before the pandemic, on a holiday with my partner our kids, we had hired a campervan that was infested with bedbugs - they got in everything, bit us everywhere.

before the pandemic, on a holiday with my partner our kids, we had hired a campervan that was infested with bedbugs - they got in everything, bit us everywhere. After cleaning and obsessively toasting everything in the bryon bay laundromat tumble dryers, my partner went with the kids and I drove the van back to the rental place and walked to Brisbane airport with a clean set of clothes sealed in a plastic bag. When I explained to the gate staff that I might have bedbugs on me and wanted to shower and change before I boarded the plane home, they gave me the key to the pilot's bathroom. It's a dark tiled room, and at the far end of the room is the entrance to a magnificent shower, you step through a rounded rectangle portal into stainless steel balloon, perhaps pressed steel, perhaps, hydroformed, a glorious squircle cube (sphube?), with enough space for a pilot, a co pilot and all the cabin staff to purify and rejuvenate under the monsoons of hot water that torrent from an enormous shower rose at the apex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squircle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squircle https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/04/04/higher-dimensional-squircles/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/04/04/higher-dimensional...