Shower Thinking

Okay, first off I know many of you are thinking what the heck am I referring to when I say "Shower Thinking." Well, for those of you that know me, I'm the type of person that never stops thinking, it's just my nature. However, I seem to think up some of the most random thoughts when I'm in the shower. They really should invent a notepad in the shower that is water proof! Anyway, here are just some of my random thoughts!

Addendum: Okay... tried the whole notepad in the shower, doesn't work. Nor does a white board (steam causes too much self-cohesion on the ink), a tape recorder (too much background white noise to really transcribe anything...), or writing on the shower walls with soap.

Which one first?

Most of us have been to a major city before, you know the cities where thay have so many streets that they start to give them numbers rather than names. Some will have 1st, 2nd, 3rd, up to whatever, however, these numbers have an identifier attach to them, such as 'Street', 'Avenue', 'Blvd', etc... For cities like Los Angeles, and particularly New York, 'Street' and 'Avenue' are the two most common ones. So now let's consider Manhattan, you go up and ask for directions as to where a particular building, park, mall, etc... is located and you get an answer like: "It's on 5th and 30th."

Now ain't that peachy? You know where you are and you have a location that is given in a Cartesian Coordinate fashion. So now you just walk up to intersection of 5th Street and 30th Avenue! Or... is it 5th Avenue and 30th Street? Crap, you don't know if 'x' is street and 'y' is avenue or vice versa! Yet amazingly all these New Yorkers have no problem bustling around the streets from one place to another knowing exactly which is what. Either that or everyone is too afraid to ask for the fear of looking stupid, or simply no one knows and they much rather take on the chance of having to walk 50 city blocks to get to the right one in the 50% chance that the first intersection of incident is wrong!

I don't know about you, but does anyone know? Cause I feel too stupid to ask! Haahaa =D

Who's right?

How many times have you looked at the caption of someone's picture and they say "I'm the one on the right". Pretty simple huh? It's only simple if you know who you're looking for, if you're looking at a picture and you don't know who anyone one is then it begs the question of "Who's right?"

What is the standard frame of reference? Are we talking about *my* right as I'm looking at the picture, or are we talking about the right of the individual *in* the picture? Because the picture's right is my left and my right is the picture's left. So which is it then when someone says "I'm on the right?" They should use terms like they do in theatre like 'stage right/left' and 'house right/left'

If I had to guess.... I would conclude that most people are referring to the viewer's right rather than the picture's right when they say "I'm on the right." However, I have a tendency of over-thinking so my right is the picture's right. So... what do you mean when you say "I'm on the right"?

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