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Coffee Shop Curiosity
December 11, 2008, 2:52 pm
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I was on New York magazine’s website and I came across this article. They basically went up on strangers with laptops in Starbucks and asked them for the sentence they were currently working on. I thought this was really cool.

I’m always wondering about things like that when I’m in a public place–what they’re working on, what music they’re listening to, what book they’re reading, if that’s actually a work email they’re typing on a BlackBerry, etc. The coffee-shop exercise would also be a fun one to do with music (”Hey, I don’t know you, but what song are you listening to?”)