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venta ([personal profile] venta) wrote2011-01-19 11:41 am

Bow down to the idol electric

Things I saw on my way to work this morning...

A tall, thin lady in a red woolly hat waving her arms about in wild gesticulations as she talked into her mobile phone.

A man with very dark hair and a thick grey coat, wedged tightly into a seat on a crowded train, looking at a page of illuminated manuscipt; it was in black and white, displayed on a Kindle.

A younger guy staring intently at his iPhone as Arabic text scrolled across the screen from right to left. Each section ended with "2009" before one number was displayed repeatedly across the screen. I first spotted 76; around 84 there were a few more sentences of text before he closed the app.

A man in a red v-necked jumper with a white Sony netbook on his lap. It was hooked up to a sleek, white dongle with red lights. In one hand he held a Blackberry, and with the other he typed data from it into his netbook.
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[personal profile] triskellian 2011-01-19 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
I am interested in these 'uninteresting' things too :-)

Also, if the illuminated manuscript looked like this, it's one of the standard Kindle screensavers, of which there are a surprisingly varied assortment.

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2011-01-19 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. Yes. The maniscript page did look like that. I'm slightly disappointed to hear it's a screensaver!

[identity profile] bateleur.livejournal.com 2011-01-19 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Observation is the essence of art.

You're making me miss sketching!

[identity profile] exspelunca.livejournal.com 2011-01-19 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
You'll never do it better than the tom tom/You'll never do it better than the drum. Do I get a kudo?

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2011-01-20 09:46 am (UTC)(link)
You may indeed have a kudo.

Though I do still like the irony of an anti-technology song saying "you'll never do it better than the tom-tom". I think it must have been written before sat nav :)

[identity profile] exspelunca.livejournal.com 2011-01-20 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Long before!

[identity profile] kissifa.livejournal.com 2011-01-20 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
I always get caught out by people walking along talking to someone via their handsfree kit I haven't noticed the ear-piece to. At least I hope that's what's happening...

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2011-01-20 09:46 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it used to be much easier to identify the nutter on the bus. Now everyone's muttering to themselves :)

[identity profile] d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I like those kind of observations. Thanks.