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- 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.
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- FEMO'S LAW OF HOMEBUILDING:
- If you drop something, it will never hit the ground.
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- 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.
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- 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.
-
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- re-printed from the ALANTIC FLYER MAGAZINE, Jan. '88, p. B20
-
- From: kludge@pyr.gatech.EDU (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: rec.aviation,rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Humor
- Message-ID: <4831@pyr.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 19 Jan 88 18:12:16 GMT
- References: <1113@raybed2.UUCP>
- Reply-To: kludge@pyr.UUCP (Scott Dorsey)
- Distribution: na
- Organization: Georgia College Of Universal Knowledge
- Lines: 37
- Keywords: Laws for Homebuilders
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- 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
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