Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Where All Happiness Is Contained
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2011 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
The song in my head right now is Pete Seeger's version of "Business" (hear a sample at Smithsonian Folkways). It's from an English translation of a French poem by Guillevic -- I should look up the original.
Image in my head: when I pour hot water over a used herbal tea bag to make a second cup, the air in the bag instantly heats and inflates, buoying the bag atop the rising water.
Comments
Mel Chua
http://blog.melchua.com
09 Dec 2011, 17:31 p.m.
I thought I was the only one who noticed and liked the floating teabag phenomena!
Semirelated: flying into Raleigh today in the early morning, I looked out the window to see the landscape and a river running through it, and clouds hovering on a layer above it, precisely tracing the window. My first thought was "dude, thermal mass!"