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Oh, What To Do With All That Free Time!?

Thursday, 16 April 2020, 20:45 Claudia Uncategorized 28

Rube Goldberg’s Granddaughter is Asking You to Build a Machine That Drops a Bar of Soap into Your Hand

Engineer and cartoonist Rube Goldberg was renowned for illustrating overly-complex machines that were designed exclusively for simple household tasks.

Now, his granddaughter Jennifer George is inviting architects and engineers of all ages to make their own Rube Goldberg Machine while they are at home in quarantine.

Although participants in this year’s Rube Goldberg Machine Contest were originally supposed to design a machine that turned on a light switch, the novel coronavirus outbreaks inspired George to task participants with building a machine that drops a bar of soap into someone’s hand in just 10 to 20 steps.

Read it here.

28 Comments on Oh, What To Do With All That Free Time!?

  4. I worry about my boys future, more now than even before.

    That’s one of the things I do with my new ‘free found’ time. I am trying to figure out how to best way to prepare them for the ‘ever changing’ liberal dystopic future, as they learn from home.

    Ssssh, don’t leave your own home your hovel, to go outside in the nature that we all need. All Critters in nature MUST leave a nest or residence to survive.

    There are many things involved including but not limited to eating, building, pruning, drinking, cleaning and yes dating! Or trying to…I learned that Blue Jays have a partner for life for instance in my lockdown!!

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  5. Government dictated idleness have others of us thinking about violent revolution rather than compliance and servitude.

    Not really in the mood to play games. It’s not a hurricane. It’s not a blizzard. It’s forced subservience to an evil leftist dictatorship being easily imposed upon us.

    Tick tick.

    Don’t go to church under order of government. Don’t assemble. Don’t voice your opinion. Stay in your homes.
    It’s for your own good.

    I will tell you that King George, who imposed many insufferable acts back before 1776, did NOTHING in comparison to what leftist governors and municipal tyrants are doing to YOU as I write.

    Tiddlywink entertainment is fine.

    But it’s time to get serious about what politicians are doing to us.

    I’ve had it.

    Sic Semper Tyrannus is on Virginia’s flag. Thus always to tyrants.

    And in Virginia the tyrant, racist Governor Coonman is locking us down until June 10?

    This jug earred Blackface wearing baby killing drooling idiot should have been run out of town years ago. In shame.

    But leftists in politics and media kept him politically alive in order to torment us. And, with an unexpected rebirth, torment he does. With relish.

    On Good Friday he expanded abortion, took away voter ID requirements and took away gun rights for the law abiding.
    And now he says stay home and shut the fuck up.

    Sorry for the rant.

    Still want to sit home Virginians?

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  6. Made a hand held remote control to work a solenoid that unlocks my door to the house. 433Mhz transmitter and receiver. Sounds lame, but I didn’t tell you it posts a message on the computer screen that the door is unlocked along with a time stamp.

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  7. PHenry, I feel for you. Your Governor is going to try to keep you under lockdown as long as possible because he knows it’s going to hit the fan when it’s over.

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  10. ghost of brig gen j glover; You may have a chore on your hands. I wish you luck. I have grand children that are facing the same challenge. None of us got a set of instructions on how to get through life, so do the best you can, and maybe, just maybe they’ll land safely.

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  15. I have develpoed a 4-step mechanism:

    1. obtain sock.
    2. place soap bar into sock.
    3. tie a knot in sock
    4. Beat victim.

    You can take it anywhere you like. if it gets dirty, you just wash it.
    No evidence.

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  16. If I am allowed one last point.

    I left out the part where the leftists release felons from prison while they restrict our gun rights and imprison us in our homes.

    It’s good to live in the country.

    Newly released thugs will find us last. And we know the lay of the land.

    You didn’t like the Covid Death stats? You really won’t like the Dem felon release Death Stats.

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  17. The piano is back together well before my June deadline. I’m very pleased with the results. Lucky to live in a state that doesn’t have mandatory lockdown. Not sure what would be the proper course of action in a state that is locked down. Oh well, I’ve got a antique pinball game that needs attention.

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  18. @PHenry – C understands the threadjack (I dig that term interestingly), she is as pissed (up there) as all of us!!!

    Me in NY and you in VA, the state frustration builds…

    ‘Nuts’ I say to quote a certain Battle of Bulge veteran general hero. Or was he a colonel?

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  19. PHenry, another point, the LA Sheriff, after congratulating himself for releasing over 4200 inmates is now saying he is concerned about a crime wave. Are we living in the twilight zone or what?

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  20. Deplorable Second Class, The Ghost and I are trying so hard to keep our boys focused on family and faith. I tell them how important it is. Ghost is always telling them once they go outside everything changes and your actions and ways could be very different then others. We are using this time to have out family council on some night and know we will get through it together and be better people for it.

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  25. PHenry, ghost is right. I’ve done my share of venting with my two sisters. Even said a blue word or two. I feel for you as I think you have a more evil governor than I do. Gov Witless is evil, but she has been cowered by our push-back a few times and I think she is scared of us now. She knows we will not put up with this.

    Your Gov Blackface is doubling down. I feel for you.

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  27. Rod Serling was one of Americas greatest modern soothsayers.

    He knew, and those TZ writers knew, about the Deep State and Swamp before anyone. Just like Huxley, Orwell, Rodenberry, Assimov, Creighton and others, before him.

    What did they know? Why are the predictions so accurate??

    We are going through a modern day Psycheops.

    I, Robot.

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  28. @Geoff C. The Saltine – are you saltined nuts! Asking such questions? Haha, bold and daring can get you places. Or shot!

    IF you really want to know? Who cares right! There’s nothing to ‘hide here’ I suppose?

    I’m the youngest of ten children, at the ripe age of…55, may god bless my parents, and may they RIP, Depression and WWII participants and survivors.

    We have two teenagers that are incredible boys, on their way to being men. IF I can ‘navigate’ the complicated waters we find ourselves in, we will hopefully be successful with the storms ahead.

    We all have our own ship to sail.
    Since you asked…

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