For my response today, I have opted to reblog this post about Rube Goldberg machines because, a) I love them, and b) I realised that my description of them could be an analogy for life (and yes indeed, form the basis for an autobiography):
….”a deliberately complex contraption, in which a series of simple devices perform simple tasks that link together and produce a domino effect…”
Today’s Daily Post Prompt “rube”, immediately got me thinking about the one and only, cartoonist and inventor, Rube Goldberg and those fantastic Rube Goldberg Machines.
A Rube Goldberg Machine is a deliberately complex contraption, in which a series of simple devices perform simple tasks to link together and produce a domino effect (e.g. activating one device triggers, the next device which activates the next etc. in a sequence).
I first remember watching them in action on Sesame Street, in various formats.
Whether it was learning the alphabet in that crazy, apartment filled with nonsense…
…or being fascinated, watching that little red ball unearth a delight at the end of its travels…
…or giggle as Kermit’s attempt miserably fails!
In later years, I enjoyed a Rube Goldberg Machine in the form of the board game, “Mousetrap!”
Of course we never did actually play the game properly. We just loved the chain…
By Sarah 
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