ewb@raybed2.UUCP (EUGENE BALINSKI) (01/19/88)
Enclosed is a list of postulates, laws, observations, etc that apply to hobbiest of all sorts, wether it's airplanes, ham radio, or other projects that you build. I hope you enjoy them. BOOB'S LAW: You'll always find a tool in the last place you look RAP'S INANIMATE REPRODUCTION LAW: If you take something apart and put it back together again enough times, you will eventually have two of them. GOLUB'S 2nd LAW OF HOMEBUILDING: A carelessly planned homebuilding project takes three times longer than expected to complete; a carefully planned one takes only twice as long. HORNER'S FIVE THUMB POSTULATE: Experience varies directly with material ruined. BRAUCH'S OBSERVATION: If all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail. BROMBERGS LAW OF TOOL USE: When the need arises, the tool or object closest to you becomes a hammer. THE ROMAN RULE: The one who say's that it can't be done, should not interrupt the one who is doing it. THE 90-90 RULE: The first 90% of a project takes 10% of the time, and tha last 10% takes 90% of the time. ENG'S PRINCIPLE: The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change. SCHMIDT'S LW; If you fiddle with a thing long enough, it will break. BUNGEY'S 1st LAW: The nut won't go on until you utter the magic word. BUNGEY'S 2nd LAW: When your about to use the magic word, there will be children present. LAW OF THE SEARCH: The first place to look for a droped part is the last place you expect to find it. RINGWALD'S LAW OF WORKBENCH GEOMETRY: A horrizontal surface will soon be piled up. NAESER'S LAW: You can make it foolproof, but you cannot make it dxxx foolproof. WETHERN'S LAW OF SUSPENDED JUDGEMENT: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups. FEMO'S LAW OF HOMEBUILDING: If you drop something, it will never hit the ground. PRISSY'S RULE: If you don't know what you're doing, do it neatly. TELECO'S 2nd LAW: There are two kinds of tape, the one that won't stay on, and the one that won't come off. JAFFE'S PRECEPT: There are some things that are impossible to do, but it is impossible to know what they are. BEACHES LAW: No two identical parts are alike. THE FIRST RULE OF INTELLIGENT TINKERING: Save all parts. re-printed from the ALANTIC FLYER MAGAZINE, Jan. '88, p. B20
hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) (01/19/88)
one of my favorites: Johnson's Observation Interchangeable parts aren't. --henry schaffer n c state univ
kludge@pyr.gatech.EDU (Scott Dorsey) (01/20/88)
In article <1113@raybed2.UUCP> ewb@raybed2.UUCP (EUGENE BALINSKI) writes: >Enclosed is a list of postulates, laws, observations, etc that apply to >hobbiest of all sorts, wether it's airplanes, ham radio, or other >projects that you build. I hope you enjoy them. 1. After a system is assembled, parts will be left on the bench. 2. A twenty-dollar power transistor will protect a fifty-cent fuse by blowing first. 3. Sooner or later, you will ground the B+. 4. You will ground an RF supply too. You won't notice it until you power up and touch the chassis. 5. When you have removed all 15 screws from the crystal oven, you will find that you have opened the wrong one. 6. When you go back to assemble it again, you will find three screws missing. 7. The tube substitution handbook is never wrong. It's supposed to be bright cherry red. 8. Someone will use the same type of connector for power and signal. You know what will happen. Scott Dorsey Kaptain_Kludge SnailMail: ICS Programming Lab, Georgia Tech, Box 36681, Atlanta, Georgia 30332 "To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondance." -- Joseph Glanvill, 1661 Internet: kludge@pyr.gatech.edu uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,rutgers,seismo}!gatech!gitpyr!kludge
price@marlin.NOSC.MIL (James N. Price) (01/20/88)
Please add to the list, the LAW OF SELECTIVE GRAVITATION which says that a hammer dropped on a workbench will land such that it does the most expensive damage possible. --Jim Price, PRICE@NOSC.MIL