From Mark Frauenfelder on Boing Boing

“…There is something oddly alluring about smartly designed but freakishly small spaces. I know this because enough other people must be into these things to warrant the steady stream of them flowing from my Twitter feed. I also know this because I have never met a link promising a teeny tiny home that I was not compelled to click on.

   So what is it about these places? I’ve got no interest in slide shows of the world’s most palatial mansions. But show me a studio the size of my kitchen, and I could stare at it all day.…”

Emily Badger in article titled: I Can’t Stop Looking at Photos of Absurdly Tiny Homes: https://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2012/03/i-cant-stop-looking-photos-tiny-homes/1443/

Translation of text from the German:

Daughter: “Tell me Papa, I haven’t even asked you yet. How are you coping with the new iPad we gave you for your birthday?”

Papa: “Good!”

Daughter: “Are you managing all the apps?”

Papa: “What kind of apps? Can you move aside…”

Papa: “What”

 Reminded me of another wry (Norwegian) video,”Monk Needs Help Opening a Book,” which I think I posted a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xmTTzCAALc

This turns out to be phony. Thanks to Chris D for the comment (see below).

“This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa. Amazingly, 97% of the machine’s components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft Iowa, yes farm equipment.

It took the team a combined 13,029 hours (6.26 years) of set-up, alignment,calibration, and tuning before filming this video…

It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian.”

Part of a bulletin board at Trouble Coffee in San Francisco