This morning while passing through the theatre one of our technicians gave me something that basically looked like a piece of wire… It didn’t appear to be the best gift I’d ever received until he explained what it was for. “It’s so you can connect your Eyepod to your mobile phone,” he said.

I pretended that this was the best gift I had ever received, thanked him and walked off.

Why would I want to connect my Eyepod to my mobile phone? What would they possibly have to say to one another? It would be like putting a Carnival smokestack on the Staten Island Ferry…………… fun, in a “look at that” sort of way, but totally pointless.

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