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A Magic Folding “Fidget” cube with the design of a micro scale space vehicle in a Classic Space grey/trans-green colour scheme.
… and back to vehicle mode …
This is #2 (of 3) of my Lego Magic Folding Classic Space Cubes.
I hope you like it! :-))
Ring-a-Week 3: January 21, 2011.
Sterling silver, patina.
Marquise elements freely rock back and forth
Fidget asleep on the porch, late afternoon.
Our thoughts are with Flickr friend Roger whose beloved Pyr friend Grace is crossing over tonight.
An essay by Fidget.
It’s sad how humans drool. They can’t aim their drool at all. It leaks out all over their body indiscriminately. You would think that a drool mechanism like theirs would concentrate the liquid in areas that radiate the most heat – like the top of the head and over their kidneys
But no, their drool – they call il “sweat” -- just leaks out everywhere. And not only that, they wear clothes everywhere, which means that their drool ends up cooling their clothing rather than their bodies. What a perverse system!
Another problem is that human drool is not at all viscous. They can’t drip it in a narrow stream onto their forelimbs where surface blood vessels can pick up heat from the body. The watery, rancid stuff just oozes out of their pores, and they can lose a liter of water and hard-to-replace salts in a couple of hours on a hot day. When I see them standing around drenched in drool, it’s hard not to ask them “Dude, what happened to your kidneys?”.
And don’t get me started about their fur distribution. Most of them have fur only on their heads, armpits and crotches, all of which are pretty good heat-radiating areas. That’s the last place you need big bunches of soggy fur, especially in hot weather. I simply can’t envision that a system like theirs could be the product of adaptive evolution. I can only assume that it's some horrible random mutation that they’re stuck with until they evolve something better.
Dog drool is essentially odorless as long as your teeth are in good shape. Human drool is thin, acrid stuff full of salts, body fats and all sorts of vile acids and aldehydes that would be handled by the kidneys and liver in a more highly evolved system. Not only that, humans exfoliate enough skin to turn their drool into a first-rate culture medium for genuinely sour-smelling bacteria. This means that humans are in a difficult bind. They have to bathe constantly with harsh alkaline soaps to loosen bacteria and dissolve fats that leak out with their drool.
All the bathing messes up their skin terribly, but it’s either that or else they walk around smelling like monkeys. We’re certainly grateful that most of them choose to bathe frequently, but it’s really sad that it’s the only rational option that they have.
Saddest of all is that they drool from their hands and feet. Other than their somewhat overrated brains, hands are the only thing that primates have going for them. Their hands drool so much that they have a hard time holding onto things in hot weather.
Oh, and their poor stinking feet are such a calamity that it’s difficult even to discuss. They stuff the giant, drooling, lumpish things into waterproof leather sacks that they never wash. Canine anthropologists have sought an explanation for this perverse ritual for centuries, but we still don’t have a satisfactory model for such a bizarre set of behaviors.
Perhaps the most touching thing about humans is that they walk around swathed in vast, acrid clouds reeking of bacteria and rancid fat while making jokes about how bad dogs smell. It’s almost sweet when they do that.
You have to love humans.
But you certainly wouldn't want to eat one.
A Magic Folding “Fidget” cube with the design of a micro scale space vehicle in a Classic Space grey/trans-green colour scheme.
The folding steps: 1.)
Fidget's drawing for Daddy blogged here: sewsitall.blogspot.com/2013/01/fidgets-drawing-for-daddy....
Frame for a henhouse on wheels.
Here the bale-feeder frame is lag-screwed to 2x4x8' plates to test its rigidity. It's plenty rigid.
Livestock guardian dogs, horse fence and movable henhouses are the mainstays of pastured chicken.
Doggie: Fidget
Aerialists from Fidget Feet Aerial Dance perform at An Grianán Theatre during the official launch of the 2014 Earagail Arts Festival, 4 June 2014.
Fidget has rejected every house we've bought or built for her except for two sheets of rusty tin that I leaned against the fence one day when I was working on them two years ago.
It was love at first sight. I've never had the heart to move them, though I draped an old tarp on the fence as a winter windbreak. It seemed an appropriately shabby refinement.
Common Dog Tick removed from Fidget, a common dog. :)
Biggest one I've ever seen. About 1.6 x 1.0 x .0.7 cm (5/8 x 3/8 x 1/4 in). The little red dot on her tummy is her anus. (Too much information?)
For those in the EU and elsewhere, the US quarter dollar seen above is about 2 mm broader than a Euro.
Even a dog tick has a life to lead. She's gone on to explore her next one.
A Magic Folding “Fidget” cube with the design of a micro scale space ship in a Classic Space blue/grey/trans-yellow colour scheme.
… and back to ship mode …
This is #1 (of 3) of my Lego Magic Folding Classic Space Cubes.
I hope you like it! :-))
"Never a missed photo-op. Never a little snooze in the grass without a camera in my face."
"It's always clicky-clack, clicky-clack, isn't it?"
Fidget's drawing for Daddy blogged here: sewsitall.blogspot.com/2013/01/fidgets-drawing-for-daddy....
From a recent summary of these dolls I wrote:
toyboxphilosopher.blogspot.com/2012/01/joanne-callanders-...