SubscribeWhen last we met I was focused on the misanthropic fools I consistently stumble over out here in RV-world, and if you are one of said fools, I’m sorry, but you know what I mean because you simply must know how awful you are, right? Luckily, some of the coolest experiences I have had recently didn’t require people at all. Well, sure, they DID in a way, if you want to be snippy…to develop the applications and invent and produce the gadgets that provide these experiences…but once they exist you don’t have to interact with the people behind the scenes, and you can just go ahead and use them shamelessly which should really work for you, shameless as you are. Let me tell you about a few of my favorite recent experiences.
1. Cutting through carrots without carpel. We just bought a ceramic knife that cuts through raw carrots, thick broccoli stems, raw apples, whatever, like they were sticks of warm butter. It’s so light you don’t get carpel tunnel chopping. It’s ten times harder than steel. It may never need to be sharpened, but if you think it does, you send it off to Kyocera and they sharpen it for free and send it back to you.I love this knife and as soon as I save up enough money I’m buying a second one.
2. A Perfect, Replicable, Cup of Coffee. You would think that I, being a caffeine addict and as nit-picky about coffee as anyone you’ve met and as oriented towards trying new gadgets as I obviously am, that I long ago would have solved the problem of how to produce a perfect cup of coffee each time. But once again, ferret-breath, you would have been wrong….until lately. Last week I found a coffee-maker…well, a coffee-making PROCESS, really, that does exactly what I want….it hands me a perfect cup. It’s made by AeroPress, it works something like a French Press but doesn’t get grounds in the coffee, and a couple of the customer testimonials say it better than I…”I have achieved coffee nirvana”, says one, and “It makes the absolute best cup of coffee I’ve tasted in my entire life,” says another, and I agree with both, and it only costs $30, and I’ve paid more than that for a pound of coffee. Well, not often, but I have. Negatives? You have to be conscious, you have to follow the process, and you have to take the temperature of the water before you pour. Too difficult? Sucks to be you; I’m drinking good coffee.
3. A lawyer-ly give-back. OK, I’m not an attorney. But recently a friend of a friend, a woman and her boyfriend who ARE attorneys, developed one of the coolest sites. www.examplemotion.com that formalizes something that lawyers have been doing informally for years…it shares documents so lawyers and others don’t have to create new wheels every time they need to produce a document in an area perhaps outside their specific area of expertise. And maybe it can work for you, too. For instance, let’s say you have an urge to file a motion to compel discovery in your latest nuisance lawsuit. You can now go to examplemotion and find how the pros do it, and do it a little better this time so you don’t get laughed out of court. O course I don’t think the examplemotion guys have you and I in mind as their target market…they’re essentially looking for other attorneys to use their work and in turn to leave some of their own, a very humanistic and thoughtful approach to cooperatively working in the law…an area not always known for its cooperation…but I bet if you’re nice they’ll let you play, too. Anyway, check it out…http://www.examplemotion.com, like I said.
I have more examples, but I’m tired and I can’t do EVERYTHING for you, can I? Do you think I’m your mother?