Postcards on the Edge

[don]

Re: Peak Intelligence?

It takes a strong imagination these daze to believe in partisan politics, election reform, ad nauseam.

One example of many.

[don]

One Stop Shopping

[lektrode]

Re: One Stop Shopping

and... the king - as in BB - checked out today...

[don]

Re: One Stop Shopping

His music is filling the house. Glad i saw him a couple of times.

[lektrode]

Re: One Stop Shopping

His music is filling the house. Glad i saw him a couple of times.

+2
IIRC, its was in 2002 for me - at the foxwoods in CT...
and BB with clapton is pure magic - this being one of my fave pandora channels

theres a pictorial over at ruperts place today - start here - and scroll down to the 'photos of the day' inset

they've all of a sudden got extra tricky with their code, as eye still havent figgerd how to pop-out a direct URL for this one...

[don]

Re: One Stop Shopping

Best recordings - the "Completely Well" series and, of course, any early chitlin circuit live.

[don]

The NoPhone

Your phone is like your teddy bear, isn't it?

You like to talk to it occasionally. The real pleasure, though, lies in just being able to clutch it. Somehow, it makes you feel more secure.

Unlike your teddy bear, however, your phone is an active distraction. It wants to notify you all the time. It flashes at you at the most inappropriate times.
Which is why there now exists the noPhone.

This looks like a piece of plastic that looks like a phone. In fact, it is exactly a piece of plastic that looks like a phone. On its Web site, its creators boast that the noPhone has no camera, isn't Bluetooth compatible, and doesn't make calls.

It is, however, "toilet resistant."

Its purpose is, you see, to act as your phone surrogate. It enables you, the makers say, "to always have a rectangle of smooth, cold plastic to clutch without forgoing any potential engagement with your direct environment."

One of its creators, Ingmar Larsen, told ABC News: "We wanted to make people aware of their addiction by creating a product that can be used for their addiction. It works as a placebo."


Co. Exist was told by its creators that they'd received an "overwhelming" number of begging messages, saying that people really, really need this non-device to combat their non-sanity.

I can imagine that, soon, there will be noPhones of many colors. You'll be able to match them to your outfit.


People will sit at bars, squeezing them tightly, while actually looking another human in the eyes.

How difficult it will be, though, for the other human -- if they are noPhone-less -- to return the gaze, as they desperately look away to see if they have an urgent Twitter notification.

and now available: the NoPhone Selfie . . .




What's Included:

• One NoPhone
• One Reflective Stick-on Selfie Mirror
• One Instruction Manual (For how not to use it)
• Free Shipping in the United States
  (International shipping is an extra $5)
• More of your attention
• Real friends

What's Not Included:

• Texting Your Ex-Boyfriend
• Location Tracking
• Browsing History
• Data Overages
• Dead Batteries
• Phone

Warranty:

The NoPhone has no warranty and is not intended to be used for anything.

[lektrode]

Re: The NoPhone

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-0...ined-1-cartoon

[vt]

Re: The NoPhone

+1

[Chris Coles]

Re: The NoPhone

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-0...ined-1-cartoon

No, this is entirely wrong; it should show the USA standing outside of the pot saying "Hop-in the waters fine" but to the rest of Europe. It is their banks that started this stage; it is their underlying philosophy that drives the debate. The frogs already in the water are merely victims of the false PR; not the instigators.

[lektrode]

Re: The NoPhone

No, this is entirely wrong; it should show the USA standing outside of the pot saying "Hop-in the waters fine" but to the rest of Europe. It is their banks that started this stage; it is their underlying philosophy that drives the debate. The frogs already in the water are merely victims of the false PR; not the instigators.

if you say so, Mr C
i just put em up when eye find em...

[Chris Coles]

Re: The NoPhone

if you say so, Mr C
i just put em up when eye find em...

No problem at all; it is just that instead of "Socialism" being written on the outside of the pot; it should read "Feudalism". In fact, taken to the limit due to the US economy being almost entirely driven by government spending; perhaps it ought to read "Feudal Socialism"

[don]

O-Lympics

Those who were going to force the Olympics on Boston vowed their Games would be frugal, insisting they would build upon existing facilities and erect temporary stadiums, cutting costs. But even the $4.5bn required to organize the Games and $6bn needed in new roads and parks seemed perilously low when the considering the massive amount of building needed to placate the International Olympic Committee. While Rome and Paris will fight for the right to put itself in financial peril a bigger truth should be clear:

Why should anyone want to host an Olympics anymore?

[lektrode]

Re: O-Lympics

...Why should anyone want to host an Olympics anymore?

or why in hell does it make sen$e to BUILD FROM SCRATCH new facilities for em anymore

USE THE EXISTING STUFF!

sides that, BOS is still groaning under the burden of the Big Dig = why its somewhat hilarious to watch as other places think they know how to build anything ontime/budget

[lektrode]

'escape velocity' - was Re: O-Lympics

this one needs nothing further...

You have to believe to receive...




Source: Townhall.com