Three things that have caught my eye lately:
+ Candy Cane for Your Portrait
I love little projects like this. I would love to work up the guts to do something like this myself. I considered what Houston location would work well for something like this, since it would need to be a place that has a lot of pedestrian traffic. Sadly my little piece of suburbia wouldn’t suffice, however, setting up outside, say, an Astros game would be awesome. Must file the idea away for next season. Baseball Card for Your Portrait?
+ Understanding Local Max
“You’ve got a very good job… To do better, you’d either have to move to another firm, move to another town, switch careers or go back to school. And all of them have costs and very uncertain returns, so you stay.”
+ 2006 Winter Olympics medals
I think they are the coolest. Seriously. They’re unique, they’re simple, and they’re extremely eye-catching. I like the way the ribbon runs through the center, and how there is text imprinted on the thin edge of each (not visible in the photo in that article). They’re elegant.
And one irritation:
+ Why, for the love of all things good and wholesome, why won’t my headset just stay on my ear? In the course of a 4-hour sim, the damn thing fell off my ear at least half a dozen times.
“The problem is that to get to Big Max, you need to go through step C, which is a horrible and scary place to be.”
Sigh.
My headset does the same thing. Its because the ear piece that goes over your ear is too wide (at least that’s why for me). The newer headsets are narrower. I have been trying to get one, but no luck so far.
Mmm, donut medals… mmm, donuts…
Yeah, I like it the Local vs Big Max. He doesn’t really mention it in this post, although some of the comments get into it: you can make point C much less worse if you plan well and take advantage of opportunities when they present themselves.
For example, you could start saving money if that’s a big part of what is stopping you.
I sat in for a day at Heathrow’s ATC approach console, I had a neck ache for a week afterwards from the weight of the stupid head set.
My suggestion is to ante up and buy your own new headset!
I’m not sure if buying my own is even possible.
No, its not possible. But seriously, there are several different options (mostly age dependent) if you go down to the headset office and see what they have. Of course, the kind you and I both have is by far the most common (and, I might add, the one I saw everyone in LA Center at the FAA wearing too). I think they just aren’t designed for women or something.
I’m sorry, Sarah, but I’m with Jon Stewart on this one – the 2006 Torino medals look like freakin’ giant washers! I liked the 2004 Athens medals.
As for headsets, I had a run of bad luck, but I seem to have a pretty decent one now; mine stays on my ear pretty well. It also helps if you can find a good placement for the little cord clip.
Keep going down to the headset office. That’s how I got mine, eventually. You just have to get lucky and get there after somebody has sent one back for refurbishment.
In the meantime, try clipping the cord in different places on your clothing. It actually used to work best for me if I put it around my back and clipped it on my other side.