Zzzap!

[jethrien]

We went registry-shopping yesterday. Apparently, if you register at Macy's, you end up with three or four free bridal magazines. So if anyone's interested in making bride-collages, I'm totally your source.

This, of course, meant that we spent most of yesterday afternoon playing with scanner guns. I think we're too practical. We spent an hour and a half in Bed, Bath, and Beyond, and our list is only about 30 items long. Supposedly, we're supposed to have 2-3 items per guest on the registry so that people have stuff to choose from. I don't think there is anywhere that we want 300 items from, though...

But zapping things is fun. Zap! Beeep!

Comments

[dushai.livejournal.com]

Back in 1995 I had an internship at Bell Labs where we were working on improving the signal recovery algorithms for bar code scanners. By the end of the summer, I was reading bar codes straight, without looking at the numbers. I still remember a disturbing amount of detail about the UPC code, but I'm happy to say that I'm no longer able to read the bar codes natively.

Of course, spending all afternoon with a scanner gun might bring back the ability. Or give me bad flashbacks.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's really scary.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

You have an ex-boyfriend who can tell the resolutions rate of a monitor by looking at it. Someone who can read bar codes is scary?

Actually, I feel like bar codes wouldn't be that tricky, once you got the knack of it. It'd be like learning a new alphabet, except only the numbers, not even the letters.