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Clerks on Phones
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And a new thing I've noticed, at the convenience store, or the liquor store, picking up cigarettes or vodka, clerks that complete the entire transaction without letting go of their phone or speaking to you, you speak, tell them what you want, they get it, ring it up, take your money and make change, all while gibbering in a foreign language to the invisible, irrelevant other. I catch the eye of another older gentleman, he's thinking the same thing:
"Unbelieveable, isn't it?" he tells me. I only nod, I don't want to interrupt the clerk...
The Beano Anthology #3
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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It's here, almost. The Beano Anthology #3.
Zen Watches
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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In my early 20's I had the idea for "Zen Wristwatches", which were essentially faceless watch dials mounted upon straps. Of course they wouldn't be plain faceless, we'd do a whole variety, out of different materials, jade, onyx, clear crystal, stainless steel, hundreds of possible materials, big, small, whatever.
The genius wasn't so much in the watch, it was in the marketing of it: "Zen Watches - for the Here and Now" or "No Time Like the Present: Find Your Zen" and there would be a whole bunch of irrelevant quotes about the meaninglessness of measuring time and the importance of Now and Living in the Present and Bullshit and all. Pretty much like every other product on the market...
I think that I got the idea because I was getting into collecting wristwatches, and I couldn't get why people would pay enormous sums for brand names...
Anyways the marketing was good, only I didn't have the product or the budget to bring it to fruition. It's still there, I think, in a notebook someplace in the locker. There wasn't any Kickstarter in those days. There is now, though, and I was a little surprised that someone else had a similar idea...
Link: "Jesper: Minimalist Wristwatch"
It's not actually all that minimalist, with all the pointless crowns and crystals and all...
For an excellent article on Minimalism read this: James Altucher - How Minimalism brought me Joy and Freedom. I don't think he's wearing a watch. Certainly not a Jesper...He does seem to have a surprising number of bright ideas, though, if you browse through the rest of his blog...
Prietes
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I'm somehow in London-not-London, a different variation of dream London, when I run into N*** & N****, I didn't know they were back here, living in Kensington, and I go back to their place for a drink...leaving, I'm off to do something ... (???), night-time and I'm trying to find my way back, I have to grab my car and continue upon my travels, I can recognize the neighborhood-ish, but everything isn't where it should be...I ask an old lady for directions, a large man, taller than the crowd and stooped at the shoulders bumps into her rudely, she merely greets him with a "Hi Tom..." and confides in me "Everyone around here knows him..."...she directs me, I'm merely a couple of blocks from finding my way...
...And walking I bump into A***** from work, we're walking together and we see, in the middle of the road, flapping their wings, two pigeons, flying, hovering in mid-air, each is dressed in a patterned peach colored vest and driver's cap, the one on top is trying to mount or undress the one beneath and I'm amazed, I point it out to A***** and he just dismisses it, "They're Prietes" he says, and hurries along....me, I'm trying to take a picture with my phone, the pigeons begin to fly away and scuffle, through my phone though, I see not pigeons but flying combating martial artists, an Asian woman and a man, and I'm taking pictures, taking pictures, A*****, whatever enchantment they're under isn't fooling the phone, A***** won't believe this when I show him, ...
...When she runs into me, the Asian girl, tall, beautiful, she's transformed from being a pigeon and we're both lying in a restaurant panting from where she flew into me, I see A***** getting a table with N*** and the restaurant, it's big, we get up to go and find them, she can explain everything later...
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