In old days my grandfather, my father’s father, was also a builder and a carpenter and how they handled some matters with the bankers of my little town. They had this moonshine liquor stored somewhere and when the banker came and a bottle was brought to smoothen talks. It is all so funny and I know many people do not know this about old times. LOL 
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I watched my grandfather break out a bottle of scotch for the two men who did a great job delivering his new sofa to his most difficult livingroom to get into. House was built in 1905, and they ended up removing the window that was up 2 floors from the outside. The 2 strong young men were quite sweaty when done, so my grandfather thought it appropriate to reward them with a drink.
It was about 2PM, and the boys didn’t quite know how to respond, confused because this had never happened before.
They finally decided to pass on the drinks, but with gratitude naturally so as not to offend, siting they still had one more delivery to make before clocking out.
My grandfather thought this just as strange as the boy’s did I’m sure, and it left quite an impression on me.
I have many funny stories from my childhood. In old times all factories of my little town were owned by one industrial family and they had a factory doctor. This doctor actually prescribed high % alcohol to some people such as my father, we called this ‘spiritus fortus’ and it was all legal in those times in the same way as buying chloroform at the age of 15 at pharmacies of the town that I used to collect butterflies and moths that I still have now. Chloroform high makes you to feel little lighter in your mind, but I decided then not to do so. This is all so funny, this doctor belonged to an international organization through which I went to Devon, England in 1984 and started my world travels. I do indeed have funny stories from my childhood. 
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Candy is dandy and liquor is quicker
You can drink all the liquor down at Costa Rica
Ain’t nobody’s business but my own
Taj Mahal - Nobody’s Business But My Own
Butterfly and moth collecting was very much fun, but in my childhood I already studied wings of these butterflies and moths and these are very water-proof. I had my microscope and I even tried to color some wings without any success, but today they are heavily involved in researching water-proof properties of these wings and trying to develop nanotechnologies to create water-proof products such as clothing, oil pipelines, paper and other products. There is a movie ‘Papillon’ and according to this movie they use colors of some wings to create US banknotes. I do not know if this is true, but according to the move it is. There is so much that we may not know yet, but the future will bring new applications.
And not just moths.
There are many funny stories from my childhood such as when I helped my father in his carpenter activities and we were in the house of one English teacher and then we talked about my butterfly and moth collecting, and this teacher asked do I feel anything when I killed these butterflies and moths and I said ‘no’, it was my hobby.
As our computers have bit locations butterfly wings have mini-cell locations storing certain information.
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Why do I have ‘infinity’ dates back to my notebook entries in 1999 when I saw that one day we do not have only one bit location with 1 or 0, but we have a memory location in which we have in one location numerous values f.ex. 0 1 2 3 4 5 and so on. One day we have all this. It is like a word ‘black’ may mean numerous things in people’s minds around the world. One day we have this.