Category: Signs of the Times

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Quantum Shipping

Delivering light at the speed of packages! Er, packages at the speed of light!

The only problem is, their tracking system is pretty limited. It can tell you where your package is, or what direction it’s moving, but not both.

Once I even logged in and it had two status notices, one telling me my package had been delivered and one telling me it hadn’t!

I would have called about that, but they would have just directed me to Heisenberg in customer service, and he’s never certain about anything.

(Okay, it’s really the loading dock at an old Quantum warehouse, but what’s the fun in that?)

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Seriously, doesn’t this chair look like it was made of the material they were trying to find a use for in the first episode of Better Off Ted…and turned into a chair so irritating that it increased worker productivity because people couldn’t get comfortable? (You can see it in the middle of this 10-minute preview.)

office-chair

It was the chair in our hotel room (the converted bank office with the impressive lobby). Fortunately it wasn’t nearly as scratchy as Viridian Dynamics’ “Focus Master.” (Incidentally: more Better off Ted episodes are starting up in a couple of weeks for the summer!)

Some graffiti on plywood in the Gaslamp District area:

And then there was this “You Are Under Surveillance” sign. Something about the combination of the sign, the stairway, and all the posters on the walls just looked interesting.

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Okay, I remember the days of Heidi’s Frōgen Yōzurt (the company that, as far as I could tell, touched off the frozen yogurt craze in the 1980s and then was forced out of its own market by competition), and I’ve studied German, so I know that this name is supposed to be pronounced roughly the same as yogurt…

Jöghurt

But seriously, I can’t help but read it as “Jog Hurt.” (Sounds like someone needs more exercise…)