[GreenKeys] Two types of technical folks...

[Don Robert House]

Kevin,

There are two kinds of technical folks... especially engineers.

One appreciates what those who came before us accomplished...

The other lives on the bleeding edge of technology and only looks at  
today and tomorrow.

I once sent this list a document entitled "The Faith of the Engineer."

This document was originally written my members of the Mechanical  
Engineering Society

for the Boy Scout Engineering Merit Badge booklet.

You guessed it.  There were two distinct forms of replies that boiled  
down to the two

classifications mentioned above...

One particularly memorable incident took place when my museum was  
housed in my

garage at 3841 Reche Road, in Fallbrook, CA.  I had been having a  
tremendous

amount of trouble trying to print on my new Hewlett-Packard InkJet  
Printer.  After

many phone calls H-P sent out a field engineer to our home.  He  
brought a special

logic board with him that was modified to work better with Macintosh  
computers.

After he installed the board he told me that the printer would never  
work again with

a Windows based computer.  It still took about 5 minutes before the  
first copy would

come out.  Anyway,  I asked him if he would like to see my museum  
collection which

held hundreds of data communications artifacts.  George Hutchison had  
flown down

from his castle near Seattle, Washington and helped me for a week  
getting every

thing fixed up to display.  This included repairing a section of the  
floor.

As I opened my collection up and turned on the lights this man said...

"Who would want to save all of this junk!"  My response was simply...

"You know where the gate is."  Turned off the lights closed the  
doors.  Opened

the gate for the idiot and then closed it quickly behind him.

Sadly,  we will always have these two types of folks no matter how  
hard we

try to please.

Your friend forever,

Don
K9TTY