Steph Hippo

Anyway consider the whole product lifecycle please. For baby products that means can you clean it after someone spits up, rubs crackers in it, or otherwise attracts infinite crumbs. Can you clean it one handed while a toddler tries to help? If no, re-evaluate please.

They warned it flew across the room, which is great, because that's exactly what I did 20 seconds later. Cleaned it, put it back in, and we were good to go.

But this probably did not even need to be a problem! Give me easy things to wipe down!

Shout-out to some mom who posted a video 5 years ago of her having the same struggle and said she and her husband wound up using two butter knives. My people. I love the honesty. One of the comments mentioned flipping it over and pressing on one side to pop it out.

Now I just want to know who is responsible for this absolutely unnecessary pain in the ass of the little baby window where a toy piano goes. Why does this need to be a separate piece for crap to get trapped under? There was no obvious way to pop it out, and so I turned to YouTube.

All of the legs and foot base so obviously connect together that it is so hard to do it wrong. Everything has one way to work with obvious hints on the pieces about what goes which way. Another A+. I attached four legs and a foot rest in less than a minute.

There are a bunch of toys that attach to the top. These things removed so easily for cleaning. The seat popped right out. Clearly someone put thought into how to clean this. A+ for that. If you have young kids, that's essential for stuff like this.

We last used this nearly 3 years ago for kid #1, and I pulled it out of storage this weekend because baby brother is able to sit for a little bit of time. It was gross and dusty and needed reassembled.

Today on Steph Rants About Baby Product Design: Skip Hop Activity Centers. This one does so much so well only to trip up at the end.

Ronald Reagan narrates a new anti-tariff ad from Canada The new commercial is part of a $75 million ad campaign by Ontario aimed at Republican voters.

Holy shit.

Game 7 between the Jays and the Mariners just ran an pro-free trade ad, targeted to American workers, decrying tariffs.

The twist being that, if you don't catch it beforehand, Ronald Reagan is revealed as the speaker in the closing seconds.

What PAC is this? The Province of Ontario.

Ugh you could tell by the way he screamed and grabbed the knee before he had even fully landed on the ground that it was gonna be a stretcher situation.

I am humbly asking the @reignfc.com replay editor to include the fire going off on goal replays on behalf of my toddler.

have a gander at taloranderson.com/blog/ai-valu... -- the argument is not even necessarily that the VCs believe the valuations are real, but they're locked into throwing even more money at it or else they lose their whole investment.

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

I know there's no such thing as perfect but hear me out: this dog.

What a win, Mariners! Now everyone go to bed.

Text message exchange where a fan says she is watching at home so she can throw things at the TV

Checking in on my Mariners friends.

Hey Mariners on the bright side the Husky game and the Reign game are done now so by the time this wraps, you will at least have the light rail to yourself?

This baseball game has officially outlasted the college football game across town that started an hour after it

Get me a professional women's team and we'll talk though.

84' GOOOOOOAL JESS FISHLOCK!! WE'RE LEVEL!

I don't even follow baseball closely. I just will blindly root for any Seattle team.

Mariners fans, are you ok?

Can't wait for someone on LinkedIn to tell me what TLOAS taught them about B2B sales.

🎶🎶🎶
Every eldest daughter
Was the first lamb to the slaughter
So we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire
🎶🎶🎶

Damn, Taylor.
❤️‍🔥

I'll just be sitting here singing

🎶🎶🎶
Thank you for the lovely bouquet
I'm married to the hustle
And now I know the life of a showgirl, babe
And I'll never know another
🎶🎶🎶

like I'm not a married mom of 2 Engineering Director who works from home.

Happy Taylor Swift Album Non-Stop Listening Day to all who celebrate. #TheLifeOfAShowgirl #TLOAS

Overall, Gemini was helpful. Head pats for the AI.

This bottle washer made some product design choices that I think are dumb and unnecessary. But it did work.

Please design your product information for all parts of the life cycle. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Anyway, I asked Gemini how much water to add. It told me to use the included measuring cup.

So I asked how much water to add if I didn't have the goddamn magic cup.

4oz.

THANK YOU. Moved on with my life, and got bottles going before I picked up the 3 yo.

Friends, bottles have markings on the side with ml markings. Why would there need to be a dedicated measuring cup with no amount listed??? Unnecessary product complexity here. Just tell me how much to add so I don't overflow this thing.