Word: cappuccino
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Last summer, as I walked through the Yard each morning on my way to work, I promised myself that I’d spend the next summer abroad. I had visions of casually sipping cappuccino under the shadow of Notre Dame or strolling along the Thames. Instead, each day I walk from my Dewolfe Street apartment to Widener Library...
...Colored an antique tea-stain brown, with a mood reminiscent of the 1930s horror movies, Bruce Wayne becomes a creepy, eccentric playboy who flies around in his "bat-gyro." Another stand-out, Ellen Fornay and Ariel Bordeaux imagine "Wonder Woman's Day Off," when she skips out for a cappuccino and a poetry slam, with her big-boots-and-tiara-look fitting right into the downtown hipster scene...
...permission. Gladly. I'll let my boyfriend program his phone to ring whenever we're in the same part of town. I'll let my parents and my "buddy list" follow my tracks. I'll even let Starbucks in on my whereabouts if it means the occasional m-commerce cappuccino coupon for the disclosure. Heck, this is useful stuff, this location-pinpointing technology. A GPS-aided map could have saved me hours in that company car I drove so cluelessly around town when I was using it for work (before I hijacked it). GPS is already helping thousands of Japanese...
Conservation is cool beyond the cappuccino-sipping communities. Much of Big Business is ahead of the Administration. Automakers may lack the single-mindedness that regulation may bring, but they have been making ever more economical cars. Ford and GM are dueling it out over whose emissions are lower and whose suvs will get more mileage. Toyota and Honda are spending billions on hybrid engine cars, while companies like GE and Whirlpool are developing more efficient low-BTU mousetraps, like dishwashers that can be programmed to click on in the middle of the night. A few bones thrown...
...years ago, everybody knew how to make a sitcom. You'd get a few cute actors, maybe a stand-up comic, a nice couch and some of those big cappuccino mugs from Pottery Barn. Take a few meetings, punch out a few scripts--then sit back and wait for the Brinks truck to pull...