At a recent inspection I was reminded of this incredible useless machine this guy named Del built.  By cranking a handle, all kinds of different operations were affected.  If you haven't seen this Youtube clip, it is well worth watching all the way through to the end, because he goes into all the different woods he used and how all the components come apart so that they can be worked on.  Way amazing for something that is basically useless.  If only we could put this kind of passion into useful things.  Can you imagine "world issues" with this attention to detail?  So enjoy the video and then come back to my example of part of this machine.

Del's amazing machine!

     This trip hazard at the top of the stairs could result in a nasty fall down this winding set of stairs----objects in motion tend to stay in motion----and when those objects are human, bad things can happen---to the human.  These stairs also had no hand-rail.

Charles Buell 

     PS, for those of you that are new to my blog (or for some other "unexplained" reason have never noticed)all  pictures and smiley-face inserts (emoticons) (when I use them) have messages that show up when you point at them with your cursor.