MetaFilter posts tagged with lift

Need a lift?

cjorgensen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:05:06 -0800

Kelly G lifts people and asks them questions. Annoying, obnoxious, but everyone has to have a hobby. Has to be seen to be believed, and I'm still not sure if I "get it," but like a train wreck I can't get myself to look away. The heaviest person she's lifted is 290 pounds. She's lifted an entire fire department (one fireman at a time). She has no website, but she's on twitter: KellyG5

Got the shaft

Silky Slim — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:19:04 -0800

Right this minute, Stephen Fry is stuck in an elevator. Fortunately, he's twitting about it. Pix with comments: here and here.

Lift

Krrrlson — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:34:19 -0800

A recent post on Russian animation reminded me of the "Lift" series of short animations, created by the Pilot studio [link in Russian]. There are, count 'em, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 installments. Knowledge of Russian not required to watch.

Our father who art in elevator shafts

dersins — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:58:20 -0800

A Paternoster lift [wiki] is a cyclic elevator with "an endless chain of cabins moving at a moderate speed; some passing downward past a line of entrances and other cages moving upward past another set of openings. Passengers may embark or alight at any floor whenever they please, without delay. " (As seen on TV!) They're still in use in the the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, and the UK among other places. (Via this list of interesting elevators.)

Geo — Wed, 22 May 2002 08:22:10 -0800

With 50 fun things to do in an elevator/lift, and more(not work safe), do we really need ads and infomercials to captivate us as we go up and down?
CNN and stock quotes would give me a headache. Popeye [WSJ sub] and Tom and Jerry cartoons would be annoying. The songbirds in Japanese elevators are better than Muzak, but how about a few moments of peace and quiet, please?