--- Christopher Smith <csmith(a)amdocs.com> wrote: I have this unfinished craft project - a "debugging aid" - take a craft gourd (dried and hollow), insert a few teaspoons of clipped out resistors, capacitors and transistors, close up. Paint exterior with bright red, bone white and gloss black enamel paint. Add a few leather thongs with pony beads to the small end of the gourd, and attach red and black turkey feathers to the loose end of the thongs. Place on a shelf and remove when doing serious debugging, shaking it at the screen*. Best done in the presence of witnesses. When the solution to the problem at hand is discovered, especially if it's a few critical magic words, 40-80 chars at most, inscribe along the body of the gourd with a white "paint marker", in a spiral, starting at the blunt end, as a reminder for next time. If the witness asks what you are doing, just casually reply, "debugging". I have the gourd. I have the paint. I have the beads. I have the thong. I have the discrete components. They have yet to reach proximity. Too busy coding. ;-) -ethan * chanting optional __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Christopher Smith wrote: Right! Just remember that when skill, cunning, and daring come face to face with luck and superstition, it is luck and superstition every time! - don