Hasta La Ideas

You’ll work for years, accomplish things, then retire. When you look back on all that labor and schoolwork, what will it look like, what conclusions will you draw?

Retired mechanical engineer Seth Goldstein, who has turned to creating expressive robotic sculptures, offers some witty but grim summations:

“Why Knot?” is a kinetically complex contraption that ties a necktie. Then unties it. Then ties it again, and so on. All it needs to do is make monthly deposits to a 401k to make the message any clearer.

“Cram Guy,” on the other hand, is still a student. He crams for a test (using “Over the Cliff Notes,”) falls asleep, dreams, then wakes up and starts studying again.

Time to re-think my life….

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