Cool Elevators

When visiting my company’s back-office processing facility in a town near here called Duisburg, I was completely blown away by the elevators in the building.

There were 6 or 7 elevators (numbered) in total.  None of them had the usual ‘floor numbers’ inside though.  Each floor has a touch-screen console with the floor numbers on it.  If you wanted to go to the 5th floor, you’d touch ‘5′ on the console and the console would tell you which elevator to take.  Behind the scenes, the computer figures out everyone’s requests from all floors and then decides which elevators take people to their desired floors quickest!

How cool is that?!?

India Uncut

I read a blog the other day that I particularly empathized with. Amit Varma, the author, talks about this guy, whose only purpose in life is to sue people who he deems to have degraded the Indian flag. Apparently, he sued Sachin Tendulkar for cutting a cake that had the colors of the flag, sued Sania Mirza for wearning something that had the flag on it and goodness knows what else. Where do these good-for-nothing people come from?!

Sheesh. Anyway, Amit does a far better job than I can explaining how ludicrous this all is and how our constitution does a less than stellar job in protecting freedom of speech and expression in our country.  Check it out at India Uncut.