[perl4ever]

Sometimes I find myself in a state of mind that is more commonly achieved by other people with drugs, where contemplating something mundane in a new way amazes me.

One example is I was thinking about path dependence in manufacturing or growing things. If you take a large handful of dry spaghetti, you can break it fairly consistently in half. But if you cook it first, there is no way to split all the strands in half any more.

[tuukkah]

The O(n) Spaghetti Sort also requires dry spaghetti: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_sort