A fundamental restructuring of the stairwell

Aug 30, 2006 10:20

Those of you who have read Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency may remember the bit where Richard, one of the main characters, managed to get a sofa stuck in a bend in his stairwell and wrote a computer program to simulate and analyze all the possibilities for removing it.  The program concluded that the sofa could not be moved ( Read more... )

destruction, moving, books

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stinky_monky August 30 2006, 16:33:59 UTC
If I lost $200 of my security deposit for a couple of spots on the carpet that I cleaned with the carpet machine before I moved out, your friend is definitely going to lose his for holes in the wall!

That's pretty funny...

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tim_wright August 30 2006, 18:38:53 UTC
AH, reminds me of The Brick. I think you actually helped me load that mother into the truck in Sacramento-and, when I got to Seattle I discovered (prior to even getting it off the truck-I'm not that dumb) there was no physical way to get it into the apartment. Alas, the discovery required that I find the dump and offload The Brick before I returned the moving truck.

Moving is so much fun.

But, uhm, if it went in, does not logic (and physics) dictate that it should come out again?

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