Had to install office 2008 for mac on my personal macbookpro for work.
This is how the Microsoft “mactopia” homepage rendered in Safari after the install. Better restart…
Author Archives: Ken Judy
Empathy
Jezebel has a post about a Massachusetts politician who defended gay marriage in his state.
He didn’t know his daughter was gay at the time.
“Because, of course, he didn’t know that I was gay then,” the 18-year-old recalls. “So, for someone so publicly to fight for something that doesn’t even affect him was just like, ‘That’s my dad,’ you know?” she says with a laugh. “That’s all I could think. I was very, very proud to be part of this family, and this state in general.”
Now she’s come out and the two remain close.
A politician acted as if someone he loved was affected by a piece of legislation before knowing someone he loved was affected by that legislation.
Refreshing.
You hear about politicians coming to support a policy because they or their family become directly involved: insurance reform, funding for medical research, gun control, and gay rights to name a few.
In a representative democracy, shouldn’t a politician’s singular gift be the ability to empathize with people affected by their policy agendas? People who are not like them? People who are not literally related to them?
If direct experience changes one position, shouldn’t a politician take that to heart and examine if any of their other views suffer from a similar lack of imagination?
What I see when I look out the window
Communion
My daughter made her first communion this weekend and fulfilling an ambition she’s had since she was three, she can now get snack at the end of the service.
She is my daughter and by definition the most beautiful creature I’ve ever known.
I’m a tolerant dissenter from her Catholic experience but I wont stand in the way of my wife’s love or community and ritual in her day to day lifeexperience.
I will also gladly take a day to celebrate my daughter’s capacity for good and the hope I feel when I look in her eyes.
Usability peeve
I helped my in-laws with online NW Airlines check in. Turns out the resulting boarding passes don’t page break correctly when printed from a mac. I had to increase my viewing font-size in safari in order to avoid passes running off page one and continuing on page two.
How easy could it have been to do a print format that works? They must not have even tested on macs nor did they alert me my browser was invalid.
Something else – the url of their thank you page is “CheckInFailed”
