{"id":21643,"date":"2008-07-11T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/07\/11\/crazy-ideas-at-the-lunch-table-the-ice-cream-bicycle\/"},"modified":"2008-07-11T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T10:00:01","slug":"crazy-ideas-at-the-lunch-table-the-ice-cream-bicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080711-01\/?p=21643","title":{"rendered":"Crazy ideas at the lunch table: The ice cream bicycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the lunch table some time ago, we considered the possibility of riding the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cascade.org\/EandR\/stp\/\"> STP<\/a> atop a classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.industrialbicycles.com\/v-ict.htm\"> ice cream bicycle<\/a>. You could <a href=\"http:\/\/musicthing.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/why-do-ice-cream-vans-sound-way-they.html\"> play the music<\/a> and cruise down the road, selling ice cream sandwiches out of your trunk.<\/p>\n<p> Naturally, you&#8217;d start really early in the day, because you can&#8217;t go very fast on that bicycle, and besides, nobody is going to want ice cream early in the morning, so you may as well get a head start on them. Ideally, they would catch up to you around mid-afternoon, during the hot part of the day when they&#8217;re looking for a break. <\/p>\n<p> No idea how practical this is, it was just a crazy idea. <\/p>\n<p> (Apparently we&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/zachdms.livejournal.com\/107185.html\"> not the first people<\/a> to come up with this crazy idea.) <\/p>\n<p> The STP takes place this weekend. I wish all the riders a safe and enjoyable journey. <\/p>\n<p> <b>Bonus shout-out<\/b>: Among those riders is one of my lunchmates. <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/370401_stp11.html\"> Read his story here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the lunch table some time ago, we considered the possibility of riding the STP atop a classic ice cream bicycle. You could play the music and cruise down the road, selling ice cream sandwiches out of your trunk. Naturally, you&#8217;d start really early in the day, because you can&#8217;t go very fast on that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-21643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>At the lunch table some time ago, we considered the possibility of riding the STP atop a classic ice cream bicycle. You could play the music and cruise down the road, selling ice cream sandwiches out of your trunk. Naturally, you&#8217;d start really early in the day, because you can&#8217;t go very fast on that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}