[TheForge] [YAK] Re: Geeks with anvils

[Jerry Smith]

         You know when a computer doesn't want to cooperate you take it 
apart, either software or hardware or both. When a piece of steel doesn't 
want to cooperate, you heat it up and beat the heck out of it.
         Much better hob satisfaction. :D

Jerry


At 12:21 AM 12/5/2004, you wrote:


> >
> > 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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