Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Mon, Jan 14 2008
How not to make friends at trade shows
A strange little war seems to have erupted over the use of a remote control that was apparently used to turn off video screens at CES 2008. Impulse control is probably one of the virtues we each attain only after years of careful parenting or our own painful self-analysis. And it would have been better if the offending folks from Gizmodo had developed that particular character trait more fully before they went into the candy store that was CES. For those who paid to display at the show and for those who paid to see the displays and interact with the exhibitors, the prank amounts to a really bad example of how to practice the Golden Rule. But it's interesting to watch people take sides now. Some folks even blame the folks who set up the screens at the show in the first place and that reminds me of people who talk about women who ask to be raped because of the way they dress.
The best pranks and practical jokes are those when, in the end, everyone gets to enjoy the laugh. Sad to say, we're probably not going to see that with this particular caper.
posted at: 10:24 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
A strange little war seems to have erupted over the use of a remote control that was apparently used to turn off video screens at CES 2008. Impulse control is probably one of the virtues we each attain only after years of careful parenting or our own painful self-analysis. And it would have been better if the offending folks from Gizmodo had developed that particular character trait more fully before they went into the candy store that was CES. For those who paid to display at the show and for those who paid to see the displays and interact with the exhibitors, the prank amounts to a really bad example of how to practice the Golden Rule. But it's interesting to watch people take sides now. Some folks even blame the folks who set up the screens at the show in the first place and that reminds me of people who talk about women who ask to be raped because of the way they dress.
The best pranks and practical jokes are those when, in the end, everyone gets to enjoy the laugh. Sad to say, we're probably not going to see that with this particular caper.
posted at: 10:24 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
