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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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The trick is zooming out to get an overview. In old days we looked at a map and had and overview- I'll go north a bit and then turn west at a junction or landmark. Now it's all zoomed in- you go straight for 3 miles and turn right with no idea where you are relative to other things.
Also having everything rotating around the car as you turn makes it very hard to know what you're doing.
Man I turn that shit off. Makes me dizzy. N is up.
I do the same thing in video games! I HATE when the minimap rotates all over the place - North is up, damnit!
Spoken with true Northern Hemisphere privilege.
Well it’s just normal for me. The UI should allow fixed orientation for what ever direction you want. The rotation is the problem. Nobody would ever rotate a map like that.
People absolutely rotate maps like that.
And in Tasmania do they hold the maps South Up? Sigma Octantis is nowhere near as bright as Polaris...
My original comment was a joke. But you can't see Polaris at all from Tasmania, so even if there's no good South pole star, it's better than one blocked by the Earth.
Mine is a joke too, but a serious question: are there significant numbers of people who draw and hold their maps "South Up"?
Are they just afraid of getting cold feet?
It's funny how different people process information differently. My wife just got done telling me how she hates long screens full of text, but... when she's using the phone navigation app (in a holder on the dash) she "has to see the turn by turn text directions" - can't work with the map view. I'm the opposite, map view makes it simple for me, turn by turn is almost useless for me.
I'm a visual person, turn by turn is also useless for me. Doesn't help that by the time I can read the street name on the sign it's too late to get into the turn lane.