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The Old London Phone Boxes
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Images
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Unpacking - Slowly - found all these old cards in one box. For those of you who would remember, there used to be - in London - Phoneboxes that all the local prostitutes would fill with their cards advertising their services. I found it novel and collected a pile, it was an infinitely renewable stash, invariably they'd be replaced the next day.
But now there are no more phoneboxes, they've all disappeared (I imagine, like Pay Phones in Canada and the US) - and the cards - I imagine - have gone with them. So - I've scanned the remaining few I have before I send them off to share with you. I have no more need of them (did I ever?) and will be sending them off as postcards. If you'd like one send me your address - quick, before they're all gone.
Same or Different?
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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Uploading 1000's of photos of the kids, "Same or different", confirming who's who in my albums, validating algorithms, this is curious, it prompts me through each of the childhoods of the children, validating the AI that's saying who's who...
Now I'm sure it's all very innocent, but it seems pretty spot on at getting the boy from ages 0-22, and the daughter 0-17, and me as well, and while it's handy to have my albums sorted it occurs to me that I maybe don't want to be assisting in the inevitable misuse this technology will entail...
Banana Pump
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: For Sale
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Been trying to sell off shit. Lots of shit. So much shit, my living room has become another locker, "Living" is the key word here, there's no living done, no room for it, I got to unload.
So I listed a pile of stuff on Kijiji - and yesterday was a good day, after a fashion. A flute I'd had listed for a month finally sold, no arguing about the price, that never happens. And an antique thing-a-ma-jig sold and a tacky old coin bank, within a few hours of listing. Calls about other stuff, the X-Ray machine, guy just wanted to talk about it for an hour, inquiries about the sewing machine, the vintage bar aid. And, lying down to nap, this text comes in:
I'd advertised it on Craigslist, a month ago, no bites, this was the first so I'd kind of forgotten. I'd listed it as a Secret Santa sort of thing, perfect for when you drew the bosses name, I mean, this is the gift that would keep on giving.
And the first nibble, I scared him away, I gotta learn to be a little more discreet. I'm going to relist it on Kijiji as a Banana Pump and see if it doesn't move there...
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