We're living it up while the world is catching fire
``I have a stick.''
I nodded to our pet rabbit. ``Stick-wise, that is indeed a thing you have.'' The phrasing seemed to confuse him; he shook his front half out and set down the chew stick again.
``It's my stick and I have it,'' he said, ``And I can do anything I want with it.''
``I know. For instance, you can chew it.'' This stopped him in the middle of chewing on it, so, that's how I knew this conversation was going to go. ``Or not, if you don't want to,'' and that should have him completely flummoxed.
I hope you know where the rest of this dialogue is. Other stuff that's run around these parts since last week's opus, ``Mice And Their Wheels'', includes:
- Felix the Cat Monkeys with Magic, a cartoon that I liked.
- Statistics Saturday: Percentage of the Alphabet Taken Up By Each Letter, for your convenient reference.
- From the Summer Catalogue, an offer too good to refuse?
- Pliers, Sure, I Know Plenty of People Regretting their Wanton Plier Purchases, about some handy stuff around the home.
- Baffling Compu-Toon Of The Week, about one of those comic strips that somehow I can find even though there's no good reason they should exist.
- Seedy Updates, or, me getting something started that's sure to end well.
Trivia: In constructing the Smithfield Street Bridge in Pittsburgh in 1883, Gustav Lindenthal replaced iron with steel wherever the design allowed, saving an estimated five percent of the bridge's total cost fo $458,000.
Source: Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America, Henry Petroski.
Currently Reading: Reinventing NASA: Human Space Flight, Bureaucracy, and Politics, Roger Handberg.
PS: Reading the Comics, June 11, 2014: Unsound Edition, some more mathematics-themed comic strips for you to consider.