The last teapot

I came into the house yesterday after going out to do some framing in the barn for a couple of hours. I was greeted with the burning smell of ozone and haze throughout the house. My surprised first thought was, “What the…” followed instantly by the realization, “Oh God, not again!!!” A further step and I could see into the kitchen where the fourth teapot in a couple of years was indeed melting on a red hot, forgotten burner. 

“That’s it! I’ve got to buy an electric teapot with automatic shutoff before I burn the house down.” I clearly can’t be trusted alone with a teapot for my daily N cups of coffee. So, this morning I bought an electric teapot. I also bought another old fashioned whistling teapot because I like them. It will only be used for special occasions though, like when other people are here 😂

Faraday and Grizzlies

I wonder if we could protect against animal attacks in the wild with metal mesh suits that cover the whole body like armor, and which can be given a high voltage pulse, which nevertheless is not felt by the person wearing it because they’re inside a Faraday cage?

Thus the Grizzly swings its paw in rage to tear your head off only to be met with 100,000 Volt sparks snapping into the tips of its claws and nose whilst we thank God for Michael Faraday.

Wednesday thought

Like most people I am puzzled by the Epstein files saga. What in the world or out of the world was or is big enough to stop the client list release? Aliens? Illuminati? The only thing big enough I can think of is Trump’s ego. That Trump himself is on the list and can’t admit it springs to mind.

That being said I can’t say I disagree with all of his policies, while I do have issues with the way some of them are being implemented. Despite all of their rhetoric about the rule of law Democrats are in many cases encouraging outright disregard of the laws they helped write. That needs a counterweight.

Natural laws and machines

Every single one of our machines is the equivalent of a bunch of us moving rocks to divert a stream to an alternate path down the hillside where it does work for us. Every single one is just the result of us channeling already occurring natural events to more efficient alternate paths down the energy hill to increased entropy. Thus we divert the ore in the mountains to flow according to the laws of nature out of the ground and down the energy hill as it transforms into some or other machine.