No overteching...

[the-hunter.livejournal.com]

It seems that it is possible to spend so much time in a tech environment that you begin to lose sight of the easy option.

For example...last weekend my girlfriend and I were at a motorbike show, with a friend of ours. We're all from heavily geek backgrounds...
Having looked at lots of motorbikes we came across a stand selling hats. Ordinary leather hats. My girlfriend picked one up and tried it on, and it looked stunning. So friend and I reached for our mobile phones to take a picture so she could *see* just how fabulous it was.

Then the stall owner shamed us by producing the most wonderful piece of geek equipment.

He held up a frame, made, it seems, from wood. The frame contained within it a sheet of optically precise glass, with a backing of a silver material. Yeah...not one of us thought of the simple solution of looking in a miror...

Comments

[ashonaut.livejournal.com]

Hahahah, that so sounds like me. Why be practical when there's a possibility of a gadget?

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of this (http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20031112&mode=classic).

[jecook]

ROFL.

[vortex.livejournal.com]

HaHaHaHa!

I could so see that happening!

Which is why I still haven't subscribed to CrackBerry, IPowned or Zoom!...

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

But you can't take home a mirror image!

;)

[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

Just travel home at the speed of light. You'll be fine.

[hikari-neko.livejournal.com]

We don't do practicality, it's against the rules.

Which is why I'm remote desktoped in to a machine behind me. I mean literally behind me, I could just spin around in my chair...

[major-error.livejournal.com]

+1
...and I don't even have to spin my chair, just hit scroll lock 2x to twig the KVM switch.

[awarrenfells.livejournal.com]

FTW.

My room mate and I have rooms right next to each other... we'll IM over talking face to face half the time. ^_^

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

*grins* in a chatroom talking with the late mate, when he leaves to get some beverage....and asks me do i want one too leading to the comment "BRB taking tea to the princess and collecting kiss tax". :)

[random-c.livejournal.com]

I am currently chatting to some friends over IRC. They're sat next to me on the sofa. Talking would interrupt the film we aren't watching.

[awarrenfells.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. Awesome.

I have a friend who calls downstairs to his wife when wants food. Hes kind of a lazy bastard. :P

[random-c.livejournal.com]

Oh well, *calling* where's the geekery in that? No, geekery is when you ask someone to get you a tea while they're up, via yahoo... and then remember they're 200 miles away.

[mmaster.livejournal.com]

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Complicator_0x27_s_Gloves.aspx

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

That is fucking outstanding. Thanks for sharing it. =)

[random-c.livejournal.com]

true. But on the other hand, for those of us with bad circulation, heated gloves are a bloody good idea. Especially for motorbikes. London to Coventry, in December, my hands - in, I should note, both leather motorbike gloves and thermal liners - had to be removed from the handles at the back of the bike by someone else because I could no longer move them...

[kallell.livejournal.com]

I have accepted this long ago, my last job interview

What are your strengths?
- I Do really well at thinking outside the box and coming up with simple solutions to problems everyone thinks are impossible.

Very good, now what are your weaknesses?
- I sometimes forget where the box is and dont think of always the easiest solution.

[ashonaut.livejournal.com]

Hahahah. Soooo true.

[mariasama16.livejournal.com]

Admittedly though, how many of you were actually carrying mirrors with you? And isn't there a new cell phone out that is so shiny that it can be used as a mirror?

[random-c.livejournal.com]

I thought that's what CDs were for...
actually, I've used the back of my iPod to put lipstick on...

[the-hunter.livejournal.com]

Why did your iPod want to wear lipstick?

[random-c.livejournal.com]

I think it had been reading some of my slashfic groups...

[random-c.livejournal.com]

Bah, mirrors show things the wrong way round, you don't get a true picture. Also, you can't use them as blackmail material later if things do look really silly.
Which reminds me, when can I use my leftover black dye on your beard again? I want to be able to tell Mouse you're Minging again...

[anthalus.livejournal.com]

Mirror? Is that the code name for Android?

[devilish69angel.livejournal.com]

been there...
in college, my roommate and I would IM eachother even tho we were 5 feet apart and could easily turn around to converse