Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!think.com!yale!quasi-eli!cs.yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!blenko-tom From: blenko-tom@cs.yale.edu (Tom Blenko) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: It *can* be done (was Re: Diatribe) Message-ID: <1991May7.230404.24977@cs.yale.edu> Date: 7 May 91 23:04:04 GMT References: <1991May5.003003.17184@neon.Stanford.EDU> <489@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 16 Originator: blenko@morphism.CS.Yale.Edu Nntp-Posting-Host: morphism.systemsz.cs.yale.edu In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) writes: |In article <489@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: | | Imagine two carpenters building a door. One builds the frame, the other | builds the door. Neither one is on-site, and neither has met the other... | |I'm afraid that you're revealing your ignorance here, Glenn (don't |worry, I've done it *lots* of times myself). Not only *can* it be |done, it *has* been done... |The 300-plus pieces arrived for two weeks before the conference. The |day before it began, all the pieces were laid out in place. Most of |the 600 joints fit perfectly the first time... Most isn't nearly good enough. Tom