I’m busy

I’ve got a couple milk crates worth of old urethane skateboard wheels that I’m not sure why I saved, or what I thought I was going to do with them. I have used about 12 sets of them to stack screens freshly coated with emulsion for screen printing, but that got annoying so I built a drying rack. I have I’ve often wondered about all the wads of inert urethane buried in landfill. Sure, you can grind them up and mix them with fresh urethane or make earrings out of them, but it’s plastic, and eventually it just gets harder and harder, and the wold only needs a finite amount of lunch trays. Surprisingly, a species of mushroom has been discovered in the rain forests of Ecuador that can and will survive on polyurethane in landfill conditions, so you know, go ahead and enjoy your unalienable right to use urethane as you want. Hell, build a pipeline from Canada to pump wheels directly to your country. Good news, actually, but where are we going to build the urethane eating farms, and what the hell are we going to do with all those mushrooms?

Also, if you haven’t already noticed, I’m really busy lately, but hope to begin more regular updates next week.

[Source: Gizmodo.] – Thanks to Sean for the tip.