Sit Back and Relax
I have a message for Product Development, Product Improvement, and Idea Generation engineers/scientists everywhere. Sit down and take a load off. Someone’s beaten you to it. The best product ever has been developed and is currently in circulation, and it takes into account all of your fields and puts them to shame. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the squishy rat.
I first saw one of these whilst walking down The Corso in Manly during my recent visit. They are amazing. You can throw them against a flat surface and they spread out like a huge flat sheet of rubbery plastic. At this stage you can either peel them off said surface, or just leave them there. Either way the rat gradually regains its shape and returns to its original form - tail, ears, feet and all. Brilliant!
Whereabouts can the inventors go from here? People will stop them in the street and ask for their autographs. Then while the bewildered inventors are signing, the adoring fans will ask, “So where’s the follow-up? Can we expect an indestructible hydrogen car, or a warp drive next?”. Surely the pressure would get too much, and they’d have to go into hiding in South America, or cave in and admit that the material and idea was given to them by aliens.
What has happened to this world of ours?
October 17th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
Editorial note: Turns out that these have been around for a while, but hey, they were new to me, ok?
October 17th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
i love ups tracking… i don’t understand why ppl are not able to trust delivery services, but actually listing times when the item sent was scanned is brilliant… then sending e mails to nervy ppl waiting for their package… too far.
yawn… what was the most recent rant about? did will find something else that has been around, well outside NZ, for years? should have heard him when he described sliced bread for the first time… well, he was amazed at least. but that’s kiwi’s for ya
peace out
October 19th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
note to all readers: do NOT attempt to read the first paragraph of this blog while trying to drink tea and running on zero hours of sleep.
yes Will, I think I may have just said that you are, in fact, moderately funny…
October 22nd, 2006 at 11:57 pm
Are you really conceding that I may be funny Sach? You’d better watch it, I might get a big ego or something!
October 31st, 2006 at 7:24 pm
I mean, even *I* was going to say I’d heard of it… and I’m from Canada! We had them at the Science museumy place from when I was a kid. I dont think they were rats, but same diff…
November 1st, 2006 at 2:42 am
Don’t get your big ego inflated yet, Will. I didn’t know what I was saying at that point in time… keep in mind that I posted after staying up no less than 56 hours while pondering life and architecture and trying furiously to kick out enough drawings and bullshit to satisfy the critters. I was found ten minutes later asleep ontop of my computer with a cup of tea in my right hand.
Ah… its nice to be back. In case you were wondering, I was gone.
November 1st, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Yeah, I read your ‘pondering life’ post. So, you’re going to be a wedding planner sach?
Did all the drawings “satisfy the critters”? All-nighters suck, but almost three days? That’s just silly.
November 1st, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Hardly a wedding planner, Will. If I have to do a few weddings, so be it, but I’m thinking Oscar’s Afterparty sort of events… gallery openings, museum exhibitions, things where architecture might, in fact, matter a great deal in the entire experience of the spectacle.
As for the critters… there will always be someone who loves and someone who hates what you do. As long as you can fight for and justify your ideas, you’re fine. My group and I liked them, and will continue to pursue our ideas in the next stage of the project.
How did your exam period go?
November 1st, 2006 at 9:33 pm
I know you’re not going to be a wedding planner Sach, just winding you up!
And it is unfortunate, but we cannot yet talk about the exam period in the past tense. This week is “swot-vac” where we get a week to cram 12 weeks of material into our poor little heads. Then next week the three-week exam period starts. Damn.
P.S. I expect invites to the Oscar’s Afterparties!
November 2nd, 2006 at 12:46 am
Of course you’re invited to the oscar’s afterparties! As long as you dress up pretty and smile for the cameras…
Swot-vac… is that an engineering term?
November 2nd, 2006 at 6:06 pm
Yay, those parties would be great, and I’m always one to love dressing up!
Don’t know about the genisis of swot-vac, but it is a commonly-used term around universities in Australia at least…
November 2nd, 2006 at 7:47 pm
Sort of like frosh in Canada.
As for the dress up parties, the only reason I want to plan them is so that I can go and get dressed up. Really, that’s the only impetus. What girl doesn’t love silk and sparkles?