Wednesday, November 18, 2009 5:08 PM | rahel luethy | 0 comment(s)

analytical mind

jonas*: "filipa, whose turn is it to babysit tomorrow? momi's or grosi's?"

filipa: "well, when i talked to grosi on the phone yesterday, she said that we will see each other in two days. if today is the first day, then tomorrow will be the second one — so it must be grosi's!"

* just to set the record straight: filipa doesn't actually understand nor speak english ;-)

Wednesday, November 04, 2009 3:51 PM | rahel luethy | 0 comment(s)

pandemia (continued)

in response to my letter to the BAG:

[...] der Check [richtet sich] an die gesamte Bevölkerung und muss in wenigen Fragen unzählige Situationen berücksichtigen können. Es ist unter diesen Umständen leider nicht möglich, den Fragebogen zu 100% zu individualisieren und es lässt sich nicht verhindern, dass in wenigen Fällen komische Fragenkombinationen entstehen [...]

yeah right. time to hire real software developers, morons (or maybe i should just use the same lame answer to fight off the next genedata screener feature request).

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:10 PM | rahel luethy | 2 comment(s)

pandemia

in a rush of together against the flu enthusiasm i wanted to check the official H1N1 vaccination recommendations for juan. shortly after selecting his age category (6 months to 2 years) they were asking me whether he recently delivered a baby — seriously, this is really not the way to build up trust...