OK. I think about you folks constantly when I am commuting so let me capture my thoughts of yesterday.
Poppies
This is the 2nd year in a row I have tried to record, mentally, Poppy observance by race. Now that I am streaming through Union Station I can try to make an objective measure of whatever that sample represents. For example, I will say to myself... "after that pillar I will note the race of the first ten poppy wearers I see, then I will do a count of the race of the next ten people in general".
Doing that, I found that Asian looking people wear poppies at pretty much the same rate as whites. Overall, there are fewer poppies I think but that's just an observation.
Bendy Train
The new trains on line 1 allow you to walk from car to car. That gives the weird effect that you can see to the end of the train when it's on straight track but only to the end of the car on a curve. Since I end my ride at Union Station, it means I get on the train at the lead car and then just before I get off I have to walk to the end of the train. The weird part is unless I count cars I won't know how far to the end, because I only see a curvy tunnel thing in front of me.
Talk to me Buttons
I have an idea that you could start a project to have people wear lapel buttons to identify them as somebody you can chat with on your ride. If I put on my management hat, I have some ideas on how to make the system work with a few safeguards around identification and so on. The easy way would be to make up a button design with instructions on how to print it out, then publicize it virally.
What do you think of this idea ?