Answering For Others // equivocality

20 Mar 05

Posted in: Random, Video | Tags: pieces of me

Aaron and Karen are notorious for their inability to end a phone call within the first fifteen minutes of picking up. This isn’t always their fault, of course, because most of the time it’s the people at the other end who persist in staying on the line. Sometimes I’ll pretend that it’s a wrong number when we’re hanging out so that they won’t be disturbed. Unfortunately, this time, the person was persistent. It ended up being a rude charity worker.

My Chinese has a terrible Western accent, bad enough for me to be able to recognize it and cringe. Normally, I’m not so bad, but I was definitely rusty and caught off-guard.

2 comments — Follow the feed

#1Mac

I’d love to stop and read, but your font is too small and there’s not enough contrast. I’ll stop back again. Cheers.

#2Jeff

I know I shouldn’t really say anything about the comments that people leave, seeing as how this is a public site, and I’ve made the conscious decision of allowing comments. But wow. That’s probably the stupidest fucking comment I’ve ever received. Aside from the fact that different browsers, resolutions, and monitors are used to surf the net, making it nearly impossible to have legible text for every configuration without running different versions of a website. I can see someone complaining, and never visiting again. I can see someone complimenting, and returning. But to complain, and say that you’ll be back?

Don’t bother. Neither the font size, nor the contrast, will change in the near future. I guess it doesn’t really matter if I say this, since you won’t be able to read it anyway.