It's rather quiet on the Met line this evening, so guess summer holidays are in full tilt. Still didn't manage to get a seat, so will do the analytics as to where best to position myself. This usually is a combination of looking at the commuters faces and working out if they are regulars, have a posh newspaper and hence likely to go all the way to Chesham, have big luggage, more likely to get off at Kings Cross or Euston or their Indian and I'm guaranteed a seat at Wembley Park.
Perhaps that's the new app to develop where I show you the face and you tell me where on the met line they got off! What could possibly go wrong apart from perhaps their human rights. Maybe I'll start by just showing their shoes... If they have chumpuls (flip flops) on, then 97.6% chance of Wembley Park...
There is a nice mix of books and phones today.
The Indian chap with the book closest to me is reading one of those 'how to make friends and influence people' books. He's on page 111, and on the topic of 'how to make people like you instantly' bit. I wonder if I should ask him if I can have his seat, rather than waiting till Wembley, then give him a big smile...
Hold on what's this...
Nice bit of multitasking going on their my friend. He's making notes as he's going along and just typed in 'Smile more' into his Samsung. Nice...
Advert of the week:
Everyone remembers their first time. Thanks first direct. I sure do, I was 38 years old...
App of the week: So, picture the scene. You are busy at work in the City, working on something super urgent so can't leave your desk like you normally do to have a wonder around the Argos store in Chancery Lane (substitute this with Holland and Barrett if you live past Eastcote).
Back to the plot, so in this million miles an hour lifestyle we lead, time is money and everything has to come to us quicker and quicker. Step in Prime Now. It's like Amazon Prime...but now. So rather than waiting next day, Now means within an hour! Holey Moley!!
I decided to test this out and stared to puruse (browse) what was on offer. It's broken into different categories like gadgets, food and drink, everyday essentials. That kind of thing.
Being the cheap guy I am, I didn't want to order something too expensive like a gold plated apple watch so decided to go for something more reasonable as the costs had to come out of the royalties from my blog. I checked the current balance and decided to go for this:
Is that a bargain or what! Never going to order it from a restaurant again, just book it an hour before you next go to Bella Italia and save enough money to pay that tip!
The drink arrived in 40mins to the office and for that reason (can you tell I watched dragons den this morning), I'm going to give this app 9.25 marks out of 10. Can't wait for Prime Air!!
Joke of the week: Spent most of this weekend watching the chess world finals. Those slow motion moves took ages...
Right, off to order another bottle of water, so let's leave it there! Wishing you a lovely sleep,
A small man called Min
