what was that? is that all there is? who is this? this is it.

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destiny

October 23, 2024

Just sit right back 

and you’ll hear a tale

a tale of a fateful trip

 

don’t ask me about destiny

 

ask me about density

 

mass   ÷  volume

 

1 cm³  osmium = 22.6g

 

1 cm³  gold = 19.3g

 

1 cm³ hydrogen = 0.09g



1 cm³ bullshit = Eisentraut




Ron Sutphin told us at UBI that Albert Eisentraut said that every good story needs one cubic centimeter of bullshit. This Eisentraut write-up from 1987 is one of my favorites. 

 

The part about busting his ass for $15,000 maybe, rings true. Here's to doing what you want to do. 

 

One day at Elliott Bay, 33 John was dispatching and he sang the opening line of the Gilligan's Island song over and over and over for quite some time cracking himself up,  broadcasting to the radios of messengers all over the streets of Seattle.

 

27 years later the memory still cracks me up and Gilligan’s Island will always evoke 33 John doing what he wanted to do.

 

A chunk of osmium the size of your phone weighs 20 pounds. The most dense density. Put that in your pocket and sit on it.



the venn diagram is from Sara g


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pilder asser said...

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Posted October 23, 2024 10:36 AM | Reply to this comment

Alistair said...

I do love me a good Venn diagram, and that particular one is well above average in terms of the point it's making. Also, I've never come across that Mulholland piece on Eisentraut before. Good stuff. Lastly, the link to the Ron Sutphin post from back in the day caught me by surprise. No more UBI Frame Building classes in Ashland now, but they still teach mechanics classes.

Posted October 23, 2024 06:17 PM | Reply to this comment

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