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Yesterday, my company flew me out to Las Vegas to attend the Consumer Electronics Show (better known as CES.) I was only going out for the day, flying out in the morning and flying back that night, so I found myself wandering around Los Angeles International Airport around 6am. With nothing else to do, I walked into JetWay books and kind of thumbed through the paperbacks that were neatly stacked right at the entrance. My eyes drifted over to the magazine rack where Cheri and Club magazines promised me the nastiest hardcore action on Earth from beneath their plastic wrappings (really? The nastiest hardcore action on Earth was found at LAX? I didn't believe that for a second.) I strolled over to the next bin of paperbacks and started poking though them when I came across that book The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People. I thought about my situation; here I was, wearing a dark suit, hanging around the airport, about to fly to Vegas to go to CES on my company's dime. I suppose, to all outside appearances, I might look like an 'effective' (or as I read it, successful) person (although, certainly not a 'highly effective' person.) But I knew that if you looked in the leather briefcase I was carrying, all you would find is the sports page from the Daily News and a banana I planned on eating on the plane.
I could certainly use some advice in becoming highly effective so I opened the book, hoping for some quick, free advice.
I was greeted with graphs and charts and diagrams and page after page of complicated equations and lists and my head began to ache within moments.
I closed the book and reassessed my situation; I already knew I wasn't a highly effective person, but since I couldn't even skim this book, it turns out I wasn't even a merely effective person.
Which, really, I already knew.
So I flew to Vegas. And I ate my banana on the plane while everyone around me typed on their blackberries and talked to nobody on their Bluetooth headsets and I looked forward to seeing what the world of consumer electronics had to offer a schmuck like me.
posted by la.barabbas at 3:41 PM
7 Comments:
Ooooo!!!! You went to the big TOY SHOW!!! Anything cool there?
I like how you left out the part where your boss (a 40 something Japanese woman) started to walk into the AVN convention instead. For those that don't know, Adult Video News - PORN - schedules their annual convention to coincide with the electronics convention. It seems a good number of the geerheads that frequent the electronics show are also big porn fans. So, tell the story of boss lady almost going in the wrong door. He he he.
Totally off topic - the secret word I have to type to post this comment is "pudqy" which sounds, well, think "chubby." Kind of appropriate for this post I think.
But are you sure it was the wrong door? Twice in my young life Older women tried to ply me with porn. I'm just suggesting the possibility that there may have been ulterior motives involved. They were "conventioneers" after all... And I'm certainly not suggesting any impropriety on LA-B's part. He seems beyond reproach, which, along with his clever wit & schoolish handsomeness, may have been the spanish fly in the asian ointment. I do look forward to his rendition of the incident, should so he choose to blog.
Didn't they put the CES and AVN show together for a reason? I mean, tech innovations are bringing the nastiest porn on earth to the widest planetary population?
And which convention has been around longest?
What are the seven habits of highly effective porn stars?
Joe Powell wrote:
What are the seven habits of highly effective porn stars?
Do I really have to go over the rules again, Joe? Yeeash!
The porn industry has actually been responsible for the fast-paced nature of a lot of technology. A driving force behind things like the video-cassete and VCR and streaming video on the Internet. They want to get their "product" out there, and aren't afraid to take chances on the most cutting edge technologies to do so.
True, the adult industry is always at the forefront of technological innovation (they've been shooting in HD for forever now...) But I can tell you that the people I saw at AVN weren't there to discuss the Blu-Ray format. No sir...
So... did you GO to the other convention? I mean, just to check it out for a bit?
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