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Improving What3Words

What3Words is a cool service that takes clunky GPS coordinates like 52.1261450, -106.6589970 and turns them into phrases, like twisty.wedding.runs, that are much easier to both say and remember.

But I’ve got some ideas for how it could be even better.

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Go home, Norsk. You're drunk.

My journey with learning Norsk hit an unexpected landmine today, all because of our new curtains.

Having learned a decent amount of French in school, I’m passingly familiar with the notion of gendered nouns. So the masculine, feminine, and neuter categories in Norwegian weren’t a problem. And learning that many people collapse the feminine and masculine into a single common gender came as a welcome simplification. But then we bought the damned curtains.