26 Sep
2012
26 Sep
'12
11:37 a.m.
I have collegues in Upsala (ULJ) and most of us
occasionally gets
asked :
WHY do you do all that heavy,hot and dirty works for FREE ?
Well, i could answer with:
I pay 250 kr/annum and a bit of sweat (and sometimes skin) for a nice
semester cottage and the privilege to sometimes practise at an old
craft.
Do you play soccer in "Korpen" ?? Maniacs (Korpen-players is not always
the kindest types of soccer-players.)
A while a go one od the neighbouting houses here cotnained a family, the
son of which was into verious sports (unlike me). He would go off most
days at weekends nad play rugby or something. He also liked cats.
One of his cats visited me form time to time. I didn't mind, I love cats
too.
Anyway, one day I needed som hexagonal brass rod of a particular
dimension. So I drew a little sketch, calcualted the diameter of the
circumcircle of the hexagon and how much to mill off ofe each flat. I put
a bit of brass rod in the late and turned it ot the diameter of the
circumcircle. I was transfering it to the dviding head to mill the 6
flats when said boy uappeerad at the door asking if I'd seen his cat. I
hadn't (it turned up unharmed a little later in case anyone's worried).
But then he noticed the bit of paper wit hthe diagram and the
calcualtions on it. He asked what I was doing anf I explained.
He then said 'You do maths _for fun_???'
To which I gave the only sane reply 'You play sport _for fun_????'
-tony