Saturday, January 26, 2008

One button for pee-pee, and another button for poo

I have a very cute niece named Tirza. On one of her first days in kindergarten, she raised her hand in class and proclaimed, "we have one button for pee-pee and one button for poo-poo." I salute Tirza for her pure, honest desire to share about cool stuff.

My sister, Rebecca, is a nationally-renowned and often cited, LEED certified green architect. This is an environmentally-friendly dual-flush toilet, one of the many very progressive neat things she built into her house.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

These are actually quite common in Taiwan! Most modern restaurants and lots of homes are outfitted with these. They're marked "big" and "small." :)

My theory is that it's a way to combat poor water pressure in old, high-rise buildings.

Crockett Dunn said...

Hi Sandy,
What a unique perspective from a high-rise city!

Out here, in the west and southwestern United States, we have water shortages, and it is about conservation.

Interesting. You must be an engineer!