Entropy

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Entropy /ˈɛntrəpi/ (n.)
A warm, tepid place, rather like a recently-sat-upon lavatory seat.

He lived alone in this deteriorating, blind building of a thousand uninhabited apartments, which like all its counterparts, fell, day by day, into greater entropic ruin. Eventually everything within the building would merge, would be faceless and identical, mere pudding-like kipple piled to the ceiling of each apartment. And, after that, the uncared-for building itself would settle into shapelessness, buried under the ubiquity of the dust.

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Could refer to:

• Any of the Jolly Contrarian’s:

• first law of worker entropy
• second law of worker entropy
• third law of worker entropy
• fourth law of worker entropy
• fifth law of worker entropy
• sixth law of worker entropy or
• seventh law of worker entropy.

• The boredom heat death of the universe.
• The place betwixt an executing broker and a clearing member.