Boring Tuesdays: Coffee note

This post is part of our Boring series, where one Tuesdays we sometimes post analyses on signs we did not find particularly interesting. The idea is to offset personal biases.

Here is a small note I made on a Monday morning in our office. I wanted to signal to others that the coffee made is actually fresh and not from last Friday. So I took the closest pieces of writing equipment (a tissue and a marker) and placed this production on top of the coffee machine. The sign vessel is very temporary as it only needs to survive until lunch or so, and the details only describe the time¹ with the hope that the spatial location of the sign on top of the coffee machine will provide enough context to make it clear what the message is.

This is in some sense an opposite to the boring post on my clock. We are signifying a specific point in time, but this time we are not indexing the current moment with symbols, but simply using symbols to describe a previous point in time.

By lunchtime my sign had been discarded.