Pleasure and Pain

Improving the human experience one day at a time

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

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What the customer actually wanted

October 1st, 2009 · Comments · Design, Humor, Pain

A few weeks ago Orian sent me a hilarious but sad cartoon on the all-too-familiar process of cumulative error and product dilution during a project life cycle: customer request -> finance -> engineering -> manufacturing -> marketing -> delivery. Not only do we fail to deliver on what was proposed, but what the customer said [...]


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Photo of the day: No Yes No No

July 3rd, 2009 · Comments · Humor, Photography

That’s her response to the question, “Can I take you home?”
Found in the ladies’ room at Clery’s Bar in Boston, where the An Event Apart after party was held.
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In case of fire: Do Not Use Twitter

June 25th, 2009 · Comments · Humor, Photography, Twitter

Last week this photo was posted to BuzzFeed and made the rounds on Twitter. It’s originally from johnpiercy on Flickr.
I think it looks doctored, but John isn’t sure. It’s just too hilarious to be real!
What do you think?
P.S. If I was caught in or near a fire, I definitely WOULD use Twitter. My followers would [...]


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Photo of the day: No breastfeeding

May 8th, 2009 · Comments · Humor, Photography

Mike Dizon and I went out for lunch around New Work City one day. We walked past Pepe Rosso, a pasta take-out joint on Sullivan St. that Mike insists is the best around. So I poked my head in to take a look, and saw this sign hanging in the entrance:

No
breastfeeding
in Pepe Rosso
of children over
12 [...]


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Digital Conversion PSA

April 30th, 2009 · Comments · Customer Experience, Humor

On June 12, 2009, analog will die.
The Digital TV Transition (DTV) website has everything you need to know about making the switch. There are no less than 50 pages of full text explaining how to painlessly prepare. A variety of downloadable PDFs are available to guide you through the converter box installation process. There’s [...]


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