I am annoyed by gaps, misalignments, holes and other mess more often than it is of any use to care about.
Schlagwort: Ordnung
Multibibliomensional.
The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves.
Neal Stephenson: The Confusion
Märchentlich.
The Germans have a fondness for faery-tales, or Märchen as they call them, that is strangely at odds with their orderly dispositions.
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
Londsterdam.
You’ve spent time in Amsterdam, which may give you some idea of what London is like, except that London is not nearly as well organized.
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
Unreadlevant.
I think something more interesting surrounds the fact that most people suck at email. I cringe whenever I see an unread count in the tens of thousands. Some people believe that to be a badge of honour, but I’m fairly certain that just describes you as someone who doesn’t care, and I generally take the position that it’s not a virtue to be proud of how much I don’t care about things.