--- Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com> wrote:
> I still maintain the usefulness of runestones, incense, and rituals
> involving chant and the drawing of "signs of power" around the device.
I have this unfinished craft project - a "debugging aid" - take a craft
gourd (dried and hollow), insert a few teaspoons of clipped out resistors,
capacitors and transistors, close up. Paint exterior with bright red,
bone white and gloss black enamel paint. Add a few leather thongs with
pony beads to the small end of the gourd, and attach red and black
turkey feathers to the loose end of the thongs. Place on a shelf and
remove when doing serious debugging, shaking it at the screen*. Best
done in the presence of witnesses. When the solution to the problem
at hand is discovered, especially if it's a few critical magic words,
40-80 chars at most, inscribe along the body of the gourd with a white
"paint marker", in a spiral, starting at the blunt end, as a reminder
for next time. If the witness asks what you are doing, just casually
reply, "debugging".
I have the gourd. I have the paint. I have the beads. I have the
thong. I have the discrete components. They have yet to reach proximity.
Too busy coding. ;-)
-ethan
* chanting optional
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Received on Tue Apr 02 2002 - 15:19:31 BST