Nicholas Johnson

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Designer @ CFPB. Alum @ Grinnell & UNC. Fair weather fan @ Iowa.
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If Tootsie Pop’s ad agency isn’t already pitching them a Super Bowl LIX ad this morning, they should be ashamed of themselves.
In this age of AI doing basically anything, I feel like my Apple Watch should have been smart enough to know I was watching the Iowa/South Carolina game and not give me a high heart rate warning. Why yes, Watch, I am having a cardiac emergency, and that emergency is South Carolina pulling to within one! #oniowa

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Eighth birthday already
Kid's excited enough to scream
Gonna go get him some cupcakes
Frosted with some buttercream

Bakeries are closed
'Cause I guess unwritten rules were made
These are the days
Restaurants close and staff don't get paid

Just another manic Monday

My favorite genre of restaurant is “restaurant in a place where restaurants usually aren’t.” IKEA. Costco. The random hot dog stand in the hardware store in summer. I don’t even care what kind of food it serves as long as I can eat it in a weird place.
For posterity, I chickened out and just went with a venti latte rather than my best idea of a venti espresso (“No, you heard me right, keep pulling shots until that venti cup is full, please”).
What is the largest, most decadent drink I can order at Starbucks to take fullest advantage of a “free any sized drink” offer? And will it be large enough to last me all week? Let’s find out!

Torture is hearing your family home on spring break playing mahjong without you.

P.S. Is there a #mahjong Mastodon? I hope there’s a #mahjong Mastodon.

Daylight saving time: when I stop being sad I can’t be puttering around in the garden and start being stressed I’m not puttering around in the garden enough.

Speaking of elevators, here is the one and only clever tweet I ever tweeted, from a work trip to SLC years ago:

“Salt Lake City has the kindest elevators.”

A Japanese company that makes elevator buttons has a marvelous wall of hundreds of working buttons in their factory. What fun to be able to press all those buttons w/o the fear of irritating everyone in the tiny box you're travelling in. https://kottke.org/23/03/a-marvelous-wall-of-working-elevator-buttons
A Marvelously Huge Wall of Working Elevator Buttons

I enjoyed this video on how Shimada Electric Manufacturing Company makes elevator buttons, but I was utterly captivated by t

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