Kaleidoscope of failure
2022-05-30
In order for success to exist something opposite of it has to exist as well. For every up there is a down. For every left there is a right. It is only logical. In order to know success one has to know failure as well. They are inexorably linked – the only way to not know failure is to not know success.
Society heavily favors success. Again this is logical. We are bags of mostly water and we do whatever makes us feel best. But can we appreciate success if we don’t experience failure? Or better yet, can we appreciate success if we don’t appreciate failure? To be clear there is a difference between appreciate and favor. I can appreciate a good ass-beating although I would not favor being on the receiving-end given the option. Not appreciating failure is tantamount to eating only sweet stuff.
One of my favorite sayings: you can’t soar like an eagle and crap like a canary (phrase supposedly coined by Ed Sabol; don’t know the man personally) because it’s a cutesy saying and because it conveys an axiom of the human condition. I personally replace crap with shit because I am a ruffian.
Side note – while researching the attribution of the above quote, I learned about fecal sacks. It’s a an encapsulating read; highly recommended. I literally LOVE THE INTERNET. Once everyone finds out about it our species will be rocketed into the 21st century.
To that end, lets start spinning the kaleidoscope of failure 💯 ‼️‼️‼️
What we have here are the shattered remains of something along the lines of this lovely self drilling screw. This is what it conceptually looks like before it is victimized.
Courtesy of McMaster – permission not received because not asked for.
Also in this picture is a broken drill bit. Also from McMaster. This item specifically. I love McMaster. Once everyone finds out about it individuals will be empowered to create.
I love this next one. It’s a screw broken off at the thing that it was tapping it self into. Joy of joys! </sarcasm> If only there was ways to deal with such disasters.
Two failures in one thing! A freshly painted thing! I’m pretty sure this one culminated in a temper tantrum. To be clear, this is two failed holes mere inches next to each other. 
A bouquet of failures. Left to right: bolt head snapped off. Drilly bit snapped off, bigger screw. Drilly bit snapped off, smaller screw. Drill bit broke. The screwy part stripped out. Attempt at removing piece that broke off flush the hard way; not great outcome. Attempt at removing piece that broke off flush the hard way; super great outcome. A piece that broke off flush and was removed the easy way.
This is an example of an attempt at removing a broken off bolt the hard way AND SUCCEEDING! This never happens. The drill stayed centered inside the broken off bit. The operator did not fart, yawn, blink, or breathe in the wrong lung. This is an example of a shit suck situation that was resolved using “best practices”. This folks, is a picture of a big foot riding a unicorn with a UFO overhead – ALL IN CRISP FOCUS.
To make one thing clear – the above is a representative sample of failures. That is not an exhaustive list of failures; representative sample.
Oh, and just because, a failure to waffle:
