Sunday, September 29, 2013

Hotels Maintain Temporary Feel

Clinging to their origins of housing bedouins, hotels stand firm in their single-day servings of everything from coffee and mini fridge offerings to the quintessential quotidian amount of shampoo, soap, and conditioner.

Checking in for a 32-day reservation, our source for this article, who wishes to remain anonymous on the basis that she is an Elite Member of most hotels and wishes to uphold her good standing with her hotels, said that she was surprised to still only find the "tiny morsels" and "disposable toiletries, and meager quantities". A long stay with such frequent checking in began to feel like she was in a mid-life crisis of being babysat again.

She asked of us, as reporters, "How can I breach the subject politely? It's their way of business and has been for generations..."

Two one-time use portions of shampoo and conditioner await you daily in hotels, even for longer stays.

Shopping Carts Aren't Automated?

Primates frequenting shopping outlets all over have been leaving their shopping carts in all sorts of locations. When asked why, John Mickelson claimed, "Well they must just have been turned off onto manual mode when I was using it, because it just sat there when I was done. I figured it would turn on later and go back to the cart dropoff. Aren't they automated?"

Mr. Mickelson is not alone. It seems lots of primates have been deducing that these shopping carts are automated from the fact that almost everything else these days is automated. Automated machines wash clothes, heat up food, dry dishes, cook your break, rice and so forth. Even vacuum cleaners are automated to not only clean your house, but return to their outlet according to low battery warnings and programmed schedules to recharge. Which leads us to the all too common question now: Why wouldn't these shopping carts be automated, too?

The world still ponders. Until they become automated, this picture below of a WalMart non-automated shopping cart will be a common sight to see.

This non-automated shopping cart is one of countless non-automated shopping carts left strewn about parking lots around the world.

Government Subsidizes Mobile Sculptures

The federal government announced it's ambition of becoming "20% mobile sculpture by 2030". State and federal government are offering huge incentives, going so far as providing 80% of the backing for these mobile sculpture farms. Farmers, families, schools, communities, non-profits and for-profits alike qualify for funding assistance.

Most of these mobile sculptures being erected appear to be constructed from three giant surfboards attached on a propelling rotor hub, each running at about 45 meters in length, which are then mounted to a tower 100 meters in height. Some farms have over 100 of these sculptures, and are gated communities. One can view them from the streets in the hills, on ridges. Sometimes there are interactive installations, where people are observed dangling from them, appearing to be doing aerial dances on ropes around the surfboards.


A mobile sculpture farm in action located in the Appalachian region of the United States.