My OperaWhere Are Standards?
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 4:05:46 PM
The editor just received his new voter precinct information from the Board of Elections. The portion to cut out and take with you is about 7 3/8 inches long and 2 3/8 high, if you are looking at it vertically. If you lay it down flat, that's probably "wide". But it's still the same piece of paper.
He cut it out along the lines provided, folded it in half, and started to put it in one of those little plastic window thingies in his wallet. Then, his greatest fear was realized: It didn't fit. (OK, the second greatest fear was being shipped off to Precinct 129 to vote, instead of Precinct 18 at Shiloh, but he's recovered from that blow.)
The editor is not so solipsistic to think that the BOE should know the dimensions of his wallet windows.
Then it occurred to him that the credit card people did know the size of the various slots and windows of his wallet. Such clairvoyance. They should be working for the TSA.
So, for the first time in his life, he measured a credit card. (They all seem to be the same size.) Length 3 3/8" and height 2 1/8". It occurred that that the wallet people had figured out size of insertions most people had for their wallets. Wow.
So the editor snipped the voter thing down, trying very hard not to remove any useful information like the BOE symbol or registration number or barcode. He did, however, have to remove the "BO" from the "BOARD OF ELECTIONS" curving around the BOE symbol. He hopes that that does disqualify him from voting in Precinct 129.
He cut it out along the lines provided, folded it in half, and started to put it in one of those little plastic window thingies in his wallet. Then, his greatest fear was realized: It didn't fit. (OK, the second greatest fear was being shipped off to Precinct 129 to vote, instead of Precinct 18 at Shiloh, but he's recovered from that blow.)
The editor is not so solipsistic to think that the BOE should know the dimensions of his wallet windows.
Then it occurred to him that the credit card people did know the size of the various slots and windows of his wallet. Such clairvoyance. They should be working for the TSA.
So, for the first time in his life, he measured a credit card. (They all seem to be the same size.) Length 3 3/8" and height 2 1/8". It occurred that that the wallet people had figured out size of insertions most people had for their wallets. Wow.
So the editor snipped the voter thing down, trying very hard not to remove any useful information like the BOE symbol or registration number or barcode. He did, however, have to remove the "BO" from the "BOARD OF ELECTIONS" curving around the BOE symbol. He hopes that that does disqualify him from voting in Precinct 129.
