I know. Riveting stuff.
Despite how small these images appear on the website, they are large files.
For me, they load at the same speed a normal website would load on the 3DS browser.
Four and a bit weeks ago (2022-03-02), I took a latex glove, and decided to inflate it like a balloon.
I don't really know why, but for whatever reason, I did.
The balloon as it looked on the day it was inflated.
Notice how the fingers are not inflated, and that the skin has gone thin and pale.
This shows that the balloon is relatively fragile, and would burst if put under much pressure.
The balloon knot was especially difficult to tie.
Normally with a latex balloon, you'd wrap the end around your finger, then push the end through the loop and pull it tight.
But the opening of a letex glove is significantly wider, about the size of a wrist.
Thus it took several attempts to tie the knot (to clarify, meaning tie the balloon knot, not meaning to get married).
Which also meant several attempts at inflating the balloon, making loud, questionable and worrisome sounds to all those in earshot.
I then left the balloon for three weeks, because I had better and more interesting things to do with my life than photograph inflated surgical gloves.
I came back to it three weeks later when I'd run out of worthier ways to spend my time, and reexamined it.
The balloon had shrunk significantly, to what could be described as a disappointing size.
A severe decrease in girth, and the skin has reverted to a similar colour to the fingers.
This shows that the balloon is no longer experiencing significant pressure.
The very existence of this photo also shows that I have very niche interests.
I say interests, but glove balloons, whilst a novelty, aren't that interesting.
The small creases where I am holding the balloon show that I can compress it a little without it becoming stressed.
The skin is still a little pale, which shows it is under a little bit of pressure.
If you put your hands together as if in prayer you can get an idea of how thick it is.
By this point, the entire length of February had passed, and the novelty had started to wear off.
The skin is a little darker, meaning that it's deflated a little since last week.
The glove would likely plateau out and get slowly thinner at a decreasing rate if left further.
The continued deflation shows that a balloon knot is not quite airtight.
The higher air pressure inside a more inflated glove would likely force air through the knot faster.
So you could probably plot its width as a factor of a 1/x graph.
The balloon is also so deflated that your fingers can touch if you press them into each side.
Eventually, I got bored of the ageing balloon, and I wanted it gone.
I disposed of the balloon by stamping on it and then putting the torn remains in a bin.
The pop was less than spectacular, and severely underwhelming.
One day, this blog will have something a bit more exciting than stolen medical gloves and pictures of balloons.
Until that day, this is the level of interesting you're going to get.
If you look at the website files, the numbering of the photos may be a little inconsistent.
This is because I took no photos at the fourteen day mark, and for the days I did record, I had more photos than necessary.
Also, I resized each image to 25% in the html file for this website to make them not need horizontal scrolling on a PC browser.
This may have generated inconsistent sizing, but imperfection is part of the aesthetic of this website.
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The fact that this page has more images than the memes page (all information correct at time of writing: 2022-03-06) means it's probably time to add some more memes.