> “The advantage is that you can change the view, you can change the sun, you can get out of the wind or into the wind … If there is a storm coming at night [and] you don’t want that on your bedroom windows, you turn it,” he told the Guardian on Tuesday.
I prefer this bit:
“I was sitting there a few weeks ago and the sun came around and was in my TV, so I got up and turned the house.”
I'm going to be honest, if it takes 33 minutes to rotate all the way around, I don't see the utility in this at all. "Oh no the sun is in my eyes in the living room, let me rotate away from it!" 15 minutes later sun is back in your eyes. I'm with you too, I think of it like the sleep number beds. It's really cool but I'm going to end up finding a specific setting I like and the functionality that makes it expensive is going to be nullified bc I'll never move it again lol
There are levels of laziness we all must aspire to:
NB, "barpat" from this story seems not to exist other than in it or references to it. Several glossaries of naval terminology entirely fail to mention it.