The 21st century equivalent of wire hangers

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:51:04 GMT

My old BookSense ebook reader died in the night a couple of nights ago, which resulted in my scrabbling through a pile of cardboard boxes in order to find my backup ebook reader because, yes, I am that paranoid about not having a functional ebook reader, and even then I had a complete meltdown because it took hours to charge the battery, during which time I growled that I hated everything. Except Alexx. And my monster plushies. And then I pulled the covers over my head and told Alexa to make rain (I skipped on adding thunder and lightning because that would have been a little much).

So that's a brief glimpse into what Dark Kestrell is like. Be glad she doesn't live in your attic.

Anyway.

Today I addressed the issue of all these hardback-sized boxes that electronics come packaged in.

I culled it down to a single box, but that box is stuffed with lots of little cables and adapters that I don't know what they go to, but I'm scared to throw them out, just in case.

I have about a dozen of those short adapters for turning a standard USB plug into a mini. Is it just me, or is the uselessness of any type of cable directly proportional to how many of them one accumulates? I think they've taken the place of wire hangers, only we can't turn them into bicycles.

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Solar arrays optimized by using Fermat spiral of a sunflower

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:08:01 GMT

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/sunflower-concentrated-solar-0111.html

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