Yippee! You can be your own Travis McGee! Action! Adventure! Deep Thoughts! Carefully-constructed drinks! Chicks and broads and heroines and victims! Seriously - look it up.
"manufacturers working to create a uniform product:" Wow! Utopia! Where is the willpower to do that today? Phone, Tablet, Pad, Toy, Power tool makers: Here's the challenge! The famed Global Village is a junkyard of nonstandard anything.
Interesting... One of the rare times that my 13-y.o female, Pepsi, ever responded to my computer. When the little white cat said "feed me!' or whatever, Pepsi perked right up and started searching the room, ending at her food bowl.
My company insisted on a new password every month, and the software remembered the last ten used. So, I settled on the Month name and Number in a fixed format. Thus, 'October-10' worked just fine. Right number of capitals, numerals, special characters, all that. The secret was in the format, not the content. Worked fine for ten years.
Sponsored, no doubt, by the Russian Ammunition Manufacturer Society! Seriously, with an adaptation to Air-Soft or something less noisy, this could catch on as an arcade game.
Love to see a follow-up article in, say, twelve months. Maybe even a series, with yearly updates. And, of course, an analysis of how well the contract worked out.
But Be Careful! It's possible to have towels that are Too Good! My wife and I spent big bux on classy Hollywood-design beach towels, took them to the big waterpark in the north end of Toronto, and laid them out for all to see, then went off and got wet. Half an hour later, no towels. Just too tempting, even in Canada. So now we use ratty, faded, old second-hand towels, and no-one steals them.
I know it looks like a put-on, but I find that this guy has a simple earnestness that is appealing. And he's singing all my favorite western songs....I'm sorry they're all sold out - I'd buy one in a minit!
The famed Global Village is a junkyard of nonstandard anything.