Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
“He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail,” said Abraham Maslow, he of the Maslow Pyramid fame. This is an excellent point; it is so worthy that it has given birth to what has become known as the Law of the Instrument. A craftsman settles upon a procedure for solving a given problem, tailoring the solution to his inventory of available tools rather than to the nature of the problem.
There are many variations of this. In software development I’ve had an opportunity to see them first hand. There may be more that I have not yet encountered, but I thought I’d make a little list of what I can recall personally:
1. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
2. When you have drawn lots of attention to your hammer, everything looks like a nail.
3. When you have invested lots of money or time in your hammer, everything looks like a nail.
4. If you’ve just stabbed yourself with a screwdriver, lots of things tend to start looking like nails.
5. When you are in a position to invoice on a per-hammer-swing basis, lots of things look like nails.
6. If you find out your wife is leaving you for a riveter, things look a lot like nails.
7. When the person in the room who talks the loudest says it’s a nail, it starts to look like a nail.
8. When you’ve just finished pounding in lots of nails, the next thing looks a lot like a nail.
9. When you’re on a deadline that allows for pounding but not riveting or driving, everything looks like a nail.
10. When you’ve earned a degree in pounding nails with hammers, everything looks like a nail.
11. If the hammer is a fan of your sports team and the carpet-stapler roots for the other side, things look like nails.
12. After you’ve read a particularly well-written book about hammers, things look like nails even when you haven’t gone out and bought yourself a hammer yet.
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And when you need to put one of those suitable for framing certificates of participation somewhere on a wall, there’s always some dickhead who insists
that they “know someone” with a complete set of 747 specific Snap-On tools in their Kennedy triple tool chest that’s in the back of their Boom- service truck that
MUST have a cordless, hi-volt, battery tool system, suitable to laser-locate a suitable space age stainless steel fastener that is “rated” for the weight of the photocopied certificate, mounted in the exotic imported luan/mahogany frame with museum quality UV/anti glare glass, and conservatory rated anti-acid backing and matte.
He charges hourly,portal-to-portal , but…(oooh) it’s WORTH it.
I was told by the installer of double pane, inert gas filled, replacement windows that the proper way to address any cracks, chips, fogging, on the 1-year, unconditionally guaranteed windows was to throw a hammer through it.
Apparently, a hammer is the appropriate tool to use in addressing (frequent) malfunction of the State-contract-supplied-only printers, mandatory for the instant modem-authenticated “puter plug-in auto inspections.
- CaptDMO | 07/10/2010 @ 20:22