On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Andy Thompson wrote:
> Light? I'm awed by those who manipulate electricity. Sorcery, I call
> it. The work of Beelzebub. I mean, WHY, exactly, do a bunch of
> particles too small to see zooming along a wire make things work? And
> why can they kill you? I've had the water analogy explained to me a
> million times, but I still don't get it. I'm going to go and live in a
> cave.
i hear ya.
my father [an engineer of many sorts] used to try and explain things to
me. he finally gave up after spending 2 hours trying to explain his
slide rule to me. he wore it in a pouch on his belt the way people
wear a cell phone today.
he was better at doing than he was at teaching.
i inherited the slide rule.
still have it.
still have no idea how he used it.
[yet, i can read stereo instructions and badly translated synth manuals,
and my VCRs only blink "12:00" after a power outage]
...jeff
> Andy T.
> M400 #1145: Wondering if steam power might work.
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