The folk at arcattack.com know what electricity is really for. As their site explains it,Tesla coils:
“… produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt which put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers.”
Which means you can play tunes on them. Like this guy, getting lightly grilled (about 45 seconds in) to the strains of the Imperial March.
Thanks to Major Clanger for the info.
Shortly before Christmas, a hole appeared in the ceiling of our porch, which was goodness knows how old and possibly original to the building The hole looked a bit like this, only smaller.
Then it grew to look exactly like that; then it grew to look like that but even bigger. Each fall stabilised it a little, until the edges of the new hole succumbed to gravity and fell. You can see an incipient dangly bit next to the light fitting.
But no more. The entire old ceiling now looks like this:
… and its replacement like this.
Drying out nicely, which sadly means we’ve missed the chance to do some interesting Sistine Chapel-type frescoes in the plaster. Probably just as well.
The snow is all but gone but in Albert Park the remains of the snowmen linger on, scattered around the grass. It’s like something Anthony Gormley might have installed when he was very young.