It’s not that I LIKE Lizard’s Lair. It’s just that it happens to be one of the only things that’s actually on while I’m having dinner that I can stomach. You’d think the prime-time evening slot would be just rife with viewing goodness, but nope. It is not. So I started watching Lizard’s Lair, and I guess we have a weird relationship where I don’t like it but I see it every day anyway, as a matter of…ordinary life time-filling. So, just like my daily staff meetings in the office.
Tonight brought a flurry of contenders, but I was rooting for the skinny guy with glasses who wanted to revolutionise steel fabrication companies in Melbourne. He looked like an intellectual sort, which on Lizard’s Lair means one thing: terrible at pitching, but they have a good idea behind them. Plus the kinder-hearted members of the panel usually take pity at all the stuttering.
This champion of steel beams and lintels was pretty much exactly that. All straightening his specs and pulling up the sleeves of his jumper, which were way too long for his arms. But apparently he’s been walking to steel suppliers around the Melbourne area and he’s identified a problem with the way tubing is stacked. Currently, to make the loads safe, you have to go through a painstaking loading process. But this guy has invented an automated machine that’ll do it all for you, slotting all those pieces of steel tubing onto whatever’s transporting them in exactly the same way, very time.
Maybe that’s why I appreciate Lizard’s Lair slightly more. I’m learning something here, even if it just comes from peeking through a window into the companies that sell steel tubing in Melbourne and not something I’m going to use. Well…I might. Have to keep watching. And if I watch long enough, maybe I’ll go on the show with my own brilliant idea and get fifty grand in investments like Mr Steel over there.
-Peri