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exterior kansas

Another map projection from xkcd

 

Steve points out the Google-defined centrality of Kansas - in particular, Chanute, KS

 

so good!

 

from xkcd

 

the positive whole number assumption

 

 

vectored thrust on a turbine powered rc jet

steam sheep:-)

a tip of the hat to Jim

 

 

when contemplating a chase

another fine xkce

 

consequences of a gedanken experiment made read

caution

 

 

specifically one republican  Noem → no empathy

 

 

the swedish chef does popcorn

and even gets the Gershon Kingsley's music mostly right - a tip of the hat to Dewayne

on seeing inventions

A nice piece on Rube Goldberg machines.

snip

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What’s the simplest way to open a can? Faced with this question, most would suggest a can opener. The artist Rube Goldberg, however, believed the task could be better accomplished using a golf club, waltzing mice and a disgruntled pet dragon whose fire-breathing would light a welding torch positioned in front of the closed can. Simple.

This approach to everyday tasks was summarized in the introduction to “The Art of Rube Goldberg,” a collection of Mr. Goldberg’s work that was published in 2013. “These are things that need doing,” the introduction, written by Adam Gopnik, reads, “but they don’t need this much doing.”

Mr. Goldberg was half-kidding with such inventions, or “satirical representations of progressive nothing,” as he once called them. Even so, it is uncanny to observe how his legacy seems to function like one of them, setting off precisely engineered chaos in every direction.

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