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They launched it during April...just a bit late.

Also in late April Fool's Day news, Nordstrom now has fake "muddy" blue jeans for $425.

Gee, look at that...Nordstrom is selling a fucking rock for $85.

Just in time for the holidays...

Your local jewelry store will sell you rocks for vastly more than 85$.

Vinyl is the new coffee table book that people are expected to see but not read.

And thanks to the hipster Millennial, sales statistics are something we're expected to value but not understand.

Gee, look at that...Nordstrom is selling a fucking rock for $85.

Just in time for the holidays...

• Façonnable Stripe Tie ... $89.50
• Bvlgari BLV Pour Homme Eau De Toilette Spray ... $69.00
• Movado Fiero Tonneau Steel Watch ... $2,095.00
• Cole Haan Cashmere-Blend Socks ... $35
• Jockey Next to Nothing(TM) Poco® Briefs ... $18.00
• Showing up to work wearing nothing but the above, and the socks tucked in the Jokey's ... priceless

P.S. the socks go in the front.

• Façonnable Stripe Tie ... $89.50
• Bvlgari BLV Pour Homme Eau De Toilette Spray ... $69.00
• Movado Fiero Tonneau Steel Watch ... $2,095.00
• Cole Haan Cashmere-Blend Socks ... $35
• Jockey Next to Nothing(TM) Poco® Briefs ... $18.00
• Showing up to work wearing nothing but the above, and the socks tucked in the Jokey's ... priceless

P.S. the socks go in the front.

• Façonnable Stripe Tie ... $89.50
• Bvlgari BLV Pour Homme Eau De Toilette Spray ... $69.00
• Movado Fiero Tonneau Steel Watch ... $2,095.00
• Cole Haan Cashmere-Blend Socks ... $35
• Jockey Next to Nothing(TM) Poco® Briefs ... $18.00
• Showing up to work wearing nothing but the above, and the socks tucked in the Jokey's ... priceless

P.S. the socks go in the front.

• Façonnable Stripe Tie ... $89.50
• Bvlgari BLV Pour Homme Eau De Toilette Spray ... $69.00
• Movado Fiero Tonneau Steel Watch ... $2,095.00
• Cole Haan Cashmere-Blend Socks ... $35
• Jockey Next to Nothing(TM) Poco® Briefs ... $18.00
• Showing up to work wearing nothing but the above, and the socks tucked in the Jokey's ... priceless

P.S. the socks go in the front.

• Façonnable Stripe Tie ... $89.50
• Bvlgari BLV Pour Homme Eau De Toilette Spray ... $69.00
• Movado Fiero Tonneau Steel Watch ... $2,095.00
• Cole Haan Cashmere-Blend Socks ... $35
• Jockey Next to Nothing(TM) Poco® Briefs ... $18.00
• Showing up to work wearing nothing but the above, and the socks tucked in the Jokey's ... priceless

P.S. the socks go in the front.

yes, it's true, I am a "scum sucking bottom feeder." lol. I'm currently attending as a student and also working half-time in the school's IT dept. developing the school website at a below-market but not unreasonable hourly rate. It's a nice, stable monthly check that basically takes care of my expenses other than tuition. On the side, I do more profitable misc. projects for people who need websites done or other design work. When I get in a check from those projects I just treat it like bonus money and end up spending it on hardware, clothes, car stuff, even dress shoes. A law professor at school saw my biz card on my office door and hired me to do her new edition book cover. Other professors who self-publish are interested as well. There's no substitute for word of mouth, but craigslist gigs section is a good place to start. Unfortunately almost all of those are "I was hoping to get it done for free" (i.e. clueless) people posting. Many of us in this thread are probably at the point where we can turn down projects that aren't "just right" since we're not depending on that money to subsist.

if you have a stable 9-5 and some knowledge of web dev, try hiring a couple of college students part time to do larger side projects that you find. After saving some moderate amount of money you can get into property management (borrow to buy an apartment building, then pay the loan with the rent money from tenants), or even open your own dive bar in a college town (my dream). All the skills you get in the side businesses help in your regular job too-- managing people or money, getting things done, handling problems, and so on. The great thing about running small businesses is that everything you make is yours, and you can make a lot of extra cash in the right business. The great thing about law school is it's fairly empowering. You know how to solve big problems.

I think the absolute worst tech support aside from AOL or Dell has got to be college/graduate school computer help. Often the law students are from fairly privileged families where the standard op. procedure was to call a contractor to fix every little problem at home rather than trying to get things done themselves. So you have a lot of people coming in FRANTIC and DEMANDING that you fix their computer problems right that second. I would say "sorry, drop-in tech support hours are wednesdays 3:30-5" and the typical response is "but it's an EMERGENCY!!!!" yeah. I've never heard that one before. asshole. I have nothing but contempt for the vast majority of my classmates. Yes, these people will soon be the ones you despise oh-so-justifiably. It's nice to have that quiet confidence of being able to fix things yourself, which is one attribute of a successful lawyer. So I got that going for me, which is nice.

Some people at school made the jump from IT to law school thinking they'd be "marketable" to the intellectual property law firms that run rackets in IP litigation. They're probably right, but I'm not sure if they'll be able to look in the mirror at the end of the day. Those places often require a CS/E degree. Many private law schools have a night program, so maybe you can do your IT day job and attend law school at night, though it does take 4 years....

How do they link what they're carrying to that particular person?

Probably similar to how you'd do it on a website.

The first time that person buys something with a credit or debit card, their name is matched up to every unique RFID on their person. After that, you could identify them any time they visit your store, just like using cookies to track when repeat customers come to your website.

Unlike cookies, there would be nothing to prevent a retailer from tracking the IDs of merchandise from other stores. Every time the same person goes into the store of the retailer that's tracking them with *any* of the ID'd items they've had in there before, the systems there can re-inventory them and add all of the new tags it picks up to the database.

If this hypothetical location was a grocery store or some other frequently-visited place, I could see building up a fairly accurate profile.

e.g. Ben Lincoln is 25, wears wears veggie combat boots, carries an umbrella from Nordstrom, buys a lot of soda pop - but nothing with caffeine in it, buys alcohol occassionally, other food shopping habits (etc.), probably has braces since he buys special floss at the drug store upstairs and then brings it into our store, probably is a gamer since we scanned him with Metroid Zero Mission (which he bought during the day and had in his shoulder bag from a defunct local manufacturer) awhile ago, probably is a sci-fi reader since we also scanned him with an Alastair Reynolds book at the same time, et cetera.

Once I've bought anything there, all they have to do is look for any of those IDs and can be pretty sure it's me. There would probably need to be some sort of pruning logic in case I gave my umbrella away or whatever (so that whoever ends up with it doesn't end up triggering additions to my profile if they visit the store), but it's not like the data they collect needs to be 100% accurate anyway.

I don't know if any retailer has plans for a system like this, but I could see it being pretty straightforward to design.

the military's plan to integrate them into the heels of boots

I wonder if they will resemble these.

First, it's not really supposed to be a PDA. It just provides your contact list and schedule as transfered to from your real PDA.

Second while this one isn't really my style, I take exception to your comment about fossil watches in general. I happen to like my fossil watch. It's like this one except with a carbon fiber face.