“Somebody shoot me” is a pretty strange English colloquialism. I don’t like it much, but I find myself saying it, and I need to know 1) where it originated, and 2) how to translate it into Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and Portuguese. My google-fu is so weak right now, heading as I am into the last week of the quarter (neurons a-weeping), that I can not find out the answers to any of these questions on my own.
It occurs to me that I could get this information from a Mechanical Turk. I guess it’s time to think about how much I’m willing to pay for the goods.
Oh also, if you haven’t watched this HARD TIMES episode about outsourcing joke writing, you had better do it immediately.
You know, I was actually going to write about a homework problem here, but by the time I finished typing the post’s title, I was already distracted. Who says bloggers are useless as cats? (I’ll give you a hint– it’s a friend of the family named Arch.)
Last week I made another bathroom sign, this one specifically for the men’s lavatory:
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tests hav shown that the germiest surface in the average public toilet is the doorknob so if you got in you need to wash your hands before you touch your bits, but then how do you get out?
This is actually a good question– a lot of bathrooms in public buildings have doors that open automatically when you hit a button, so sometimes I will kick that with my foot. Other times I pull my sleeves down over my hands to touch the doorknob. Or I’ll use my elbows to push the door open, if it doesn’t have a latch.
But that may just be for paranoid people… It’s probably more reasonable to just use a dry paper towel to touch the door. And also carry some alcohol-based hand sanitizer in your pocket.
In a medical setting, usually there will be a sink in the same room where your hands need to be clean, so you don’t have to worry about touching a door.
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