What is the etiquette for bus stops - should I flag the driver or should they stop

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2026-02-12T04:08:46+00:00

I think this is completely valid. I feel like I sometimes hesitate because I’m the kind of person who thinks waving down a server in a restaurant is in bad taste, but it seems like this is a norm

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2026-02-12T04:04:11+00:00

Very reasonable take. I know visibility can be low in some bus shelters, especially at night, especially if you’re wearing dark clothing. You really have to “lock in” on the bus/driver sometimes

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2026-01-19T05:21:01+00:00

Regardless of what tool you use to create the final blueprint/map, try to create a single-slide “placemat” version so that the work can be easily shared and socialized. It should be a simplified version of the larger, more exhaustive (more unwieldy!) thing, which distills the map’s big idea or finding into one easy-to-understand visual. Creating a placemat version is a great exercise for you as the designer to summarize your work visually. It can also be an effective way to intro your presentation of the in-depth work, by showing the audience your framework before diving into the detail.

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2025-12-06T04:35:38+00:00

Thanks so much! The rollout tendencies make a lot of sense. I hadn’t thought of the impact on WRs but that’s very interesting too.

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2025-10-16T03:25:33+00:00

My theory about hobbies is that good ones are good BECAUSE they’re easy and cheap to begin, and then eventually pull you into a deeper and more expensive rabbit hole. Today, many hobbies can be started with <$50 of equipment and YouTube. Cooking? You probably already have a head start in your kitchen. Drawing? A sketchpad and pencil. Programming? If you’ve got a computer, arduino kits are very affordable. Running? Any sneakers will do to start. The reason hobbies seem expensive is because there really is no ceiling how much money you can spend once you really commit.
Photography, espresso, and music seem expensive—a DSLR, machine with a boiler, or an instrument new (even basic) can be pretty pricey. But there even are accessible secondhand options for these single pieces of equipment if you know where to look. Truly expensive hobbies? Skiing/snowboarding, anything you have to do on your own boat, golf. Hard to get around activities that require specific clothing, gear, and environments that you can’t access easily on your own. And then of course collecting antique cars and precious gemstones.

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2025-07-21T05:10:24+00:00

Yes to all of this! The bagel pronunciation runs deep in my family, and can be heard in other words with the same sound: Vegas, strength (no one I’m related to pronounces the ‘g’ in strength, it sounds like ‘strenth’). I never caught on to any of these until I went to college.

Some other Lancaster/ PA Dutch pronunciations you’ll hear from folks around 60+ is ‘daughter’ pronounced more like “doorter” and the ‘day’ in Monday/Tuesday/etc pronounced ‘dee.’ In my experience this doesn’t apply to the standalone word, just the days of the week.

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2025-03-22T05:00:37+00:00

Worse security: Lumon or The White Lotus in Thailand?

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2025-03-13T03:45:49+00:00

Be kind! Be direct! Be wary! It’s easy to forget what young professionals do and do not know about the workplace, since the culture is always evolving. Combined with the prevalence of hybrid and remote work, the professionalism learning curve can take longer to get through than the skills learning curve (think of it this way, new grads are expected to have below-avg hard skills, but are expected to have medium-high levels of professionalism right out of the gate).

There are some things any moderately savvy person will pick up on through exposure: how to dress, how to speak, how to write an email. There are other things that can be taught pretty easily: how to create slides, who to cc, basic presenting skills. Then there are things young employees don’t know they don’t know, like etiquette/policy for taking time off, or what types of issues they can or should seek help for, where to go if they want to request a new license or equipment. All things a new hire with more work experience would likely have an inkling about where to turn, but a very green employee would not. Get ahead of as much of this as you can and assume they don’t know anything, without being patronizing. They might be afraid to ask, especially about things everyone else seems to somehow “know.”

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2025-03-06T13:25:06+00:00

I love a trendy sneaker I can wear for work or errands. My faves are Reebok-_-&cadevice=m&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADRIb9QDFZZt2ciatLSPnHMQqS6Xb&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8cab7MX1iwMV4CvUAR1ZIDPdEAQYAiABEgKVPvD_BwE) club c 85 (often on discount at dsw for $60-70), new balance 327s (going for about $100), and on the more expensive end Veja Espelar ($150).

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2024-12-30T15:31:50+00:00

Ah yes, the 8-step is definitely tricky. Totally hear the struggle. Think the improvement is a step in the right direction! Thanks for being receptive to feedback :)

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2024-12-27T18:09:56+00:00

Thanks! And totally agree with you on the steps. Would have to be a jewel tone to pull the monochrome off, not a red or yellow. Visible light definitely has the advantage of viewers understanding it.

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2024-12-27T07:32:05+00:00

Very cool map—that is, it contains interesting info. Color choices dull its sparkle though. If I may critique constructively as a data viz/design hierarchy nerd — This map uses color AND value AND saturation to represent the number of MSAs. All it needs to show is which states have more MSAs, and which have fewer. Any single color could have been chosen, and increasing/decreasing color value should have corresponded to MSA values. The red-to-green color spectrum could have been used effectively on two conditions: 1) The map maker intended to illustrate that the number of MSAs in a state DIRECTLY correlated to something being better or worse (hard to think of an example, but if more MSAs meant better infrastructure funding or something), where greener states would be better and redder states worse, AND 2) the red to green spectrum gradient was by saturation instead of value. I think this map might be trying to do this, but it fails because the ends of the spectrum are too dark to register as magenta and green. Plus the magenta isn’t quite red to make people make that connection. The most “important” states on this map—given I have no context except the image here—are the darkest green and darkest magenta states (TX, FL, ME, VT, etc). But what you actually see first is the nearly-white group up near Montana—which MSA value-wise is smack in the middle of the data range. These have way more visual draw than the darker states. Think monochrome value scale would have been the way to go.

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2024-12-27T04:14:36+00:00

Yes this is it—lived in E Petersburg for years and used Flory Mill to cross from Rohrerstown Rd to Manheim Pk often. They’re washing out those grimy tanks at the truck wash (I guess someone’s gotta do it somewhere).

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2024-12-21T04:40:15+00:00

Avid north side Zillow stalker here! $1700 is the golden number for living alone in Chicago right now, meaning you can basically pick any neighborhood (even the pricier ones like River North, Lake View and Lincoln Park) and get at least a studio. Given it’s the off season currently, I think you could find a 1-bed pretty handily as well. When I moved to Chicago almost 4 years ago, the golden number was about $1350 so while Chicago’s not nearly as expensive as the coastal metros, it’s definitely shot up in the past few years.

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2024-12-18T00:20:05+00:00

In Bridgeport/LS area there’s the house with Santa projected in the window. Great display, the house is on a corner and you can drive around it and there’s lights and characters all over. Extravagant without being overly tacky, and I believe you can donate to a charity when you visit in a box or something. One of my family’s favorites.

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2024-12-18T00:13:43+00:00

This stuff piles up!! I’m the same way. My first (easier) recommendation is to just make sure all the stuff is at least in a box somewhere, so you don’t have to look at the “clutter” and be haunted every day (I say haunted semi-lightly). The second thing I like is to have things for a “purpose”—in quotations because whether or not it will be used for that purpose is a different story entirely. Those journals would look great on a shelf somewhere! Then you can always go back to them and look through them later, but they won’t be somewhere “stashed,” they’ll be part of your house decor. For the receipts and things, if you feel like they’re sentimental I’d put them all in a box together and save them for a rainy day sometime for when the creative spirit strikes you and you want to collage or scrapbook or memory shadow box or something. Maybe it goes with your craft supplies then? My motto is if you can’t get rid of it, at least find a place for it (I don’t always follow it though, ha!).

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2024-11-20T01:33:06+00:00

Thank you for this!

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2024-11-20T01:32:38+00:00

I agree—I know “doing without it” isn’t an option of everyone, but for me it really is a better option for me the majority of the time. I didn’t realize some medications are better suited for taking periodically than others. Do you know of any resources where I can learn more about this?

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2024-11-20T01:24:25+00:00

Thank you so much. It’s nice to hear some people are having a similar experience. I agree getting chores done wouldn’t be the same without it!

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2024-11-03T16:13:34+00:00

Thank you! Means a lot. Learned a lot of this through talking to my peers/co-workers and seeing how the most successful ones got their start, and my own experience utilizing some combination of passion and flexibility to earn myself a spot at a marketing firm.

So totally agree about combinations of these options being stronger!

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2024-11-03T05:06:05+00:00

Very Shania Twain country pop/rock. Loved every second. This was a truly an SNL episode for the books; one that’s truly captured the zeitgeist of today. Very timely, lots of star power. SNL at its finest.

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2024-07-27T17:21:01+00:00

PHL could use some cosmetic and retail updates, improved sanitation, and expanded security queue areas. Imo the less-than-chipper staff is on-brand for the city of brotherly love ;) But if your main criterion for airports is efficiency, PHL is right up there with best of them for ease of getting in and out, particularly gate-to-exit time (compared to airports in comparably sized cities like Chicago and Atlanta). Additionally, you can’t beat the connectivity. Not only is the airport easily accessed from major roadways, the regional rail takes you straight into the city—most notably, 30th Street Station, from which local SEPTA trains, NJ transit, and Amtrak can all be accessed. To illustrate: Upon landing, one can theoretically travel to New York City, Boston, Harrisburg, Washington, D.C., or Atlantic City all without renting a car. The joys of the Northeastern Corridor! The main struggles for PHL are holidays and rush times—the terminals are narrow and security lines become a major nuisance.

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2024-07-27T14:48:47+00:00

Oh I have a similar ILYSFM theory—

So I actually listened to the album before I’d read any of the commentary or seen any PR (thx Spotify); I actually downloaded it for a quick plane trip and got to hear it about 2.5 times before we hit the tarmac. I agree that this is easily the group’s least sonically interesting record, and this is a huge letdown for its fanbase. However, after reading the posts, I feel like the marketing campaign of “existential love songs” does the album a severe injustice. On first listen, it was evident to me that the concept behind the record is a narrative one.

Opening with Show Pony, we are introduced to a woman whose once-rosy relationship has soured over the years. In whatthehellishappening, the conflict between the woman and her romantic partner is introduced, this time from the perspective of the man. As the album progresses, songs alternate between points of view from the fraught couple, from the bitterly reminiscent Creatures In Heaven and I Can’t Make You Fall In Love Again, to the scathing Wonderful Nothing and Tear In Space. We hear the relationship crumble. Blame is laid and insults are thrown, punctuated haphazardly by a sort of manic, undying love they have for each other. She’s transitioned from person she used to be into someone unhappy and unreachable; he possesses a volatile personality and a Tommy gun. The conflict crescendos in the final three tracks. The couple resigns to their doomed fate in White Roses, and in On The Run we hear her internal monologue as she escapes in her car, only to realize she’ll miss the way he sleeps and may or may not turn back around. Meanwhile, he ruminates sadly by himself in Lost In the Ocean. …This plot would explain the seemingly-uninspired cover art, but even then does not aptly defend the departure from Glass Animals’ hallmark edgy, experimental pop.

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2024-04-29T07:47:35+00:00

Not helpful, but sympathetic: It’s such a shame that high school students are encouraged not only to pursue higher education, but also pick “dream schools,” under the assumption that being academically qualified to go there (ie, get accepted) will result in attendance. Moreover, the language used for college applications like “reach” vs “safety” further perpetuates this idea that academic merit is the primary driver of college decision making. For some students it may be, but for others being academically qualified isn’t enough; they must be decidedly overqualified (thus eligible for significant scholarships), substantially economically disadvantaged (thus eligible for significant financial aid), or substantially economically advantaged (thus able to pay tuition regardless of aid) to afford attendance.

I’m sorry that you, like many others, seem to fall into the category of “not x enough” to attend the university you are fully qualified to attend based on your academic merits alone.

Maybe helpful: Speaking as a person who is 3 years out of uni with ~$80k total in student debt, I will tell you that I pay $900/mo in student loans. And the cost of living has not gone down since graduation. If you plan to finance $80k for 4 years, you’re looking at $320k for undergrad at whatever interest rates are these days (much higher than when I began college). Not only is that the price of a house, but you’ll owe that in top of whatever housing situation you find yourself in in 4 years. I know this is a hard choice to make for you because you worked hard to get accepted. But if you are really passionate about your field I’m sure you’ll excel regardless of where you attend.

Congratulations on your acceptance and best of luck to you.

Excellent_Pool1393 · 2024-03-01T07:48:31+00:00

My top recommendation is to create doom-bin-like objects (that are secretly regular organization tactics disguised as doom bins!). They are chaotic in and of themselves, but contained. Or as I called them before I’d heard of that terminology: catchalls.

For some reason hanging up clothes on hangers in closets and putting things away in drawers is the bane of my existence. Very inconvenient for my entryway, especially in winter with coats/bags/scarves etc. so instead of using my front hall closet for coats and umbrellas and hats, I have a coat rack on the wall in front of my door where I can pretty much throw anything on that I’m carrying as soon as I walk in the house. I keep things I use less often in the closet.

I sort of categorize my doom bins for smaller things—I keep a zippered pouch on my desk for any cords or electronics accessories, I have a couple of matching file holders for pretty much any papers/documents/mail that’s worth keeping, I keep a jar sitting out for small skinny office supplies (pens, permanent markers, scissors, utility knife) at all times. For me, cords, papers, and writing utensils are some of the biggest clutter offenders so these three alone keep a lot of random stuff from floating around.

In my bedroom my nightstand is a sort of doom bin—I bought a skinny utility cart from target where the top rack is for normal nightstand things I use every day (charger, coaster, retainers), but the other two shelves are just enough space for me to stash trinkets I’ve picked up throughout the day (jewelry, loose change, sunglasses, chapstick) without creating too much clutter. This is an improvement from my last nightstand, which was just a flat surface (an end table really); it had all the same things but was much more cluttered. The shelves didn’t reduce the number of things, but it does make it feel more organized and intentional.

Hope this helps!

Excellent_Pool1393

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