<div dir="ltr">If you get time, catch todays "Fresh Air" on PBS.<div>Its entertaining.</div><div>Apparently Mel Brooks son Max writes Zombie novels and is now a regular speaker at the War College.</div><div>For a zombie writer, he is both entertaining and seems to have his feet grounded.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding elevator operators, there was a time when we needed operators to both calm the passengers and someone skilled to operate a </div><div>drum switch motor controller with starting windings and no automatic stops on floors.</div><div>Later on, they remained, I presume as a combination of union and the belief that people were still not comfortable with pushing a button and </div><div>an unseen bank of relays figured out what to do when.</div><div>Anybody remember the old days when you pushed an elevator call button and the first thing you hears was the scream of the </div><div>rotary converter in the basement coming up to speed before the main traction motor came on line?</div><div><br></div><div>Its now on a microprocessor and vfd controllers on the motors. No fun at all.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the uv sterilizing elevator button pusher, I would suggest getting a patent, because in this era of pickup trucks of TP at Costco,</div><div>I think there are people out there who would line up to buy the damn thing, or at least someone willing to pay you obscene amounts of money for the patent.</div><div>I hope you make a f-ing FORTUNE on it, but I reserve the right to snicker on the sidelines.</div><div><br></div><div>I saw the pic of the sponge holding the toothpicks for the elevator buttons.</div><div><br></div><div>I have a novel solution to the problem.</div><div>Some time back, in the ridiculous name of "physical phhhhitness" I got this hare brained scheme and decided to use this technology called stairs.</div><div><br></div><div>Remember: Klingons fart in airlocks and elevators.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the "click bait", I dared hope that someone would be able to tell me this was a hoax and asuage my fears.<br></div><div>This group is often better than Snopes.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:56 AM Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Quoting Peter Knaggs (<a href="mailto:peter.knaggs@gmail.com" target="_blank">peter.knaggs@gmail.com</a>):<br>
<br>
> There was an entertaining video from China showing how someone had placed<br>
> toothpicks in the elevator for patrons to use to press the buttons. I guess<br>
> it isn't a recommended approach, but it made me wonder whether carrying a<br>
> metal object as well as a lighter would allow pressing elevator buttons and<br>
> subsequently heating up the metal using the lighter so that the virus gets<br>
> killed. A better design might perhaps be a metal rod enclosed in a<br>
> ultra-violet emitting enclosure: once the rod has been used to press the<br>
> elevator button, it could be pulled back inside the enclosure where the VUC<br>
> would kill virus that happened to get onto it, making it suitable for reuse<br>
> without causing spread of the virus. Perhaps a silly idea, but they do have<br>
> keyboards that use a similar VUC approach to rid themselves of viruses<br>
> after each use.<br>
<br>
I don't want to rain on your parade of technological creativity, but<br>
consider the low-tech option I mentioned: Push the elevator button with<br>
the tip of a ball-point pen. Then, put the pen back in your pocket,<br>
point-end down.<br>
<br>
I don't know about you, but I don't go around licking or fondling the<br>
tips of my ball-point pens. (People who do, your kink is OK with me,<br>
not to mention people who semi-consciously nibble on their pens, but<br>
they can always store a not-for-nibbling-or-fondling pen in the _other_<br>
pocket.<br>
<br>
I don't need a fancy solution, just something that works well enough.<br>
And, no, AFAIK it's not actually necessary to flambee the pinpoint<br>
object that touched the elevator button. <br>
<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><br>R "Texx" Woodworth<br>Sysadmin, E-Postmaster, IT Molewhacker<br>"Face down, 9 edge 1st, roadkill on the information superdata highway..."<br></div>