Alarming

Feb 02, 2009 10:42

I need an alarm clock, since my phone's alarm clock function is not reliable. By which I mean it works sometimes, and not other times, with no discernible rhyme or reason as to why ( Read more... )

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illdrinn February 3 2009, 00:38:11 UTC
I always buy cheap chinese import alarm clocks in the shape of cartoon cahracters from the local markets, but I'm not sure if the same sort of thing is available where you are.

This man has made a video that is exactly the same as my current one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mY8dYcOCgU

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illdrinn February 3 2009, 00:38:37 UTC
Oh and yes, his tummy lights up when you press it, but no other time

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parrhesia February 3 2009, 01:12:20 UTC
Nice! Astro boy always reminds me of a trip to Japan I took with Odn where we ate at the Mighty Atom rotating sushi restaurant. Which was pleasingly working class and non-froofy, just tons of cheap, pretty good quality sushi that kept circling the chef like the rings of Saturn.

I was thinking to myself as I posted about this, "I need a source of cheap Chinese kitsch." I'm afraid I don't know of one in Miami, but it's got to be out there.

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illdrinn February 3 2009, 01:53:21 UTC
Try the local flea markets, yours a more likely to be flooded with hispanics than asians but I bet your bottom dollar there's an elderly chinese man with a table full of toys soemwhere.

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