March 5th, 2009

Race you to the top: The Empire State Building Run-Up

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

The winner completes the race in just ten minutes and seven seconds, but the vertical climb is a killer: Straight up the 1576 steps of the Empire State Building to the Observation deck. (When I visit the Observation Deck of the Empire State Building, I use the elevator.)

And when it’s over, everybody goes to work.

What else am I going to do, like go celebrate? Am I going to go have martinis at 11:30 in the morning? No, you slink into work and you sit at your desk, and you work all day, and when you’re done you stand up and your back is stiff, and you call your wife, and you get yelled at, and you go home to your three kids. Just like another day.

Category
Old New Thing
Topics
Non-Computer

Author

Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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