When I saw this, my first thought was to email Alex and suggest that this awesome item be added to the NeatoShop. Unfortunately, designer Shunsuke Umiyama's brilliant idea has yet be mass produced. He writes:
Bubble Wrap is hidden on the back of the Tie!
Unpleasant boss's talk or boring meetings is a thing of the past,
you can just crush the bubble wrap.
This little function should ease your stress.
We have now reached the apex of human achievement.
http://www.microworks.jp/work/work17/work17_en.html# via OhGizmo!
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Must be nice to just stop everything and do something like this.
Looks like he had a great time though.. something he'll always remember.
1. lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale: the trite phrases in his letter.
2. characterized by hackneyed expressions, ideas, etc.: The commencement address was trite and endlessly long.
3. Archaic. rubbed or worn by use.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7dnGo_2tZA
As for what I've done this year? I started a high tech manufacturing company in the US where all of our competitors are based in China since they've been outsourced over the past twenty years. Creating local jobs, products and services is a bit more complex (and less self serving) than just walking around.
Nothing against the guy. Young people should go out and see the world before committing to a career... although there's lots of ways to "find yourself" without going through a rite of passage of this magnitude. Anyway, I've just seen this meme so many times that it doesn't impress me anymore. *Yawn*