Re: gEDA-user: Using the power instead of fighting it

[Bill Gatliff <bgat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Clifton wrote:
> Ok, stop it guys, this is just too painful.
>
>   
> I just lost a whole toolbox full of lovely (high quality) new tools.
>
> They were on board the wave-rig I've spent the last 3 years working on -
> when it capsized last week... oops. (I was also on board some minutes
> before it went over!).
>   

Was it the Trident wave test rig?

Regardless, I'm glad you weren't injured.  I sincerely hope that there 
were no injuries or fatalities.

> I'm looking on all of this in the context of how trivial gEDA/gaf is
> compared to $real_world. A number of people (including myself) are lucky
> to be alive and uninjured after the wave rig went down.
>   

Completely agree.

I've survived a pair of personal tragedies myself, of the life-changing 
kind.  Makes it easier to not pay attention to geda-user when the 
ranting gets underway--- but unfortunately makes it easier to stay away 
long enough to not notice when the ranting is over.


> Perhaps I'm still not that well adjusted on what matters though - I'm
> still more brothered about my lost tools than $scary_experience. ;)
>   

:)

Beware, the adjustment may come upon you when you least expect it.  I 
can say that from personal experience.


b.g.

-- 
Bill Gatliff
bgat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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