Meccano™ Like Models and Design
Three interesting things happened today. First, the port of ltrace 0.5.3 for crosstool-NG finally built without problems. The build had completed successfully while I was sleeping. What remains now is to cleanup the patch and submit it to Yann. When that is out of the way I can pick up the GCC build problems on i686 again — funny how there is no problems at all building on x86_64 hosts ...
Second, after dropping off my sister-in-law at the train station I went by the office to pick up the Christmas gift I had forgotten before going on vacation. It turned out to be a rather over-designed candleholder. A small note leaflet was attached, it read:
Somebody said... Don't make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don't hesitate to make it beautiful. [c2.com]
Third, when arriving home I found
that the kids had received (yet another) couple of late Christmas gifts. This time
some kind of Meccano™-like
models of an airplane and race car. My wife and I spent the better part of the
midmorning trying to assemble them. The instructions on the back of the carton was
rather sparse, but inspired by IKEA, so we actually managed in the end. However, by
the time we had them assembled, our kids had long since lost all patience with
us and left to do other and more interesting things. :-)
OMG! My wife just enlightened me about the crazy habit of decoupage. It suddenly came up when she compared Meccano™, scrapbooking and decoupage ... I can see now that she was not entirely off her mark. It takes a certain amount of crazy-manic to maintain the patience to actually complete such tasks. I did not tell her about my own crazy-manic side that actually spends a TON of time figuring out the intrisicaties of various FLOSS projects I work with on both my spare time and at work. Regardless, knowing her she was probably hinting at that anyway. ;-)
Sunday, 03 January 2010 at 15:09 | /personal | permanent link to this entry