Not quite a rolling stone
The Masters of Mayhem, AKA the Mythbusters team, keep me coming back for more. No (reasonable) story is too big for their budget, as long as it involves something coming apart, fast. This afternoon, the show simply left me wanting to go and play in my basement.
Somewhere along the line, some lads had uploaded a video to YouTube, showing a huge Lego ball careening down a city street. Nothing wrong with that; video footage in proof. Except that things don’t work that way over in the garage where Adam and Jamie hang their hats. The video has to be reproduced for the scientific minds on site.
After some estimation, the team brought in over a million blocks (wish my playroom had that sort of budget) and sat down to push knobs into holes, over and over again. With the patience that only a television show allows, a somewhat globe-shaped form was then loaded into a truck and brought to their mockup of a street. Simulation for the nation.
Here’s the link to the final section of their episode, where the ersatz ball returns to its original state. The purest form of Lego; an undisciplined pile of potential.
Yesterday, my cubicle ceiling developed a new feature: an intermittent shower. Not quite intense enough to cause evacuation. Highly impractical in an office environment. Annoying. The proper authority was notified, and late in the afternoon an outside expert was called in. After careful verification, it was determined that there was no immediate danger (the drip had ceased, after all), but if it should start up again, some further investigation would be undertaken. I feel better already.
