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Don't look up

Okay so I’m at a cafe with my laptop being one of those people who sits at cafes with their laptop getting stuff done. Based on a scientific survey of myself, I can tell you a little about what those people who sit at cafes on their laptops actually get done:

Not much.

I plan to rectify this soon by going parachuting with my laptop. I figure the sensation of the wind whipping through my hair and probably giving me some kind of air wedgie will break this seal of inactivity.

Crap, I just remembered another thing I haven’t done which I need to do: buy a parachuting outfit. What, you think I can parachute in this ballgown? Never again. This is strictly a sitting and looking pretty crinoline.

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12 Responses to Don't look up

  1. Joe Miller May 18, 2009 at 12:51 pm #

    Nice, you be sure to remember to get a parachute for your laptop also. We don't want any horrible laptop skydiving fatalities.

  2. Joe May 18, 2009 at 12:51 pm #

    Didn't J K Rowling write the first couple of Harry Potter books while sitting in cafes and restaurants? There's a lesson there somewhere. Beats me what it is.

    Alison, I think you should be a speaker that companies hire for their corporate events and conferences. There are booking firms that handle people like that. We hired a lot of them where I used to work for our annual customer meetings in Burlington and Boston.

    You would really be awesome at that (a lot better than some of the people we hired). You could share your financial tips and other motivational advice. And make meringues!

    Of course, this would only be until Alison TV is up and running.

  3. Joe May 18, 2009 at 2:43 pm #

    I tried to post a comment here earlier and got an error. If this one doesn't work, I may just have to go out and play in traffic.

  4. Joe Miller May 18, 2009 at 11:51 am #

    Nice, you be sure to remember to get a parachute for your laptop also. We don’t want any horrible laptop skydiving fatalities.

  5. Joe May 18, 2009 at 11:51 am #

    Didn’t J K Rowling write the first couple of Harry Potter books while sitting in cafes and restaurants? There’s a lesson there somewhere. Beats me what it is.

    Alison, I think you should be a speaker that companies hire for their corporate events and conferences. There are booking firms that handle people like that. We hired a lot of them where I used to work for our annual customer meetings in Burlington and Boston.

    You would really be awesome at that (a lot better than some of the people we hired). You could share your financial tips and other motivational advice. And make meringues!

    Of course, this would only be until Alison TV is up and running.

  6. Robert May 18, 2009 at 3:16 pm #

    Had to look up because you are using big words.
    Crinoline was originally a stiff fabric with a weft of horse-hair and a warp of cotton or linen thread. The fabric first appeared around 1830, but by 1850 the word had come to mean a stiffened petticoat or rigid skirt-shaped structure of steel designed to support the skirts of a woman’s dress into the required shape. In form and function it is very similar to the earlier farthingale.

  7. Joe May 18, 2009 at 1:43 pm #

    I tried to post a comment here earlier and got an error. If this one doesn’t work, I may just have to go out and play in traffic.

  8. D3wizl May 18, 2009 at 1:44 pm #

    Aww, what about shrimp heads, retainers and realizations?

  9. Robert May 18, 2009 at 2:16 pm #

    Had to look up because you are using big words.
    Crinoline was originally a stiff fabric with a weft of horse-hair and a warp of cotton or linen thread. The fabric first appeared around 1830, but by 1850 the word had come to mean a stiffened petticoat or rigid skirt-shaped structure of steel designed to support the skirts of a woman’s dress into the required shape. In form and function it is very similar to the earlier farthingale.

  10. Anonymous May 19, 2009 at 12:33 am #

    “Regarding this particular post of sparking up work in a a typical Cafe', I'm sure what was said here would give Mcdonalds an idea of making an ad with two scenes, one with someone skydiving in a dull manner and in the other a person skydiving as well but in a more fashionable approach which the former scenerio be entitled PARACHUTE and the latter PARACHUTE' with an apostrophe…….”

  11. Anonymous May 18, 2009 at 11:33 pm #

    “Regarding this particular post of sparking up work in a a typical Cafe’, I’m sure what was said here would give Mcdonalds an idea of making an ad with two scenes, one with someone skydiving in a dull manner and in the other a person skydiving as well but in a more fashionable approach which the former scenerio be entitled PARACHUTE and the latter PARACHUTE’ with an apostrophe…….”

  12. Anonymous May 19, 2009 at 7:33 am #

    “Regarding this particular post of sparking up work in a a typical Cafe', I'm sure what was said here would give Mcdonalds an idea of making an ad with two scenes, one with someone skydiving in a dull manner and in the other a person skydiving as well but in a more fashionable approach which the former scenerio be entitled PARACHUTE and the latter PARACHUTE' with an apostrophe…….”

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