“And they
lived happily ever after.”
Steven King*
#quote
Today I read
about graphene, something science calls a “wonder material”. It
does all sorts of neat things. It's graphite that's at an atomic
scale. (Like atoms thin). However unlike most things that are
atom-thin, this can be made at room temperature easy. You can do it
with a pencil and some scotch tape. Like right now. Do it yourself
nano-materials. You just put the graphite on the middle of the scotch
tape and keep sticking it together and pulling it apart until it gets
thinner and thinner. Maybe I'll make some of the stuff and do
something with it.
A Simple
Duty
The
dragon hunched over the old book and adjusted his glasses. After so
many centuries of guarding it you'd think he'd care. But he didn't
care about the book or the magic words inside, only for the the
wizard who entrusted it to him. The man in the dusty old red robes
who raised him from when he hatched. The wizard who protected him
from trolls and taught him how to breath fire. To the dragon the book
only had the value the wizard gave to it. The wizard used his magic
to look into the future to see that it would be used to save all the
twenty kingdoms from a great evil, so he wrote down every spell he
knew and told the dragon to guard the book for ten and a half
centuries then seek out someone to use the book to save the twenty
kingdoms. The dragon thought of burning the book several times over
the centuries with his own fiery breath, or just destroying this evil
himself. Or ignoring the problem altogether, after all the only human
he cared for was the wizard. But despite his own wishes, he preserved
the book for all those years and when the time was finally right,
left his home to do the errand of delivering it to who needed it to
save the twenty kingdoms. After that the dragon felt he paid back all
he owed to the wizard and flew off with sharp-toothed grin to his own
reptilian life.
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