Pleasure and Pain

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Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Entries from February 24th, 2009

Photo of the day: How do we call agent??

February 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Photography

As I was walking down the jetway about to board an American Airlines flight from MIA to LGA, I noticed this sign mounted next to an employee phone. It’s amazing to me when people write questions on signs as though someone is going to answer them. Do they come back later to check? Well in [...]


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Photo of the day: Hebrew elevator

February 23rd, 2009 · 12 Comments · Photography

Okay, so this isn’t really a Hebrew elevator. It’s in a building in San Francisco, actually the offices of Cooper Design. I took a course there two years ago and found these buttons to be so ridiculous I just had to take a pic.
I call it a Hebrew elevator because the numbers are laid out [...]


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Photo of the day: Keep dog’s away

February 22nd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Photography

Consider the number of people that must have seen this sign before it was posted: the writer, the printer, the sign manufacturer, the installer, the building manager. And not one knows how to spell, or cared enough to fix the mistake. Amazing.
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Photo of the day: Yes if no

February 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Photography

Orian got this hilarious survey in the mail and saved it for me cuz he knew I’d get a kick out of it. (He knows me so well!)
I knew something was off immediately, but I had to stare at it for a moment before I could see what the heck was going on. Do you [...]


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Some early posts that deserve more traffic

February 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Blogging

I hit 250 posts the other day after 13 months of writing this blog. Looking back on some of the earlier posts, I found a few that I really liked but barely got any traffic. There were only 5 people reading my blog then (I love them), so I thought that maybe there would be [...]


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