More Silly

So a couple days ago I was telling a coworker how Silly Putty is a liquid, a very slow moving liquid. She didn’t believe me so I set up a little demonstration and showed her. Yeah, I’m insane about Silly Putty, and people keep giving it to me. So at my desk I decided to setup something for the website.

I started out by rolling the putty into a column and then sticking it to a CD slimline case that I had lying on my desk. I clipped it to my note board so that it’d be hanging mostly vertical, just to see what happened.

Here’s how it looked to start:

I’m not sure how fast the stuff moves, but usually you really can’t see it moving. But if you set it up just right, sometimes you can. This was a typical time when I couldn’t see it actually moving, but if I looked away for a bit, then checked back it’d have moved. I took photos of it as it progressed, but I’ll spare you all the in between shots.

So after a little more than a day I came in to find that it had moved down the jewel box, finally reaching what seemed to be the limits of its movement. I wasn’t sure if it’d just keep going, but as today progressed it didn’t seem to move any further than where it was when I walked in. So I snapped one final shot and called it done.

It’s really thin up at the top, and I think sheer surface area is all that’s keeping it attached at the moment. As soon as I picked at it, the whole piece fell off. Anyway, this is what happens when they give you Silly Putty at the office. While on conference calls, while waiting on return emails, or while reading emails, I had Silly Putty out and was doing something with it.

Throughout the week I’ve been handed all sorts of colors of the stuff. And I don’t really think what we have is Silly Putty, just because it doesn’t pull up the funny pages. So who knows what this stuff actually is. The “silly” part of it all is probably how I’ve set up this demo just to show that it’s a liquid.