Pleasure and Pain

Improving the human experience one day at a time

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Entries Tagged as 'Humor'

What the customer actually wanted

October 1st, 2009 · 9 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: Private Parts in Public

July 7th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Design, Photography

This big guy stands in the lobby of the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle. As I walked around it the other day, I noticed something curious about his ding-a-ling — it’s a different color than the rest of his body. Which means that more than a few people have been rubbing it as they [...]

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Photo of the day: No Yes No No

July 3rd, 2009 · 2 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 · 2 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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What REALLY happened during the IA Summit (#IAS09)

May 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Conferences

To discover what we were really talking about during IA Summit 2009, Damon Herren used Wordle to create a word cloud visualization from all of the tweets containing the hashtag #IAS09.

And what’s smack dab in the middle? Me! I know I tweet up a storm when I’m at conferences, but the @ prefacing my name [...]

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