Greetings, Fellow Coffeeheads And Item Balanceurs!
About 23:45 here and I am about to deny myself the fourth or fifth cup (because who's counting?) for the 24-hour cycle. I think I still have some fuel running inside so that I shall be able to finish this post before i go to bed.
I'm actually here to share a couple of things. One fits the other quite well. I like keeping used paper coffee cups. To me, they are some material for artsy stuff. Planting seeds, too. Playing games with...etc. In truth, I use them quite rarely.
But the other thing I just learned (and used my coffee cups in) was a happy little balancing trick that is quite catchy.
I learned it while watching an old episode of Stargate: Atlantis and in the show it was called 'the bar trick'. It was a way for our characters to try and escape a nasty situation by applying the principles of a trick used in bars to get a free beer after defeating the unbelievers...or some such thing. They said the trick was performed with knives. Too short to bridge the gap between any two of three cups/glasses when used directly, but in a balancing combo with each other...
...They would stay up and even support another cup/glass/mug/whatever.
Coffee related in my case. Immediately after watching the episode I went to fetch my collection of recently used paper cups and the plastic sticks for some reason I also kept alongside those.
And here we are!
The plastic sticks were initially quite hard to balance like this for they are both kind of elastic and slippery.
But once you manage this, the weight on top actually helps fixing them in place.
Like This!
— Faith No More, Epic
Yeah, I just cited a simple phrase like "like this". It's epic.
I guess I'm hyped and energetic. I still gotta go to sleep, though.
Peace and Smell The Coffee!
Yours,
Manol