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The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for July 23rd, 2009

Standing up – okay for roller coasters, not good for airplanes

by @ 16:30. Filed under Business.

(H/T – Fausta)

The WSJ’s Real Time Economics blog has a real stinker of an idea from Ireland’s Ryanair – “vertical seating” on its fleet. Presumably, since there would be requirements for passenger restraint, the “seats” would look a lot like stand-up roller coaster “seats”, with a seat-like appendage at the bottom designed more to prevent submarining below the over-the-shoulder restraint system than actual sitting.

I can see a whole host of problems with this one:

  • Since the goal would be to increase capacity by 50-60 on Boeing 737-sized aircraft, the additional weight of both the “seats” and the passengers would be very detrimental to both the range and the luggage-carrying capacity of the aircraft.
  • Again given the increased capacity, there would not be room to store carry-on luggage under the seat. Combined with the necessity to get rid of overhead bins for height clearance, there would not be such a thing as carry-on luggage.
  • Speaking of height, the very-short (mostly children), the very-tall, the very-heavy and the very-buxom would likely be excluded from air travel.
  • The seat-like appendage will get a wee bit uncomfortable for the male population rather quickly, for obvious reasons.
  • A somewhat-similar problem would exist for the skirt-wearing population, especially if there needs to be a strap connecting the seat-like appendage to the over-the-shoulder restraint.

Their fellow countrymen (or at least some “brilliant” Madison Avenue ad agency) already conceptualized this in between hangovers…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybz0265w6R4[/youtube]

Hot Read Thursday – Emperor Misha I’s “Taking the Fisk to King Hussein”

by @ 7:22. Filed under Politics - National.

Emperor Misha I had way too much fun fisking Obama’s press conf…er, pre-packaged propaganda piece. Let’s see if I can offer up a tasty, yet safe-for-work treat for you (editor’s note; since this theme doesn’t do double-blockquotes all that well, I put the second blockquote in regular quotes):

“where we’ve watched our graduation rates lag behind too much of the world,”

So you’re going to endorse school vouchers, disband the public school system and shut down the teachers’ unions? Great!

“and where we spend much more on health care than any other nation, but aren’t any healthier for it.”

…which explains why everybody is coming to America to get care when their socialist utopias can’t provide them with it. The sick foreigners want to get sicker, that’s it.

If you manage to get here before you go to work, if you get here after you get home from work, or if your boss doesn’t care about the artful use of the F-bomb on company computers, go read the entire thing. I guarantee you, it’s That. Fucking. Good.

Open Thread Thursday – 7/23/2009

by @ 6:13. Filed under Open Thread Thursday.

Remember, some animals are always more equal than others, especially in Socialist societies…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MzB-ThDegY[/youtube]

If it’s Thursday, it’s time for me to really slack off on my blogging, and instead depend on your generosity. Have at it.

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