The day before yesterday I talked about the flower committee in Controlled Chaos, a fictitious group responsible for designing flowers. I said that the yellow flower featured in that post must have been designed right before their coffee break, and suggested that the hibiscus was designed immediately after. With that in mind, I got to thinking that this beautiful flower with nine petals and nine perfectly placed alternating stamens, and a magnificent centerpiece, could only have been designed after a break consisting of something far more powerful than coffee. I can almost hear one of the committee members saying, “Dude, let’s like make a huge cone-like thing using hundreds of these, and….” And the motion carried. Its degree of complexity far exceeds anything necessary. But there it is. They did what they could, and then some.