On his way to work, of late, the mess-iah has been
learning the holy egg shaker, since he can practice it even
while stick-shifting and working all four automatic windows
through the traffic and the heat, with out air conditioning,
alternately grooving yet stewing in his own juices behind
sound
and air-proof windows, and cooling down in silence
within ear and judgement-shot of all of the other single
passenger, social-phobic drivers who cant afford to
sacrifice their sacrad ritalin-and-prozac-supported bare-
minimum-of-sanity to the screaming-social-dynamic-
insanity of the rush-hour-subway-crush, so that he may
one day be able to overcome his social-phobia and long-
standing-self-imposed-boycott of music-making -with-
other-people and finally apply-to-be-in-a-band, -make-a-
million-dollars- and-not-have-to-choose-between- the-
lesser-of-two-evil-ways -to-get-to-a-job-that-he-doesn't-
want-to-do.
so there is a lot of time to think about optimized
configurations of egg shakers.
i noticed that if you hold it really gently you can hear the
bumps of the road translated through your body into the
sound of one of the little bbs in the egg shaker rolling
around on the inside of the plastic shell. i was thinking
how to optimize this and i thought that you could make the
shell really hard and really thin, so make it out of graphene
say, or i guess the best would be to make a graphene
bucky ball out of for instance 60 molecules and have it
rolling inside whatever the next possibility up the scale
would be which I dont know so maybe you have an
icosohedron rolling inside a C60 buckyball? Or would it be
better to have the C60 rolling inside a c256 or something.
Anyway if you could have as close as possible to a one
molecule thick diamond sphere with another sphere just a
little bit smaller inside, it would be really responsive. Or
at least it would make cool exploitable patterns as it
moved.
Or I guess I would settle for two hard spheres rolling inside
eachother. I guess the outside one could be stableized by
the larger system - a car - but light so it amplifies sound
and the inside one could be heavy so it it pays more
attention to gravity and momentum than to surface
tension and stuff like that. Oh f it I dont know anything
about science. All I know is that my boss is away and i am
taking the morning to think about egg shakers rather than
email.
Ok let me try again. a geodesic egg shaker with a copper
coil at each node of the "shell", and a magnet at each node
of the yolk.
Or maybe just sensors at each node so you could map the
patterns.