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The Type-A, High-Tech Bathroom
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "Hard-driving homeowners have converted their loos into virtual satellite workspaces, with retractable desks or waterproof touch-screen monitors, the Wall Street Journal reports. Among the features: showerproof computers and mirrors with stock quotes. But beware the accidental 'BlackBerry dunk' in the toilet or sink. 'Audio One says about all of the 30 home-automation systems it's installed near its Miami head office in the past year--prices can reach $200,000--have featured TVs in the bathroom. "It's become a given," says company engineer David Sussman. "There's not much sanctity left." '"
to the phrase core dump.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
Given that I seem to get my best ideas while brushing my teeth, having a computer to distract me would eliminate my last chance for an original thought.
If you can't even cut the umbilical to the television long enough to take a dump, you need to seriously re-examine your priorities. Next they will be putting computers and refrigerators in there and nobody will ever have to leave the throne room.
Come on ladies, how hard is it to raise the seat after you're finished using it?
it's a blue bright blue Saturday hey hey
The type which have the electronically controlled bidets? My wife is Japanese and naturally we visited (and stayed with) the in-laws in her home town...one time I hit that damn bidet button while having a crap and I swear water sprayed out my nose. They have it cranked up real high. It's really just an enema. But it works! None of that 30 minutes on the can stuff in Japan, or that feeling in your guts as you drive to work 15 minutes later that you didn't spend enough time cleaning out...those water spray jets make sure you don't need to crap again for at least the rest of that day. So you get used to it, especially once you figure out which buttons control the pressure level!
(Oh, and the female 'front shower' is the reason Japanese chicks spend so much time in the bathroom, and why they always look so satisfied afterwards...)
...to watch a television program in the bathroom while doing your business, I might recommend a bit more fibre in your diet.
In a world without walls, there is no need for Windows.
How do these people get to be company presidents?
Do they think 'where's a good place for my bag
All I can hope for is that these people will work themselves to death early on in life, and have no children.
I cringe whenever I see ads for technology to take your workplace anywhere. With _______ you can be at your desk wherever you go!
That just means you're always at work. I'm sure executives want to be able to reach employees at all times, but there's some value in being unreachable when you're not on the clock. Yes, for certain applications it's important for certain mission critical people to be always there, but I don't think most business is like that.
Read The Electronic Sweatshop by Barbara Garson. It's a very quick read and eye-opening.When the axe came to the forest, the trees said, "Look out - the handle was once one of us."
This is about embarrassment.
I agree that it's anyone's right to spend money in whatever way that makes them feel like royalty.
And it's also my right to point out that spending $200K on a bathroom is plainly ludicrous and without merit. It reminds me of other noveau riche, grandiose stupidities.
No, I'm not in academia. I just have sensitivities towards irrational excess.
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