Neanderpundit

but man, there are some times….

We have a project in house that involves a very specific type of grinding. And we have a Japanese engineer in house training our guys to do so. He’s very very very good, and he knows what he’s doing like few people I’ve ever seen.

(You can hear the butt coming, can’t you?)

I had to show him how to get to the Ethernet paramters on his own machine.

I have never allowed myself to become an ‘Expert” on anything. I think this type of specialization is not for insects, but morons.

I am conversant in a half dozen CNC programming languages. Three or four Robotics languages (In the early days, those overlapped) I can program a couple of different types of CMM. I can do FEA on solids, using software, and even to a lesser extent using just plain old math. I have been instrumental in establishing the industry standards for communication between machine tools and other devices, and am still involved in how those standard are implemented; I even managed to steer a group of academics away from silliness and towards useful functionality in a couple of organizations I belong to. (Pitiably, they are now using my tuition to make cash, which is somewhat annoying) I go where my interests and my requirements take me.

I like that I can be called upon to do damned near anything, and i will adapt to it- even at this stage in my life, when most people’s brains have ossified beyond repair.

but sometimes, I do still wish I was a one trick pony, doing one job simply and efficiently, better than anyone else would even consider possible.

I feel like a special olympics coach.

I had a mouse that had developed a stickiness to the clickwheel, and I figured it was time for a little housekeeping.

Would that I had been less cheap, and simply purchased a new mouse.

The things I found in that bastard were just not right.

I’m almost afraid to look at the keyboard, now.