{"id":854,"date":"2009-05-03T23:20:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T03:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2009-05-02T13:05:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T17:05:25","slug":"credit-card-rosary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2009\/05\/credit-card-rosary\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Card Rosary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Row Boat has already become something of a destination for people interested in<\/a> wallets<\/a>. This post is a contribution to that burgeoning tradition.<\/p>\n

\"creditcardrosary\"My friend\/hero Will, who for the months since his success in electing Barack Obama president has made it his business to travel around “visiting people,” sent me a delightful little gift that he picked up at the gift shop of the new Catholic cathedral<\/a> in Oakland, California. It’s a rosary, made out of bumps on the surface of a wallet-size plastic card. Oh, my heart leaped for joy!<\/p>\n

Regretfully, the pleasure came less from the sight of an implement of the Most Blessed and Holy Rosary than from the fact that it looks so much like a circuit board. Little silver bumps are connected by a silver thread. There’s no evidence that said silver paint would conduct electricity, or that the bumps offer any service as nodes other than to mark the decades of the prayer. But the idea, the idea is fantastic! The ideas! There are so many great ideas packed into this thing:<\/p>\n