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11AM None of Your Trendy Rat Milk for Me
Designer: I just don't trust anything that doesn't come out of a cow!
Newspaper
Melbourne
Australia
5PM I Don't Have to Imagine. Wait, Did I Say That out Loud?
Editor #1 watching CNN: Can you imagine how hot JonBenet would be by now?
Editor #2: What?
333 N Meridian Avenue
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
10AM Brainstorming Session
Creative director on phone: Maybe the guy goes up and kicks the bear in the balls...I don't know.
111 E. Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Hear No Evil
4PM Summer Ad Campaign
Employee: Well, did we decide against boobs?
163 Freelon Street
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Eve S. Dropper
1PM Design Meeting
Designer to photo researcher: Try to find a nice child abuse shot.
10801 N. MoPac Expressway
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: always listening
3PM In the Graphics Pool
Coworker: If you're gonna do it, do it hard so I can't breathe.
113 East Carroll Street
Salisbury, Maryland
10AM Coffee and Sudoku Break
Writer: All I really want in this life is to be able to solve a sudoku, just once. Without giving up halfway through.
Designer: Way to aim low.
Writer: Well...can I be honest? What I really want is to be better than you at sudoku.
Designer: That may be aiming too high. Let's be realistic, at least.
16430 N Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, Arizona
Overheard by: Miel Durand
2PM Tech Support
Boss: [Bryan], can you help me? I can't seem to find my HTML. It's just not there anymore.
15 Altarinda Road
Orinda, California
10AM Client Meeting (Off-site)
Producer: Alan Greenspan is leaving the Fed and so our business anchor is crying.
1 Time Warner Center
New York, NY
Overheard by: The McCrum
12AM Presenting: The Nerdiest Coversation Ever Held
Engineer #1: A charred, dark husk of evil smoldering into infinity would be cool.
Engineer #2: I'd prefer the Dyson Sphere. Though I personally find Niven ringworlds much more aesthetically pleasing.
Engineer #1: But a husk!
Engineer #2: A Dyson sphere could be kind of a husk.
Engineer #1: Come on! Spooky husk!
Engineer #2: No! No spooky husk!
Engineer #1: Aww.
Engineer #2: ...We can make the Dyson Sphere kind of spooky if you insist.
401 Elliott Avenue W
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: Bjorn Townsend
