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Mixing solids with liquids sems to work.  My coffee maker is constructed of plastic, which is a solid.  In order to have it produce coffee I need to add water.  My car is made of metal and plastic and before it will move, I must add oil and gas, both are liquids.  Some tribes mixed water with dirt in order to build their houses.

On other planets, in the absence of water, a substitute liquid must be established, unless the behavior of  physics has been altered by the absence of gravity. 

The continuation of this line of thinking is going to require additional brain power, unfortunately I was issued the limited edition, so I cannot venture beyond this point.

 

 

 

 

ZC  

 

Occasional Nuggets

Washing over this blog you may come across an occasional nugget.  At the time, it may sound wise, or clever and you might even copy it and set it aside for safekeeping.  But here’s the thing…

It’s much like the slot machines in Vegas.  The majority of the time they simply gather revenue for the casino.  On that rare occasion it lights up and sounds its trumpets, those events should never be considered a win.  It is simply a cough or burp.  It is a natural function of being a slot machine.  It is just a bodily function of the inner workings.  (A little gas)

This Blog will never produce any winners.  Oh sure, you may hit upon an idea you’ve not thought of before, but trust me, it leads nowhere.  I should know, I’ve followed them across desolate paragraphs, through fields of wild nonsense and beneath cascading verbs, all splashing with action, only to trickle into a dry riverbed, all cracked and dusty. 

There is an old saying, but it doesn’t apply here so I’ll leave it out.  All you need to remember is, chicken soup never cured a chicken. 

 

ZC

 

There is a big difference between reverse engineering something and making something then trying to figure out a use for it.

Someone has made this.  They obviously put some thought into it.  It has been designed and formed and made quite substantial. 

I have researched the history books but have yet to find it anywhere.  It isn’t anything with moving parts, unless I only have part of it here.  It isn’t made of anything than can be sterilized, so I doubt it belongs to the medical community.  It is way too heavy to be a component on the space shuttle, and I doubt it fastens anywhere along my seatbelt.

It may come in other colors, but I just have this white one.  I can’t picture it holding sheet music or belonging to anything found within an orchestra pit.  It doesn’t make noise and if my test can be believed, it doesn’t float.

 It tastes like plastic and stands up to serious biting.  No teeth marks present. 

After the morning break, I'll run it through the open flame and combustion test.

ZC

Saturday Afternoon

 

Dear Lem,

 

Thanks again for letting me fish from your dock.  According to our deal, I was to give you half of everything I caught.  I have placed them in the large bucket by your back door.  As I wasn’t sure what kind of fish was what, I have left you all of their heads, so you’ll be able to tell what is what.  I only took the bodies and tails.  I don’t know if that even makes a difference, but I wanted to be fair.

 

Your Pal

 

Scooter

 

 

 

Observation #765

 

We drove past the Ford dealer yesterday and all I could see were trucks.  Not a single car in sight.  Is that all people are driving – trucks?  

Just what is it that everybody is hauling around?  Not everyone has a bale of hay they need to transport.  I don’t see all that many pianos going down the freeway.  So, what’s up with all the trucks? 

I know the advertisers throw around the term, cargo space.  So, where is all this cargo?  What is cargo?  A friend of mine has cargo pants.  I expect if they were in the back of a truck, they’d get blown out and be laying along the road somewhere.  I don’t recall seeing any pants along the road, just usually the one shoe.

 

 

 

 ZC

Something to think about

 

Gravity is actually a type of adhesive.  Although similar to the glue used on Post-it notes, it has many more applications and is known throughout the universe.

 

 

 zc

A Little Known Document

 

Everything has to agree before anything can happen.  All of the light and each shadow needs to approve.  Every tree, branch and leaf also, not to mention the surrounding space, like the ground and sky above.  If even one thing doesn’t agree, then none of it can be in the picture.

That is what must happen before your camera can accept the landscape in front of it.  Either it all squeezes in through the lens together or no one gets in.  That is the secret Mr. Kodak figured out so many years ago.

Held in secret, his negotiations with Nature allowed the cameras of the day to function.  Prior to getting a signed agreement, things appeared out-of-focus, distorted or simply upside down.   This signed agreement has been locked away in the basement of the Smithsonian since May 23, 1892.

 

 

 ZC

Side note:

Due the the Salem witchcraft issue of the time, these negotiations had to remain private.  It wouldn't have taken much for cameras to be deemed evil.