The Soda Jet Pack
What you need:
20 bottles of soda (the fizziest kind you can find)
A roll of masking tape (or 2)
A partner
What to do:
Shake the HECK out of the soda bottles. Do this for at least an hour (your partner can help you with this). This is important, as the invention will not work if this step is not done properly. Then using the masking tape (your partner can help you with this too), strap the shaken soda bottles to your back with the part you drink from facing down. Then your partner will unscrew the soda bottles. This should make you get at least 6 feet off the ground.
Please remember that these are things I, Phoebe, comes up with, not some crazy scientist, so if they do not work, or do work but some injuries are included it is NOT my fault. Sue your local soda dealer, not me.
Hermes
Hermes, god of theft, mischief, and a messenger of the gods, is one of my favorite gods. Why? Because
he likes a good joke. He's also very cunning and clever. An example is the story of IO. Here it is:
IO is a beautiful maiden who lives in the city of Athens. So beautiful, in fact, that she caught the great king of the gods, Zeus's eye. So Zeus takes her to a picnic in the disguise of a young man (gods can shape into any shape they want). While this is going on, Hera, Zeus's wife is watching. Though Zeus cheating on her is a daily thing, she, of course, still hated it and wanted to teach him a lesson. So she goes down to earth , to their picnic spot, and just as she is about to jump in on the two, Zeus senses her coming and turns IO into a cow. Hera knows that the cow is IO, so she decides to humor him. She asks him, in a pure, innocent, kinda way, why he is having a picnic with a cow, and Zeus, thinking fast, says
the cow is a gift for Hera, as Hera's eyes matched the cow's. (you may think that Zeus put his foot in his mouth really far on that note, but saying someone had cow eyes was a very high compliment in ancient Greece). Hera pretends to be flattered, and then takes the cow to a cave guarded by her faithful servant, Argus, who had fifty eyes all over his body. So what? you think. Where's Hermes in all of this? I'm getting to that! So the Argus dude has to watch IO day and night. Zeus is feeling pretty bad about this, and calls Hermes to save her.
Hermes goes to Argus and tells him a long, boring story of how his sheep graze, and soon Argus was asleep. Hermes touched all fifty of his eyes, that were never to wake again, and then set IO free. I mean, she was forever a cow. So that's unfortunate. But still! She was free.
Well, that's it for story time. And Gears and Gods. But don't worry! I have a new blog that you can visit
if you want more Phoebe. Here's the link: http://www.nerdalertonline.blogspot.com/
