In spite of his recent troubles and past transgressions, I enjoyed the humor of Bill Cosby for decades. The title comes from one of his routines on child birth where the mother is tired from nine months of pregnancy and the husband is getting into coaching the mother during birth.
When I started traveling globally for business, I encountered hotel rooms in central London that were smaller than the bathroom I used as a child. They managed to pack into that small space a bed, a light, and little else. No place to put my luggage, and a shared bathroom down the hall. Tokyo hotels did them one better. At one point they were offering the equivalent of a roll out casket from a wall as a place to sleep. With the cost of land and everything else in Tokyo, it's not surprising they would give such an idea a try.
When I was at the IAA show in Hannover in September, and again last week at the Work Truck Show in Indianapolis, I was impressed with the innovations for storing equipment and parts in and on these vans. Aluminum, slides, plastic, quick connects, and more were used to make it easy to find what you need, have a place to work, and do it safely. And the use of wraps on the outside seemed to give me that X-ray vision I wanted as a kid.
Far too often, people see that I like technology and ask if that is IT. They don't seem to understand that technology is everywhere, in everything. ITs (not IT) purpose is to make life better, make business more profitable. So, whether it is the latest in GPS tracking, RF remote controls, clean combustion, materials, batteries, or anything, let's get it out, push it out, waaaay out!
