Houses are filter-feeders. The sieve size seems to be between a geared hand can opener and a 25 ft Stanley tape measure. All the little tape measures, can openers and scissors are gone. Only the Stanley tape measure and my giant kitchen scissors seem immune in category.
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So thereās your solution, then.
Giant everything.
Honestly, though- what good are all those 6ā tape measures? Gimme 15ā or nothing.
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I have a 150 footer around here somewhere. I really need to reorganize the garage. Itās been eaten.
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Iāve got a couple 25ās, a 15ā (my favorite) and a 150ā that I never use.
My house eats flashlights. All types and shapes.
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I feel like Captain America in The Avengers.
āI got that reference! I know that one!ā
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Wow. Thatās one playful house
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Screws and screwdrivers. Remote control units (wait, thatās just the couch)
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The appetites of garages and basements far exceed the rest of the house
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It is more complex than Jennings thought, because he didnāt understand the mathematics involved in H-space, which is like L-space but with more things than books.
H-space is curved and sometimes its dimensions are rolled up so small that things fall behind them and are transmuted elsewhere. Have you ever noticed how houses that lose coathangers may acquire a surplus of paperclips, or how kitchen equipment, spoons and so on disappear while the garage fills up with mechanical junk which nobody can ever remember buying or removing? Thatās H-space.
My house fills up with USB cables that I am sure have never been bought or come with equipment, but I never seem to have a full complement of underpants. If this could be harnessed in some way I could probably start an industry.
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One measure of air pollution is dustfall. Busy street means lots of particulates. Also, dust bunnies multiply like rabbits.
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Money. I swear thereās $30, a ten and a twenty, floating around the first floor somewhere. And Iām too damned depressed - or just MEH - to do more than conduct a half-hearted search. And Iām broke - now, thatās bad, lol.
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All my house eats is my money.
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Iām between a city street and a beach on a large lake, so itās not surprising thereās a lot of dust. The neighbourhoodās known for it. It did used to have a lot of air pollution, from being downwind of a coal-fired power plant, but that was decommissioned in the 1960s.
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- guitar picks
- tupperware lids
- hair bands
- AC adapters
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There probably is an ass-yet untapped market for cable-woven under garments
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No, my proposal does not equal the ā?:Profitā meme.
The cost of a pair of underpants is comparable to that of a good USB cable. So if my hypothesis were proven correct, and one pair of underpants mutated into multiple cables, I might have a business. If the price:cost ratio was less than unity I would not have a business (though this doesnāt seem to bother either Tesla or Twitter.)
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I just donāt know what to say to that. Iād assume youāre displeased the way you said it.
Hope you took it in the spirit of āYes, andā¦ā
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Then you would be incorrect.
I just have an occasional habit of making fairly blunt statements.
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