Greatest technological advance in the history of mankind

ColumbusGal and I have a small house in one of Columbus's inner ring neighborhoods, the kind of place that would be worth Justine Bateman's entire pile if we lived in Los Angeles. Recently we remodeled our kitchen, which over the decades of slow modernization had become a cluster of poorly organized patchwork.

With just a tiny exception or two we did all the work ourselves, and it involved moving everything--refrigerator, stove, sink and all that p & e that goes with them. Doing so really opened the space up .

Now it's quite nice. We kept the appliances, and the key to the whole thing was refrigerator placement.


The very best moment in the whole affair? The very last one: reversing the refrigerator doors. The elegant engineering behind this has to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

I might reverse them back and then again, just to re-experience the satisfaction.