9.12pm
Wednesday
19 October 2005
On the flight home I was flipping through the
terrifying/awesome Sky Mall catalog and nearly choked on my own
tongue at the prospect of amazing friends and guests with this
lifesize and incredibly lifelike robotic animatronic
chimpanzee. Hey! Look at me when I'm talking to you!
Robotic! Animatronic! Chimpanzee! The research-and-development
folks at Sharper Image are so obviously sitting around pulling
bongs and challenging each other to come up with the next crazy
thing. Then comes the delicate operation of deciding just what
the price point of a robotic animatronic chimpanzee head should
be. How much is too much? What would people be willing to pay
for all that lifelike chimp action? It is hard to say.
Robotic animatronic chimpanzee, people! I FUCKING LOVE BEING
ALIVE.
--mimi, of COURSE
Latest role model: Mena Trott, 28-year-old president of Six Apart. I've read Mena's corner for a little while, after a mention on Signal v. Noise, but only recently came across her more personal earlier blog, blurring away the general professional joviality to reveal a deeply clever and cute and intriguing girl. I suppose she's stepped back from that space just to avoid the kind of familiarity strangers like to think they have, just like I'm doing now.
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Does anyone have any idea why I'm still at work at 10 o'clock on a Wednesday night? Because I'm not sure I do. It's nice to have something that I'm excited about, even in some ephemeral way, though.
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I've been thinking ever since I got back from Europe that I should take advantage of my hearty amount on vacation days and do some more real travelling around Christmastime, but I'm worried about budget a lot more now that NYC is a very real option for next year. Maybe I will be a vagabond across the US countryside, to get that "real travel" feel.
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There's a party at my house next weekend to celebrate Rob's birthday, Halloween and little old me turning 25. Let me know if you didn't get an invite and you think you should have!