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| Subject: | Re: Creativity or Synthesisity? Just Dumb Luck |
| Poster: | Charlie M. 1958 |
| Date: | Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:23:47 -0500 |
| Related Postings: | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |
RonB wrote:
>> ...... I sat there for about an hour, just looking at the boards and
>> thinking, then I commenced cutting and gluing.
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> That sounds a little like me. I subscribe to the theory that if you stare
> at something long enough you can eventually make it happen.
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> I do, however make some shop sketches or even layout drawings of most
> projects. Can't help it - I was a draftsman in a previous life. I'm CAD
> trained but most of my experience in on the drawing board (For those
> unfamiliar, that is a flat table on which one uses pencils, pens,
> straightedges and various instruments to make precision drawings - WITHOUT a
> computer).
>
> RonB
>
>
LOL! My dad is a retired civil engineer from the pre-computer days. He
once showed me this contraption for making calculations... I think he
called it a "slide rule" or some such nonsense.....
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