After dozens of happy experiments, my confidence was high and I felt ready to take on the mother of all flavored mayos: bacon mayonnaise.
His long, wildly unpredictable career has taken him from Mali to the Ivory Coast, then on to France and America, and has been marked both by such brilliant recordings as Soro or his early work with the Rail Band and Les Ambassadeurs, and by less happy experiments in matching his glorious voice against western jazz fusion.
Taking the new functional aesthetic into the home, however, did not prove an entirely happy experiment.
They revisited the "smile" versus "happy" experiment but this time asked participants to predict how happy they would feel 24 hours later, after they had completed their task.
My reflections from having been at MIT are that all the buildings are like a huge basement inside, and my father was always very happy experimenting with his stuff in the basement.
Noises of war offstage would always have brought this happy experiment to an end, but it was the lure of Frigidaire (an American company seeking to establish itself in Britain) during her first season of "resting" that, in fact, pulled her back into steady employment, demonstrating domestic science and education in the broadest sense.
This happy experiment isn't as dangerous as wielding a blowtorch but, if you're patient, can result in a lovely image: a snowflake captured in a drop of superglue.
"It was a happy experiment… you might call it an accident," they said of the track in a press release.
They're happier experimenting as the double act Freeze!, which they do every Monday in a 60-seat Camden theatre, or creating stageplays like Party, which co-starred 2009 Edinburgh best newcomer Jonny Sweet alongside comics Anna Crilly, Katy Wix and Nick Mohammed.
Attridge filled us in on where Godus was at, how the studio was going about games in a whole new way – it was 22cans behind the tap-happy experiment Curiosity – What's Inside The Cube? – and was genuinely made up at the Kickstarter response they got: Godus met its £450,000 target.
Somebody else can fund the Space Station's happy microgravity experiments, and meanwhile the federally funded missions would go out to Mars.
