Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you have to make a choice "should I buy this giant pile of widgets even though I have no idea what i'm going to do with them but they're so damn cool that it would be a crime not to buy them!?" of course you have! Good I feel better now. I found these little fellas hiding in a grungy green milk crate beneath an old work bench at the junk store the other day. I was awestruck as soon as I saw them... my mind suddenly racing with ideas for future usage! (cabinet door knobs, table tops, lamp pulls, paper weights and so on). The tag on the crate didn't help much, all it said was "sales samples". When I got them home and started looking at them closer, there's probably 300 of them (blue, brownish maroon, black and clear), I realized what they were...I think. This is just a theory, based on the available evidence; it looks like they came from a material research lab of some sort. All the little pieces incased in the resin are defects from industrial metal parts. I think what happens is a manufacturer sends defect parts, etc, to this research lab and then they grind the piece smooth on one side and then pour resin over it incasing it in a resin block. Then they probably place it under a microscope of some sort so they can study the metal to see what went wrong. I'm thinking it's some sort of industrial material Forensic lab for small manufactured metal parts. I suppose they find out what made it fail, what "killed" it! On the back of each resin "core" there are "LAB ID" numbers and "notes" etched into them. Some of them say "FAIL" or "GOOD" and a few even say "SPECIAL INVESTIGATION" which of course leads me to believe the FBI must have been involved. I imagine they were TOP SECRET evidence from a ghastly industrial factory incident. A small part in a big noisy machine decides one day he can't take the pressure any longer and snaps, sending an explosion of machine guts piercing through the air, maiming and killing anyone in the vicinity... these things happen! I guess now it's my responsibility to give these little trouble makers a brighter future. I'm sure it will take a lot of late night brain storming, decision making and lots of coffee but I'm up for the challenge!
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