[TheForge] Re: Geeks with anvils-YAK

[Michael H. Murphy]

It's all a matter of training and experience.  I remember a beginning
blacksmith class where the students were to draw out a round tapered point.
One didn't listen too well when told to draw it out square and then round it
off.  He sure spent a lot of time trying to draw it out round.  You can
learn to do almost anything if you're willing to work and study a bit.

Murf

> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:theforge-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 2:25 AM
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [TheForge] Re: Geeks with anvils-YAK
> 
> 
> Getting ever so slightly back on-topic...
> 
> Phlip wrote:
> 
> > ...the basic concept of a computer- it does EXACTLY what you tell it
> > to.
> 
> Which is one reason I like iron.  If it does (so to speak) exactly
> what you tell it to instead of what you meant it to, you heat it up
> and smack it about a bit until it looks like you meant it to.  And
> sometimes it does something you didn't mean it to that you like better
> than what you meant it to.
> 
> Now were I to try that with my computer, like so...
> 
> Keyboard not found, press F4 to continue
> Error BA37C4: bit accelerator parity failure
> 
> coredump...................
> 
> kernel panic^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@NO CARRIER
> 
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