Friday, January 13, 2012

In 1986...

...when I was in NYC living across the street from Symphony Space on 96th and Broadway, there was a seedy McDonald's on the block and a pay phone nearby outside and an African American homeless guy with dreadlocks standing outside the McDonald's next to the phone booth talking on a phone handset (a white phone handset) with the other end of the white coiled cord dangling in mid-air somewhere around his waist.  Oh yeah!  He wore a grubby, tan coat with flaps open looking disheveled as is wonting.  But, he was into some heavy stock market trading apparently because he kept shouting over and over again: "buy, buy; sell, sell!"  I always figured that guy was ahead of his times, which is why I can practically count on one hand how many times I've actually used a cell phone.


http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/12/us/new-york-symphony-philharmonic-flap/index.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-child-labor-2012-1

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