Whenever I see something like this in my garden, the voice of Sir David Attenborough comes, unbidden, to my head, describing the scene in great detail.

Wow! It must have been hard, using a glass knife to score the little channels onto the silicon foundation, and then using tiny tweezers to put bits of germanium into them. But the pride he must have felt after completing the millionth transistor made it all worthwhile!

Those little surface-mount capacitors on the board, which are not lined up in straight rows, are driving me crazy.

The nozzle is located within a sheathe. Kind of like a foreskin. When pressurized, it becomes ‘erect’ and escapes the foreskin before actually spraying you.

The nozzle is located within a sheathe. Kind of like a foreskin. When pressurized, it becomes ‘erect’ and escapes…

. . . the sound of water was traced, and was coming from inside the house!

. . . the sound of water was traced, and was coming from inside the house!

These are great to have, and really inexpensive. I have the more expensive electric kind, with heaters, etc, and I must say that it’s not really worth it. Just get the cheap ones. They do a good job at a fraction of the price.

These are great to have, and really inexpensive. I have the more expensive electric kind, with heaters, etc, and I…

Yeah. This kind of parasitism is pretty common. In my own garden, I’ve seen aphids that are swollen with a wasp parasitoid, and some dried aphid shells with a neat round hatch in them where the wasp came out.

Hides, feet, little knobby horns . . .

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I had to scroll down to the comments. Thanks for your comment. I don’t feel so bad, now.

Nail on the Head! As long as the right people are getting paid, nothing else matters.

Students were always knocking on my office door to borrow a stapler for their assignments. Eventually, I tied a stapler to a cable, and dangled it from the top of the door, so people could just use it out in the hall.

In certain ‘AskReddit’ threads, one can read of people whose constipation was so complete and extended that they begin vomiting feces. I imagine that this case did not end that way because of the paralysis and enlargement of the colon.

But is its body paneling made from cotton and resin, like the old Trabbi?

The manga is great, if you haven’t read it. It covers a lot of time, basically with the neighbor kids she knew growing up and getting jobs in the city. There are also some scenes of the “Tarpon” orbiting spaceship, which cannot land, now that so much of the Earth has been disrupted, and which is captained by another…

That’s “Alpha” or “Hatsuseno Alpha”, a robot who was left in charge of a coffee shop in a post-apocalyptic Japan of the future. As humanity enters its ‘gentle twilight’, Alpha serves coffee to the few customers of her remote shop.

Thank you. This does put it in a better perspective for me. I’m not actually a big fan of such art contests, but I understand that they have their place, and a totally utilitarian design can be pretty oppressive to look at after a while.

The name of my favorite robotic barista

If it falls ‘up’, then can inertron jumping belts be far behind?

Well, it turns out that mine grew pretty tall (about 20 inches to 24 inches), and had blue flowers. I am confused, but that’s OK.