Words to live by

[andrewducker]

There is an old saying "Measure Twice, Cut Once" which, after careful consideration I'd like to add the following to:

"After all the measuring, cutting, remeasuring, discovering that your measurements were fine, rechecking and discovering the toilet-roll holder is just designed badly - just find a long screw and attach the whole fucking thing directly to the wall."

I have also, today, put together a CD shelf, attached a bolt to the bedroom door (to keep out kittens at 3am) and attached a bookshelf to the wall (Edinburgh flats being sadly lacking in right angles).

Tomorrow I shall put aside such physical things and return to the more ethereal world of C#.

Comments

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

Lol!

But you don't really have cats if you're not being woken up by them at insane hours!


What's C# like to code in? And do you say "Cee-Sharp" or "Cee-Hash" ? I probably should learn it at some point....


Like the avatar, btw.

[andrewducker]

C-Sharp.

And it's basically a Java-Clone, only with built-in handling of events, some syntactic changes (that people argue about endlessly), and a fantastic IDE. For doing Rapid Application Development, especially of GUIs it's a dream. I'm sure I'll bump into limitations later on, but so far it does pretty much everything I want from a compiled, general language.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Rastafarian nothing. It's basic to carpentry, plumbing, dress-making... you name it (the suggestion that it's an old Rastafarian saying goes back about as far as Neuromancer).

But yeah, sometimes the corollary is "get a bigger hammer" or variants thereon.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Andrew, I'm shocked! You, DIY ?? When was the parallel universe installed and why didn't I notice? Thatnk god it's not the one where I do housework :-)

[andrewducker]

I built a bookshelf/cabinet set (with my Dad) before ever coming to uni. When it comes to simple things (drill hole in wall, insert wall plug, put in screw) I'm just fine - more complex things worry me, but none of it is complicated.

Wallpapering was the tricky one :->

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

He's way better at it than me and I don't say that often :-)

[angelevie.livejournal.com]

Well you know if you do find you are missing the whole 'I can do practical stuff' warm glow that you must have felt. I got a hundred and one ickle jobs that you are free to do......

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

"attached a bolt to the bedroom door (to keep out kittens at 3am)"

awww....

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Sad but neccessary *zzzzzzzzzzzz*

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

those little scamps... (but they wuv you sooOOoo much) - kittens are great :-D

Our two 'kittens'*coff* are settled enough to sleep at the bottom of the bed - they're only a pain in the arse if one of them gets inadvertantly kicked and then starts beating the other one up out of boredom :-)

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

They do settle quite nicely at bottom of bed - it's the walking over you and meeping at 6am when they want fed really :-(

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

Aha. We appear to have inadvertantly trained ours not to bother us unless our eyes are already open :-) I have no idea how we achieved this beyond booting the little furry sods off the bed every time they woke us before we were ready. Of course, the moment a sliver of eyeball is visible through our eyelids we're suddenly totally bemogged and hassled for food...