Have I mentioned the blimp? The blimp Brian has? It's an indoor toy. It's a large helium-filled balloon, neutrally buoyant, with propellers mounted on it. Two for horizontal mobility and directional control. One for vertical. They are all reversible, and all controlled by remote control. For flying technique, you fire the fans in bursts. Once you get it going the direction you want, it just continues on its own momentum for awhile. Come to think of it, even if it's not going the direction you want, it does the same thing.
I was working at a client with Ken and Stephanie. I was describing the blimp therapy program I was considering putting into place in our office: we have a blimp like Brian's gassed up and ready to go. Anytime someone is feeling particularly stressed, they can grab the blimp controls and fly it around the office for awhile. Then they'll go back to work, feeling much better.
Stephanie raised the conversation to an entirely different level when she suggested we could fly the blimp through the offices with inspirational messages attached to it. You know, the poster with the cat holding on with just his fingernails with the caption "hang in there baby". That sort of thing.
My suggestion of "work harder. work faster" was immediately rejected.
Maybe we should just attach a web camera to it so I could fly it through the offices and watch everyone work right from my own desk. That wouldn't be too offensive would it?
