7 Dec
2000
7 Dec
'00
8:22 p.m.
At 02:47 PM 12/7/00 -0800, Sellam Ismail wrote:
I often think how cool it could be to have a group of
minions running
around to thrift stores and surplus shops picking through everything for
me while I sat at home and monitored their activities from a main control
room. I could direct what things they should buy and even how much to
offer. Do I have an over-active imagination?
Who made you boss? Perhaps the surplus shops should install
user-steerable web cams that would let us browse the shelves.
That would at least save us the trouble of leaving the house.
OK, basement. OK, Mom's basement.
- John