What's Your Thing

Archive for July, 2007

I love mine… (by: Anonymous)

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

…but I ought to ride it cross-country at least once to get the per mile cost down. I’d like to win one so my wife can go with me. Where did you get a 3083 mile-long extension cord?

Flying (by: Kyle - lisle, IL)

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

All I do is fly models and I wish you guys were slowly going through my town, I fly my plane along with you =D

Freedom (by: Luca)

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

During all my entire life, I’ve always searched for freedom, because I think it is freedom which fulfills your life and makes you feel great.

And this is exactly the feeling I experimented when I saw Segway for the first time: a complete sense of freedom.

What’s my thing?
Well, I’ve my own computer science enterprise in Italy, near Milan. I really feel satisfied when I think to my job and work on my stuff.

I was astonished to read that there’s no distributor of Segway in Milan: the Italian economic engine does not have its segway around!

I really hope segway has a great future in Italy: it is really worth.

First Time Rider (by: Mark Lester - Quezon City, NO_AP)

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Over the weekend my family and I went to a Mall while waiting for the Sesame Street when i saw a lovely shampoo promo girl moving smoothly from one end to another. Like an angel floating in air. My mind quickly told my body to stand up and i said to my wife and child “Is that a Seaway?!”. I ran towards the center my eyes light up and my tongue fell to the ground. Not because of the lovely promo girl, its because of the two Segway wheels that are balancing itself. Its like music that everything is smoothly in motion. I slowly walked beside the lovely promo girl and suddenly she talked to me. my mind is asking “Am I dead? An angel is taking to me”. She said that I can try the Segway if I’ll have a hair consultation. So I went to the registration booth and had my hair consultation. My hair was dry but my scalp is oily. I wasn’t paying too much attention to the consultation, what i was eager is to have a test ride of the Segway. When my consultation was finished, i was waiting for a coupon or an advise saying i can already ride the segway. I waited to 1 minute then I asked the lady in the consulation table “How can I ride the Segway”? She said I have to buy a Shampoo. With no hesitation, I bought a small shampoo and she cut a small paper and wrote “free ride”. Once she handed the paper, i briskly walk to the area where the Segway is being demo. I also asked the operator if my 4-year old son Marco can join me. They were generous enough to allow me and my son to rode on separate Segways. I was worried that my son might fall off but he handled it smoothly. We were like cat and mouse chasing each other on the tiled mall area. It was easy for me and Marco to smoothly move around. The Segway was quiet and smoothly moved and turned. I felt ecstatic when we got off. It’s not only that i saw a Segway up close but i was able to ride one. The experience is forever remembered! I still feel the movement of my body moving around until i go home. Where did i put the shampoo i bought? Hehehe!

100 days on a Segway? Why do they need to resign, does their company gave them long term leaves? I really like the concept of moving around meeting people. The Segway is a different way to experience other places. I want to see and know their experiences. maybe they can also go to other countries like the philippines and see the exciting places. I just have one question, how do they charge their segway?

Bloom Where You’re Planted (by: Carin)

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

My “thing” is to try to bloom where I’m planted.
Making the most of each day, taking nothing for granted…
Experiencing nature, being all I can be …
Riding a Segway and traveling free.
We have only one ticket for the rollercoaster of life.
We control the altitude, by choosing happiness or strife.
Life is an adventure to enjoy and to share
With people we love and people who care.

Segway Retail Site Selection (by: Joseph - Pennsville, NJ)

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

I am a retail real estate specialist and would love to hear from consumers, retailers, and Segway dealers what they feel makes a good retail location for a Segway dealership and/or Segway rental store. www.AcresNJ.com/segway/

How about planning/filming a War of 1812 Bicentennial Glide Tour through USA, Canada, and Britain?

Cruising on a Segway (by: Andrew - Oklahoma City, OK)

Friday, July 20th, 2007

My thing would be cruising on a Segway, but I don’t have one. My life is sad :(

Interesting, but short (by: Anonymous)

Friday, July 20th, 2007

I realize that life is so short and you have to do what you love. And KEEP MOVING the whole time. Move or die!

My thing is life (by: Wardell - Chicago, IL)

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Currently my thing is finishing my bachelors degree focusing on interactive media design, and finding a job that will, allow me to establish some financial security for me and my finance who I’ve been in a relationship with for about seven years now, and allow me to aid my family.
My thing is also being grateful for the blessings I have, and trying to make the most of whatever life throws at me.

So I’m No Liar (by: Anonymous)

Friday, July 20th, 2007

I haven’t seen the film…plan to, only because the filmmakers did exactly what I was thinking I could do the first time I ever rode a segway…course it was an i180 model, not an i-2. Had it all figured out, two saddle packs, 4 extra batteries and a charger, figured I could rotate batteries out for continuous driving across the country…always figured like Jesse James and his choppers, I’d get around it someday…guess someone beat me to it.

As such why I am writing…I’m here for the Segway giveaway…if you’ve never ridden one (it was part of my job for a while) you’ll never know how fun it is getting around, and how in an instant, you’re at the center of attention. It’s so bad (if that’s a bad thing) that I dream about it…now more than ever as I don’t work for the tour company anymore. So yeah, I want to win so I can get a $4000 machine for free so I can get around vicariously, zooming about through pedestrian simpletons like some fighter pilot putting his helo through it’s paces.

I don’t often enter contests…not online anyway. They usually end up filling my e-mail box with Spam, but I couldn’t resist entering this one. I’ve never had so much fun in D.C. unless I’ve been on the platform of the Segway…but I’m no dreamer either and I know my chances of winning this thing are about nil…it’ll probably go to some lady in the middle of Wisconsin who doesn’t live even remotely close to a major metropolitan area, but alas them’s the breaks, right?

This thing talks about what your thing is, and a few months ago I would have said that being a Segway tour guide was my thing, but alas it is no more…so now I fish. And I don’t mean fish in the casual sense of the “Let’s-take-the-little-ones-out-and-catch-a-bluegill” but I do something that millions of fishermen who grew up in cities do…urban fishing. No, this activity doesn’t involve sitting with a cane pole at the nearest sewer opening, though I don’t doubt that might work…my fishing takes place in places like the C&O Canal and the basins and reflecting pools that are near this nation’s finest and most majestic monuments…places where people walk by and say “There’s no fish in there, boy…what’re you thinking?” Well, believe it or not, it’s that kind of thinking that have let the fish grow large and fat off of the food that the tourists throw into the water. So yes, that’s my thing…would kill to have a Segway that has one saddlebag that held all of my tackle so I wouldn’t have to schlep it in giant boxes all over Hell’s half acre.

So I read some of the other blogs and it had some military references to the troops. Just so I don’t feel like I’m ditching them out of this little blog, I thought I’d throw a little fisherman’s salute to my Dad and Brother (Dad is a LCDR in the Navy, Brother is a 1LT Marine Corps, respectively though both pilots, ironically). So…hoorah to the both of ya!

And so I end this blog…please pick me…I so want a Segway I can’t even tell you how obsessed I am with this little noodge in the overall scope of technology.

Course, next time they’ll be giving away a Centuar…oh well.