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The lesson is: We humans are not capable of considering all variants and variables of a complex reality. We tend to simplify things and use that simplifyed base for our solutions, wondering later, why this very good and ingenious solution did not work as intended, even make things worse than before.

The lesson is: We are not that smart as we think we are!

So very true... Dan Brown's writing is scarily bad. As Geoffrey K. Pullum wrote:

"Brown's writing is not just bad; it is staggeringly, clumsily, thoughtlessly, almost ingeniously bad. In some passages scarcely a word or phrase seems to have been carefully selected or compared with alternatives. I slogged through 454 pages of this syntactic swill, and it never gets much better. Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International, and airline magazines are thin, and two-month-old Hollywood drivel on a small screen hanging two seats in front of my row did not appeal, that's why. And why did I keep the book instead of dropping it into a Heathrow trash bin? Because it seemed to me to be such a fund of lessons in how not to write."

His full reviews of Brown are great:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000844.html

Where first escapes me sir, sorry. However, it has been represented in numerous magazine articles, woodworking and other. I believe even in National Geographic though I do not believe as a feature article. Books as well, some compilations of articles, tool books, shop books, and such. I have researched on the Net as well some years ago. I now think I may have seen it on TV as well but not with the more extensive views of its ingenious workings as Norm provided. I wish he had shown more of the inlay, particularly the Masonic symbolism incorporated. Some of the photos of this chest are truly tool and tool chest porn. The quality of the video does not do it justice at all.

I wonder at the cost in todays prices to reproduce the chest and tools. Some of the materials are rare to unobtainium. If one was able to procure some of the woods, finding the quality of wood, probably only available in the manufacturing of musical instruments would be challenging. Some rosewoods, for example, are not legally exported any longer.

It is a phenomenal piece of work. I once was given a 400 hundred year old Chinese tool chest. It was more a work of art than working art. ...hidden compartments and the whole bit. I was afraid to use it and had no use for it as an exhibition piece. No comparison to this one or its shadow.
>> ^arvana:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/chicchorea" title="member since October 15th, 2009" class="profilelink">chicchorea — How did you first hear about it? I had never seen it before, and I LOVE this kind of thing.

>> ^dag:

I think I'm seeing a little conveyor belt on the "blade" of the tool - especially in the last shot. I think the material on that belt is the key. Looks like teflon or something similar.


Yeah, I think the point is that the material on top of the blade never really moves. It just sort of spins around the edge as it's fed from the bottom. So it really is sort of "picking up" the condiment and getting underneath it. It's a tough action to describe but it's not unlike a conveyor belt. Pretty ingenious although like Zifnab said, who knows how the hell the need came up.

EDIT: The site I just read said that it was designed for bakers ini order to handle bread, etc. that's too soft or can get messed up by sticking to a person's hand. It really makes perfect sense.

Ingenious. Get Andy Samberg on the phone.

Thanks for that my foolish mistake.

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astronomy ≠ astrology

>> ^jan:

I feel like in watching a Disney version of astrology 101.
I find him entertaining enough, but humans are ingenious in all forms not just the formerly educated state.
There are engineers that can not fix there own house plumbing.
Survival within the technological boom means we may have to resort to a more practical understanding of our needs.
I'm only one hour into it, it may win me over yet.

astronomy ≠ astrology

>> ^jan:

I feel like in watching a Disney version of astrology 101.
I find him entertaining enough, but humans are ingenious in all forms not just the formerly educated state.
There are engineers that can not fix there own house plumbing.
Survival within the technological boom means we may have to resort to a more practical understanding of our needs.
I'm only one hour into it, it may win me over yet.

I feel like in watching a Disney version of astronomy 101.
I find him entertaining enough, but humans are ingenious in all forms not just the formerly educated state.

There are engineers that can not fix there own house plumbing.
Survival within the technological boom means we may have to resort to a more practical understanding of our needs.

I'm only one hour into it, it may win me over yet.

It is his scream that makes this so full of win for me. Well that and the "renewed confidence" comment just moments before the Creeper showed up.
I came here for a good laugh before bed, but now I am thinking they are scary, and skeletons can be too when you hear their bow go off then ouch! They at least give more warning, but sometimes I hear them behind walls and can't find them so sometimes I get a little lax... and find death becomes me.

>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^shagen454:
Yeah, so why does this make it a bad idea and not an ingenious one?
The Fable 3 "orb" thing... now that could be either ingenious or bad.

The entire thing was streamed, he had at least a few viewers (number is unknown) and all of them watching most likely had the absolute SHIT scared out of them, not only by the creeper, but by the blood-curdling scream let out upon him seeing the creeper.

>> ^shagen454:

Yeah, so why does this make it a bad idea and not an ingenious one?
The Fable 3 "orb" thing... now that could be either ingenious or bad.


The entire thing was streamed, he had at least a few viewers (number is unknown) and all of them watching most likely had the absolute SHIT scared out of them, not only by the creeper, but by the blood-curdling scream let out upon him seeing the creeper.

Yeah, so why does this make it a bad idea and not an ingenious one?

The Fable 3 "orb" thing... now that could be either ingenious or bad.

Oooh. Ingenious!

What an ingenious way to scratch a monitor.

That's actually really impressive.

I knew they recycled certain backround scenes, but never the animations themselves. That probably heavily cut down on production times. Fairly ingenious.