Breakfast Links: Bike Lift, Sheryl Crow & Plane Seating
Check it, in Norway they got this moving bicycle lift (via gizmodo). Like a moving sidewalk but optimized for people with bicycles, but it’ll move you without one like the enterprising person in the 8th picture. I’m tempted to make fun of this, cause why would you need a lift if you had a bicycle, know? But really, since it doesn’t seem to be pervasive, just a lift to get you over a particularly gruesome hill, it probably encourages bicycling since you can get a ride up the worst part. Word to the norwegian land.
Sheryl Crow is either pulling our legs or she’s gone waaay off the deep end. Seriously, I’m all for conservation and green and what not. But I’m pretty sure that if we all started using 1 square to wipe after number 2 society would break down. I wouldn’t want to shake hands with anyone knowing that they got 1 square of coverage, maybe even 1 square of 1 ply coverage, after the big BM. If they tried to serve me food, I wouldn’t eat it. Seriously. And then she wants a “dining sleeve” that attaches to her line of clothing so you can wipe your face on your sleeve and then replace it. WTF? What’s the hell’s wrong with a regular cloth napkin? Why the hell does it need to be grossly attached to your sleeve? Can you imagine reaching all around the table with the napkin you’ve been wiping your face and hands with while you’re at BBQ’s? And another idea for a reality show for the person with the greenest overall living style - the prize? A recording contract. Bonkers. Today the road wound a little too much for her.
And a little bit of older news, some airline consulting company (PAIG) is trying to sell their idea of reversing the middle seat on planes. So that the window and aisle seat would be facing the front and the one between would be facing the rear. Wow, this idea has to be a tie with cellphone’s on planes for worst idea ever. I can’t wait to spend the next 6 hours on a plane with someone staring at me the entire time from 3 feet away. Or trying to sleep but then feeling uncomfortable because I’m staring at someone from like 6″ away. Or not being able to talk to the person I’m travelling with or showing them anything. AWESOME. If they wanted to be able to pack more people on a plane, I got a great idea, they can actually double the seating by placing a second set of seats upside down on the ceiling, just staggered a little bit so that the regular seats and the upside down ones sort of zipper together! Done!
