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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Of all the technological change I've lived to see, glue and tape have improved the most.
There's this tape called frog tape. It's quite amazing. Uses powerful science
And gorilla tape can remove your skin
And silicone tape fuses to itself molecularly
I guess Tesla missed that memo then..
Doesn't matter how good thing have gotten when you choose to be cheap and use the wrong stuff.
Same thing with their leaking displays because they ignored the extreme heat minimums real car manufacturers used.
It's actually funny going back and watching early episodes of The New Yankee Workshop and hearing Norm brag about the "new" glues that were coming available. "This is a one-part glue, you don't have to mix it up, it's ready to use in the bottle, it's water proof and it cleans up with water! I wouldn't have even tried doing this myself without these modern glues." They avoided showing brand names and such on the show; Norm was usually careful to hold the glue bottle with the back facing the camera, but he's clearly holding a bottle of Titebond 2, with it's blue cap.
And I mean, yeah. imagine building furniture without PVA glue, you change how you think.
Over the past 200 years, chemistry has taken massive leaps forward. A lot of guesswork and mystery is now gone, but that doesn’t mean there are no perplexing problems to solve. Most of the simple cases are pretty clear, and you can predict the result with a few simple formulas. When you start talking about more complex cases, there’s still much to be done.