steve kwan user experience designer

Lessons learned in 2005

(December 31st, 2005 - 5:34PM)

• Skunks smell BAD.
  Source: Herbert, the skunk who invaded my property and sprayed into our furnace intake vent.
  
  
• Never get a doctor who practices out of the same building that you work in.
  Source: The mad doctor in the same building as Eloquent, who I stupidly decided to visit.
  
  
• It's all about human-computer interaction.
  Source: A BCIT degree course, plus real-world experience.
  
  
• It's possible to hack Linux.
  Source: My Linux server downstairs, which got hacked and started blasting out penis enlargement offers to the entire world.
  
  
• Alaska is boring.
  Source: My cruise to Alaska.
  
  
• New Orleans is sinkin' man, and I don't wanna swim.
  Source: The media.
  
  
• Electronic Arts is evil.
  Source: My roommate's now-terminated career with EA.
  
  
• Nine Inch Nails puts on a wicked live show.
  Source: NIN's live show in Vancouver.
  
  
• You can never truly know if your girlfriend's friends like you until after a break-up.
  Source: Some of the friends I shared with my ex.
  
  
• My personality type is ENFP.
  Source: My management course at BCIT.
  
  
• Websites are more important than you'd think.
  Source: Eloquent's new website. As soon as we put it up, we got a ton of requests for information.
  
  
• Always clean from top to bottom.
  Source: My roomate, who taught me this while we cleaned up after our other roomate who is thankfully now living elsewhere.
  
  
• I look good in leather.
  Source: Shereen, Michelle and Shereen's mom.
  
  
• Eating vegetables and drinking lots of liquids is important.
  Source: My body, which informed me that it did not like my diet of coffee and beer.
  
  
• The BC driver's learner license (L) test is HARD.
  Source: My personal experience with the test, which I finally wrote. I passed. You heard right, I have a driver's license now.