Developing Usable Experiences

Valentines Day Heuristic Review

February 14th, 2008 11:05 pm —  109 views

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I spent some time this morning reviewing a paper for 6221. This ended up making me a little late. I noticed W. leaving a little earlier than normal. When I got to work what was waiting for me? A vase filled with delightfully smelling flowers. Orange, white, and green (masculine W. said). What a nice change of pace. I hadn’t got W. flowers but had thought about it then promptly not thought about it…so many spinning plates and all.

There was searching under sink cabinets at work until I found a vase2. Then some artfully arranging of superfluous flowers from my bunch after which delivery to W.’s office where she promptly gave me shix for my maneuver (though I think it was genius). It was what I’m calling a “creative” approach. As I learned this week in 6883, creativity is typically recognized as behavior outside the normal mode of thinking. Not so a bad a definition I guess. She tried it, I tried it. All good. Pew, pew, pew.

So yes, it is Valentines Day. Nearing 11 PM, it is time to finish this post. I settled into school work about 2.45 hours ago and W. has been to bed for about an hour or more. She’s good to me and doesn’t give me much shix about working in the moonlight4.

The end result of this year’s Valentines’s Day: a couple new (and very nice) shirts, an awesome book, a bottle of yummy Rye, and the love of a wonderful woman. Nielsen would be proud.

Image: This is a scanned, cropped, photoshopped (SCP’D) image of the book W. bought for me. It is cleverly written and promises to educate me a fair bit on whiskey, bourbon, scotch, and rye.

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  1. Evaluation of Systems and Services [↩]
  2. Not sure why I thought I would fine one, but I did. Fancy that. [↩]
  3. Fundamentals of Human Behavior [↩]
  4. I love that analogy: Moonlighting Student. I’ll be doing this the rest of my life! Always a student, yes. [↩]

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