The Awesome Power of Perspective

It certainly doesn't look very powerful or dangerous, does it? But perhaps I'm just being paranoid because The China Syndrome was just on telly the other night. This may seem a bit off topic, but you should know that the plumbing here is very odd. Take the showers, for instance. The water for our shower comes from somewhere else than the rest of the water in the house. You can flush the toilet, turn on all the sinks and ride the bidet as much as you'd like in our home and it won't affect the person in the shower. There's a magic box in the shower which provides an infinite supply of hot water. It took me a while to figure this out. It's not like the magic box above the stove which heats the water for the rest of the house. That is a gas heater like the ones that are used to torture treeplanters back in Canada. No, this one is much smaller and seems to work by magic. There's no noise, the heat is instant and you can set it to melt the hooves of dead ungulates if you need to make soap. It took me a while to figure it out, but what those clever and practical British have done is wonderfully elegant in its simplicity. They've just got a separate plumbing system running parallel to the normal one and the magic box just mixes the cooling water from the Heysham power plant with the water from the normal plumbing system. Voila, instant hot water!