[TheForge] [YAK] Re: Geeks with anvils

[Jerry Frost]

>
> Frosty quoth:
>
> > So tell me Mike are you so bored you search out and read these things?
>
> Okay, okay.  I confess.  I take a quick browse over Slashdot nearly
> every day.  Mea culpa.  I find something interesting as often as a
> couple or three times a week.   When I could be sintering a blivet or
> sharpening my anvil.  I know.
>

Oh goodness, I wasn't looking for an admission or anything like that. we all
have our "thing" so to speak. Truth to tell I got a chuckle out of a number
of things I read there.

> > Was it a quirk of a search for something else?
> > Maybe somebody sent it to you?
>
> Aren't *you* curious about "What Do People in the IT Field Do for Side
> Jobs?"

No.

I've known a couple IT (who admit it) people for some years now and I figure
beating the crap out of hot steel is as close to keeping their sanity as
they're gonna get.

>What do blacksmiths do after they punch out?  Go sailing?
> Study Kabala?  Write Lisp code?  Feed goats?
>

Go to their paying job? I do.

> No worse that browsing E-bay for $1000 top swages, eh? :-)
>
> My *excuse*, feeble though it may be, is that I'm a GNU/Linux user and
> I wanna keep abreast of the Linux news.
>

Now wait a second! I'm not looking for excuses. None necessary. I stand in
awe and admiration of the man who single handedly converted an Alldays and
Onions power hammer to a K drive.

I'm NOT worthy.

>
>   "Look out!  He's got a knife!"
>   "That's nawt a knaife.  *This* is a knaife."
>                        -- Crocodile Dundee
>
>   "So tell me Mike are you so bored..."
>    That's not bored.  *This* is bored:
>
>       http://www.myedgemere.com/ross_tomb.htm
>
> And in Halifax, too.  Think of that.
>

Holy CRAP is that fascinating! How do you play?

>
> Michael H. Murphy wrote:
>
> > http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/
>
>     The energy of the universe is constant.
>     The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.
>     The stupidity of the universe is infinite.
>
> My photographer told me of a customer who came in with some 2x2
> negatives and snapshot prints.  She wanted 8x10 prints.  So, he says,
> what can I crop?   Don't crop nothing, she says.  Well then, there
> will be empty space at the top and bottom.  No, she says, no, No, NO!
> I want them 8x10s just exactly like these here snapshots.  No
> explanation helped and she left to get her 8x10s elsewhere.
>
> And then there was the guy who looked over a Jag XK140, scrutinized
> the knock-off hubs for the wire wheels and asked, "What year Undo is
> that?"
>
> It ain't just computers.
>
>
> - Mike
>
> --
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.

You're the greatest Bro.

Frosty
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