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Re: Catching up (was Re: Interesting visuals on control panel
Subject:Re: Catching up (was Re: Interesting visuals on control panel From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"Katherine Noftz Nagel \(Kat\)" <lists -at- masterworkconsulting -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:32:14 -0800
Seeing as how it's "virtual Friday" for the US...
I propose that anyone who can come up with easily recognizable icons that depict
a US health insurance company denying or approving a request for treatment will
have created the ultimate representations of "fast" and "slow."
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Katherine Noftz Nagel (Kat)" <lists -at- masterworkconsulting -dot- com>
> In my personal iconography, FAST would be a photo of a former feline
> overlord (named Quark, because he was a charming little particle).
> Husband wanted to call him Tachyon because he was a fast-moving little
> particle, but I vetoed that. He *was* fast, though.
>
> SLOW would be the slow loris in our local zoo. A bunch of kids ran
> through the darkened exhibit yelling and slamming doors. It took the
> loris almost three minutes to turn his head and raise the first paw off
> the branch he was clinging to, and a full 15 minutes to 'run' back to
> his shelter to hide.
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