My Kind of Place
The sign says “No Kardashians Allowed” I like the place. Is this Structural Racism?
Restaurants
What Did You Say?
It is often noisy in restaurants. Bose or one of their competitors should invent a noise cancelling device that makes it less noisy. They have done it with headphones. I’m visualizing an Alexa looking pod on the table that cancels noise from everyone outside of a six foot circle. So that loud man at the next table doesn’t disrupt your dinner. Photo is Nurit and I having High Tea at the expensive hotel in Victoria BC in 2006.
Words Seldom Seen: Neurasthenic
Neurasthenic Noun: an ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance. Example: “After multiple tests the doctor diagnosed me as neurasthenic and I couldn’t be bothered to dispute her.”
Sanitized by…..
It isn’t enough to sanitize, you also have to leave a physical sign that the area has been sanitized. Thank you Pedro! And so the pandemic response enters the “Security Theater” phase. Like taking off your shoes at the airport it is a response to the need to “do something.” If you want to do something Wash Your Hands again.
Stop Cooking Dinner
I am predicting that within a few generations there will be so little cooking in the average family that many homes will be built without kitchens. Read More »Stop Cooking Dinner
Decoding at a Restaurant
How does a waiter say: “f*ck you” to a customer? He says: “I’ll be right back.”
Seen Signs 4
Kiss King of Balls A food cart in the Philippines that could cause a cultural misunderstanding.
Carnegie Libraries
On our drive from Santa Fe to visit the Pecos Pueblo we visited the Carnegie Library in Las Vegas, New Mexico. It was Sunday so the library was closed but as we drove up the sky cleared and I got this great photo. Yes it was designed as a copy of Monticello. The building of the Carnegie Libraries was an amazing thing. It seems that someone like Stephen Fried who wrote Appetite for America about Fred Harvey and the Harvey Houses could do a great… Read More »Carnegie Libraries
Simon Says Postcards 1/15/2013
“A man is known by the Company he organizes.” Bierce Ambrose 1843 -1913 American Journalist and Critic Philippes Your Business Idea
This Space Available
A Breakfast Restaurant in Salem, Oregon has advertising on its coffee mugs. All I can say is “Why didn’t I think of that.” This is the printed place mat, area map idea on steroids. Maybe it will replace the baseball cap. With the collapse of television as a reliable advertising medium because of the DVR. (Read more here) Advertising money will be available for new nontraditional venues. The breakfast table is one. How about Highway cones with logos or the lane divider lines on the… Read More »This Space Available