Where am I going next?  I am going here:

I can’t figure out why they don’t at least design one non-blinking non-rainbow-colored button for people to use.  I know there’s no way I’m using that on our company site!

I got to observe something today that made me chuckle.  In the Basel train station, most platforms empty up onto an overpass via stairs and sometimes escalators.  When a train arrives, the stairs and escalators are chronically jammed and people move slowly.  On my way home today it was no different, except that two young girls had the bright idea to use the down escalator.  Obviously, they walked more, but managed to overtake most of us because the escalator was in energy saving mode: it moves slowly until somebody boards at the top.  After the girls, an African followed suit and obviously understood the mechanism: he hurried up and got to the top just as the girls did.  The next guy, a suit and tie and cell phone edition, was too important to run.  You could see it coming: the girls got to the top, the escalator accelerated, and Mr. Imeladdanmafone was suddenly moving down instead of up.  Next to him, the smiling crowd continued to poke its way up the regular way.  I didn’t see whether he got off at the top or the bottom – I thought it’d be poor form to just stand at the top of the stairs and stare.