ernie, So for reasons out of my control, the fresh Tedium we had planned to post needed to get delayed for a week. (It’s going to be a piece by @mattl, who I appreciate for being flexible amid chaos on my end.)
But the great thing about @tedium is that it has archives hundreds of miles deep, and it led me to resurface an eight-year-old piece about umbrella patents:
https://tedium.co/2024/05/04/umbrella-invention-innovation-challenges/