I Do Love Talking to Modest People

[This is a follow-up post to Hooray for the Everyday.] While composing my previous post on IKEA, I was dicking around on the IKEA website and I began interacting with its automated chat bot, Anna. Here’s a conversation we held, verbatim: Me: Anna, I’m in love with you. Anna: That’s very nice. How about asking me something about IKEA? Read More  Read More

Hooray for the Everyday

A couple years ago, one of my roommates purchased a desk from IKEA for about 25 dollars. By all reasonable standards, it was a shitty desk—flimsy and starkly geometric, nothing more than cardboard lain over four legs. Over the course of the year, he developed a pyromaniacal hatred for the thing. When it came time to move out, he decided the desk wasn’t worth dismantling and cramming into the back of my sedan, or even worth donating to the curb,... Read More