{"id":74,"date":"2007-08-09T20:20:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T19:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2007-08-09T20:20:39","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T19:20:39","slug":"stinkin-blinkin-blinkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2007\/stinkin-blinkin-blinkies","title":{"rendered":"Stinkin Blinkin Blinkies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where am I going next?\u00c2\u00a0 I am going here:<\/p>\n

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I can’t figure out why they don’t at least design one non-blinking non-rainbow-colored button for people to use.\u00c2\u00a0 I know there’s no way I’m using that on our company site!<\/p>\n

I got to observe something today that made me chuckle.\u00c2\u00a0 In the Basel train station, most platforms empty up onto an overpass via stairs and sometimes escalators.\u00c2\u00a0 When a train arrives, the stairs and escalators are chronically jammed and people move slowly.\u00c2\u00a0 On my way home today it was no different, except that two young girls had the bright idea to use the down escalator.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 The next guy, a suit and tie and cell phone edition, was too important to run.\u00c2\u00a0 You could see it coming: the girls got to the top, the escalator accelerated, and Mr. Imeladdanmafone was suddenly moving down instead of up.\u00c2\u00a0 Next to him, the smiling crowd continued to poke its way up the regular way.\u00c2\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where am I going next?\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 I know there’s no way I’m using that on our company site! I got to observe something today that made me chuckle.\u00c2\u00a0 In the Basel train station, most platforms empty up onto an overpass via stairs and sometimes escalators.\u00c2\u00a0 When a train arrives, the stairs and escalators are chronically jammed and people move slowly.\u00c2\u00a0 On my way home today it was no different, except that two young girls had the bright idea to use the down escalator.\u00c2\u00a0 Obviously, they walked more, but managed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}