Lan Barnes([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Fri, May 20, 2005 at 04:52:35PM -0700: > > Ah, but it was _way_ pre-cellular. Picture a much younger Lan and his > sister, top down (the car and perhaps the sister) plunging through the > streets of Baltimore, dead straight ahead, struggling with the wheel and > screaming their lungs out. > > Of course, in practice, we threw in the clutch, braked to a halt, propped > open the hood and did some nasty banging with that hammer. Curiously, no > one ever seemed to get mad at the traffic block -- mostly they just > laughed. Those were simpler days ;-) >
What _I_ want to know is exactly how it was discovered that banging on the engine with a hammer was an effective way to fix, rather than break, the darn thing. I'm trying to picture Lan getting stuck in traffic the first time and deciding to try the hammer first for no other reason than the fact that it was his favorite tool. ... Now where seems a good place to start whacking this beast into submission? :-) Wade -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
