The Acme Klein Bottle (From Cliff Stoll and Family)
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I have grand plans to eventually "fill" my klein bottle with a swirling potion solution, but those are stalled due to a lack of time and a lack of a suitable magnet array to get said potion swirling on its own. (The self-intersection foils attempts to use standard magnetic stirring sticks.) I'll post pictures if I succeed.
For you younger folks, this is a weird thing we lived through: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem
Such an odd feeling to realize that such intense, shared experiences become completely foreign to more and more people as time goes on. It's weird how all of us are so fixed in the context of the year we were born. For example, I was born in the mid seventies, and to me the moon landing seemed like ancient history as a kid, even though it was only a couple years prior!
Guess I'm just commenting on the feeling that, as I age, things feel more and more ephemeral. Like when you're young it feels a bit like "this is how the world has been and should always be", anything that has happened before is just "history", but as you get older it just feels more like I'm just a speck in the timeline of the universe. Don't know if that's a good or bad feeling.
We're getting old. Do yourself a favor and don't do the math on how many years you have until you're 60.
(Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres: qui cum oleo coquunt, qui cum butyrum coquunt, qui cum adipe coquunt.)
The bottle itself is only part of the whole experience. :-)
... that or it's a fun conversation piece on my shelf. Perhaps both! =)