
The Christmas Cookie Conundrum
As I baked Christmas cookies I pondered why it is that it takes longer to clean up the Huge Mess than it does to create it. It seems like this would violate some law of physics. (The Law of Conservation of…what?) By the time the cookies were baked and the kitchen cleaned I’d come up with a working hypothesis. When the Mess is being created, it’s aided by entropy. The whole house is an entropy engine of such astonishing proportions that I’m surprised it doesn’t spill out and d