Re: [MLUG] progress .... ???/

[Dave Lloyd <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Michael wrote:

> > That's mostly true.  There are a whole lot of things that I can't fix.
> > Probably more than what I can fix.  But, it's like that for everyone.
> > The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
> 
> I can fix anything given the time to do it. I am as always confident in 
> my abilities to understand anything. That doesn't mean I won't spend 
> years and years figuring out what I'm poking and studying and 
> experimenting and so on.. I certainly don't know it all now.. but given 
> time I can do it. The more I know the more I realize I don't know.. the 
> more I realize I don't know the more starved I am to know. If I long to 
> be immortal it's only so that I can spend all time consuming ever 
> greater amounts of knowledge.

Learning enough EE stuff to respin a CPU or ASIC to correct a hardware
bug would take quite some time.  Espically if you have to try and
characterize a very intermittent bug.

> My greatest impatience is with living things. I feel that I could, with 
> time, fix the ill or even dead.. but as such things eventually decompose 
> I lack the time. I have for a long time felt that eventually I could 
> unravel time enough to copy objects from the past into the present.. and 
> when I reach that point I'll be able to give myself however much time I 
> may need to learn to fix anything. I have a whole theory of how time and 
> space really work and interact that I invented as a teenager and am just 
> looking for the proper tools to manipulate those now. My own lil flux 
> capacitor I guess you could say. Others believe in afterlife.. I believe 
> in my own ability to hack anything.. so I guess it's not any crazier 
> than normal.. just different.

You'll also have to go 88mph.  Maybe you're that fellow that sent me the
time travel spam, but just in the future so you don't know about it yet.

> I think most people enjoy solving problems.. they just feel 
> uncomfortable challenging problems (so that they can then solve them). 
> That and they are often to busy with more practical matters.

Nope, not my experience. A lot of people just prefer not to think about
it, sadly. But, it takes all different types. If everyone loved to fix
stuff as much as I do, then I'd be out of a job. :)

> I'm both top down and bottom up I guess. I like fixing things but 
> usually such that I can understand them better and thus make new and 
> better things. I'm more of what you might call a tinker or an inventor 
> than a repair guy, scientist, or engineer. Even as young as a toddler 
> I'd take things apart and rebuild them as good as, or better, than the 
> original. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing but somehow I get 
> there anyway.. just intuit my way there. ;)

I like to tinker, too.  Improvements are OK, and fixing is OK, but
designing from basic principles eludes me for many things.

-- 
--dlloyd

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