Meanwhile: I am grumpy, so I thought of Holi..

The clever thing from yesterday? Here, world: saw a dumb thing on (I admit) Cheezburger about how to make large, "unpoppable" supertotalfun bubbles using corn syrup and dish soap.

Okay, so how about you play around and make a simple device with an adjustable mouth for shooting bubbles of different sizes, which are formed and lofted with a simple crank kind of like a large (but very light) pepper mill. 

As the crank turns past a certain point (coinciding with near-complete bubble formation), an integral spoon flips a measure (proportional to bubble size) of an array of brightly colored powdered dyes into the bubble, which then seals and drifts aloft (or is driven there with fans).

I'm assuming one has tuned the bubbles to not be entirely unpoppable, but rather merely of a roughly-calibrated robustness (doubtless also related to size) that will, on average, ensure a lifespan of perhaps seconds or minutes.

Naturally, the particulars of the bubble recipe (e.g., bubble-popability-relative-to-ambient-humidity particulars) could be more finely-tuned for the various places in India where this cheap, recyclable device could be made, sold, and used — to what I imagine would be just phenomenal effect for India's Holi Festival .... having countless little melon-sized bubbles floating lazily upward into the sunset, bursting and falling on laughing kids in the river as the bauble-bombs are felled with squirt guns and pebbles.

I'd really like to see that. (And that's see that, not sell that.)

image credit: imovies4u.com via Unsung India

Of course, we would also need to experiment and see if we could, say, build fog up there — yeah, inside the bubbles (different bubbles this time). One could loft entire little science fair projects from these things — of course I want lightning in a bubble, but I'm an even bigger fan of water-soluble colors and things that don't hurt the environment, so I can stick to cleaner forms of madcappery.

I mean, who's to say that it wouldn't dramatically improve the lives of young squid if they were lofted in airborne seawater-filled bubbles for dozens or hundreds of miles, flying high above the ocean destined to reclaim them, dreaming newly-enchanted fishy little squid dreams ... 

It could be a thing of real beauty. Well, one of them, probably. Maybe. Definitely a mess. But a happy one.