Word: queues
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...loudspeaker announces that those with yellow tickets are next in queue. Then the orange are up--the herds to my right baa in delight. Some are prematurely excited because they think they have orange, but they actually have a painfully deceptive salmon-peach. A random voice on the loudspeaker calls for the lavender tickets, but hesitates and admits a mistake. Someone holding a lavender ticket probably has a mild heart attack and doesn't realize...
...Nomad is also the only one of the three jukeboxes that functions like, well, a jukebox--only without the quarters. You can select your songs in a flash (they start playing instantly) and queue up new tunes even as the old ones are playing. The Nomad would be perfect for a long road trip with your co-pilot playing deejay--except, of course, for that pesky four-hour battery life. (Remote Solutions solves that problem by shipping its jukebox with a car-outlet adapter...
...into a DSL dynamo. None of them can get you up and running any faster, which is why I've been sticking it out with Pac Bell all this time. If I canceled my order and went to a competitor, I'd effectively be starting over in the same queue...
...according to Parker, has a list of 3,000 people eager to pay $100 a bottle. The 500 cases of the current vintage are already spoken for, but that doesn't stop folks from trying. Owner Donald Bryant has been offered free surgery from doctors wanting to jump the queue...
...racing's Dennis Rodman has his Phil Jackson. His trainer is the serene, refined Englishman Neil Drysdale, who indulges his prize colt and assures defectors that he's just "feeling his oats" when he acts out--which doesn't exactly reassure his backers, who will nonetheless be fighting to queue up for a 9-5 price on Derby day. If he fulfills expectations, Fusaichi Pegasus will become the first morning-line favorite to win the Derby since Spectacular...