The fun I had experienced in making things as a boy was magnified a hundredfold when I began making things as a man. There is in manufacturing a creative joy that only poets are supposed to know. Some day I'd like to show a poet how it feels to design and build a railroad locomotive.
- Walter P. Chrysler, Life of An American Workman (1937)
I like that. Thanks for sharing!
Aut inveniam viam aut faciam
Here's another one I've always liked... he was writing about software development (teaching that is my job), but it applies just as much to woodworking (my sanity check): First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design.
Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful.
Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning.
Fourth is the joy of always learning. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something.
Fred Brooks on "Why Is Programming Fun?"
Because it's on SWMBO's list.
Max D.
The joy that I have in walking down a wood row In a yard run by a man who knows trees and the cutting of them Who keeps his best stock in a private place And expects to be asked where it is
When I have in my mind a list Of pieces and parts that will go into my current paramour To make her legs slim and refined To give life to the curves that haunt my imagining
Some men say that what I do is naught but geometry Sad fools Best to leave them to their confines
I come upon a bole of Cherry Grown in the mountains of Pennsylvania For so long that saws can not slab it with a single cut A force of nature beyond the measure and manipulation of man
It is ruddy with its essence It is rough as the soil that it has sprung form It is as honest and true as any thing can be
It is perfect
When I am finished If I am true to my task I will have preserved its ruddiness I will have smoothed its roughness
I will have applied the art of man To the art of God
And it will be as honest and true As any man made thing can be
Amen
Tom Watson - WoodDorker tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (email)
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:31:23 -0400, the inscrutable Tom Watson spake:
Good'un, Tawm. Now fix your typoes and grammar. ("came" vs. "come", "sprung from" vs. "sprung form")
LJ--Critic & WET At Large
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Are you perhaps related to Dan Quayle?
"...the man ain't got no culture..."
(rob z.)
You will never understand poetry, nor high language, C-Less.
You've proven it over and over again.
BTW - I still love you for whom you are (now, isn't that damned awkward - the language, I mean?)
Tom Watson - WoodDorker tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (email)
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:14:18 -0400, the inscrutable Tom Watson spake:
No, you? He added an "e" to a singular where it didn't belong.
As Margaret Shertzer wrote in her book, The Elements of Grammar, "Most common nouns ending in "o" preceded by a consonant form their plurals by adding an "es" to the singular." typo, typoes.
Webster agreed in their New Collegiate dictionary with "The plural form of a noun ending in a consonant and "o" is -oes: hero, heroes."
P.S: You didn't address the grammar issue, "spring form", did you? I wonder why not.
I freely admit that's true, but you ain't go no couth; goin' 'round spouting poetry in public and all. ;)
I prefer NOT to "understand" poetry, thanks. I preferred Blake's art. Now, a good limerick is another thing altogether. Gimme more!
(Oops, that provides for an even more awkward situation.)
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A bunch of funny stuff.
You made me laugh out loud, C-Less.
Thanks.
Creating things is what I do, the more challenging, the better. If was easy, anyone could do it.
Dave
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"Teamcasa" wrote in news:426fb7d4$1_5@127.0.0.1:
There has to be a good reason. Any fool can beat their head against the wall, and call it a challenge. There's no satisfaction in that. BTDT.
Patriarch
OK - I had to run this morning and didn't have time to look up the reference until now:
Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition. 2000. p.
1549: "Typo" n., pl. "pos"...Now pay up!
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:12:18 -0400, the inscrutable Tom Watson spake:
Damn those revisionist historians! I'm still 2:1 on ya, so it's time for your crowbar, not mine.
Now pay up!
There's something about 'Murricans fighting over the English language that just makes me smile....
It's good to see you two haven't changed.
cheers,
Groggy [poo suit /on}
This coming from an Aussie?
Hee, hee. Same here.
Chuck Vance
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:34:31 GMT, the inscrutable Groggy spake:
Tanks, Grogs. ;)
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:58:38 -0500, the inscrutable Conan The Librarian spake:
Yeah, cuz' we usually hassle him, the Poms, and the Canuckistanis over their misspellings of our language.
Groggy wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
As well as watching two parsimonius tightwads tough it out.
Watch. It will eventually degrade into one agreeing to pay but then "realizing" he left his wallet at home.
Ad hominem not far away...
I'm pretty sure this is how the whole Hatfield/McCoy thing started too,
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:30:47 GMT, the inscrutable Patrick Conroy spake:
Ain't that a bit redundant there, Roy?
It could happen.
Not from here. I prefer grits.
Careful you don't start a Jaquesfield/Conroy thing, son.
(Ma, fetch my bucket o' buckshot. I feel a bit of joyful entertaining about to happ'n...)
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Nope. As a Hatfield descendant on Mom's side, I can say it was, as always, a woman.
Family bible has a lot of Hatfield-McCoy marriages prior.
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