Today's Basket

[susandennis]

Ok, backward wing has been ripped off and frontwards wing started... grrrr. I used to embroider quite cute (edited, thanks geordie) sayings (yeah, bite me) but quit when I once misspelled a word in the middle of a piece. Wonder if embroiderers use spell check these days.

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[geordie.livejournal.com]

"Quite sayings"? Sorry, I don't get that. Perhaps I am being thick.

Mistakes in hard to fix places are not fun: When my friend Keith Woollvin left my old company, Hunting Engineering, one of our mutual friends, Carl Edwin, got his leaving present, a pewter tankard, engraved with his name... "Keith Woolvin". Presented with all due ceremony it was greeted with a laugh and "two 'l's mate". Poor Carl looked like he just wanted the floor to swallow him.

[susandennis]

Ha!! I make a typo while writing about typos I used to make. That totally seems beyond irony!!

My friend, Jim, was a weekend woodworker. It drove him absolutely nuts that I could just rip out my knitting mistakes and redo them with no penalty. And yet, one teensy booboo in his wood project and he was screwed.

[geordie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Stasia is 'happy' to pull out rows and rows if she can't do anything to recover from a mistake. I also don't get how she can 'let down' the rows above to fix some types of problem. I see nothing remarkable in the software antics I get up to, but perhaps they are equally unlikely to non-software or non-engineering people.

My mother missed a cable out of an Aran sweater and didn't notice until she got to the shoulders. She spent 15 minutes going from "nobody will notice" to "any time I see this all I will notice is the error" then pulled out a week of work. Maybe not 40 hours, but all she had done in the last week. Then she cast on and started again.

I threw away six months of someone else's hardware and software before :D Replaced it with a $200 serial card and a few reads, writes, QIOWs and ASTs (Queued IO Wait, Asynchronous System Traps in VAX/VMS) which I rewrote one weekend.