time-suckage

“This to That” – My Latest Online Obsession

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The online calculator (of all sorts) is one of the innovations of the cyber-age that makes me wonder what we did, you know, BEFORE. My latest discovery is the site This to That, which comes to your rescue when you want to glue one material to another and you need to know which adhesive to use.

It was alarming how this calculator sucked me in. Once I started playing with it, I couldn’t stop.

First, I asked it what I should use to glue Styrofoam to metal. It answered with its recommendations and a bit of helpful advice to go with:

 

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“Rust never sleeps.” I found myself enchanted by this dash of unexpected lyricism in a Do-It-Yourself project materials calculator.

But that’s not all! The calculator went on to offer useful information about Styrofoam:

 

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Neat, right? Also, notice at the bottom that you can click to switch to French!

Next, I asked it what I should use to glue wood to glass. It advised:

 

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And it added this extra little reminder at the end:

 

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Finally, I told it that I wanted to glue wood to paper. It spat out options depending on the degree of wrinkling I was willing to risk:

 

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…including if I didn’t care about wrinkling at all:

 

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WELL. I’m impressed. Time-suckage with an actual purpose behind it? Yes.

Callaghan Doesn’t Eat Fish

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“I can only eat tuna, and only sometimes, because tuna doesn’t bring that elephant cage quality to it,” he explained.

“What?”

“I used to eat sole, no problem! My grandmother used to make it.”

“No, I mean, what did you say about… I mean, did you say elephant cage?”

“Yeah, we went to the zoo in Vincennes when I was like six. It was a visit of the elephants’ cage. It was horrible.”

“And after that, you went to your grandmother’s house and ate sole?” I thought I was getting to the bottom of his elephant cage/sole association.

“No… I don’t remember why, exactly. All I know was that I went to the elephant cage, and after that, sole became TO BARF FOR.”

While this conversation left me with more questions than answers, it did remind me that I wanted to add Infamous to our “to watch” movie list. Infamous had come to my attention when a friend on Facebook posted a link to WTF Evolution.

The first thing I saw when I went to this page was a picture of a flatfish, which I saved because I thought it was endearing.

 

Flatfish pictured in WTF, Evolution?

Flatfish pictured in WTF, Evolution?

 

The ensuing search engine time-suckage exercise went like this:

WTF Evolution à flatfish. Flatfish à sole. Sole à swordfish. Swordfish à marlin. Marlin (the fish) à Marlin, Texas. Marlin, Texas à Infamous, because it was filmed in Marlin, as stated on the Marlin, Texas Wikipedia page (I had never known that there was a place called “Marlin” in Texas).

Now doesn’t it make perfect sense that the flatfish led me to the movie Infamous? It seems very obvious to me. I honestly don’t know how I knew anything before the internet.

Anyway, back to Callaghan and his gustatory idiosyncrasies. The elephant cage thing will have to remain a mystery while I ask him for the back-story on his distaste for cherries. I’m sure it’ll be a good one!