(13:40)
I just bought a CD from HMV (while at lunch. Yes, I do work for a living. Hence the ability to buy CDs), and it was an incredible deal! $13.99 for one or two for $30! I was tempted to get two so I could see if I’d actually get my negative two bucks in savings, but I held off, even though I don’t want to open this one because the packaging amuses me. I have this habit of buying things on the basis of how dumb the package is, which I guess makes the package smart, but I can’t imagine there are a lot of people out there with the same motivations that I have. Actually, I’m scared to think that there might be other people in the world like me, but if there were, could you imagine the kind of store that would pick us as a target market?
(11:40)
Continuing my recent obsession: Men dressed as ninjas shut local freeway. “The two men — ages 20 and 21 — were from Gaylord and told police that they had just bought the ninja gear and were on their way downriver to surprise their family“.
Someone at work mentioned the possibility of constructing tall buildings from the top down. You’d make the top floor, jack it up, and put a floor under that one, and continue until you’re done. Anyone know if this is actually done anywhere? It’d be pretty fun to watch, I reckon. I recall that the CN tower used a bit of that idea when they put the pod in – the base was built on the ground and they used the elevators to hoist it up, if memory serves.