TGIF is the mantra of working stiffs everywhere, and today is no exception, so I'll keep this one shorter and sillier than most weekenders, and then your outta here.
"Silly" also means it's a good day for PerpMos (perpetual motion aficionados) to speak up; yet one of these days, someone ultra-silly is going to turn Boyle's flask into the real-deal. Skeptics and college profs use the flask as a perpmo-putdown these days, since we now understand why it is not really gainful... at least not with water. However, the great Boyle who ranks right up there with Newton, once thought it just might be self-powered under the right circumstances - which of course it is ... on beer; and if you stop the camera before all the fizz is gone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1KXMsE2qk&feature=plcp 10 days ago was a Pi-day - that would have been August 14, 2012 - and despite the post-partum Olympics withdrawal blues, or needing a breakthrough ahead of a Bak'tun rollover, there was a flash of inspiration out in cyber-space; and at some profound instant in time, which you must have noticed subliminally coincided exactly as the U.S. population reached the milestone of 314,159,265 citizens (Pi times 100 million) there was a revelation of sorts. Kinda makes your head spin, no? Well that inspiration was a way to make Boyle's flask into the strangest invention of the final year of this cycle, notably the 13th - and using ferrofluid as the circulating medium. You can probably connect the dots. And basically, it did work for about 50 hours; and the culprit that stopped it was probably named "hysteresis". Like Pi, which is an irrational number, most of the population and maybe the great Boyle himself- have been nominally irrational for long periods, even if they slide into occasional lucidity often enough to be considered part-time geniuses. Newton was into alchemy and Leonardo spent half his time working on crazy overunity devices, go figure. You're in good nutty company, Andrea. Anyway, as summer ends and an even sillier election cycle begins - let's hope the "excess heat" of Ni-H has the traction to overtake the excess hot air of political promises, or the excess glacier melts of 'climate change', so as to give the U.S. population something warm to celebrate on December 22, 2012 ... no hysteresis, or histrionics, permitted. At least we will realize once again that "the end of time" and "a new beginning" are pretty much a seamless non-event, dreamt up by the same drama-queens who gave us Y2K ... or a few frustrated PerpMo's using Boyle's flask to promote their favorite beer. Jones
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