Tuesday, November 28, 2006

A New And Fantastic Waste Of Taxpayer Funds

I cannot believe this one.
So in the Atlanta airport, there are bathrooms. And in these bathrooms are sinks. But not just any sinks.

Yeah, they sing. But not just any song... it's damn 'Row Row Row Your Boat.' You wave your hands under the faucet, and in ten minutes when the stupid motion detector wakes up and realizes you're moving, water comes out and the sink starts singing to you.
And badly. Some of the sinks are male, some are female, and some are kids, but they all suck. Maybe my extensive one-show experience in musical theater has biased me, but if a piece of hardware is going to sing to me, I'd like it to sound like Lara Fabian. The sign touts the work involved in ensuring the voices sound like they're inside the plumbing, but I think maybe they should have taken a moment to realize that if the singing is crap, it's going to sound crap wherever it's coming from. And really, a round of this particular song is bad enough, but when it's out of sequence because it's coming from different sinks... oh. People actually recoil from these things.
Too much time + too much of other people's money = stuff like this.

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