miss stinky (back in) in seoul ([info]garlicbreath) wrote,
@ 2005-12-10 20:13:00
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the future is now in japan
I hope the child beeps when she walks through the gate. That would be awesome.

School uniforms fitted with global positioning transmitters are being sold and some schools have fitted sensors in their gates that inform parents their offspring have arrived safely.

I suppose it's only a matter of time til parents hookup teenager's mobile phones with as much. "I'm at the library!" "No you're not."

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I'll never get over the semi-Orwellian chill of the embedded PA system turning itself on in Korean apartment buildings. "Please close the veranda windows when the temperature drops below freezing. Otherwise the water pipes will burst." It's not even exactly efficient, because what if no one was home. A friend finds the previous tenant had taped over part of the speakers, in a partly successful attempt to muffle the blaring intrusion.

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words i learned this semester that i want to work into everyday conversation just to be a dork, edition no. 17:
eleemosynary
soteriological



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apartment PAs
(Anonymous)
2006-02-16 11:08 pm UTC (link)
It's really easy to unscrew the speaker and cut the wires. Took me about five minutes when I lived in one of those milk-carton high rises.

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