Apparently, a couple who has been living for ten years in room 1 of the Travelodge hotel at Grantham, UK, has been forced to move out of their room as the hotel has been closed for refurbishment. I really don’t think I could live in a Travelodge for 10 years.
(Posted from the Hotel Peninsular in Girona)
Coca-Cola is going to test market Coke in aluminium containers shaped like their traditional bottles – initially at night clubs and special events. I suppose its no different to packaging it in cans, but at the moment, looking at the samples, I don’t think it looks more attractive than the existing cans or bottles.
Picture from Arborsmith Studios website (click picture to visit)Axel Erlandson an American arborsculptor opened an exhibition in 1947 featuring trees which he had shaped by pruning, bending and grafting. The original exhibition, called The Tree Circus had a chequered history, only bringing in a little over $300 in a good year (1955). Eventually 12 of the original trees were bought by Michael Bonfante for his amusement park, Bonfante Gardens, in Gilroy, California. We’ve been to California a number of times, but didn’t know about these trees, unfortunately.
Boston police have overreacted again (remember the advertising campaign for the Cartoon Network that caused chaos in Boston in January?) and arrested a student for wearing a circuit board on her sweatshirt at Boston’s Logan Airport. Whether you regard the charges as “paranoid” or think that the student showed “a total disregard to understand the context of the situation she is in, which is an airport of post-9/11”, depends on your point of view. She was apprehended by several State Troopers armed with submachine-guns – luckily she obeyed their orders to freeze:
“She was immediately told to stop, to raise her hands and not to make any movement, so we could observe all her movements to see if she was trying to trip any type of device,” a police spokesman said. “Had she not followed the protocol, we might have used deadly force.”He added, “She’s lucky to be in a cell as opposed to the morgue.”
Silly signs sent in to the BBC. See the rest by clicking on the picture above.
From the Manchester Evening News a couple of days ago:
A VIOLENT thug attacking a shopkeeper never expected to come face-to-face with a superhero.But as Gerard Smith went `berserk’ in a Manchester newsagents, passer-by Kevin Godin-Prior lifted his jumper to reveal a Spiderman costume and told him: “You don’t know who you’re dealing with.”...
The issue of whether the toilet seat should be left up or down after use seemingly generates a lot of passion among the parties concerned, however, scientific inquiries into the matter are almost non-existent. Notable exceptions are Choi (2002) and Harter (2005). Choi (2002) argues that the rule of leaving the toilet seat down after use is inefficient in the sense that there is at least one other rule that outperform this rule. The unit of analysis in Choi (2002) is the household and the efficient rule is defined as one that minimizes the total cost of toilet seat operations per household. Choi (2002) does not model the issue as a situation of conflict, hence ignores the game theoretic aspects of the problem. Harter (2005) models the situation as a cooperative game and proposes a contract that splits the costs of toilet seat operations evenly among the parties. Both papers agree that the social norm of leaving the toilet seat down is inefficient in the sense that it does not minimize the total cost of toilet seat operations per household. However, both papers fail to address an important concern: If a female finds the toilet seat in a wrong position then she will most probably yell at the male involved. This yelling inflicts a cost on the male. Based on this omission, women may argue that the analysis in these papers is suspect…
Matthias Wandel likes building Lego™ machines. So he used Lego to test this pager when he was working on a project in 1998 at RIM (Research in Motion, who you probably have heard of as the makers of the Blackberry phone/communications device) and billed the Lego bricks to the project!
nu Zealand students cn nw wrte thR exam papRz n “text-speak”.
It seems some drivers have difficulty using their brain after they have switched their sat-nav on: