aware of a deeper emotion you can express to your relationships how you are feeling. This will help them to connect and understand your state of mind. Not by knowledge alone, rather because they are more likely to have had that core feeling and then can relate to your situation. 

Peeling a peel

Have you ever considered that we use the work peel to refer to the outer layer of a banana as well as the action of removing the outer layer of a vegetable.

This wonderful person is peeling the peel of a banana.  

Dot, dot, dot...

This sentence is really, really long and eventually it will be cut...

Gutter-balls are bad

I think everyone can agree that in bowling a gutter-ball is a bad thing.

Yesterday as I celebrated several gutter-balls at the alley with my coworkers, I wondered how a rut and a groove can have such drastically different connotations.

I am sure you have heard the expression, 
"After he graduated school, he got into a rut. Then later that year, he got into a groove."

Was Louie up, then down; or down then up?

roll up your window

As product continue to improve and change shouldn't our expressions change with it? The other day Sarah, my wife, asked me to "roll up the window."

My jumpy mind took the tangent for a ride, so I let her know that I wasn't able to "roll" it up rather I had to use a switch.

Will our expressions become modern or will it be dubbed as classic?

Another discovery I had was in MS Word. Over the years I developed the mantra "Save and save often!" If you were one of the many computer lab rats that lost hours of work simply because you didn't save after each paragraph then you know what I am talking about.

As you can see the "Save" shortcut is an icon of the old 3.5" Floppy disk. I think it has been at least three years now that they haven't been including them in the mainstream computer options.

When will it come to pass that the icon for saving will be disconnected? Will children only know the 3.5" disk because of the save shortcut, and never have seen one?

And this one if for free: "Never look a gift horse in the mouth" Back in time horses were gifts for more than spoiled children. To ensure that a horse was in good health you would inspect their teeth. Translation: Don't review the quality of a gift, especially in front of the giver.

A journey of a thousand miles...

It's fantastic to see how words change over time and how our culture winds through the landscape of time like a river. The other day Jamie (a co-worker) was talking about taxis. I thought to myself, that seems like an abbreviation.

A few clicks later I found myself at wikipedia learning how the etymology traces all the way back to Paris and the 19th century. "Taximeter Cabriolet" has been contracted to Taxi Cab.

I like to see how things change and swerve as the culture and times takes its toll. As a design researcher my attention has been attuned to the way products are used by people and more so how people relate to the products.