The can does have a cheeseburger. A product from Trekking Mahlzeiten, but I’m not sure if it’s for the trekking audience who prefer adventures in the great outdoors or those who go with Captain Kirk. And yes, I posted this just because I couldn’t resist the silly headline. It goes in the “worst stuff” category both for that as well as the actual product (from Gizmodo via Gibson Blog)
I was watching TV the other night (I watch TV most nights, but you have to start a post some way), and it struck me that the creepiest tune ever must be that circus/clown tune they use in The Simpsons. You know, the one that goes like this:
doot doot doodle oodle OOT doot do do
doot doot doodle oodle oot doot do do
doot-doodle oot oot
doot-doodle oot oot
doodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-oodle doot doot(thanks Capn in this Ask MeFi discussion)
It’s a familiar sounding melody (Thunder and Blazes by Julius Fucik) of the kind that makes me uncomfortable under normal circumstances, but the Simpsons version somehow almost makes me shiver. Maybe it’s the key it’s played in, or something, but I find it really, really creepy. Is it just me, or does anyone else get the same feeling?
And for “the stickiest tune ever”, check this post (at your own risk).
Time to put that “The best…” category to a little more use by appointing Mirra from Herman Miller “The best work chair I have ever seen”.
I love good design, the kind where both aesthetics and functionality are perfect, where the first doesn’t compromise the other. And with the level of complexity involved, achieving those goals in a work chair must be one of the greatest challenges for a designer.
Since I havn’t actually sat on one, I can’t really speak for the functionality aspect, but by the looks of it the designers seem to have thought of just everything that involves comfort, support and adjustability.
And the aesthetics then… it’s perfect. It manages to be eyecatching, but at the same time it is so neutral that I can imagine that chair in just about any environment. And looking closer, it appears that all of it derives from the main aspect of a work chair which is, as mentioned before, functionality.
But it is a chair in the thousand dollar range, and that’s a bit out of my reach. But god knows we (me and my lumbar) could use a proper chair.
I thought I’d try a new category, listing things I for some reason are worth pointing out. But since I mostly end up mumbling a lot when something asks me about something general, like movies or bands (that is probably because I have very varied taste in such things) the categories will be a bit more vague. Anyway, the best opening line of a novel is:
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
It is the opening line of William Gibson’s Neuromancer. There are few lines that have set the ambience of a scene so efficiently, and in so few words. I really can’t put my finger on why, maybe it is because days with skies befitting that description often come with a certain mood.
