Thursday, August 29, 2019

2A - Bug List - Tommy Nguyen

20 things that bug me:
  1. Hearing sounds, such as stomping or slamming, through the walls from your neighbors in an apartment. 
    1. I am able to my neighbors due to poor sound insulation built in the walls. 
  2. Fruits that stain my cutting board.
    1. The pigments from fruits, especially from berries, is able to easily stain materials.
  3. Water takes a while to initially heat up when I take a shower.
    1. The cold water that exists in the water pipes must first run through before the hot water reaches the showerhead.
  4. Forgetting my umbrella when I am coming home from classes.
    1. Usually happens when I don't check the weather despite living in Florida's weather.
  5. When you scatch and itch and it itches even more.
    1. Our body responds to pain by inducing more itching sensation. It's quite a cycle.
  6. Food sticking to cast iron skillets.
    1. Usually happens when my pan is too cool when I put food on the skillet.
  7. Losing connection while using a GPS on the road.
    1. Tends to happen whenever you travel to less-developed areas.
  8. Difficulty spreading peanut butter on a piece of soft sliced bread.
    1. Peanut butter is rather dense and tends to not spread easily when on an airy surface like untoasted bread.
  9. Discovering shopping carts in a parking space as I am preparing to park.
    1. Happens when people do not return their shopping carts correctly.
  10. Throwing out large trash bags in a dump with the lids closed
    1. It's quite difficult to both lift the lid and haul a trashbag overhead without tearing the bag.
  11. Wired earbuds becoming tangled.
    1. Can happen if one bundles it for storage incorrectly.
  12. The very loud sound from operating a coffee bean grinder.
    1. The sounds come from both the mechanical blades connecting with the beans
  13. Drinking with ice becoming watery after a while.
    1. Ice melts into liquid water as it sits in a warmer environment.
  14. Trying to use the foggy bathroom mirrors after taking a shower.
    1. Mirror fogs up due to hot water vapors condensing on the colder mirror surface.
  15. Laptop becoming uncomfortably warm while using it.
    1. Heat results mainly from the CPU and GPU running during usage.
  16. Bugs appearing on your walls or ceilings.
    1. Appears from unsealed corners or other areas.
  17. IOS incompatibility with Windows or Android.
    1. Incompatibility results from different operating builds.
  18. Inability to read how much power is left in a battery.
    1. No gauge or meter to tell you the amount of power used on a cell.
  19. Food sticking to stainless steel cookware.
    1. This always happens when I either cook something with too much sugar or too little oil.
  20. Plastic wraps not wrapping over disposable aluminum containers
    1. Plastic wrap does not work because of the way it depends on static to stick on surfaces.
This assignment was especially difficult for me because there is not a lot of occurrences that bug me. Some of the things on the list can be solved easily, but I still list them in the moments where it becomes bothersome to do so. The second half of the list took me rather much longer to come up as these do not bother me as often as the first half. 

Wednesday, August 21, 2019