June 8, 2018
In China, painted lanes on the sidewalk for pedestrians who stare at their cell phones.
The lanes are painted with messages like "Path for the special use of the heads-down tribe" and “Please don’t look down for the rest of your life," the NYT reports.
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...helpfully guiding them into traffic.
Have to keep up with the daily messaging from the Red Scum of Xi and the Politburo on their little red phones.
A new adspace is born.
Roads near the "Tower of London" and other touristy London places used to have the following words painted near the cross-walk:
Look Left.
Because 'muricans were always getting killed by looking right, then crossing the street. I wonder if they've painted those over.
Sigh. The NYT's "head-down tribe" is so 2015.
I installed several tall steel poles in the middle of the sidewalk in front of my house for the same reason. Couldn't afford to also get signs to attach to them but they haven't seemed necessary.
In London they now paint "OI!" at crosswalks.
America’s new supercomputer beats China’s fastest machine to take title of world’s most powerful
U! S! D! O! E! O! R! N! L! T!
Fun Factoids for tennis players and people who weigh large commercial aircraft:
"The machine’s 4,608 [=4096+512 Ed.] servers and associated gear fill the space of two tennis courts and weigh more than a large commercial aircraft."
Tribal diversity. Social stigma.
Heads-down privilege.
China's fastest is 60% slower, so they just use three of them and win anyway. Their models only cost $9.99 each, so alhought they break every hour, you can throw them out and buy new ones all day long.
It must sound wittier in Chinese. Often get a laugh at some of the vendor names selling knock-off tech accessories on Amazon.
Do they have special lanes for drivers who always squint?
>Because 'muricans were always getting killed by looking right, then crossing the street. I wonder if they've painted those over.
Nope. Still there, all over London.
Who painted the lanes?
Churchill was nearly killed in NYC looking the wrong way; having spent a lot of work time in the UK, I have a swivel neck when crossing the street at home.
Blogger The Cracker Emcee Rampant said...It must sound wittier in Chinese. Often get a laugh at some of the vendor names..
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Like Banggood.com
I enjoyed strolling around Hong Kong and seeing the various business names in Cantonese and English.
A lot of "Lucky" this and lucky that.
In Shanghai, whoever looks down at those warning will get run over by 10 scooters.
Should you want, an episode of q re Bourdain:
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/456707185/q-the-podcast
Note the production partner who, unprovoked, launched into discussion of drug addiction bits.
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