On 2000-10-24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Are you a geek-at-heart? What answer to the following question do
>you feel most inclined to do:
>You walk into a room and notice that a picture is hanging crooked.
>You...
>A. Straighten it.
>B. Ignore it.
>C. Buy a CAD system and spend the next six months designing a
>solar-powered, self-adjusting picture frame while often stating
>aloud your belief that the inventor of the nail was a total moron.
>The correct answer is "C" but partial credit can be given to
>anybody who writes "It depends" in the margin of the test or simply
>blames the whole stupid thing on "Marketing."
There is another possible answer. The geek would be one who'd walk
into a room and actually insist on hanging a straight painting crooked,
because he felt the artist was trying to get us to look at his art
work at a peculiar angle (after a lengthy, specious argument on the
geometry of the painting) -- and, yes, he'd definitely curse the
inventor of the nail, but only because of his belief that paintings
were "originally" hung from wires suspended from a strip of trim a
foot or two from the top of the wall, and some idiotic hardware
vendor tried to increase his profits by suggesting that nails could
have "artistic applications"... ;-)
Jerry [o:--] "The" IBM AT/5170 model 319 [--^~---] 9600kbps/30M HD
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