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Bring Back Avocado Green!

The kitchen’s inevitable first appliance with a stainless finish, rather than white.

The installation went all right, but not entirely. One of the guys, let’s call him the “assistant,” did something wrong, and they tried to BS me about it. Not a good idea. The other guy, let’s call him the “installer,” made it right, after I kept insisting I knew that something was wrong, which it was. That’s all I have to say about that.

Update: Actually, that isn’t all I have to say. I see they dinged the door. That’s what happens when you don’t unbox inside the house, but do it in the truck, then have one guy haul it inside — in the rain — by himself. That’s after tearing off the factory-installed insulation cover, because you think it’s packing material. I’ve requested an exchange. They’ll likely offer a credit on the installation cost. Always — always — unbox on premises. How can they not know this?

Pondering Numbers

1. As a young comic book kid, I looked forward to seeing the circulation figures in the October issues. Total Paid Circulation was the number that mattered. The New Yorker is the last magazine I subscribe to by mail, and the total paid distribution of the print edition is down to only about 650,000 copies.

2. I have a digital-only subscription to The New York Times. It recently had a feature on physical fitness, and I did a double-take on the percentiles by age and time to run one mile. When I was 17-21 years old I could run a mile in 6:15. I was never good enough a runner to qualify being on a track team. It’s laughable that I was in the top 1% of males. How many people run at all after high school, anyway?

3. You know how I go on about the dominance of Epic Systems in the electronic medical records market? Here’s a chart showing how Epic has performed since I retired, relative to the other two prime vendors.