Instead Steep Your Kids In Tea Leaves

Yesterday while driving to work I listened to a report on a technology going on in a Japan school. Although many people believe Japan to be safe, the radio told me, they are no longer correct. Many students take trains to schools; parents are worried. Kids are being kidnapped; unruly kids are stabbing others in the school. In response to such deviance, a system has been installed in some schools. In one particular school, all the kids are dressed in white shirts and white shorts, wearing red knapsacks, inside of which is a little chip. This chip is much like what can be placed in, for example, store merchandise so as to track items, though certainly not to thrust invasive surveillance on free citizens. (Again, I think I may have been a sort of prophet on the toilet back when I was wee and thought I was being watched while I peed.) Each time a student enters or exits the school’s gates an e-mail is sent to the cell phone of one of the parents, letting him or her know.

What a world to live in: my child is on keel with store merchandise and I receive an e-mail—on my cell phone—to let me know when it is entering and leaving school. Where is the outhouse?


Sipping on Think O2 tea (in order to be keener), I listen to various musics while my stomach growls:

Momus—20 Vodka Jellies (thanks from yesteryore to one Exigent)

Sugarcubes—Life’s Too Good (the Icelandic tracks and the remixes move my shoulders around)

The Arcade Fire—Funeral (thanks to Kyle Wills (sure I’ll plug the Teenage Prayers and that schnazzy photo again))