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clever little europeans
The primate brain reacts by releasing endorphins whenever it encounters anything novel. Since 1998, those clever Europeans get together and strut their stuff for the yearly Europrix. Every year I become inspired, jealous, and admittedly confused at times with the entries.
I’d like to share the best bits.
Cabbot Boots: cybernetic boots that mimic a footpath to get you where you need to go. [video]
Office Of Tomorrow: wickedly cool tools to help creative people collaborate and design
umm… have a good one
I stopped into the convenience store, and today being a holiday I assume man behind the counter is working because he is foreign born. Just an observation, heck my parents work on Thanksgiving because it pays well and they are foreign born. I head to the back of the store and choose some items and as I walk I hear a booming voice say “Thank you, Happy Thanksgiving”. I stop off at the coffee station and prepare myself a cup. I hear “Thank you, Happy Thanksgiving” two more times and I am sure that it is the man behind the counter. I smile at the cheesy sentiment as I walk to the counter. I didn’t make eye contact with the man behind the counter as I payed. Finishing the transaction and gathering my things, I was met with a “Have a good one”.
Ok, sure I look just as foreign born as the man behind the counter. I know it’s wrong for me to assume that the man behind the counter doesn’t take part in Thanksgiving, but he did the same thing to me. I guess I’m just going to have to don a turkey festooned sweatshirt
confessions of a husky boy: arare
One huge perk at Snuffy’s job is that a lot of gift-bearing Asian
vendors come to visit his company. This time around the import snack
of choice is an assortment of arare, rice crackers. I can imagine
that these aren’t very popular and expect some of the crass
individuals turning their noses up at this ” ass-fish tastin’ ” snack.
There are four flavors in this package prawn, seaweed, wasabi, and
sesame. True to form in Asian snack foods, there’s a large sachet of
“do not eat”, “do not open”, “do not make wet” silica desiccant that
easily doubling the mass of the package.