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Detroit in a (absorbent cotton) Nutshell

September 25, 2006 · 2 Comments

I’ve been working in Detroit for a month now and I’ve been trying to think of what to blog about it — how I would describe it to other people. This post might sum it up for me.

First a little background:

I work in the middle of downtown. For a downtown area, Detroit seems unusually, if not eerily empty during the middle of the day. But in front of my building, there are usually a fair amount of people hanging around and you get to see some nice “city action” every once in a while. Today took the cake, though.

In front of my building, there was a homeless guy hawking friggin’ maxi pads for a dollar. He had a bag of Kotex, enthusiastically yelling, “Maxi pads! One dollar!”

That’s all you need to know about Detroit.

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2 responses so far ↓

  • Christn // October 12, 2006 at 3:09 am

    I am just impressed to see the entrepreneurial spirit alive and well on the streets Detroit. Good for that guy.

  • markofando // October 3, 2007 at 7:07 am

    Want to start your private office arms race right now?

    I just got my own USB rocket launcher :-) Awsome thing.

    Plug into your computer and you got a remote controlled office missile launcher with 360 degrees horizontal and 45 degree vertival rotation with a range of more than 6 meters – which gives you a coverage of 113 square meters round your workplace.
    You can get the gadget here: http://tinyurl.com/2qul3c

    Check out the video they have on the page.

    Cheers

    Marko Fando

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