A Well-Oiled Machine

My brother took some old bicycle parts (they weren't really old, just unguarded) and screwed them to an outhouse. He called this his ice-fishing house and wheeled it the five blocks to Lake Harriet every morning before school. 

It probably wasn't an outhouse and he probably wasn't ice-fishing. But the important thing was the procedure: Wake up before the crack of dawn, drag, push, and pull the little house through the dark and cold, onto the frozen lake. 

What a strange young man.

It has taken us years to fine-tune our order-processing procedure at Zeichen Press. It is now just like a beautifully choreographed ballet. Costumes are optional so Jen never wears hers. Anyway, we are testing out a new step in the procedure. I call it the Order Chute. 


Comments

June 12, 2011
How could cat doodie help our process?? That doesn't even make any sense.
June 12, 2011
What will happen next? I hope it doesn't involve cat doodie.
June 12, 2011
I remember one of the earlier versions for rolling the canoe had a pretty serious design flaw. The axle was a long threaded rod. We held the wheels on with nuts that fit directly to the axle. After a block or so, everything seized up. The nuts had kept screwing themselves inasmuch we rolled along. They tightened the tires right up to the canoe. Engineers we were not...

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