Piss and sheds
A half-decade ago, a friend and I had a bold plan to design an design company's (loft) office using backyard sheds bought at Home Depot. Well, just one, really, for the conference room. (We had other ideas, too, like astroturfing paths between desks with minigolf holes because the floor was so warped...) Well, we were angrily turned down by the client. One of the reasons, I remember distinctly, was that these sheds always smell like piss. (News to me, and I bet that if you didn't piss on them they wouldn't smell like that.)
So now, when I see
Pixar's offices being heralded as incredibly great, you can understand my frustration. (No mention of any urine smell there.)
Ok, time to move on.
What brought this up was something I saw on Gizmodo this morning:
Yamaha's "MyStudy", whose write-up, interestingly enough, includes "that porta-potty-like privacy without the godawful smell." (!) Yamaha makes
"MyRoom" as well, which I guess is slightly larger. I wonder what you could do with these. I imagine you could make a pretty fantastic door maze (which Jackie Chan flick was that?). And what if you decided to bring one to your cubicle farm? What's the light like in there? Can you put wheels on it? Can you install a bed on one wall, then rotate it when you want bed-privacy? When you think about what market these porta-rooms really serve (in Japan, where unmarried/
otaku sons usually live with their parents), how nasty is that?
So many questions.
* Ray, 3/25/2005 10:06:19 AM
