Sunday, September 16, 2007Greatest.. Ideas.. Ever..
Three things.
Whoever invented this concept is a fucking genius. No more waiting in a line of people with 152 coupons and the asinine desire to dig out the pennies from the bottom of their purse so that they can get back a nickel instead of three pennies. You walk up, scan your shit, dump the 20$ into the machine and off you go.
In fact, if I had my way, it would be against the law not to have self checkout. I'm looking at you, Wal*Mart on North Dirksen Parkway in Springfield. Assholes.
And don't worry about it putting people out of jobs. You will always have people too stupid to understand how to use it, too scared of it, or just really lonely fucks whose only human interaction is with the minimum wage register jockey.
Self checkout. Wonderful. I also include other self service wonders like the postal station at the post office and the really cool machine they have at the Nevada DMVs.
A fucking vending machine of DVD's. You swipe your credit card (or if that scares you, get one of those prepaid credit cards which is a pretty awesome concept in its self) and pick your DVDs. The machine bills you a dollar a day, for up to 25 days. After that, you get to keep it.
One of the coolest concepts is that you can rent the movies from one machine and return it in another machine. You can also preselect your movies, show up at the machine and it just spits them out! Hell, if it had a better selection (like it could burn you movies on demand), it would kick Netflix's ass.
I need to find out if they franchise out these machines.
I used to think that people with these headsets were self important douchebags. But then I got one, and to be honest, I still thought that. In fact I remember commenting to my friend Troy back in Springfield how much I felt like a douchebag having it dangling off my ear. However the more I used it, the more I realized how fucking cool and useful it is!
I then learned that not just cell phone headsets use Bluetooth. You can get Bluetooth printers and various other gadgets (even medical stuff can use Bluetooth) to wirelessly connect to your technology.
And that, is cool as hell.
Now, this list is very small when you compare it to the things that I hate, but at least I have shown that I am not a complete negative nelly.
I do hate a lot of things though.
Self Checkout
Whoever invented this concept is a fucking genius. No more waiting in a line of people with 152 coupons and the asinine desire to dig out the pennies from the bottom of their purse so that they can get back a nickel instead of three pennies. You walk up, scan your shit, dump the 20$ into the machine and off you go. In fact, if I had my way, it would be against the law not to have self checkout. I'm looking at you, Wal*Mart on North Dirksen Parkway in Springfield. Assholes.
And don't worry about it putting people out of jobs. You will always have people too stupid to understand how to use it, too scared of it, or just really lonely fucks whose only human interaction is with the minimum wage register jockey.
Self checkout. Wonderful. I also include other self service wonders like the postal station at the post office and the really cool machine they have at the Nevada DMVs.
Redbox
A fucking vending machine of DVD's. You swipe your credit card (or if that scares you, get one of those prepaid credit cards which is a pretty awesome concept in its self) and pick your DVDs. The machine bills you a dollar a day, for up to 25 days. After that, you get to keep it. One of the coolest concepts is that you can rent the movies from one machine and return it in another machine. You can also preselect your movies, show up at the machine and it just spits them out! Hell, if it had a better selection (like it could burn you movies on demand), it would kick Netflix's ass.
I need to find out if they franchise out these machines.
Bluetooth
I used to think that people with these headsets were self important douchebags. But then I got one, and to be honest, I still thought that. In fact I remember commenting to my friend Troy back in Springfield how much I felt like a douchebag having it dangling off my ear. However the more I used it, the more I realized how fucking cool and useful it is!I then learned that not just cell phone headsets use Bluetooth. You can get Bluetooth printers and various other gadgets (even medical stuff can use Bluetooth) to wirelessly connect to your technology.
And that, is cool as hell.
Now, this list is very small when you compare it to the things that I hate, but at least I have shown that I am not a complete negative nelly.
I do hate a lot of things though.
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3 Comments:
What makes you think there are no lines at self checkouts? Yesterday I got stuck behind a redneck dipshit who apparently had never seen a computer before in her life.
How's Tulsa? Hope you start blogging again soon. :)
Is this blog officially dead? Bummer.
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