Hmm. Gyroscopic stabilization of laundry?

We have a washer-drier unit with the dryer right above the washer.  I had the worst time today balancing the washing, until I turned on the dryer, when the shimmying stopped.  I'm seriously wondering if the dryer is acting as a gyroscope for the washing machine.

The thing to do to test this hypothesis is to replace the dryer with a large gyroscope.  Does anyone know where I can get a 2-foot wide set of high-speed gyros?

The sepia nature of a cat

I've found one thing when taking pictures on my Blackberry- two if you exclude the "the focus on this thing is broken, or the lens is smudged" realization. 

But in this case, it's "Taking a sepia picture of a black cat on a yellow cat post in front of a yellow wall really doesn't accomplish much.

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