[This very short old man in a pair of round-lensed golden glasses always sets up display at the arts and crafts fair to promote his shop - he's a craftsman and more specifically a rather old-fashioned tinkerer with a fondness for frivolity-such-as-toymaking; he's got a few simple but intricate little wind-ups, things with several pieces to them, and what-have-yous running on more simple machinery laid out. They're not cheap, but the price is negotiable.
In the back of his setup is also a Rube Goldberg machine of the I'm-unsure-where-this-begins-or-ends variety. He'll point out either one for you happily if he notices you poking around at it.]
B.
[That same short old man has come up over visual on the network.
Beaming with amusement. He giggles in all but the actual sound.]
Ah -- have a look at this.
[It's a camera he's using, all right, on a tripod or some other stand. He tilts it downward to give a look at what's on the desk before him.
It appears to be a candle. A plain white candle sitting on top of a metal base, a bit taller than it needs to be...]
Here - you see... [He picks it up, turns it around, and tilts something out from the base on a hinge. It's a rectangle made of glass.] - This looks like... the lens, from - [Holds it up to his eye.] - a pair of glasses. Does almost as well as my prescription, too!
[And moves it from there, holds it out before him, turning it around...] But now, I can't see anywhere it might have been meant to, er - attach to anything -- mount anywhere. I imagine it was meant to help its user see, see - a light source and a lens, together.
How about you, out there, how do you think this might've been used?
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[This very short old man in a pair of round-lensed golden glasses always sets up display at the arts and crafts fair to promote his shop - he's a craftsman and more specifically a rather old-fashioned tinkerer with a fondness for frivolity-such-as-toymaking; he's got a few simple but intricate little wind-ups, things with several pieces to them, and what-have-yous running on more simple machinery laid out. They're not cheap, but the price is negotiable.
In the back of his setup is also a Rube Goldberg machine of the I'm-unsure-where-this-begins-or-ends variety. He'll point out either one for you happily if he notices you poking around at it.]
B.
[That same short old man has come up over visual on the network.
Beaming with amusement. He giggles in all but the actual sound.]
Ah -- have a look at this.
[It's a camera he's using, all right, on a tripod or some other stand. He tilts it downward to give a look at what's on the desk before him.
It appears to be a candle. A plain white candle sitting on top of a metal base, a bit taller than it needs to be...]
Here - you see... [He picks it up, turns it around, and tilts something out from the base on a hinge. It's a rectangle made of glass.] - This looks like... the lens, from - [Holds it up to his eye.] - a pair of glasses. Does almost as well as my prescription, too!
[And moves it from there, holds it out before him, turning it around...] But now, I can't see anywhere it might have been meant to, er - attach to anything -- mount anywhere. I imagine it was meant to help its user see, see - a light source and a lens, together.
How about you, out there, how do you think this might've been used?