Assorted Leftover Topics
These are some topics I was going to write about on Friday, but never got around to:Posted by erin at January 27, 2003 05:35 PMFilled with Sci-Fi Club goodness?
On Thursday night I hit sci-fi club during very nominal hours. The obnoxious people were not being obnoxious at all! All my friends were there! (Except N., and Franco, and those of you in Japan, of course.) Good conversation was had! I left at a decent hour and picked up some otafuko just as the place was closing. It was their last one.
Apparently after I left things got irritating, though.
Getting people to do stuff - the eternal struggle
I thought a lot on Friday about the eternal struggle that is getting people to do stuff. Think about it! All of life, all of commerce, all of civilization is moved by getting people to do stuff. You were born because someone convinced someone else to sleep with them. Capitalism works because people convince you to buy stuff all the time. The Egyptians got slaves to build their pyramids for them. What is work, what is any major corporation except people getting other people to do stuff? And when you really think about it, it's pretty hard to get people to do stuff sometimes. And yet, it happens every day! It boggles the mind!
Strange Fascination with coffee stirs
I remember the first time I ever saw a coffee stir. It looked like a weird little straw, with two chambers and a stripe. I thought that was pretty cool - miniature double straws! Then an adult told me it was a coffee stir. I was disappointed, since I didn't drink coffee at the time - plus, as a child I assumed anything from the adult world was probably really boring. I'm still kind of fascinated by coffee stirs - but now it's more because they're so weirdly disposable. "I don't want anything that's touched another person's coffee!" Does that seem odd to anyone else? I mean, maybe after you start drinking the coffee it'd be gross to stir it with some implement used by someone else - but at Starbucks the function of the coffee stir seems to be this: Add sugar, stir coffee, chuck coffee-stir immediately. The end. It's used once.
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January 27, 2003 06:35 PM, Maggie said:
Erin says "All my friends were there! (Except N., and Franco, and those of you in Japan, of course.)"
What about me???? Am I not your friend??? Do I not count????
*whine, whine*
January 27, 2003 06:37 PM, Agnieszka said:
Apparently Octopus Army editors don't count.
January 27, 2003 06:58 PM, Erin said:
Yes, obviously O.A. editors don't count.
Clearly I meant everyone who could make it was there.
Although I heard Maggie was there for five minutes and left - no wait, that was last year.
January 27, 2003 07:23 PM, Maggie said:
Jerk Squad!!
January 27, 2003 11:38 PM, Halifax said:
I love coffee stirrers. I liek to chew on them, I like to drink through them, I like to bend them into shapes. I'm not sure I'm healthy.
January 28, 2003 12:48 AM, Erin said:
Hal, you don't even drink coffee!
Uh-oh, I share a quirk with Hal... *gulp*
January 28, 2003 01:23 AM, Maggie said:
As long as you don't pretend to smoke them, Hal, you should be a-ok!
January 28, 2003 02:53 AM, Agnieszka said:
I found out that this kind of ion drive device is best made out of coffee stirrers and aluminum foil. I am not making this up at all. And it's not the same as antigravity, despite what kooks will tell you.
Some cafes in San Francisco have this neat system, where they have two big cups of long handled spoons. You take a clean spoon out of one of the mugs and use it to put sugar in your coffe or tea and stir it. Once you are done, you put the now-dirty spoon into the other cup.
You'd think they'd have a problem with people stealing spoons, but I guess they don't. It's a really elegan system, in my opinion.
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