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Why do I still have to choose a state when filling in forms online? Shouldn't filling in a ZIP code be enough?

Salami: the cold cut of peace.

How to crochet plastic bags into... a bag.

If tree people had email, their suffix would be .ent.

Dickens World?! (And why isn't there an apostrophe after the s?)

Moses' secret diary:
Day 16: Still not at Sinai.

Date: 2007-04-19 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] library-sexy.livejournal.com
Why do I still have to choose a state when filling in forms online? Shouldn't filling a ZIP code be enough?

I have wondered the same thing....

Date: 2007-04-19 06:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magid.livejournal.com
Not nearly enough thoughtful designers out there...

Date: 2007-04-19 05:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pling.livejournal.com
Is it a cross check that you've not typoed your zip code?

Date: 2007-04-19 06:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magid.livejournal.com
None of the rest of it is cross-checked.

I would mind less if I could just type in the two-letter state code, but now it's all about the drop-down menus, so I have to take my hands off the keyboard to scroll down the list. (Not many have let me type instead of mousing.)

Date: 2007-04-19 05:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fetteredwolf.livejournal.com
Snerk at Moses secret diary. ;)

Date: 2007-04-19 06:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magid.livejournal.com
*grin*

A post-Shavuot entry:
Year 37: Still not arrived in Israel. Continued grumbling. Perhaps I should've taken the left at that last rest stop.

Date: 2007-04-19 06:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queue.livejournal.com
UPS's shipping program automatically fills in the city and state when you enter a zip code.

Date: 2007-04-19 06:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magid.livejournal.com
Would that this were universal.

Date: 2007-04-20 01:45 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] arfur
UPS probably patented it.

-cynic.

Date: 2007-04-20 04:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fj.livejournal.com
Then manhunt.net is breaking a patent.

Date: 2007-04-19 06:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theora.livejournal.com
Presumably Dickens World is on the analogy of Cadbury World, Disney World, Tire World, etc. Not the world belonging to Dickens, but the world of all things Dickensy.

Date: 2007-04-19 06:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magid.livejournal.com
Point.

Still, it's a view of England through a Dickensian lens, belonging to him in the sense of intellectual property.

Though I admit that even if the apostrophe is grammatically possible, no one would want one there.

Date: 2007-04-19 11:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tapuz.livejournal.com
Moses' secret diary:
Day 16: Still not at Sinai.


HA!

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