Seafood Mail Order Japan

Fancy some mail-order Oysters or Kobe beef?

This is getting interesting. Tracing back to the trend of authenticity, "Good-for-me" and keeping it real, a seafood mail order company in Japan is selling fresh seafood by mail.

A mail-order staff will follow a fisherman out on his catch, negotiate the price with him after he's got the catch, all the time documenting the whole process. And the catch of the day is auctioned off online instantly. Nothing gets fresher and more authentic than this.

People are beginning to value natural produce and freshness, doing away with processed food that is the bane of the food and health industry now. People will also appreciate fishermen, farmers as a profession and they are compensated for their hardwork.

Soon the profession would be viewed as cool, with a slew of workers who have worked in institutions getting bogged down by the tedium of the rat race, they abandon conventional notions of a job to pursue a carefree life, to farm, fish, and get in touch with nature.

It could break monopolies with all the corporate scandals, people are viewing these conglomerates with distrust, rather, they would buy from their familiar grocer, willing to pay the premium for the trust and familiarity rather than to the conglomerates for their hierarchies.

Farm to Market
http://www.farm-2-market.com

Kobe Beef by Mail
http://www.allenbrothers.com/

pet peeves: oddball taxis

1. What is it with taxi-drivers and directions. "Ms, which way you want to go?" What's with this SOP? I wouldn't be taking the cab if I knew.

2. Taxi-drivers who remain silent from when you step in till when you reach your destination... "uncle, ion orchard." ........................................... no acknowledging that he's heard, just ...............................................

Corporate conspiracy

"Don't discuss Sony like its a great big benevolent character who lives next door to Astro Boy. Like any other company, Sony is comprised of individuals who are fearful for their jobs on a daily basis, and who make lame decisions based pretty much on fear and conforming to social norms -- but then, that's every corporation on earth, so don't single out one single corporation as lovable and cute."

jPod
Douglas Coupland

True. But i think Sony's got an edge, better than corporate America full of talk and lies.

Quotes that stick

How we might end up coping with information overload. Brain-drain. He captures the despondency of the Internet generation very well.

"I've noticed that, as we ramp up on our game-building skills and generalised knowledge about Ronald, we're googling every 10 minutes. The problem is, after a week of intense googling, we've started to burn out knowing the answer to everything. God must feel that way all the time. I think people in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of being clueless."

jPod
Douglas Coupland

We're in an information age

I was thinking.. what are we gonna do with all this information? Are we going to complicate our lives? All you need to know is instant immediate. At the rate that data is flying about it seems like we are digging into a bottomless pit of information cycle that is difficult to extract. What's important is in simpletising.

So the magic lies in the philosopher's stone. Like in alchemy. To boil it all down till only gold is left. How to make it so simple that only gold is left?