Oh my, but I do love a good sturdy paper clip, the bigger the better. Having thought about this phenomenon at some length, I have come to believe that a really skookum paper clip, keeping a stack of like-minded papers safely organized, is a visual representation of putting up firewalls in one’s brain. The human […]
Tag: human brain
Percussive maintenance
This morning, while checking in at the airline counter for yet another mad adventure into the hinterlands of Alaska, I noticed that the young woman helping us was having trouble getting the boarding passes and luggage tags to print. She struck the device sharply several times with her open hand, and, much chastened, it began […]