I went to the Pheasant-Lane Mall, with Chris, today (I should be able to attach a semantic link to Chris' name, so that it'd point to whatever his current web-page is.... Hm. Maybe it'd be in bad form to do such a thing, though...). I had a half-desire to buy an air-conditioner. He wanted sandals, pants, and satin bedding. I didn't get my air-conditioner (oh-well), and he didn't get his bedding, but he did get pants at Target, and I did buy a spiderman-tie at Sears (the only decent tie there, except for the ones made of the magical colour-changing fabrics..., which had ugly patterns sewn into them, and were thusly in-decent.) When checking out of Target, the guykid behind the register asked Chris (ah--I've got #{it:}# the name should link to a history of sites, should be a history of links, centred on whatever one was current at the time of writing), "Is that all?". Chris said, "Yes.". I think that the appropriate response was "No, I'd like fries with that.". In retrospect, Chris thought that the appropriate response was "Can I supersize that?". I bought an Icee, in Target, while waiting for Chris to evaluate the fit of his potential pants. A guy standing next to the counter (in response to my shirt) asked me "What's gee-en-yoo" (er. OK, I'm mildly #{annoyed:}# I wanted to link the last word in that quote to www.gnu.org. No spans. Note to #{self:}# fix it.), and I told him that it was the operating-system at the front of the Free-Software Movement (Freedom-in-Software Movement? How does that sound?) and directed him to gnu.org and debian.org. I feel like I should carry around some sort of little documentation-pointer-thingies that I can hand out. Maybe not pamphlets..., though..., maybe. I wasn't bothered when I received a falun-dafa pamphlet (surprised, yes--I had been staring at the words, "falun dafa", on the woman's shirt, wondering what they meant.), but I have this feeling that something like business-cards would be better--would work better, maybe. I think it's because the subject is software, and there's such a wealth of interconnected, relevant information on the Internet--it'd be best for the recipient of the card/whatever to be motivated to go visit some key web-sites and go `ah!' and follow links. Being able to handle people little business-card-sized CD-ROMs that they could boot from, into a demo-system..., that'd be nice..., but it's not practical. Hm. Maybe it is. I'll have to see.... [Reply] |
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