Transport Blog looks at some of the problems with London’s Oyster Card system, and comes up with something rather disturbing.
Talking of rail-related smart cards. What’s with the marine wildlife connection? In London it is called Oyster. In Hong Kong it is called Octopus. And in Tokyo it’s called Suica. OK, so I don’t know what Suica means. But they promote it with a penguin.
Hmm. Shellfish. Things with Tentacles. Penguins (Can you say “Tekeli Li!”). It’s starting to look rather Lovecraftian to me. So what forbidden blasphemous tomes did their software developers use to produce this system.
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn!
Some of those station buildings look distinctly cyclopean, now you come to mention it, even non-Euclidian in places (but we don’t speak of such Places…).
“Suica” could mean a number of things based on the way it could be written, but it’s mainly a proper name.