http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5753 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5753/comment-page-1#comment-11832 kevin. Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:48:24 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=5753#comment-11832 When I read that story a while back I did it in two passes - first to read about the guy stuck in the elevator, which sounded awful but wasn't particularly interesting, and a second time to read the essay on elevators. The man stuck in the elevator bit should have been a sidebar to the elevator essay (or vice versa); instead it was like the reality TV show that inserts random "informative" filler to turn a 10 minute story into the 44 minutes needed for a 1-hour show. When I read that story a while back I did it in two passes — first to read about the guy stuck in the elevator, which sounded awful but wasn’t particularly interesting, and a second time to read the essay on elevators. The man stuck in the elevator bit should have been a sidebar to the elevator essay (or vice versa); instead it was like the reality TV show that inserts random “informative” filler to turn a 10 minute story into the 44 minutes needed for a 1-hour show.

]]> http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5753/comment-page-1#comment-11767 robertogreco Sat, 26 Jun 2010 06:10:29 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=5753#comment-11767 That quote about how people arrange themselves in an elevator reminds me of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzO1mCAVyMw" rel="nofollow">this machinima video on male restroom etiquette</a>, specifically the part starting at 1:55. That quote about how people arrange themselves in an elevator reminds me of this machinima video on male restroom etiquette, specifically the part starting at 1:55.

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