> "Really? I thought you just said that the Universal Hammer was the wave of the future."
This really demands that I link to the "Chef of the Future" Honeymooners episode, which I expect most readers of this site will not be familiar with and that I only know because my dad was a huge Honeymooners fan. It's apt to the blog post, as it turns out:
To provide some context for the scene, Ralph ("chef of the future") is a bus driver and he's always looking for the next get-rich-quick scheme. Ed ("chef of the past") is his neighbor who Ralph thinks he's smarter than and always enlists in his schemes. Ralph's schemes never work out for him. The scheme in this episode is to sell a kitchen multi-tool ("handy housewife helper"). Here the two of them are supposed to be presenting it to a live TV audience. Unfortunately, Ralph's stage freight and the fact that the multi-tool is worthless get the better of him.
Sometimes when I read about a new framework or other software contraption that's supposed to make my life easier, I wonder to myself: "but can it core a apple?"
> Everyone is using a general-purpose tool-building factory factory factory
So that would be like a 3D printer that can print 3D printers?
Personally, I think I own about 4 or 5 different kinds of hammers. And I'm just a homeowner who fixes things on weekends.
This really demands that I link to the "Chef of the Future" Honeymooners episode, which I expect most readers of this site will not be familiar with and that I only know because my dad was a huge Honeymooners fan. It's apt to the blog post, as it turns out:
https://youtu.be/em1DEwOtm3I
To provide some context for the scene, Ralph ("chef of the future") is a bus driver and he's always looking for the next get-rich-quick scheme. Ed ("chef of the past") is his neighbor who Ralph thinks he's smarter than and always enlists in his schemes. Ralph's schemes never work out for him. The scheme in this episode is to sell a kitchen multi-tool ("handy housewife helper"). Here the two of them are supposed to be presenting it to a live TV audience. Unfortunately, Ralph's stage freight and the fact that the multi-tool is worthless get the better of him.
Sometimes when I read about a new framework or other software contraption that's supposed to make my life easier, I wonder to myself: "but can it core a apple?"
> Everyone is using a general-purpose tool-building factory factory factory
So that would be like a 3D printer that can print 3D printers?
Personally, I think I own about 4 or 5 different kinds of hammers. And I'm just a homeowner who fixes things on weekends.