#468: You are just reading this sentence, instead of contemplating a high-definition image of Charlie's first successful number two. Happy New Year!
#241:
Step 1: "What's your number?"
Step 2: "And ... that's saved in my phone."
Step 3: "Sure, I'll wait five minutes while you do the same thing. And then make me pose for a photo which I will change later to a shot of me gurning anyway."
#34: What bill?
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An explanation of The Joy Division Litmus Test
Although it may now be lost in the mysts of thyme, the poll below is still relevant to this blog. In the winter of 2008, Mele and I went to live in Queensland. In order to survive, I bluffed my way into a job at a Coffee Club.
It was quite a reasonable place to work: the hours were regular, the staff were quite nice, it wasn't particularly taxing on my brain.
There were a few downsides: In the six weeks or so that I worked there, there was about a 90% staff turnover (contributed to by my leaving). This wasn't seen as a result of the low pay, the laughability of staff prices or the practice of not distributing tips to staff, rather it was blamed on the lack of work ethic among Bribie Island's youth.
However, one of the stranger aspects of the cultural isolation that touched our lives during our time "up there" was the fact that nobody at my work had heard of the band Joy Division.
The full explanation is available here.
But please, interact a little further and vote in my ongoing poll. The results are slowly mounting up, proving one thing: people read this blog are more well-informed about Joy Division than anyone who works at the Coffee Club on Bribie Island.
It was quite a reasonable place to work: the hours were regular, the staff were quite nice, it wasn't particularly taxing on my brain.
There were a few downsides: In the six weeks or so that I worked there, there was about a 90% staff turnover (contributed to by my leaving). This wasn't seen as a result of the low pay, the laughability of staff prices or the practice of not distributing tips to staff, rather it was blamed on the lack of work ethic among Bribie Island's youth.
However, one of the stranger aspects of the cultural isolation that touched our lives during our time "up there" was the fact that nobody at my work had heard of the band Joy Division.
The full explanation is available here.
But please, interact a little further and vote in my ongoing poll. The results are slowly mounting up, proving one thing: people read this blog are more well-informed about Joy Division than anyone who works at the Coffee Club on Bribie Island.
Smart phone - not so smart.
ReplyDeleteI like my old flip phone too. It makes and takes calls and messages, the occasional photo, that's all I need.
Totally, if they're so smart, why do people look so dopey when they use them?
ReplyDeleteHonestly, sometimes it's like watching a mime read a miniature book.
I'm impressed ,Thanks for the tips…thanks for this informative post.
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Smart phones are ridiculous as phones. They are slow, clumsy, annoying, and waste many minutes a day resulting in lost hours a month pushing extra buttons and correcting the mistakes they often make. Most people do not really need them and pay their hard earned money to play with them and pretend they are hip. That is stupid. Marketing crap has become the 'new thing' and only the foolish fall for it. A phone is a phone, not a computer, just like toilet paper has a purpose and should not double as a toothbrush.
ReplyDeleteMost people like smartphones because they need more then just phones, such as ability to check the weather or send an email on the fly,
ReplyDeleteThis can go on a distant blog when there is no longer a difference between 'smartphone' and 'any other type of phone'.
DeleteLonger to find the person I want to call. Press unwanted buttons (icons) frequently by mistake; even during calls (causing calls to end prematurely; especially important calls). Clumsy to use as a phone. Flip phone is more user friendly for calling.
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