Life: once you're past your early twenties it becomes a war of attrition.
Nagging little things start to plague your existence .. a sprained ankle one year, a stiff calf every morning the next. A few too many beers and slowly a spare type starts to inflate uncontrollably around your middle. Suddenly you're forty and will never be able to run as fast as you could half a lifetime ago. Eek!
Wouldn't it be nice to be a solar panel instead? Not only could you laze around in the sun all day but once in a while a chap will come along and clean you. If you're very lucky, you may be one of the snazzy self-healing solar panels MIT have invented .. that would really be cool! (more…)