Date:         Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:21:41 EST
Reply-To:     JKrevnov@AOL.COM
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From:         Rico Sapolich <JKrevnov@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Ventilation controls
Comments: To: dmc@cyburban.com
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In a message dated 1/29/02 5:04:23 PM, dmc@CYBURBAN.COM writes:

<< Its impossible to figure out the ventilation controls without an owners
manual.
Tell me this isn't one of the most stupid designs ever conceived. >>

Throw away the owner's manual and just look at the symbols on the controls,
they are not hieroglyphics.  Reading the owners manual makes me think of
those god-awful travel directions in text from Mapquest.com, et al.  Once, I
had the pleasure of going on a trip with my son's Scout troop.  The trip
consisted of taking State Route X South to Interstate Route Y, traveling 150
miles west and getting off at Exit Z which had numerous 8 foot by 16 foot
signs directing us to National Landmark Q.  The Scoutmaster, who was a highly
placed federal bureaucrat coordinating the national war on drugs (now
terrorism), had spent his workday searching for the best directions known to
mankind on the web .  The product of his diligent effort was three pages of
minutia describing every bump in the road between our hometown and a place
which anyone who has ever seen the sun set could find.  I don't know if we
need better maps or more bureaucrats.

Rich