Life of Wry

A small, flat package arrived a couple days ago for Jim. I didn’t give it much thought.. it was probably something for the garage, which means it was probably destined for some project or another.

I was right!

He’d ordered a couple-three dozen large key rings, which he turned into this:

Were this a video (it actually is a screen shot of a video I shot yesterday), you’d see that when you isolate a ring at the top of the string, and then drop it, it passes down the length of the string and comes to a stop at the bottom. However, it doesn’t do that at all. In fact, it just looks like it does that, when actually it simply flips over, which causes the ring below it to flip over, which causes the ring below that to flip over.. etc. It’s an optical illusion designed to look like something it’s not.

The video is far better at conveying this than a still photo! Go to my Facebook for the action video. LOL.

Jim saw this illusion on a video on Youtube .. a place he spends a fair amount of time. That funny guy.

Speaking of that funny guy… his rocks came out of the tumbler today, after a week of spinning and grinding. However, they are going right back in, where they’ll tumble for another week (with added grit). Then they’ll get more grit and tumble for another week. Total: 6 weeks of tumbling with increasing grades of grit to achieve maximum polish. It’s a long process.

Here’s where the process stands today…. the BEFORE and AFTER.

In a week, he went from 5 pounds of rock to 3.5 pounds. Smoothness ensued. But more to come!

(If you zoom in on a rock in the middle of the BEFORE pic, you’ll see a rock in the disgusting image of His Orangeness. Orange face, square hairdo. Thankfully, all that tumbling rubbed him out. What our country needs right now is a human size tumbler.)