at random, as usual

[glass_icarus]

Post-performance tab-closing!

1. To whomever decided it was a good idea to sell a $245 pair of chopsticks: are you NUTS?! I don't think my parents' entire chopstick collection tallies up to $245, and that's between the everyday ones, the nicer ones, the non-heat-warped ones we use for guests, the fancypants souvenir ones from Japan, and the unused packages that are probably still in a drawer somewhere. If chopstick-users around the world laughed you off the face of the earth this minute, it wouldn't be a moment too soon.

2. Free access articles on mobile technology in health/behavioral sciences, anyone? I haven't actually read any of them yet, but this one looks like it could be interesting: Gamification for Behavior Change: Lessons from Developing a Social, Multiuser, Web-Tablet Based Prevention Game for Youths.

3. NOW HIRING FOR PANDA NANNIES?! That is a job description I could totally get behind! Too bad I don't actually live in China.

Comments

[busaikko]

Wow! I think I will get into this chopstick-selling market! I had no idea there were so many rich idiots potential customers.

...and I've got chopsticks from 20 years ago, can I sell them as antiques? I will be so rich!

[glass_icarus]

Haha, or I should try to sell our collection of heat-warped chopsticks that won't close properly when you put them side by side... as CHALLENGE CHOPSTICKS.

[siria]

I like that the chopsticks are literally stamped with a golden fleece. The sale price is $245!

[glass_icarus]

Yeah, the golden fleece is kind of an ironic summation of this whole scheme (if you use "fleece" as a verb), isn't it?

[ursamajor]

If I become a panda nanny, do I get paid in $250 chopsticks? It's the latest method of measuring gamification points. This was what I was supposed to take away from your tabs, right? ;)

[glass_icarus]

Ahahaha, I WISH!!

[eumelkeks]

Wow, I'd be surprised if I didn't know that people buy ridiculously overpriced clothes on goop that you could get for a fiver anywhere else.

[glass_icarus]

True, but it's somehow less surprising (though still eyeroll-inducing) when this happens with clothing/shoes.

[magnetic_pole]

Do you get a free suit with those chopsticks? :) M.