Normally I'm against electronic devices acting (or being) smarter than I am, but there is one feature I'd like to suggest to any cellphone manufacturers out there: can you put in a little sensor that can tell when someone has tried to set up the Alarm Clock even though her ringer is turned off? Can you have a message pop up saying something like "You might want to turn your ringer on, YOU IDIOT?"
Thanks.
Speaking of oversleeping, I had a dream about a centaur the other night--no doubt because I had just seen Pan's Labyrinth. In this dream I was working in a bookstore/art gallery on a small Mediterranean island, and in the shop I met a centaur whose name was something like Imtau. He didn't look like your standard centaur--he was standing on two legs, and his arms were a little shorter than a human's would be, but they ended in horse's hoofs. He had a very Russian cast to his features. He was resting his front hoofs on one of those high round tables you see people setting their drinks on at art gallery openings. I greeted him and engaged him in conversation. In the course of it I made some innocent remark about cars, and he let me know politely that I might want to be careful about mentioning such things around centaurs--so many horses lost their jobs because of cars, so they're a pretty sore subject.
I then asked him to tell me what other sort of creatures inhabited this island, since I was so unused to seeing centaurs. "We have some insurance agents here," Imtau said. No, I said, I meant the sort of creatures who weren't found anyplace else--unicorns, for example. "Oh, but unicorns can be found anywhere--they're all over the world." Then I woke up.
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4 comments:
(scratches head) ... "huh?!"
I like to keep you guessing, j.
REM sleep rocks!
The island of misfit insurance agents??
Love this blog, and sorry to just get to it now...
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