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Time to hire a WiFi Employee
that is amazing that they were able to solve that puzzle .......
"...out of 45 customers, 18 requested to be seated elsewhere."
....because the jackass at the next table was yammering on their phone.
I've seen 3 couples at a table, all messing with their phones.
I wondered if they were setting up their next dinner date where they will ignore THOSE people, in favor of their phone.
When I go out eating with somebody and they're playing with their phone, I just ask if they need to leave or if they're bored.
And if they takea phote, I just say it's idiotic and only morons post that crap on facebook.
I hate facebook and all that other crap and honestly, most of my friend also don't have a profile.
It's all a type of people. And I'm sorry, but people who post their food on facebook don't have a life and nobody really gives a fuck what you're eating.
Once a year, I even take out time to delete all the unwanted info about me on the internet. It mostly takes 1 day all together.
Unfortunately that's the generation I grew up with.
I loathe social media, twitter, Facebook, snapchat, Instagram ect.
It's all used to keep the sheeple occupied, where they only really care what's going on in 'their world'
Social media has become the 21st century's "television".
Making masses ignorant on the regular.
Also being of the mid-late 20s age group, too many times have I found myself among a group of friends or peers, head up, panning from left to right to find everyone busily staring at their little screens.
Snapchat this, Instagram that, blah blah blah. I don't know/care what the latest "social not-working" thing everyone's super stoked on, but it's a bunch of hooey and a waste of time.
Going out with some friends tonight - I expect several instances of group phone time. In a way, I have to say that a coordinated group phone time, which seems to happen 'organically', is actually a better deal than several staggered individual phone times. In the latter case, no one person in the group would get to enjoy the entire group's company in full.
"Hey gus, let's all take a break from taking a break to service our phonaddictions"
Look up !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY
iPhone6 and free WiFi are human rights!
New Yorkers are so full of their selfies. ;)
That's anti-Semitic!
Time for resturants, etc., to have no WiFi service.
They can jam cell service too but I have a strong feeling that it would hurt their business.
Ask Futureman.
Get a Blackberry. It will automatically slap you for taking food pictures.
Listen. Let me be clear here. You USSA nutjobs deserve all the "EVIL" that is headed your way.
Lookout!
This reads like BS internet myth.
Make ordering and time in the restaurant available on the phone. Hold them accountable, publish the review with a datestamp of their actions. Solved.
This must be a nyc "thing"....
True story:
A couple years ago, we spent a night out with friends at the 'Feast at Lele' in Lahaina, Maui.
For those not familiar with this luau; it costs over $100/person and has fabulous live polynesian entertainment while your personal server treats you to a 5-course meal. The venue is a very intimate amphitheater-like setting beside the sea. It is the most expensive, but probably the best luau on the island.
Seated at the table across from us was a family of four; the two children were around 12 to 14 years old.
Throughout the show, all members of the family were constantly fiddling with their cell phones.
But, the piece de resistance was the 14 year-old boy:
He spent the ENTIRE evening watching an Adam Sandler movie on his portable DVD player...
I used to say a 16 year old girl would commit suicide if she couldn't post face time...
Now I'm not so sure about the nex-gen.
Cope Bitchez, or jump.
1) Charge $10/min WiFi connection time since they'd rather talk then eat and enjoy their company who is present with them; and/or,
2) have a separate "Play Room" for those who'd rather play with their WiFi instead of eating and/or enjoying their company.
I bet the issue would clear pretty fast.
This is all bull shit.
NYC restaurants suck because the products are getting worse (cheaper) and experience is inferrori compare to the old days.
Nothing is what they claim it is.
This little study shows all the signs of an "Urban Myth." No-one in New York says: NYC. Recovering video data from 2004 is ridiculous. Most security loops from that era were 48 hours. It hits on themes we all have strong opinions about. None of the characters were identified. It breaks out details and statistics that are just too good to be gathered with a few surveilance tapes.
I fully expect this piece to appear in Snopes soon.
This is all bull shit.
NYC restaurants suck because the products are getting worse (cheaper) and experience is inferrori compare to the old days.
Nothing is what they claim it is.
I took a photo (probably of the same family except that the grandparents had joined them) sitting at the Kona Airport and all six of them are on their iDiot devices.
And it's not new either. I read this a few months ago on another site.
I agree with NEP. Is read like it purposely doesn't fault the restaurant nor the waiters. I call BS!!! F this bs spin.
Listen Bangalore Equit...
I am looking forward to the annhilation of India from Pakistani Nukes because of the Kashmir.
(A decade, or so, ago, I had a vivid dream that I was watching the exchange of Nukes from the perspective of Earth Orbit. At times my vivid dreams have been quite a bit prescient.)
I will be laughing my ass off as the Muslim Militant Suicidal bastards rain Nuclear Fire, Brimstone and Waste all over those bathing in the shit infested rivers of India.
That is the EVIL that is headed your way.
Be careful what you wish for others as you just may be the first to realize it.
One man's SAARC is
another man's poison
candy!
Take it easy American
dandy!
Enough with the bombs and the
hate!
Here's to dreams of good things and clean rivers for all.
Why think like a shorty when you're so Tall....
tom?
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/living-the-3g-life/
Listen ORI.
As I wrote before I will restate. Be careful what you wish upon another as you will end up receiving exactly what you wish for upon yourself
You wish for peace and clean rivers.
Well I have no problem with that. My hope is that you realize that.
I am just writing as a mirror...exposing that which others project.
Note that I rarely post anything but responses.
When Bangalore Equit... chooses to project hatred then I will return to him his own reflection just as I return a reflection of peace unto you.
We are all mirrors of a sort ORI. I know that the Hindi have taught you that.
Listen General Tom.
Amerka the great has it's own little nasty neighbor. You will notice a sharp rise in cancer treatment and death in USSA.
http://enenews.com/lettuce-west-coast-900-pcikg-fukushima-radioactive-ma...
By the way...In the dream the Pakistani attack happens at night.
What was very strange is how the Hemispherical Blast Waves in the Mesosphere glowed Electric Green...like an Auroral Borealis show. There were many of these Hemispherical Pulses going off over the Indian Subcontinent.
Unfortunately I concur that Cancer Rates in the North American Continent will increase as a result of your Nation's actions, as well as the suicidal Islamic Republic of Pakistan actions, much more than for which Fukushima can be responsible.
But a Nuclear Winter will be our fate due to that.
By the way...Pakistan, in my dream, launches the first strike. The lit engines of the Ballistic Missiles were very visible from the orbital vantage point which I had above the dark side of the World..
My vivid dreams have been very prescient. Hell. I dreamed that I was walking down a grass mall in Portland, Oregon...and...it happened almost exactly as I had dreamed it just two years later. (I live in San Diego, CA. USA) There have been many other experiences. It is like Deja Vu in a sense. But I remember that the images came from a dream.
Right before the Columbia Accident I dreamed that a Space Shuttle landed at night with the Cargo Bay...on fire. Then Columbia happened.
But that was not what I had dreamt at all. It took me 10 years to see that fruition as the last landing of Discovery, at night, had a fire from an overheated APU when it landed. The Cargo Bay was on fire and the NASA Officials had decided to let it burn itself out.
Yeah. I can remember others.
That happens to you too huh? I stopped even talking about it because people don't believe it. I don't care what they think really, just sayin...
I have met others who have similar things happen to them. Weird...
ananonymous is that you? Did you upgrade and move to india?
Not if it is part of their attraction. Of course, the dodos can go elsewhere.
And that the crux of the problem.
You're in the business of catering to people.
But you're customers are all subhumans.
Maybe, maybe not but jammers are illegal and they would get busted.
A Faraday cage will work.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/07/02/faraday-cafe-vancouver-wireless-...
"Time for resturants, etc., to have no WiFi service."
I was just gonna say, can the restaurants install cell jammers? Although the undesired effect would probably be less people in the restaurant.
.
i stopped and asked a young girl for directions last week. she was seated outside at a cafe and was completely immersed in her iphone. i broke her spell and she was annoyed and thought i was trying to pick her up. she looked up and our eyes met. they were deep and dark and her youth was stunning and beautiful. more than anything the iphone has robbed us of the flirt. that smile between the sexes that makes your heart sing.
Truth is, someplaces, its still endemic, the flirting that is, not the jobsPhone.
Yep, almost everything is...
People suck, face it. It's why this nation is going down the shitter. They voted for the American Fuhrer twice, and those fuckeheads in NYC are some of his bigggest supporters.
You are right! If only Americans had seen the light and voted for McCain...
Please tell me you forgot the /sarc tag.
I see you make enormous assumptions with little evidence. I imagine that will serve you well in life. Meanwhile, ANYONE would have been better than the Fuhrer. My pick was Ron Paul, but we see how far that went with the people who voted for the Fuhrer.
voted for a fuhrer four straight times by my count.
That's is true there as well as many other places.
The real answer is: New Yorkers SUCK!
That's racist!
Against whites maybe, but it's also true.
Thankfully I'm a WNYer - it's too bad my state's douche central's name is the same as my entire state.
Although if you tell someone you are from NY it's automatic that they think you are from douche central, so most folks that live outside greater douche central will qualify it as WNY/CNY/Southern Tier/Finger Lakes/ADK. (I leave out 'upstate' becuase it's what douches from Westchester say to make themselves feel like they aren't part of douche central - even though the real upstate is north/east/west of Albany.)
And little Andy can suck my dick.
True story: I originally started reading this article on my phone. But then the "Sponsored Financial Content" column decided to cover all of my screen except for the right-most 6-7 letters. I don't know how to make the SFC column disappear - touching it affects the writing underneath it, not the SFC column itself. The article is now unreadable on the phone so I turned on my computer (better keyboard anyway). Tylers - if you are reading this, please try viewing your website on different phones so you can see the problem and fix it.
For the record, no I am not at a restaurant.
There's only one group of Merikans more noxious then New Yorkers and that's LA people.
+1
When I first saw the headline about why is the restaurant getting (undeserved) bad reviews - it is because NY'ers aka restaurant patrons are rude and obnoxious scum.
Midwesterners and others who visit New York are also pretty clueless AH's NYC is not really a great place for a trip unless you really want to go to crappy overpriced stage shows or you want to visit the cradle of crony capital-fascism.
I pretty much avoid going out to dinner because everyone is fiddling with wireless devices and other BS.
It won't be too long before we cut out the middleman and just upload our minds directly to the internet.
What's on the phone/internet is more interesting than the real world. Eventually, the real world will fade away, leaving only the virtual one behind.
Bet you didn't realize that the people put themselves into the Matrix by choice.
That kinda runs along the lines of second life, WoW, and all those other MMO games.
Where people would rather invest their life's into a game to escape the real world. They have marriages in those games and people get really into it, where they go through their real life as a drone basically until they are on their game and live their life out through there.
True, but the purpose of Life is...?
The purpose of life, is a life with a purpose.
So I'd rather die for a cause then live a life that is worthless.
Well said. Are those your own words or are you quoting someone?
Quote from Immortal Technique.
'The unexamined life is not worth living"
Socrates
To reach virtual heaven.
Is that where you have your dead meat-brain scanned and simulated so that you can live forever in your favorite MMORPG?
Better hope the matrix doesn't run on Windows. Hackers won't just steal your identity, they will steal your soul. G-men will be able to send you to Hell without a warrant.
Life is for learning, dude.
Create more life
"Winning". I bet in the real world they don't even get to talk to the opposite sex. Just work and concrete and poverty. No wonder they can't get away from their game.
As someone who has played WoW, the community can be the best thing, or THE ABSOLUTE WORST thing about MMOs... Sometimes both at once.
I know of several 'local' guilds. They all live near each other, and have plenty of in-person interaction. Drinking in game with guildmates is lame. So much more fun to do it IRL.
The best, most successful guilds all are friends outside of the game.
Then we'll cut out the internet, and upload our minds directly to .gov.
The only thing we all belong to is the gov't. Dem Nat'l Convention 2012:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6gLa9Te8Blw
G*d D*mn background music over monotone voice. How stupid is that video? I can't understand much of anything. The closed caption blasts on for a half second. Yeah, and get off my grass too! I need a nap to get away from this crap.
Defiantly, I constantly bitch to my girl while we are in public and all you see is people on their phones. Not interacting with each other
Like really who honestly gives a fuck that you are eating at Red Lobster, who really cares what you're doing at any one given time? Like is your world so small that the only thing that matters is "where Jeff is eating at" or what "Michelle is wearing to the movies"
Shit is trivial.
Then again my girl bitches at me for being on ZH, because
"I can communicate with people it's technically social media."
If Tyler would bring back the junk button we could go back to calling ZH "anti-social" media.
o/t
hmmmm..."junk button" sounds intriguing.
being relatively recent to ZH, is anyone willing to reminisce and describe this feature?
There were no up/down arrows. If you didn't like someone or their comment, the only option you had was to click "junk".
Thx Chunga -
[pulled up from my post waaaay down this thread]
...apparently a tragic case of "slow death by success" ... the technology angle is largely a red herring since this pattern is well known.
restaurant has its mojo and appreciative local customers etc. and then becomes tourist darling likely named as a place to visit when in NYC.
tourists flood the joint and crowd out the locals, tourists complain about service times and food that doesn't meet their inflated and stylized expectations of NYC cuisine.
Moral of the story: be careful what you ask for (biz and tourists).
cue the Seinfeld... NO SOUP FOR YOU!
Not only was there just a "junk" button, but if a single post hit the max junk threshold (at least 50 junks), then the post got "nuked" and was automatically hidden from view.
Yeah....I read and respond on ZH probably 95% of my time on the phone. There I am, thumbs blazing in the restaurant with all you people. Don't like the service at the restaurants? Eat at home!
Maybe there should be phone and no phone sections in restaurants now similar to when smoking was allowed back in the day.
That is actually brilliant.
an excellent self-selecting/sorting approach... additional suggestion: surcharge the tech section (or discount the non-tech section)
...educated guess is the tech section shrinks (or disappears entirely) in short order.
Suggestion for restaurateurs:
Reserve a small partitioned area for customers who are willing to turn off or give up (e.g. check into coat-check) their phones for the entire duration of their stay. Give them a small discount and put your best busboys, waiters, and runners in this area.
I can't even imagine how surreal it must feel to be a restaurateur considering the possible hit to business from not having (or ending) public wifi.
"...educated guess is the tech section shrinks (or disappears entirely) in short order."
Doubt it, I think the restaurant would disappear first - "we can't go there, they discriminate!"
I gave you the greenie because of your handle. The comment wasn't bad, either.
In my 7th grade band class, one of the songs we played was '25 or 6 to 4'. It was contemporary at the time (mid-70's). What's strange about it is that I have realized that this song was describing the methamphetamine user's experience (looking back at history). Today, we have doctors proscibing Ritalin to children (all perfectly legal, of course).
I've never been to New York (thank God), but the restaurants probably DO suck (because Bloomberg likes to ban sorft drinks over 16 oz., and regulate the fat content of the food). It's probably like Moochelle's school lunch progrom there. If I can't get a deep-fried cheesy one-pound greaseburger and a large order of onion rings dripping with oil along with my 40 oz. Scotch-and-soda soft drink, I'd probably grab my i-Phone and bitch about it too (if my thumbs weren't too fat and covered with grease to work the damned screen thingie). Thanks to Bloomie, I can see my penis now, because I am losing so much weight. <sarc>
A little band called 'CHICAGO', from the late 'Vietnam Police Action' era:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb13I34J8K4
The title refers to 25 (or 26) minutes to 4 AM.
I'm truly humbled by the ZHers compliments. Nice way to celebrate my nearly one year ZH birthday.
NYC sucks. The only thing even remotely decent about NY is the pizza is pretty good. A guy on the plane said the reason the pizza is pretty good in NYC was the water from upstate NY that comes into the city water taps.
Who knows if he was right.
One better get rid of the food. Just make it a phone place to hang out.
You assume his wench would provide better service than the eatery. There's no guarantee of that.
Brought a tear to my eye. Man, those were some exciting days at ZH, with the lonely 'junk' button. Where's my box of Kleenex...
'Slowdrip':
MEMBER FOR:
One week 6 days.
You should see your urologist about the issue you have. You can most likely find your box of Kleenex where you left it, on your nightstand (right next to those magazines that depict people in the act of sexual intercourse). Don't forget to pick the soiled Kleenex up from the floor when you get out of bed. They have a tendency to stick to your feet.
Because Slowdrip wasn't registered (as a contributor / member) does not imply that he / she was not a "lurker".
I "lurked" for a whole two years before getting around to register, as I suspect many others did also.
So, maybe he / she does recall the early days. Maybe he / she was in fact registered under another user name / e.mail account? You never know . . . . .
Wow! The all knowing Mr. Scott. Probably, a member in good standing at MENSA. Thank you for refreshing my memory, on how long I have been following ZH. Appears you have had some experience with a soiled kleenex or two as well. Impressive..
nope, you're mistaking him for fast drip - AKA squirt.
it actually takes a sphincter muscle - you should get one.
Slow Drip, Foreskin .... whats next Taint Boils
I'd be willing to bet that ZH would get more people to sign up, and eventually more readers {by some reasonable percentage, not huge but significant} if even people who were not logged in could see the red and greens. Should be easy to code - why not try it for a few days some week, guys?
Sometimes little adjustments can make a big difference. Here.... decent difference, I'd predict.
The last thing this site needs is more statist trolls.
Ok, we thought it was some spam artist, but since you (the candidate) stood out on our porch for two days and two nights without encouragement, you appear to be legit.
Maybe we are going to regret this, but your account at zero hedge has been activated.
This is a one-time login.
Use it not more than once twice, not less than once never, but once.
Even worse nid, now is voting time. All those "if you don't vote you can't bitch" people come out of the woodwork.
pods
oh yea, riight... must remember to give my mandate to one of these lovely candidates.
lessee, left cheek, or right cheek - what?
groove up the middle again?
shit...
The Phallic Crusader,
I like your idea...., a lot.
Tyler should consider... if he's not, already.
I agree. I think it would be an excellent, passive way of letting the sheep get a clue, maybe think about shit they avoid thinking about. Frightened sheep. But, it would take the fight club from the basement to the colosseum too. Maybe.
@ 'Phallic Crusader':
I thought over your idea. At first, I agreed with 'Nid Styles', and saw a possible issue with statist paid trollistas coming out of the woodwork (and this is a distinct possibility, seeing the number of posters who sign up and comment for a few days or weeks, and then disappear). I mean, you yourself have only been here for 14 weeks...
If you look to the right and scroll down, you will find a box called 'contact information'. There, you will be able to propose your idea to the Tylers. It's THEIR website, and THEY make the decisions regarding format.
SO:
WHY are you logging on to propose a change in the format of the ENTIRE WEBSITE in a thread regarding an old posting of a story as to why the service in New York restaurants sucks? I'm really curious, '5 weeks'.
Not a WORD regarding the article, I see.
Yeah, the nerve of him making a suggestion. He should be banned forthwith and with some extreme prejudice thrown in with righteous indignation. The very idea! Heavens to Betsy!
LOL, just think the NSA and all the other alphabet soup agencies are down loading all the crap these virtual zombies are putting on the net.
I'd be a lot more interested in what your girl is taking off in that dark theater. Lemme know when she gets really into whatever she's going to do nekkid.
That's real social media. Sharing the important shit.
Sadly, I have seen both parents tapping away on their phones, while their kid is staring straight ahead bored as hell ! Whatever happened to a family dine-out !!!
Replying to my post above as an update of going out with a bunch of friends last night (to celebrate one of our birthdays) - quite an even split of guys and gals.
No group phone time. Barely any individual phone time. I used my phone once to add a new contact.
You gotta appreciate those rare times when no one serviced their phones en masse.
Go out to eat with friends. Like all the phones in the middle of the table. First person to grab the phone pays for dinner.
Works well, until you get the self absorbed jackass who says "I was going to get the bill anyway!" Double points if he's checking ZH!!
Lastly, invite them over to your house instead and turn off the wi-fi. I've got shit for service so they can't check their phones if they wanted! Also, we have plenty of booze and food prep work/cooking we asks guest to do that by the time dinner's ready, we're all feeling good and not worrying about the rest of the fucked up world.
I suggest you try!
Meanwhile you just ate 100 mg of saliva and possibly some ass crack so that you could go out and have fun with friends!
Yay!!
Ass crack is under-rated.
pods
Lightly breaded and served along side a soft meat taco can be exciting
"I can cook you dinner at my place, unless you'd rather we just eat out instead."
"What's at your place?"
"Hot Polish sausages and sweet seasoned tacos."
"Have you ever seen a vertical smile?"
"What's that?"
"If you cook dinner for me, I'll show you."
"Sounds like fun."
"Do you have corn?"
"Sure I do."
"Good. I really like corn on the cob, you know." (She licks her lips sensuously) "Do you cook with real butter?"
"Wait. I have to check my emails."
She walks out... forever...
Funny, just now (today) I returned from a "koffietafel" (a "coffee table", literally translated). I don't know what is customary in the States, but this is the typical lunch in Flanders offered by a family after the burial of a deceased family member, in this case the "mater familias". Having no cell phone myself currently, let alone an Iphone, Ipad, tablet, fablet (phablet?) or whatever, I noticed how one third of my own crowd (brother-in-law and friends of the village where I live) started taking out their gadgets and showing features and apps. This was 50 percent of the conversation (during approximately 2 hours) at my table of six.
Toys for the masses destroying any sense of real priorities in life. Because that's what it really is for most people: entertaining electronic things to play with.
You can delete all your information about you from the internet? How?
Interesting article. It might be a nice idea for someone to open a restaurant in NYC that blocks all wi-fi and cell service.
@ Gohn Galt:
Yes, you can delete your information from the internet. Some of it can be done online, but others, you have to write to the companies themselves. It's not hard to do, but it comes back after a while, just because the information is collected from public records.
Start here:
http://adjustyourprivacy.com/opt-out-of-online-tracking/
http://www.nocards.org/
Then, get copies of these 2 books:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Invisible-Protect-Children/dp/1250010454/re...
http://www.amazon.com/How-Disappear-Digital-Footprint-Without/dp/1599219...
In "How to Disappear", pay special attention to Chapters 5 & 7. Both books are similarly-themed, but both authors take different approaches, and offer different ideas.
Thank you. I'll check it out.
@ Gohn Galt:
No problem! Also, you can take down photos of your house from Google Street View:
http://www.sileo.com/google-street-map-remove-house/
The result is basically blurred images, so it doesn't stop anyone from driving by, but it's an additional information barrier that might help some of you.
Another Zuckerberg will come along with electronic, digital food.
You don't have to be a artist to do that.
1. Google your name
2. Make a email adress that you'll never use again
3. Open all the links in google that carry your name
4. Change every profile and delete all the info that can lead to you
And for sites like ebay:
1. I open a account by using a throw away visa for confirmation.
2. The first adres is fake and also the name
3. The second adres is the right one and I always place that one as shipping adress.
4. Every year I also change ebay accounts
5. Paypal: i only use throw away visa's from the post office that I can recharge like a disposable cell phone card but which doesn't carry my name.
It freakin' amazes me, to see couples out on a date, not talking, just staring at their damn phones...
Technology and "scientific innovation" will be the death of us all.
When I am with my GF, I do not hit the phone if she is at the table. If she hits the can, fair game.
BlindMonkey.
Thanks for the ‘good’ advice.
Right on!
Is it any wonder no one has time to look around and see who the boogey man is?
The magic light emitting phone is soooo much better at neutralizing the awareness of the sheep from danger than the TV. TV is still good for mind control but the wi-fi phone is great for total distraction.
Hey, hey, look! Look at what one of my 357,000 friends sent me! Cool, huh?
We play phone roulette. First person to pull out a phone pays for the whole table. That fixes it.
Hate = Fear
It's very simple: If you eat or meet with somebody who is using his phone, YOU failed. Because you waste your time with sheeples and not a humans.
We have a dining out rule...the first person who pulls out their phone...pays for everyones meal.
The addiction to iGadgets is epidemic... People cannot leave the damn things alone for more than 30 seconds in any and all settings... I truly believe they contribute to the dumbing down of the people...
It's getting pathetic. People meet their friends and then spend their time with each other texting/whatsapping etc their other friends.
What's the fucking point? Luckily in my group of friends if you are caught spending too much time on your phone then you will be tagged in a facebook post outing you as a member of ISIS or a paedo.
I went to a pre-wedding party (friend of a friend,etc) where most of the folks were mid-late 20's and hadn't seen each other for years, kind of a mini-reunion. Lot's of hugs/kisses and within 30 minutes over half of the 70 or so in attendance were on their I-gadgets solo. It was amazing to watch. I'd say probably 99% spent a significiant amount of time on their phone/gadget over the course of the 3 or so hours I was there. I think some were texting back and forth to each other in the same room. Simply insane.
Ironically, social media is causing us to be less social.
That will work, right up to the point where the cops swat team your asses and gun one of you down.
Distraction nation.
And here I thought it was because Gordon Ramsey made restaurants so perfectionist they forgot how to cook fast and furious. That plus he scared the shit out of the Mexican help so they went back to El Paso like you know at normal illegal alien run eateries.
McD's in nyc has waiters?
Snooty people.
The one near Wall St has waiters, Piano bar and chandeliers. Been to it a few times. Same food as any other McD's.
http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/mcdonalds-new-york-386?select=DM5Izer845X...
Have the best wait staff, best cooks and chefs, and get the fastest wi-fi available.
Then charge by the minute after and hour.
I don't know, I'm trying here.
OT, whoever is singing the anthem at the O's game better keep his day job.
Huxley Cafe?
"I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots."
A. Einstein
Perfect quote.
I found that a bit too prescient even for someone with his intellect and Google and Quote Investigator seem to agree with me ... not a real quote.
Should have known. Thanks for researching that.
guess there is no actual proof of that quote coming from Einstein
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/19/tech-surpass/
I read somewhere the average peson checks thier phone 1500 a day. Remarkable
Re cell phones: We've become a nation/globe of obsessive compulsives. I can't stand my iPhone; I go cross-eyed trying to read the mouse scratchings.
The only time I "check" my mobile TELEPHONE is if and when it rings. Which may be a few times a week. So for me 1500 "interactions" with "the telephone" might account for a solid decade's use . . . .
i keep my phone off unless i need to call someone which is seldom...
no news is good news for me...
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