On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Thane Plambeck <tplambeck@gmail.com> wrote:
I've often paused before supposedly helpful illustrations meant to indicate the sense in which a magnetic stripe card is to be inserted into an electronic card reader, pondering whether the illustration is truly ambiguous or whether I simply lack imagination
Are you left-handed? I always used to have trouble with interpreting those illustrations, until I realized that they always illustrated a *right* hand inserting the card into the reader. I used to do the mirror image of what was illustrated, which wouldn't work. Once I realized I had to mirror the *hand*, but not mirror the *card*, I started getting it right, though I still have to think about it for a second. Andy